New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-19

before long, in compelling tne sA'eAoiuci' ="
throw off this. I'll then. most convenient disguise
Their cloak of Democracy began sd 81 once unuei
the operation Of Anti-Slavery tracts, 10 scorcn,
burn. blister and torment them Like the shlr' ol
Ne.sus. All at once il bec,me highly lneendiar!'
and in their rage, fury and passion, tney ho' ON!
stripped it of in haste, and threw IT aside VIII
every mark ofhorror and deteststoD, but, 10 dong
So Indignantly tore il up into ten thousand riooons
and tatters. The best they have now to say oil the
Declaration of Independence IS to speak OF IL as
political willie the -wisp-s sliterins senersAly'
sure 10 lead those who attempt TO follow i INTO
,loueb, and ousgmires. They have been driven to
confess and to proclaim that, IN their OPINION the
men who labor with their own hands are not nj 10 DC
trusted with political power, unless II ms! De the
right of suffrage to be always exercised IN eleVat-
inr TO Office some slsveholding patron, never in
promoting the interests OF Free Labor. The! now
openly parade the institution of Slavery as the only
safe foundation Of republican government They
speak of the expectation OF the abolition OF oavery
entertained by Washington, Jefferson and the other
fathers of the Revolution, an error, pardonaole
perhaps, in them but which to-day is no longer 10
be tolerated so that even any suspected inclination
toward il, in the slightest degree. ought TO be set
down ~ sn absolute disqualification to hold any
Federal office.
Thus driven to abandon the fetch OF democracy,
the shareholders gave over all their popular pro-
fessions, or no longer addressed them except to
the most ignorant of the back-woods population,
to the hangers On about the Git. gros-shops or to
that uneducated portion of our immigrant popula-
aton unable to read the newspapers, and who
Therefore continued to lag some ten or twenty
years behind the times. Turning away from the
democracy they addressed themselves to the aris-
tocracy of the Free Labor States-to those very
merchants. manufacturers bankers and capitalists,
whom for forty years they bad overwhelmed and
discreded BY the most malignant charges OF de-
signs TO enslave their fellow citizens or to betray
and sell their country. They appealed to the con-
seryatiye spirit and still more emphatically To the
money-loyipg and money-making spirit Of this
part Of the northern community, setting them
selves forth as the real conservative,
servatiyes from interest as well as from
principle--tO whom alone the upper
crust of northern society could look to save
themselves from being drowned and swallowed up
BY the scathng democracy underneath. AS III
their former appeals to the laborers OF the North,
so in their present appeal to northern capitalists
and EMPLOYERS their great reliance has been i'll SO
frightening those to whom they address themselves
as to make them incapable of any sound and sober
Judgment The working men were told and even
induced to believe-so artfully was the play kept
up on their suspicious and preudices-thst only by
keeping the national government in the hands Of
shareholders could they save the country from being
betrayed or sold to the British, pundered by banks,
impoverished by tariffs and trOdden under the foot
of moneyed aristocrscy For the last ten or
fifteen years the Shareholders cry has been that
only by keeping the national government in the
hands of shareholders can the Union be preserved,
or the North itself be saved from all the disorders,
confusion, violence and vulgarty of an unbri-
died democracy. In former times, the appeal OF
the shareholders was to the good honest country
farmers. Their appeal now is TO the great cap-
talists. rich merchants, and lordly bankers. Then
they looked to the country for their main support,
now to the cities.
This last fetch served them very well in putting
Pierce and Buchanan into the Presidential chair.
But it is already abundantly manifest that the con-
serystiye dodge can never their turn at all to
the extent Of the Democratic dodge. The Free
Labor States are essentially Democratic, and the
time has long gone by when the class OF men
who compose, or did compose, our SilverGray
Wings have it in their power to give political
complexion to any Free. Labor State in the Union.
The immense vote cast for Fremont, followed up
as il has been at the recent elections affords con-
elusive evidence that this new saveholding dodge
of conservatism and the safety of the Union has
seen its best day and can hardly avail for another
Presidential election At last there exists in this
country party Republican not merely IN name,
but in fact-a party based on the advocacy OF the
rights and interests of Free Labor as against the
pretensions aud usurpatons of shareholders. There
is every reason to expect that, with moderate
exercise of good sense, this party-provided it can
keep itself tolersbly free from the intrigues aud
influence Of trading demsgOgues and selfseehing
polticians-will be able 10 triumph at the next
Presidential election, and, in so doing, TO carry
back the administration of the Government to
those principles of justice, equity and equal
rights with which the Administration of Washing
ton set out and to those principles OF Democracy OF
which Jefferson was the great cxpositor.
The serious turn which the serf question now
seems likely to take in Russia will be best under