New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-29

With all the outcry which was raised BY the
supporters of Mr.. Buchanan, pending the Presi-
Dental election, against the Republicans a. . sec
tiona party and with al the objections which they
urged against geographical divisions, theec il a.
ready, indeed there has been al Along. plainly trace
able in the combustion to which Mr.. Buchanan
owes his elevation 10 the Presidency, decided ten
dency to divide BY essentially geographical Line.
The Administration party includes two sections
IA Northern and o Southern section-between
which struggle for power il evidently impending
The Northern sec6on-whose favorite candidate
Mr.. Buchanan was, and who, undoubtedly, 20 far
a. bis personal wishes co. belongs himself to that
ssctoD-wisbes It'll to occupy the ambiguous and
noa.committal ground Of non Intervention upon tho
question Of Slavery, as embodied in the Ksnsas
Nebraska bill This position has many things to
recommend it. 1t leaves some standing ground still
for the supporters of the party in the non-slave-
holding States-sround which its slaveholdins 3D.
voeates are well content to yield up, satisfied that,
whenever any practical question arises, this pre-.
eIded non. Intervention will become in fact in
the Kansas case, very positive Intervention in tho
interest Of the shareholders. Besides, the slave
holders Of the border States are cautious about
pushing matters to extremity, well knowing that,
in case Of any actual collision between the North
ard the South, they would be the first sufferers.
This section Of the Administration party is there.
fore made up geographically of the border Slave
States to which the demands of the non savehold-
ing States serve az q sort of makeweght.
The more Southern or cotton. planting section Of
the Administration party insist that the institution
of Slavery shall not only enjoy practical support
from the Federal Government, but that it shall be
distinctly recognized as standing precisely on tho
same level with other kinds Of property, and as
equally entitled to the fostering care of the Govern
ment This 10 their own statement of sheir claims
a. made BY one Of their leading champions, Jefsr-
son Davis, in recent speech to some OF his con-
stituents of Mississippi, in the course OF which
speech he gives it pretty plainly to be understood
that though not inclined 10 quarrel unnecessarily
with Mr.. Buchanan, Jet that he means to support
bis Administration only on condition that the Ad-
mnistration comes into the ultra Southern view.
The i'll success which has attended all the efforts
of the Federal Government 10 force Slavery upon
hd0edB, uuutT COtcI VI tuc uOn htciVChsioh Hohoyt
10 very bitterly alluded to in this speech. Little
confidence a. Mr.. Davis had in "squatter sOver-
eighty" a. general thing, be did cherish strong
hopes that it might serve for the moment in the
case of Kansas But be now looks back upon "the
" disorders of Kansas" as "the bitter fruit Of the
substitution of eXpediency for principle, aud a.
"the penalty of tho attempt 10 evade the duty Of
"the General Government by the transfer of its
"tru.t to irresponsible hands," making over, that
il, to Shannon and Walker. and tho Missouri Border
Rufiarr, the task Of introducing Slavery into that
Territory, instead Of doiDgt BY the strong hand of
the General Government itself. But not only does
Jefferson Davis, as the spokesman of the Southern
section Of the Democratic party, insist upon the
direct rec ignition Of Slavery by the General Gov
ernmeLt 40 an interest to be fOstered and pro-
tected, he insists also upon the acquisition of new
Territories in which this institution may have
chance to spread and develop ITSELF
1t is thus evident that not only the domestic
policy of the Government in relation 10 Kansas but
their foreign policy, also, in relation TO Central
America, are likely to afford grounds upon which
the two sections of the party will splt-if indeed,
a. is not improbable, the more violent and positive
section does not succeed in getting possession, if
not of Mr. Buchanan personally atleast of bis Cab
met.