New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-27

| finally conquer all accidents and accomplish the
most wonderful scientific enterprise which the
world ever witnessed At this moment, no one will
be unwilling to take heart from the old legend OF
Robert Bruce ard the spider. If we are compelled
twelve times TO throw our thin metallic thread
over the Atlantic, without securing it, be sure that
upon the thirteenth trial the victory will be ours.
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Tile Albany atlas reads US lecture on the pro-
prietes Of editorial controversy aud the amenities
"due to genteDanly intercourse topics CD which
we were rot previously cropping in absolute dark
ness Our justification (Uot excuse or apology for
the language to which our monitor objects Is OK
pressed in the Irish soldiers reply to the oficer
who IeprCved him for having bayoneted dog who
came at him with open mouth and savage purpose.
"You should have struck him with the butt of
your gun, Patrick" said the officer "And go |
wud, yer honor" was his reasonable response, "f
the haste had run at me with his tail" For years,
We in common with our compatriots, have been
aseailed with the fouest imputationo not affecting
our political orthodoxy but our personal in.
tegrity. We have been accused of raising false
issues and making iDsncere appeals to the popular
heart in order to mask and give success to schemes
of private rapacty and public plumber. All manner
of changes have beea rung on this base accusation;
and il is but recently that The atlas had leader
comparing the Republicans to Mrs. Cunningham
with " bleeding Kansas" for their borrowed baby.
Is il well for those who wautOnly and perslstently
charge their peighbors with the grossest swiodbng
to complain that they in turn branded as liars
Are they in position TO complain Of "cosrseness
and indecency, and call attention to "what is due
"to gentlemanly intercourse ?" We think net.
We have some questions agreed with, on
others differed from, The Aaas, but have never
sought to pursue its Editors out Of the columns of
their Journal into their personal and private rels-
tons, nor to aege other motives for their course
than those which appear on the surface. The
public will bear witness, and even our assaants
will not deny, that whereas The atlas formerly
occupied cnmon ground with THE TRIBUNE
On the subject Of Slavery in the Territories, and
The duty Of tho Free States aud the Federal Gov
ernmcnt relative thereto, while the two Journals
now hold adverse positions on that point, the change
which has thus brought Us into antagouism has been
wholly in Tie Atas, not at all i'll THE TRIBUNE.
We stand where we did when our platform on this
subject was common with that of The alias. Tho
receive which that journals friends left on the table
of their exploded State Convention at Syracuse,
and our friends took up and adopted, is still the
"cornerstone' of our political faith, though now
repudiated by The atlas. If there be room for a
question of sincerity or Of motive between us, it
Necessarily refers to the sincerity, the motives OF
The Atlas, not to ours But We raise no such ques.
ten.
1t is true that we have all along regarded and
treated the cry Of "Squatter Sovereignty set up
in behalf of the Nebraska Act, as de!usion and a
snare. We held, before tho facts were elected
which justified our conviction that the People Of
Kansas, under the operation othat Act, would never
be allowed fairly to discuss aud decide for them
selves the propriety Of lega'izing or excluding
Slavery. We asked from the FIRST and asked in
van, Of Messrs. Cass, Douglas and other champions
of the doctrine, "Whcn does the right of the Peo-
"pe Of Territory to establish or exclude Slavery
"begin to se opera,iyel May the first ten settlers
"declde this vital question The first fifty
five hundred five thousand or how
many IL u LILLY 10 w VIC eohV, s"'N
Mr.. Webster forcibly, in his reply to Col. llayne,
." the gentleman can tell us ho,o it is to be done.
elf the fret Territorial Legislature for example,
may establish Slavery, will the next De equally
a." free to abolish it! And most vital question OF
"al, may slaves be taken into aud held in the Ter
"ritory prior TO any legislation on the subject y
We asked these and Kindred questions of the prom
inept advocates of "Squatter Soverei gnty," but
could obtain no answer. They were dumb dogs
when requested to give some idea Of tie practical
working of their newly discovered or newly applied
principle. Mr.. Douglas was at last badgeredi in the
Senate into saying that be regarded all these as Ju.
ocal questions, to be decided by the Federal Courts
| Considering the notorious preponderaDce of the
Slave interest in tsOse tribunals, where less than
three seyenths of the People have ninths of the
Judges in the Court Of last resort is it strange that
| we did Lot deem this satisfactory answerl
| Meantime, the BOrder.Rulians of Missouri had
! given the problem practical ISOLATION. They bad
crossed over into Kansas within two months after
| the passage of the Nebraska Act, and, in mob
gatherings of land-speculators and clam.hunters,
Rad resolved that Slavery was ALREADY established
| in Kansas, and that they would cxpel any imu-
grant who demurred to that affirmation. Tney
commenced lyuching Prostate men SO soou as
there were any ayowed ones in Kansas to lynch,
ard SOON DESTROYED the only newspaper in Western