Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1857-08-14

SePseengshe probable relation Of psrt;es In m.
Presidential contest Their principles. views and
projects are wholly beside the question. :
we do not know, AS the States ASSUMES NJ. 4,
mat ar or even very large proportion Of IN,
Black Republicans 'hod that slavery shall =. .h,,
ished in the District OF Columbia" We ,.nov ,h,,
they claim the Constitutional power 10 abolish !,
there; but We have no satisfactory assurance that
rs party, they propose to exercise that power.-
Their position on this question, we take il is SINH.
lar to that occupied by ore Of the States former
Presdents-they assert the power bet would decline
to exercise it. iron prudential party considerations
II none other. Even ifotherwise We do not perceive
the propriety ofDemocratic organs making so great
an ado over slavery in the District of Columbia,
while, at the same time they are heartily approving
and deieaSing policy, which viii exclude slavery
from Kansas and finally lead to slave eman-
cipation in several OF the border States. We con-
sider the continuance Of slavery in the District Of
| columbia as Of trtng moment compared with the
great and momentous question of the establishment
oil slavery in Kansas. For upon this question de-
Ponds the security and permanencc Of slavery in
many OF the Southern States We should prefer,
therefore, for the States aud other Democratic or
gains to aid us in making Kansas q slave State,
rather than to waste their time and talents in lamen
tations over the probable emancipation Of few
hundred nominal slaves in the district Of Co.
lumbia.
As to the slave trade between the States being
abolished, We think Washington contempora-
rvs fears are equally unnecessary. And in regard
to the Fugitive Slave law, although clear Consti-
tutional right and which should DO insisted on,
We not sure that its repeal would work anyracti-
cal damage to the Southern people. IL is indeed
DE- ad letter on the atutebook-wholly worthless
to the South and miserable humbug for all prac-
teal purposes. We opne that even the 'worst
stripe of Abslitionsts" very well satisfied with
its operation-for only two slaves have yet
been reclaimed under it. in the course of seven
years. and the cost Of reclamation in every instance,
has exceeded ten or twenty times the value Of the
negro. With these cheering facts before their eyes
We have no fears that the Black Republicans or
worst stripe" Abolitionsts either, will be in haste
to repeal it The States, therefore, may dismiss
its amusing nervousness and reconcile itself as best
it can, to the dsagreeabe conclusion that in all hui
man probability, nearly all the clements now com
posing the opposition to the Democracy will be raj
lied under the banner in the Presidential cam
paign of 1860.
We have much more to say the subject of the
reconstruction and reorganization of parties for
the next Presidential campaign, but we must de-
fer further observations to future occasion If, in
this new movement our Democratic contemporaries
should see the handwriting on the wall prophecy
ing the overthrow and destruction of their party in
1860, we trust they will aim to keep as cool as they
can, and emit no foam from their mouths, especial.
ly during the log days-for it might eudanGer the
lives OF thatyst large innocent political fraternity
who know each other by the instincts of gentle
men" and patriots