New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
BUCHANAN-KANSAS.

WASHINGTON Feb. %, 1857.
1t is instructive 70 witness the Just beginning
spssms Of sublime credulity in the North over the
lately bedimmed prospects Of Kansas. There are
those who will have it, and have had it ever since
November, that Mr. Buchanan is to inaugurate
reign Of peace and quietness and farness, subduing
the lien OF Slavery by ssIokipg his back aud making
bin lamb before the world. These too credalous
persons are just BEGINNING to show symptoms Of
uneasiness lest sfier sll it should turn out not to
be 80. They have cast aside huge facts, demon
stIatpg that Mr.. Buchanan can be nothing but an
instrument in the hands Of the olgarchs, and have
founded their opinion upon the indications afforded
by ttraws lying in the lul that succeeded the Pres
dentist storm. These they took to denote the
tial modification of the Slavery usurpaton, and to
betOlen the essential tranquility of the nation.
Facts have not changed, the prospects for the fu-
ture have not Charged the only change has been in
the vision of these bland commentators whose OBJ
tuseneas has not recognized those facts or those
prospects.
The coming Administration has nothing to do,
ard contempates doing nothing but to carry out the
policy Of the Shareholders, whatever that be. We
have more than once said that the force of the
Republican movement in the North had i.s inha-
cree upon them. 1t admonished them to be wary.
There are those among them, of whom Gov. Aiken
is type, who yield to the admonition, aud would
prefer to quiet the question by letting Kansas 60.
If this email minority could make its couusels
needed, Kansas might be allowed to come in as .
Free Stste. But while we admit this, we hsve
ressors to believe that the suggestion ms Of modera-
ton wi not be needed. The STAKEHOLDER has tasted
the blood Of conquest. HIS pride and bis passions
are reused, and the reduction Of Kansas he means
to cOnsummate. The elements are too cOmbusti-
ble the parties too fiery, to be controlled BY
the coun,es of moderation. They will kinde into
flsme again at the touch of spark. The pile is
again raised by the late action of the usurpers in
the legislation to create Slave State out of Kansas
Ere long the blaze will mount as high and the hsa's
become as intense as ever, over this bitter topic
Tie STAKEHOLDER is determined and relentless. HIS
purposes are clear and bis will indomitab'e. lie is
after Kansss. He means to have Kansas. lie has
meart nothing else since Atchson took the first
step to obtain it. There has never been weakness
or doubt r hesitation either in the plans or the
action token to reduce that Territory to Slavery.
As the SHAREHOLDERS has begun so he viii end. MI
| Buchanan il not straw in his path. Me- Buchanan
is simply one of his weapons Of war in accomplish
| inc his purpose. The Administration will be
cterced into rendering him vital aid. II caunos help
itself unless il goes over to the Black Republicans.
| Its right arm is 10 the South. There are
| it's hackers and supporters. The inbeclty OF the
| Northern wing of the Democratic organization,
their decentralization az the mere janizaries of
Slavery, make them totally unfit to be relied on, to-
tally helpless as q party of opposition 10 the domi-
nant power of the South. Mr. Buchanan will not
even make feint of standing up against the Oil
earchy. KaDsas has not had, and will not have,
the shadow of chance of redemption from her
present thradom, except at the instance of the
South itself. We have thought there was chance
for this in'erposition. There is the bsres. posi-
bty of it still. Bu. our Judgment is daily strength
eped that no such Interpolation in behalf Of fair play
for Kansas will be made, and that the Shareholders
will 20 on with the same arrogant mperieusness
with which they began to complete the conquest
of that Territory, and to more completely reduce
and bumi'iate the political power, and principles,
and selfrespect Of the Free States. Ths Free and
Slave States are 10 a wsr for power, and the fact
should ever be forgotten. TIE contest 10 hand to
band. The hostility fpds is foundations 10 mmu'
table principles. The feud is deadly. The col
lnon is fierce. However much We may hope for
il, however believe in the possibility of an accom-
modotion of the strife reflection teaches i. is too
much to expect that an advantage gained BY either
party in such a strife will be surrendered to the
other. The Slavery men have by the foulest in
fanny obtained the legal mastery in Kansas, and we
may expect they will keepit.
Let the dull. seeiog moderstes Of the North learn
to view this question as it really is, and cease to
utter their jeremiads over dangers that beset their
hopes. The tones Of depreciation and fear are not
betting the Free States at the present crisis in
Their fate For they are the tones of towards, and
will be, as they deserve 70 be, spurned and tram
pied under foot. The attitude Of the Free States
should be that Of defiance and resistance. Toey
should assemble in council and repudia.e the bas-
tard rule Of slaveholdipg oligarchy, backed BY
uercelsry minority Of paceholders-a RUE con-
vertpg the Fee States into mere instruments Tor
the unlimited extension Of Slavery within the pres-
ert and prospective limits of the Federal Union.
Js.P.
A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR.
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SIR; sent YOU day or two sncs few REMARKS
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