New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-05

away. So far ia hostility to England from be-
irg any longer q feasible basis to build potis
ical party upon, even at the South, thst
We occasionally find Southern newspapers COM
fortine themselves with the idea that is the
Federal Union were dissolved, the Southern States
might get along well enough under British pro-
lection. New England, in proportion a. her com
parative population and wealth have declined, has
ceased to DO the political bugbear she was some
thirty years ago; and she now forms but one sec.
ton Of that North against which, a. q whole, the
Southern newspapers and politicians are busy in
trying to inAame the same prejudices and the hos
tilty Of which New. England was formerly the ex-
elusive object.
As to the Bank question, that, with many other
industrial questions which exercised great
inAuence-On the whole not very favorable to
the political independence Of the North-over
the politics of the Last forty years, has
ceased to be of any practical or living interest.
All the old Issues are in fact dead. The Democratic
party as it calls trelf, has lost all the old here
dtary platforms on which for so many years it took
up its positions so securely, and is driven TO tho
necessity Of looking about for something new on
which to base itself.
Now the extension Of slaveholding and tho per-
manence of Slavery answer very well for such
party platform at the South. 1t is perfectly easy
on that platform TO carry and to hold all the slave
holding States. If the slavehoding States were
the Union, or major part Of the Union, the diff
Guilty would be solved at once, and the Democratic
party as it persists in calling itself, would have
attained new platform on which it might stand
firm and confident for an indefinite period. Unfor.
tuDately, however, for its leaders, this is not the
Gaze. There must be some sentiment, interest,
feeling or prejudice to appeal to, in which the North
shares as well as the South. In this emergency,
the Democratic politicians have made desperate
attempt to appropriate to their own special use the
sentiment of devotion to the Union. They are not
OILY Federalists of the old school, such as Mr..
Buchanan used to be, but something great deal
more than that. They are not only Federal, but
National. Inasmuch, however, as at this moment
nobody thinks the Union in any great danger, this
Union. saving fetch will hardly avail them for
second Presidential election-especially as it is
pretty clear that the only real danger to the Union
is from the South and not from the North, and from
professed members of this very Democratic party.
Something, however, must be found by way of COM
mon tie and brotherly sympathy between the slave
holders of the South and their political brethren Of
the North. That tie is found in the prevailing
antipathy against niggers, lately expressed and
embodied by the Supreme Court Of the United
States in the Drtd Scott decision.
Such at this moment is unquestionably the plat.
form on which the Democratic party stands, An.
tipathy to Niggers. The question for our aspiring
young politicians to solve is this: How long can it
reasonably be expected that the Northern people
will allow themselves to be dictated to, and the
country to be governed or misgoverned, on the sole
basis of such an antpatby'