New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-12

des.ruction Of liberty ard good government, mad
BY the demagcsues Of Greece and Rome to the 'dl'
mob whose suffrsges and support they courted
Mr. ysn Buren, and his partisans in this State ant
the res, of the North. BY the hue and cry which
they raised against the Abolitienists, and the
riots. mobs and illegal yiolcnces to which they
gave their countenance-a conduct in which they
were speedily initiated and even rivaed, by the
Wbic le,ders-gave the first commencement to
thst ssyeboldipg reign of terror which has now
eliminated in Border Ruffiansm aud the suppress
sion throughout the South of the most ordinary POI
Etical riehts-the right of selecting ones own
newspaper and of nominating and openly advo-
eating ones own candidates. Ner was this all.
Mr.. Van Buren, was also destined to give N his
own person proof that to those who had once
entered on this career Of concession and degradation
there was no stopping place, and that he who re-
fused to yield any boon, however extravagant, was
sure to be outbd by still more unprincipled rival
Thus Van Buren, himself was outbid by Cass in tho
matter of Texas annexation, to prevent whose non'
ipatisn he and his friends were once more obliged to
GO for Southern candidate, and whose election
they were only able to defeat when by further ser
Whites he had obtained the nomination by counting
tie favor soliciting the votes and selling out their
sweet voices to those very Abolitionists of whom
they had been the maligners and the mobbers.
Even Cass himself was outbid by Pierce, who had
the advantage of possessing record in which no
Northern sentiment no profession of friendship for
freed, m, was to be found-a guaranty for future
serv;lity which Cass who had commenced his career
in the times of Washington and Adams, was I'M
able to boast But even Pierce, though as Presl-
dent be had added to his record, base and black
enough before, the repeal Of the Missouri pro-
hibton and Kansas subdued by the conoined efforts
of Federal authority and Border-Rufian invasion,
yet found himself outbid by Buchanan. Buchanan
was able to offer in addition to his own pllabe and
accommodating self, a tOlerable character, such as
Pierce never had, though we fear very unde-
served one for decency and conservatism; and with
this chara ,ter with the State of Pennsylvania in his
breeches pocket-whe poor Pierce was not certain
of single State, except South Carolina-and with
the Ostend Manifesto pinned between his shoulders,
placing himself upon his knees before the IDOL he
procured from his fellow worshipers the place OF
high priest.
1t is true that at last the passage Of the Kansas
Nebraska bill aroused us to a sense OF our sin and
our danger. That outrageous measure, and still
more the outrageous means employed to force
Slavery into Kansas, even in spite of the Kansas.
Nebraska BILL has made wonderful change among
US. The Northern States have at last recovered
their manhood, and with it their faith. In the
Presidential campaign just over they struggled
maLiully they have done well; they have
accomplished mere than they had any right
to hore for But it would be unreasonable to
expect that the sins and abasement of nineteen
years could be expiated by the repentance, the
tears and struggles, of but two years. Salvation
from deliberate, repeated and hardened sins is not
to be so cheaply purchased, whether for this world
or the next To have succeeded now was more
than we had any right to hope. 1t is meet, it is
desirable, both for Ourselves and the country, that
after the pitiable exhibition have made of mar
Tow selfshness and groveliDg cowardice and folly,
we should be required to wander for certain
space in the wilderness before we are permitted to
enter the promised land. 1t will be time enough to
enter in when we shall have acquired in The desert
the bardihOOd, self denial perseverance, dslnter-
estedness, and above ALL the courage, necessary to
defend and maintain ourselves in it. Doubtless, our
camp still includes longers for the hesh-pots OF
Egypt of whom it must yet be purged. Let US,
then, march on, steadfas! and immOvablc. The
land lies before us, to enter it needs Only resolution
and perseverance, The North never had a Moses,
al her Aarons have betrayed her; but she has
found a Joshua adequate to the emergency, and
under his lead We will yet enter in.