New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-05


one pt dye WI CD We sure will be hailed WITH very
general spprovsl-tbat b. wi not be candidate
for e second term. We trust that the good old
Wbjg principle that nS President shall be reeectei
while WELDING the patronage OF The feierSi
Chnf MagistTacy has at lei 9Th received thu. stamp
Of public appreciation which it meritsd The ,uc-
cessiye failures Of Tyler, Polk, Fillmore aud Pierce
10 secure d renomina.io ion respectively, have made
:. plain Nat the People are awake to The evils OF
Presidential dr and Will no longer endure
them. Mr. Buchanan defers TO the pubic convic
ton q. wisely az graceful J, and will consult hi
OVID peace and honor by refusing to be battered or
esolcd into N cantDg.
We do not feel 30 sure, however, that President
who declines reaec ion can hsve no inducement
to 90 astray. Unhappily, comuitteis to un'ound
pr1nojpes and ina uitos measures are often found
or deemed requisite TO secure n 6rst well a
secord election; and many man has got into
bpb station for tho first time under load OF 0rigl-
nal sin which has weighed bin down throughout bis
official career. We fear this is the case with our
new President.
Mr.. Buchanan glorifes the ready and implicit
submission Of the minority in the late contest to the
declared will Of the People, expressed through the
forms Of the Constitution Does he not know that
tho praise be go Justly bestoas on the Republi
cans involves the dtepest reproach to his Own par
titsus, who go frequently and widely proclaimed in
the late canvass tina. they could not submit if de-
feated-that FfemOnts election would be the signal
for resis tsnoe and cisuDiOn Does he not know
that be owes thousands Of his votes TO the fears OF
ccnvulsion and disruption thus shameluNy excited
in the breasts OF the timid and selfish
Having cited his own election rs proof tbs. the
People are fit for selfgovernment, Mr. buchanan
proceeds to deduce therefrom that every community
should decide for itself whether 10 lesalze or for
b Huusn Slavery. We do not perceive the legt-
imacy Of this nclu,ion. lit be jast and safe 10
let the whole community vote on question gravely
affecting its welfare and have the fairly expressed
viii Of majority prvyal then it must be wrong to
ferter and geg portion Of that community, 50 as
~ allow II voice "a. all in the decision of ques
tiCus vitality a1ec ing It's own weD-being. Just
look At the reason of tie case; The question 10 be
decided ii-Shsll portion of the People of Kansas
and olher Territories be slaves or freemen Who
are interested in THE issue if no. those whom is
proposed TO hold in bondage Yet tie Nebraska
Kansas bill expressly excludes thee iiou any voice
or vote in the premises 1t is democratic, we are
tod, TO let the Peope decide for Themselves; but
the Blacks are not allowed to open their mouths on
tho vial question Of their own freedom or slavery
How does this differ in principle from British sris-
tOcTacy or Venetian olesrchy'
majority may indeed have the power to declare
that part Of the community shal BIZ the life long
slaves Of another part but We most earnestly deny
their ,igs to DO anything of the sort. The people
Of this city might vote that the daughters of all
lam grants landing ut this port should be the VIC
tins Of any citizen unrestaDed lust; but popu-
lar vote of ten to one could never make that right
Dor On the highest seIse) lawful. Msjorities can
DO much; but no majority can override tina. cter-
nal law which Gays, Render under your servants
that which is just and equal; "Thou shalt love
"rhy reghbor as myself"
Mr. Buchanan tells US that Congress is not to
exclude Slavery from any Territory. Mr.. Jefferson
told us the contrary of this; Washington, Roger
Sherman, Rufus hing, Ebrdge Gerry, and nearly
all the great men of the Revolutionary era CON
cided with Jefferson; Mr.. Buchanan himself did
the same in 1919, and be professed to approve and
uphold the Missouri Compromise, which DID this
Very thing. down TO very recent dsy-certainly TO
within ten years. Is there 4 man living who BE-
levcs he would have recsnted these recorded con.
victiors Of his better days if his Presidential asp
istiops bad Dot required it
Mr. Buchara MI boldly denies to the People of
Kansas any power 10 inhibit Slavery until they
aksl IN II -of. ~ II
Sir, those peop'e here formed State Constitution.
AID petit oLed Congress for admission uoder il;
oud have been spurutd from the Capitol supply b.
cause that Constitution iorbids Slavery. We know
all about the preteXts for III s rejection; bat they
ole jus! such ss YOU and your present supporters
concuDed snd &c. aside in the admission of Mlch-
esp. Had the Topeka Constitution legslized
Slavery, ihree-ourths of its Congressional oppO-
ntrls Woud have betn it's wsrmest champ ,ns.
But the time wten the PeOpie OF Territory
shall decide the Slavery question for themselves
''is happily matter Of but little pract cal i'm
PortsDcc, ssys TIE neS President. An, Mr. Bu.
ehsnan, II IS If imp 'rtance-great Importance
With your Supreme Court ready to decide, as the
mass Of your party assert, that Shareholder las
the same right "a tase his slaves into any TERRITORY
aid bod them there 80 slaves, and demsna the pro
Itct'n II he law IN So doing, freeman has TO
take bis horse or OK there, the time .h-n the
People msy exclude Siaycy set;Ies the whole ques.
u,p. The Stakeholder plants himself ou taeir soil
N defence Of "Squater Sovereignty; the
uhsbitSuts Of tie Ter tory m,y be- ten to one
boslle 70 Slavery, ea' they must submit 20 sea 1t
c, ite is ioos around thetr without show If re-
sstpce. IL establishes it.ed wherever i, WI;