New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-29

snoros she people an opportunity OF regulating their
domestic institutions TO suit Themselves the Conven.
ton has complied with the intent and meaning Of the
ksnsas-NebraskG act. This il doctrine which though
barely acceptable to the South is grossly unpslstabe
to the North Still we believe that in the discouraged
and disorganized condition in which Black Replbli-
canism found itself after the late elections it would
have been unable to do more than enter q
lepguid protest against the views Of the President.
But behold In the hour of gloom and dependency,
the broken ranks of Free Soil became strengthened
and consolidated. Just at the moment when vigor.
QUE effort Of loyalty the par of the National De-
mocracy was alone required to que discomfort at the
South, TO utterly PROSTATE ntiSsvery at the North
and to secure to Kansas peaceful admission into the
family Of States Stephen A. Douglas turns recreant
to his protested faith and leagues himself with the
enemies Of order, equal rights and the Union. Being
man OF mark, the putative author OF the Kansas
bin, the sometime leader and darling of the De-
mocracy, this detection is Of the highest mo-
ment. Such man does not stand alone in his
abandonment Of the South He carries with him a
host Of National Democrats, who, however hshy on
the Slavery question, remained apparently true while
their leaders were firm. Elsewhere publish some
of the expressions Of sentiment venured by THU tribe
OF tenderfoeted politicians who deg TO plant
themselves sQuareiy on this platform erected by
Douglas and to support themselves by ctingng to his
broad shoulders. But il this the worst, might
shy let them CO." They never were trustworthy,
and their treachery at the fret suitable opportunity
putty lies much more in the aid and comfort he has
extended to Black Republicanism than in having de.
tached from the support of the South number Of
miserable, party hacks, whose sincerity was always
questionable.
The consequences Of this movement can scarcelyb
exaggerated, andfor once we believe with The Her
aid that have before the inevitable contingency
Of Northern Anti-Slavery coalition IN 1901, which
will sweep everything before II AZ with the force OF
whirwind. The forerunners Of this event are already
perceptible. Let any one peruse the Black Republ.
can journals, and note their defiant, eIulting Tone
since Douglas-the exponent of the Democracy OF
Al IL. al Tiaxyp
calculate upon annihlating the Administration ma
jonty in the House-perhaps in the Senate. They
predict the rejection OF the Lecompton Constitution
by the detection Of the Western Democrats and We
are afraid they are reckoning with their host
Douglas has done incalculabe mischief by taking
ground against Mr.. Buchanan on this Kansas ques-
tion-mschef that Outweighs thousandfold his past
services. We fear he has made up his mind to cast
his lot with the dominant party in the Free States,
and his position is but the precursor OF formal a.
alton with Black Republicanism.
Fyov The Mem ORLEANS Delta, Dee. le.
PRESIDENTIAL PRosPECTISG.-Ihe political caul.
dron is boiling furiously at Washington, and every
day new bubble appears upon the surface or new
ingredient is cast in to make IT thick and slab NO
less an issue than the fate of the Presidential struggle
Of 1860 seems TO hang upon the awful conyuraton'
Thus for the powers of darkness seem to favor the
htical complexion most akin to their own--in other
words the Black Republican magicisns nave con)ured
wisely and we'll and have received signs and tokens,
called and evoked apparitOns and utterances, oito-
gether TO their comfort and good cheer.
On the other hand, the Old Hanker body-guard OF
the Administration east down and Perpie1ed IN
the extreme. and it requires very vivid conception
of three years more of Executive patronage to Keep
their spirits up and enable them to exhibit even an
appearance of pluck. Thus the tables are turned
upon them or at least slanting in that direction Only
the other day the hopes of the Black Republicans
were down to zero; now they are apparently up to
yernal heat What has led to such state OF Things,
and what is to be its probable outcomei Let US
briefly consider.
In the outset It must be remembered, as we de-
clared at the time that in 1856 the Black RepuDncan
snake was only slightly seorcssd, no. slea i made
with it at the North, in manfu bold ana distinct
manner, on the Slavery question, throughout the
canvass. Yet in spite OF many concessions 10 II; ID
spite of studious avoidance by the Northern Demo-
cratic managers Of any act expression to offend the
AntiSavery sentiment; in spite OF " Free Kansas
emblems and notices emblazoned upon Democratic
banners at political meetings IN the interior OF many
of the Northern States in spite OF the fact that Mr.
Buchanan nominated because ne coud pieAd
an dhbi on the Kansas bih and was therefore
less objectionable to the Black hePuohcsns,,
of Democratic extraction and lineage III spite OF all
this the Democratic party was in MINOR Ut the cleo
ton of 1856 in every Northern State with, perhaps
the exception of Pennsylvania and the loss OF that
State would have given the Presidency to the Black
Republicans. Though they did not achieve the Presi-
dency the result was rather victory than defeat
They proved the alarming abundance OF their re-
sources; they showed with what wonderful rapidity
they could organize for campaign; they forced the
National Democracy TO terms, causing ii TO pledge it.
self 10 an attitude Of hostile neutrality toward the
South, and now they show determination to hold 1t
TO that pledge under the penalty OF the destruction OF
the Northern wing Of the party.
Mr.. Buchanan having boggIed in his Kansas policy
having given Walker the benefit OF his argument,
and presented 10 the Democratic party an SDsufa
expediency which his argument conference.-the BLACK
Republicans and Free Kansas and popular
sovereignty" Democrats of the Walker, Forney,
Douglas Co. school, are preparing to execute the
sbove mentioned penalty. The Capitol is the present
scene Of the struggle to that end. The Gauis are
laundering and shouting at the gates and the Con-
script Fathers of the Democracy turning as pale
as the ivory of their curue chairs.
There can be no Disgusting the fact that the Presi-
dency in lS60 is involved in this squabble on the new
phase Of the Kansas question. The Black kePubnc-
ans are ecstaces at the defiant manner IN which the
leonine Senator from Illinois shakes his name In the
face of the Administration. But the other day. IN
their ewes he pestilent pgny; now he Is very
Titan, and even Greeley is glad hug his gigantic
knees. They will make the most OF him. lf he seek
to revenge himself for the treatment he received in
Cincinnati in 1856, they will aid and comfort nm;
even il NAV be- so far 10 support him for President
on a coalition Democratic ticket based upon the pop
ular sovereignty" idea Altogether, this Kansas mn
brorlio M Washington Is big with tremendous results
II is an immense political fact 1t Is an algebraic
equation containing stupendous unknown quantity
The next Presidency hangs upon II, doubtless, out IN
fnitely more than the next Presidency, perhaps Let
its development be watched.
From TIE Sasaaaah Republicans.
SENATOR DOUGLAS ASD HIS SouTHERS fRfESDs.-
The times are indeed unproptous for our Democratic
friends at the South. We cannot imagine more awk
ward posion for party, and the wonder Il, after what
has happened, how they can summon the courage 10
lock honest people in the face. The leaders and presses
must all acknowledge themselves disappointed, de-
ceived, betrayed; nay, a. Old Bullion would cay, un-
mercifuly q" bsmboozied.' In turn they have aisap-
pointed. deceived, betrayed and bamboozled the
people who trusted to their assurances and re-
spec;ed their opinions. We are willing TO concede
that this was nnocently done yet does not vary the