New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-30
FROM FLASHING TON.

From Our Own Correspondent.
WAsnINGTON, Monday, Nov. %, lS5>.
The city is rapidly filling up with its usua
| Winter population, though thus far, the arrivals
from the South preponderate. There is a large
body of Southern politicians at present In the
! Capital who have come here to make arrangements
political and pecuniary, for the coming session.
The impression prevails almost universally among
these gentlemen that tie Slavery question is settled,
that the Anti. Slavery agitation has subsidized, and
that henceforh the topics with which the public
mind of the country VIII concern itself are to be
measures of financial aud merely territorial inter
est. The faulty of these men reminds one of the
ostrich, with its head stuck in hole, aud It's entire
huge body exposed TO the hunter. Their know-
edge of the North their notions of the origin, ten
dency progress and aim of the Anti l-Slayery move
Inent, are Of the vaguest and most imperfect sort,
| formed either BY blind and passionate conjecture,
! or from the Misrepresentation of Northern dough
| faces, who as doughfaces know themselves little
| or nothing of the Anti-Slayery movement, and are
doughfaces, because they have not grasp oi mnd or
| elevation of character enough To comprehend II.
The say eholders of late Years have so stimulated
| themselves with fanatcism So becOuded their
own minds with swashy fallaces in the insane at
tempt to reconcile with Christianity and natural
| Justice the practice of living on the earnings oil
others, and with Democracy and Liberty the Tor
chile keeping OF three or four millions ot their
| people in bondage that II Is extremely hard 10
| make them realize their true position, or UNDER
stand the attitude u which they appear to the rest
of the country and the rest of the world. All men
whose eyes are not dazzed by the flmsiest OF falla
! ces can see that the slayehoding class IN this
| country is nothing but arlstOcracy and that OF
| the meanest Kind. 1t is not all aristocracy dlgn-
fed by titles, by high birth, long descent and Illus
| triOus services, but Il contemplate mgger' driving
| cotton-grOwiDg, tobacco-ralspg arist0cracy, INTO
which any one can get admitted who can scrape
together thousand dollars and has not conscience
or humanity enough to restrain him from buying
| therew ith another man, and making him work all
the rest of his life for his the buyers profit and
convenience.
In Republic like tbs, founded on principles of
| freedom, Justice, and equality OF rights the toler'
alton of such an odiOus arlstocracy for moment
could hardly be looked for, even If II confined itself
prudently and quietly to It's miserable business oil
| nigger-brceding cotton growing aud tobaccO-ras-
| ing, without undertaking 10 NEEDLE with politics.
| Even in that case il might reasonably expect that
the democratic mass of the people would demand
its suppression and abolition a nuisance and dis
! grace 10 the country. But when this privileged
| class with its two millions of capital, combines TO
| control the Government, and assamcs TO make and
unmake Presidents, to dictate who shall be judges,
| who shall be Embassa who shall be office
| holders. from the highest To the lowest: when il
undertakes to put down freedom of the Press and
of speech. snd TO prescribe and persecute all who
are not serye 10 il. how can it expect Ia be LEI
alone while the spirit of their fathers yet animates
the free ard proud and prosperous people of The
| North
The struggle against the slaveholding arisiccracy
will continue so long as that sristocracy exists.
Platforms may be made and unmade. fugitive slave
laws passed and repealed, Kansas admitted, and q
dozen other Free States admitied-but the Anti
Slavery agitation will not stop until the ssyehodlnG
aristccrscy is subdued and suppressed. lhere ma!
be lulls, and there may be reacions-there may be
settlements and final settlements Il remember
mysel, six or seven OF he latter since The frs