New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-18

| Inc lion. L(ulbu lIuupui, u. D. CeuosVi hom
| Illinois recently made speech at Chicago in eX'
position and defense of Republican principles,
which is receiving that general circulation and at
tention which it deserves. We did not print it,
because of ts great length, and becsuse We believe
our readers already better informed on tho ques-
tiOns it discusses than those of almost any other
Journal if deficient, it is because of needless
ness on their part not of incidence on ours For
years. We have day by day set forth the vital truths
80 lucidly and forcibly presented by Mr. Trumbul,
and We rejoice that they seem to be taking firm
root in that magnificent West which bears in its
bosom the destiries Of our country. After the
next Presidential Election, the new Free States
will form The largest third of the Union, counting
the old Free States and the Slave States as each
compos;rg third In 1e48, there was not an
Electoral Vote cast sgainst the party srrogsting to
itself the name Of Democratic in all the Free West.
Gep Taylor was elected President, but no State
west or lorth west of the Ohio contributed to that
result. In 1852 there was of course, no change IN
that quarter; yet in 1856 Fremont carried Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa. losing Indiana and
Illinois only by foul voting aud BY the outright pur-
chase Of certain Know Nothing wire-work-
els by the Slave Democracy. Even thus,
the Free West gave 80 Republican to "a
Democratic Electoral VOtes-a clear majority
against the Sham Democracy for the first time.
And We cannot doubt that, whatever temporary
checks may be experienced in local elections-which
rether draw party lines rigidly nor call out full
vote-tbe progress of the Republican cause is
steadily onward. We believe even Egypt" will
give twice as many Republican votes next Novem-
Der as she has yet given and that the dark end
of Indiana, if faithfully canvsssed will show a cor
responding gain for the party of Free Labor. And
we shall be grevOusly disappointed if Minnesota
does Lot, even in 1860, throw her weight into the
| scale Of Freedom. AS to KANSAS does any one
imagine that she can be kept out of the Union two
yeas longer, or csjcled iato eating respectable
vote for the party which fraternizes With, and be-
slows Offices upon, the murderers of Barber, Phil
| lips, and their fellow martyrs-upon those who
paid the Border Rutiisns from the Federal Tressu-
ry for burning Lawrence, and rayasing the Free
State settlements at least quarterly through two
evsntful years of trial and suffering The Electoral
Vote of Kansas will be as surely Republican in
1860 as that of Vermont.
| -Mr. lTuLpuli ~ uu ouLuli hu1c ucDhkcf-AWayS
knowing what he wants to say, aud therefore ssy.
ing it, He crowds his colleague very hara-harder,
We think, than Mr.. Lincoln has done in any of bis
published sPeeches-wth regard to his support of
the "Toombs blu for paciiyng Kansas, passed by
the Senate but defeated in the House, in the Sum-
mer of le56. No doubt there were some votes
given and some things said by Mr. Douglas during
that long session that be would now gladly change
or have generally forgotten. 1t certainly Is Her.
culean task to reconcile Popular Sovereignty"
with the treatment Of Kansas by the Federal Gov
ernment from 1854 down TO the hour that Mr..
Douglas refused to be longer responsible for that
treatment, not TO mention the Dred Scytt decision
which Mr.. d. stiIl processes to uphold.
But We had intended to speak rather of the
heartIe.s with which Mr. Trambun commits him.
self to the policy Of Retrenchment in the National
Expenditures, descendins from generals to partcu.
lars, and not resting in vague declarations that the
expenditures should be diminished, but iustsncing
where and how they can be. This oourse may not
help the expected Office holders diversion or Ere
Gin the rear against Mr.. Douglas, bot il is en-.
phatcally right and the popular heart viii respond
10 IT, Mr.. Trumbull has made q most effective
speech.