New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-13

which the Prostate fe!tlers of Kansas have bean
tie victims. These events were but the natural
results Of thst election; they were the reward OF
the self-styed conservatives who thought that, BY
making Pierce President, they were putting an end
to the S avery agitation. Just so the election Of
Mr. But banaD, and % large proportion of Slavery
extniitDists 10 the House of Representatives, with
the approval which four or FIVE of the Free Safes
&c. med ibee to pass ups the spread ofSlaveryby
violence fraud robbery aud arsOp, has been speedily
ftl owed by still heavier blow At Freedom aud the
North. lis no longer in Congress or on the plains
Of Kansas that We are sssailed. Now the slave
holders majority in the Supreme Court OF the
United States have stepped into the arena, and, BY
an extra Judicial decision have pronounced Void
and unconstitutional every act Of Congress hitherto
pased contecratirg any of our Territories to Free
d, II and have denied to Congress any power to
lepisJste for the curtailment and extinction OF
Slavery but only for its extension and perpetuation
That this movement on the part of these Judges
owes it, existence entirely to the election of James
Puct ansu TO the Presidency, DO sane man can doubt
The tmid and tremb ing who supported Buchauan's
election uI der the IDEA Of appeasing the Sou and
stopping the Slavery agitation, can see no" what
they have got. Does anybody imagine that had
the gallant fremont been sustained by the North,
as he ought to haze been, the five slaveholdiny
Judges would ever have ventured on such au extra
judicial excursion into the domain Of politics, or
that, bad such On idea come into their heads,
even Ntl.ca and Grier would not have
demonstrated most loudly against it Had
Fremont been elected, our five slayehOding
Judges would most undoubtedly have limited them
te,yes to deciding against the unfortunate bred
Scott his wife and daughters. Means doubtless
would bave been found to keep them in slavery but
that object would have been accomplished by some
LAWYERS fetch like that resorted TO by Mr. Justice
Nelson, arr which, though it might have sacr feed
Justice and right, would have involved no departure
from the accustomed prophecies of the Bench.
Possibly the COurt NIGH still have gone 80 far
and Judge Grier's hatred of negroes and Abolition
sts might probably have carried him along with
them-as to have excluded negroes from suiog in
the UIited States Courts; but not lisp should we
have beard about the uDcoDstut:Onality of the Or
d nance of l7e7 or the Missouri Compromise, nor
any suggestion of the atrocious and disgracefu doc
trhe that Under the Consi ution Of the United
States negroes have no rights which white men
sic bound TO respect," and are not entitled under
it "to be ever thought of or spoken of except as
properly"
1t is the election Of Mr.. Buchanan which hn
,Dbcldeped our Ave saveholding Judges to voluu
teer this extrs;judicial proclamation Of birbarism
and inhumanity as the staple of the United States
Constitution-sn announcement which The journal
c Commercial Christianity published ia this city, is
so prompt TO "welcOme, respect and honor" as
"lucd and convincing judgmen',' "a permsueut
"record, stamped with the absolute authority of
"ihe Constitution itsef;" almost if not quite,
"ibe greatest political boon vouchsafed to us since
the foundation of the Republic" All this lsuda
ton of the attempt of our five saveholdng Judges
to tsbe advantage Of their position on the bench to
eJalt Slavery above oil law, aud to give to each TO-
diydual sDavehclder Hberum rtto, after the old
Polish fashion, upon the legislation of Congress aud
the Staes, is perfectly in character for The
Journal Of Commerce. Nowhere has the
perpetual degradation and ensayemeut of
the regIOts more Jealous and hearty advocate.
IL re ponds with no less hearty to this attempt
to give Slavery legal support in the Constitution
than it does to similar attempts from the pulpit ID
find divine or gin for in the B bic. Ii negroes
are property and, under the Constitution, can only
be bought of or spoken Of as property, so much
the better for trade. Here is opened wide door
for the extension of commerce, both foreign and
domestic. But, not satisfied with shouting Glory
Amen The Journal Of Comm,ree goes so far as to
,xtol this procedure of the five slaveho'dDg Judges
"as final settlement of grevtus sector al issues"
Were tina. print ever known to have been guilty OF
licking. We should be inclued to suspect il Of sly
st a, the expense of those credulous old gentlemen
who were bambOozed into voting for Mr. Buchanan
Ulcer TIE idea Of stopping the Slavery asi'asion.
Stopping the slavery agitation Compare al
that has been sad sud dore On this subject in The
mast with The discussion Of 1t now set on foot, and
the spitatio Of the Slavery qaes ion may be said
TO have just now but fairly commenced. With the
Supreme e,urt to lead the way, who can refuse to
follow Wien the Supreme Coar: rush reckIessy
and headlopg into The nids. Of the fgh, who can
be expected to be cool enough to keep OF. OF It
With a msjcriiy of the Judges Of The Sdprene
Court giving their sanction to the practice of ar
euips into the Constitution, or rather Of passion
stey assuming, in defiance Of fac. and history, the
in Piled presence in the Consdtu ion Of meanlog
toWheIe expressed, and no authOri,a'isey broush.
out for the first tne-wiih the Judges of the Sd
pyene Court taxing the lead in q nethcd Of consti.
tuopal Interpretation, which, however suitable to
The ta.tes Of the masses, has not hiherto found
much favor with the bar and the btnch, who can