New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-08-23

for po,pei. ard declining to listen to the Other,
whom he d. n, III ced as an obsnse aid I'M
fellow Ut dertock to quiet m,'t.r, By yie'dng TO
The hvorite suit)r all that he calmei
B,side, Dir. Winthrop is totally mistaken ia
srstbipg Ct our existing political cOntentions as =
revolution If sections. Inst IL bat al accidents,
cIcums' ance, md is 10 fact much moe apesreot
than zeal. The po itica struggle nos glowing Is
oily acc d,n'ally contention of sections, It Is
esreDioly contention Of PRINCIPLES. The con-
.en,on is net between the North ard the South,
between Massachusetts a1d South Carolina, but
br,we cen Liberty and Slavery, between the spirit Of
dem, crscy and the spirit of dtspotsm, between the
eloqu, nee oftrurh as utter by Sumner aud blood
thirsty Overseeiism as eIemPlihed by Books.
1t is but fair to presume that there are at leas! as
naDy ffieI ds of Frtt dom in the South. were they
but allowed a free expression OF opinion, as there
are psrtisans advocates, and disguised accom-
pcts of Slavery in the North But while our
Bar1ards al Hunts and Choafes and WinthrHps
and billiards. are allowed to apt ak and write they
p,ase. Punishment, if not some cruel personal in
fl ctcns in ADDITION await throuehou, the Southern
States all who dare presume to say word for
berty or in he recent case of the booksellers
at Mobile, to serve even as medium Of distrlbu-
ton tor any writings Of that kind.
The struggle against the Slave power and its
usurpationa, in which the R-pubi ,ans are engaged
is / Of a struggle to promote The interest of any
particular section. 1t is a struggle in which tue
whole Union has an interest 1t /, a struggle toe
the tqusl Advantage snd common beLeft Of tle
it nds of Freedom aho Democracy in all parts OF the
Jpitn though it must be- confessed that consider
rQ the col diton ia which the great mass of the
fiee.pt ople in the Slave States are held by the
Slave power, the free laboripg masses of the Slave
States bavc an esptc ial interest in the triumph o.
tie Republican party. At the time of the
Revolution tie Wings were a decided minority
in the Csonas AND GeoIeis, and these ates wereat
times completely in the power of the Tories, wno
then subjected the uhtOttunates to as grta. seyer-
ties as sre now exercised On thu Republicans while
in New. EDslar the VIII gs were always 10 the as
ctDdancy; and yet nobody thinks Of the revolation
as having been a itcional struggle, or of The VIII z
party Of the revolution as having been sectional
party SO far from it, it WIS nat!or al party in
the highest sense of the term party which srnc-
Fled and Struggled successfully to indicate the
liberties Of the country agans. an usurped author-
ty. based upon gradual enct achmt nts, and claimed
to be exercised over it By the British Parliament
But if the liber'its Of the country were in danger
then, ard if then they needed vildlcation, no
less, to ray the least, are they in danger
now, and 10 less do they now need yindcatlOn.
1t is in vain that Sir. Winthrop stands BY md cries
"peace" "peace, when there is no peace. TIE
demo cratic people of these United States will not
submit at bis dictatiOn to be ridden over rough
shtd BY few thousand shareholders. The Repub-
licsn party has been forn ed, or, to speak more
CORE city, has spontaneously spruug into existence,
for the express purpose Of carrying back the Ad-
mnstrati,n of the General Government to the
principles Of Washington and Jefferson, and all
the leading spirits of the Revolution, as exempt
fed in the American Association of IVA against
the further Importation Of slaves, and in the Ofdi-
nance of 17c7 against the Introduction of Slagery
Such is tie oljoc! Of that party. Ii Mt.
Win'hOrp refuses to join it, SO much tho
worse for him. II, not content with refusing to
join if, he sets bmst If to belle and magn it, again
we ray so much the wOrse for him. But, in spite
of all misrepresentation, this party is national
party, with freat national interests for it, sole
object; while the real sectonal party of the
country is that Shareholders party Of which Me-
W,n torp, with all bis affected zeal in times pas.
for Northern rights is LoH cohtented to act as the
I. oil and the cats paw.