New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-18

TO the echo, having by its domestic policy dis
% comfted the designs Of sectionalism throughout
"the Union" and as having "by its diplomacy
abroad, vndicated our flag against the British
'claIm Of visitation or search, and e1'orted the
long withheld concession Of our equality on the
ocean" Here is not only the lie with clrcum'
stance-a most direct, wanton, palpable faisehocd'
but il is one which hbels every Democratic
Administration which preceded the present. Ii
the concession Of our equality on the ocean mas
only now been eytOrted from Great Britain BY the
diplomacy Of Messrs. Buehsnan, Csss and Dallas,
then the Administrations of Messrs. Jackson Van
Buren,, Polk and Pierce rested content IN posi-
ton Of maritime subordination and ysssalage TO the
assumptions Of Great Britain. Nay, more: TINS
resolve inpeacbes Mr. Buchsnan a. well IS his
predecessors, since be was the Premier OF Col.
Folks Cabinet and the ambassador TO England OF
Col Pierce. But the lie is as gross as IT Is sui
cida Great Britain has not for generation a.
serted any predominance over us on the ocean, ana
Of course she has not surrendered any such pre-
tension She has asserted no right 10 search our
vessels, and Of course has given up no such claim.
certain cases was 10 overhaul suspicious vessels
flying the American fag sufficiently to ascertain
whether they had any right to bear that fag-and
this is Just what our National vessels have done
and will do with regard to suspected pirates or
savers displaying the British, Spanish or any other
National ensign Deny the right to do this and
the high seas will swarm with robbers, and piracy
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trade. Great Britain has recently abandoned no
pretension on this subject, as every intelligent per-
son well knows
As to the " domestic policy" Of Mr.. Buchanan,
by which he is said to have " discounted the de-
signs Of sectionalism," this is the very pivot on
which We desire that the ensuing election should
turn In his Inaugural and earlier manifestoes,
Mr.. Buchanan explicitly and emphatically commit
ted himself to the policy Of protecting the People
Of Kansas in their natural right to frame and adopt
such institutions they should freely prefer has he
fulfilled that pledge Ifso, why were Walker ard
Stanton displaced so soon after Mr.. Buchansns
telegraphic dispatch to Dan Sckles on the very
eve Of our last Election giving that they
should not be What was the object and meaning
Of the desperate effort to force the Lecompton Con-
stitution through Congress last Winter, after the
People Of Kansas had deliberately, formally re-
jected il by an overwhelming majority In short.
what distracted the Democratic party in the last
House, nullifed its heavy majority, and prevented
action on the Tariff and other pressing topics, if
Mr.. Buchanan's 90 domestic policy was such as
this resolve represents it
No. 2 exults over the alleged settlement Of the
Kansas question by the rotes gifts inhabitants, which
is alleged to have removed that subject from
Congress, and has left the future disposition of
% its internal affairs to its own people" This i'm
pudent resolve ignores the fact that Mr. Buchanan
tried to settle the Kansas question" without
allowing the People to vote on the matter at all,
and in defiance of the vote they had just solemnly
cast rejecting the Lecompton instrument which
he nevertheless attempted TO force upon them as
their State Constitution. Nay; Messrs. Douglas,
Hickman, Haskin, John G. Davis & Co., by whose
bold defiance of the Presidents will this right of
voting or "the Kansas question" was secured, are
now ostracised and being hunted down by the
Administration because Of this rebellion against the
Presidential mandate. With what face, then do
those who rallied all their forces to sustain the
President and defeat the demand for a submission
of "the Kansas question to the People now claim
credit for the fruits of their defeat, while they
ostracise and try TO crush those by whose attitude
and efforts that submission was secured
But how is "the Kansas question settled
Kansas remains this day Territory, and Slave
Territory. Free-State Sherifs are compelled to
advertise men, women and children for sale there
on execution the same as horses, hogs and cattle
such being the law. Mr.. Buchanan has officially
declared Slavery truly dwfulthere as in Alabams.
She is not only in Slavery and out Of the Union,
but there is provision Of law enacted last Winter
by the Lecompton Democracy which prescribes
that she shall not come into the Union until she
shall have shown by census that she has at least
80, $40 inhabitants, though she was even urged to
come in as Slave State under Lecompton without
inquiry as TO her population. There is nothing
afirmatyely settled with regard 10 Ksnsas-nothing
settled but that Congress and her People concur in
defying the Presidents mandate and rejecting the
Lecompton fraud. Kansas is now just where she
stood one year ago, when these same politicians
with equal positiyeness assured us that the Kansas
question was settled and thereupon carried our
last election through the supineness Of the Repub
lcans. Will the People Of New.York be thus
drugged second time
No. asserts that Kansas is sure 10 be "a Free
State; but protests against the offensive and
dangerous assumption that victory
.. has been won over the South" Right, gentle.
men. The victory has been won over such dough-
faces as yourselves and your Chief far more than
over the South. But surely your brass will not
suffice for denial that there has been desperate
struggle to establish Slavery in Kansas-by whom
The effort has been defeated-we know how and