New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-16
FROM WASHINGTON.

il that attributed to those veteran ana auuaciOus
nolt;csl sgitators Toombs and Stephens, for the
formation Of Southern Anti-Admnlstration party.
II is the opinion of their old Southern Wing assoc
ciaes who have not yet joined the Democracy, that
these men are the leaders Of very formidable con-
spracy to break up the dependency of the Southern
party upon the Federal Executive, and to deprive
the latter of its support. Men Of the stamp OF
Toombs, Stephens, Cingman and JEFF. Davis are
astute politicians. Events have shown that they
Judged correctly Of their ability to crush out party
ism in the South and to consolidate the Slave States
into compact and isolated section. When in loi9
and 80 they severed their then existing party con-
nectons and erected for themselves Southern plat
form, ToOmbs and Stephens were of COMMITTEES
which waited upon Gen. Taylor to lay before him
what was in effect plan oftreason and secessOnlsm
That blunt and patriotic old soldier drove the con-
spirators from his presence. But although they did
not directly and Immediately attain their object,
they conquered the Democratic party, and through
the terms which they imposed upon it, they reduced
the country temporarily to their Will, and they pre-
pared the way for future agitations. There cannot
be reasonable doubt that the Southern managers
in the diagracefn combination of trckery, called
the COMPROMISE of 1850, knew and intended that the
mil in contention which was to follow, was no
peace, and nothing more than hollow truce. They
knew that the North must awaken to resentment on
the insult and the degradation imposed upon her by
the Fugitive act with its glaringly unconstitutional
violations of State rights and personal liberty, as
well as to just appreciation of tine impudent rob
berry of the Treasury involved in the ten million
donation to Texas.
1t was to those not admitted partly behind the
curtains an inexplcabe fact, that at the very time
when the South had obtained from the North al she
demanded, and when she behed the Free STATES
degraded captiyes beneath her feet, the hatred,
r.no,, and chin alton nourpa ont uDOn the North
by Southern politicians and orators were never 80
fierce and impacable as Immediately after that
{" Compromise, and through the whole OF the IN
tervenng six years, ending with the late Preslden-
tial election. The malignty and ieroclty OF such
sheets as The Richmond Examiner, Tie South, The
Charleston Standard, The Ne1- Orleans Delta, The
Mobile Rsgister and occasionally The Richmond H.
0uirer have never been paraeled in the press cfany
country. The reason was that the aggresslons that
have been since carried out were then III c0ntenpa-
ton. The passions Of the South were to be ex-
cited against the North, to unite the former section
in crusade that should efectualy demolish any
opposition to the Democracy" in the South, and
prepare the way for the reputation OF the treaty
of 1920 and the possible Outrages OF the Rutilans
in Kansas even then, no doubt seen to be nccessa-
ry to conquer and annex that province to the South
Webster, Cass, and all Northern leaders in lcoO
expressly declared that to settle the open issues on
the Southern basis was to end the whole Slavery
status and condition of all the Territories as TO
Slavery forever. But in 1854, Douglas impudenty
asserted that the very object OF the laws lcoO was
to overthrow the Missouri Compromise. There
needs no better proof than this that the Southern
sgitators in 1850 anticipated aud planned the terrible
CONFUSION of 1854 Ii is likely enough they took
very few If the younger denagogues of the North,
whom they could pay in large promises, to be repu'
dated at a convenient time, into their confidence.
In 1854 these crafty Southern politicians prOba.
bly, expected to succeed in their purposes through
the scheme of violence and bloodshed which Atchi.
| son had been deputed to carry out. This would
| have assured their domination in the Union, and
| they would have been content to remain in it and
| tyIanDze over it. Kansas Slave State, New.
| Mexico, Southern California, Cuba and Central
| America were certain t. follow in her wake, and
| then not only would the Southern dream OF a bal
| ance in the Senate neutral!zng the power OF the
Republican and Democratic North, be realized, but
Slavery would be certain Of unrestricted sway IN the
| Government But the Kansas raid is yet of doubt
fnl ISSUE 1t may be Free State in fact and name
and is quite likely, if nOmiDaly Slave State, will
be hardly reliable ally OF the extreme and fanatcal
| South.
| Here then. we have cause aud motive for thi Il
Southern Instruction. Very few prominent Southern
men disguise their contempt for Democracy. The
masters of niggers loathe and despse that poor
| white trash" whether North or South, which does
not own niggers and constitutes the real Democracy
of the country 1t costs them, therefore, no effort
and no sacrifice of consistency TO abandon the party
| which calls itself Democratic They have belonged
| to it only because it was Southern party. They
supported Mr.. Buchanan because they believed that
he would be convenient tool by which they could
govern the North and the Union. But if he does
| aspire, as they begin to suspect, to higher
part than that of King Log they will throw him OF
| as easily as any other servant
The Union is carefully cropping It's way through
these dangers, feeling the pulse Of the country and
| scanning the strength of the seeding faction Mr.
| Buchanan too is III great perplexity and doubt
am satisfied that uihin uo ueeks the President and
| four members have expressed regret and implied
disapproval of Walkers voluntary pledges to use his
people of Kansas. They have said that he (Walker)
went too far, that he was ndiscreet that bis ass-
RANGES were not necessary, that his instructions do
| not warrant the cOurse he has adopted
Walkers tOades and ciaquerS here are inundating
| the country with dispatches that his is APP
| proved and will be sustained. His course is not
| approved, but it is not openly disapproved. 1t will
be sustained or repudated, according to the pro-
gress and result of these movements at the South.
Mr.. Buchanan privately wishes Gov. Walker perfect
success, in harmonziDg the contending elements in
Kansas, but he will do nothing in support Of any
FreeState policy which will endaDger bis relations
with the Southern Democracy.
Correspondence Of Tie N Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, July Ia, 1857.
The President takes up his Summer residence at
the Military Asylum to-day So great is the pres
sure Of business that is very doubtful whether ne
will be able during the present season to visit either
Lancaster or the Bedford Springs. am glad to
say that Mr.. Buchanan's health has greatly i'm.