New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-18

Aye Sir your standard bearer is night, IN spite OF
Douglas s0phsiries. house ihst e d1Viied agans,
itsencannot stand Loud cheers.l j. cannot stand
II must fall uncss il cesse 20 be divided lC9ntnued
applauseJ Bv the ine1orabe. incorporating logic
II fthues we rust either 20 way or the other; anf
as Mr.. Douglas tros 10 make you believe, maze all
States slave or free by force of arms, bot We must
either abaulOn the pnncpie q equal rghts, even
amoue white men, adapt the whole development of
our political organization to the paramount interests
OF a uriyilegcd class Of slaveh0ers put the liberties
Of sreech and press AZ the mercy Otthe ruling power,
and sacrifice our democratic system of government to
the art0cratic and despotic tendencies OF the slave
holding system throughout or we must break the
political power OF Slavery in onT national concerns,
and return TO the original principles on which this Re-
public was founded. Ia oie word, we must formally
recogpze Slavery as the ruling interest in national
pocy or We must deny II the recognition Of any na-
tional right and confne it TO merely local exist
ence under positive state IessIatl0n lCheersl lAs
Now, onibbe as you will, devise eide issues and
subterfuges invent palliative remedies, deude others
and deluGe yourselves with fictitious compromises.
This alternative will again and again push away all
your plausbtes and sophstres, and say 20 You with
he stern voice Of inezorable fate: Here am fou
have not me, perhaps, but here am. lCheersI
And now there comes a man Ike Mr.. Douglas, who
ought 10 nderstand tie Signs Of the times and gives
{ as his opinion that Slavery and Democracy, having
lived side by side these eighty years may live thus,
and that he does not the incompatibiity. Indeed
he does not see j. The same man. who once, in the
Of Freedom in the Senate: I'VE viii subiue you
fie does not see that somebody and something must be
subdued lApplanse.l A blind man does not see the
gun and yet il shines. deaf does not hear the
thunder Of heaven and yet be will feel the bolt OF light
ning when il strikes him down. Repeated applause
Aye, sir, Slavery and Democracy did live side by side
these eighty wears. But how did they live? Like
two coubatants who held each other by the throat,
each watching his chance to strange the other. Is II
not so lCheors.
Has MI Douglas seen or heard nothing of the din
i. r al. Lo,.Io - al rf.i hut
short and apparent intermssion since the time when
tie ruling parties Of tls Republic deviaed from the
original policy of the Revolutionary Fathers, to conne
Slavery within the narrOwest limits and to promote
It's gradual abolition by local legislation ! Does he
know nothing of the ridiculous failure of all the com
promises that called final settlements May be-
he is not blind but what he Sees Perhaps 1t docs
not suit him. Cheers. The conflict between Sla-
very and Democracy mi ght have been settled in the
spirit of the Revolutionary times. But 1t was not;
and it springs up in its true aspect when Missouri
claims admission as Slave State. II Is represented
10 be finally settled by tie Missouri Compromise. And
there il again is lurking under the tariff question. 1t
assumes threatening dimensions N the question of the
annexation OF Texas and the Territories acquired from
Mexico. 1t Is again said to be finally settled by the
COMPROMISE Of 1850. But there it rises again more
teIi6le thsn ever i'll the Nebraska Bill. Mr.. Douglas
then claims TO have finally settled it by introducing
his principle of Squater Sovereignty But streams OF
blood and smOuldering ruins i'll Kansas give hiul the
lie. ICbeers.1 Then Mr.. Buchanan's election was to
sctteit But the poor old has hardly set his foot
into the White House and the Slavery question steps
forth in unheard of turpitude from the hand of Judge
Taney. There it s II is like Banquos ghost, which
rises from the ground again and again, shakes its
bloody locks and sits down at the very head of the
banquet table. Great applause.
And there are some sinpletons crying Peace
peace Sop agitaiion!' Who ag;tntes ii : "ny
agitated it in 1890 but those who wanted 70 extend
Slavery into the Free West Who agitated it when
Texas was TO be annexed but those who wanted to
rive to Slavery unlimited domain in the South and
l.. 4 l,.t tI.. N..lr la
but those who wanted to break down the last barrier
10 Slavery Who agitated it by the Dred Scott de-
cison but those who wanted to make Slavery the rule
and Liberty the exception Who agitated 1t by the
Leeonpton question but those who wanted to sacri-
fee the last safeguards Of segovernnent to Slavery
Cheers. And all those who did 80 were but obeying
the logic of things For Slavery cannot live unless 1t
rules, and it can never keep peace unless dies.
ewing Stop agitation Where viii You begin
Where vil you endl Stop agitation! The President
of the United States makes not the most triing ap-
pointnent, the Slavery question is touched upon III
The Cabinet. Congress hardly makes the most ncon-
siderable appropriation without considering matters
from this point of vew and it is astated No iegis-
latiye assembly in any Of the States ever alonrHs
aetated. Ave, the smallest log hamlet in the West
hardly elects constable without considering what
the man views the subject Of Slavery are, and 1t
is agitated. And now stop agitation and cry peace
peace There is aud there will be war in the Cabinet
of the President in both houses of Congress, war
in every State Legislature in the smallest log
hamlet III the Nest-aye, war IN every heart, until
that all absorbing conflict Is settled. Loud cheers.
But now we stand before that awful perplexing
question. How IL that conflict Of contradictory prin
ciplcs to be appeased How is the Slavery question
to be settled There are, indeed some persons, Dem
ocrats affecting to he philosophers, who reason thus
d" I Slavery spread wherever the Shareholder peases
TO carfy il; let il conform the laws OF the land to IFS
prncipef and adapt them to the sole purpose OF its
protection, nevertheless time the natural process of
development, and the spirit of the age viii do away
with it.. Al, time and the spirit of the age may do
wonderful things. They have even laid Tie Atlantic
cable; but, by the by, It requires Cyrus W. Field to
start the movement and keep il going, Mr. Everett to
superntend the machinery and Capt Hudson to steer
the Niagara. Aye Sir, do those men who reason thus
know what The spirit OF the age and the natural pro-
cess Of development mean will tell ven the word
whether those philosophers have ever looked into the
history of the world. They would have learned how
time and the natural process Of development and the
spirit Of the age did away with the teuda system oi
society in Western Europe. What was The process of
development, that spirit Of the age thenl 1t is now
commonly called the French Revolution. II was the
sublime 81 frenzy and the boodest madness of people
II the destruction Of the Bastile. II the de-
c0ptation of king and of thousands of his adherens.
Ii was the banShnent of the whole nobility and the
refractory priesthood. Ii relentless persecution
Of all col lservetyes il was Of blood ii the
cortiagration of continent; il was twenty years OF
universal war; II was more terrible than earth
quake. iCheers.l Have our philosophers parcu-
lar krg to that Kind Of natural process o. develop
men, and spirit Of the ago But true as the viii
rise tomorrow, they will have the fun benefit of it if
their policy unfortunately for themselves should pre-
vail Repeated applause.
There is but one way Of avoiding forcble revolu-
tors, and that by beginning course of progressive
reforms in time When that season of absolute neces-
sy may arrive, is certainly difficult to determine, but
reforms will rarely be commenced too soon, and it may
very soon bc too late. Are the advocates of Slavery