New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-25

ce-ded in passing Themselves of upon the excited
Imagination Of the practical democrats Of the North
eru Ststes 40 the genuine animal SO long ~ JEFF
ferson himself did the roaring for them all in ear
ne,t ss be was the thiog passed of admirably; bat
upder his succe.sors r-t ear and then pose be-
can n peep out General Jsct son. who could roar
equal t, J, ff,rson himself though not IN toe ssme
KY, with the .ssistaDce Of Martin Van Barren. who
hsc oil Jefersons political adrotness succs~dec for
while in rirg up the ssss head, which BY that
time hsd become pretty fully reye,led, especially
IN the discussions on the Missouri compromise
But now Senator Hammond and Senator Davis
Themselves indignantly pluck of what little re-
uained Of the old disguises, aud the S0utherner'
though they st clrg 10 the old name, stand
forth, as they did eighty years ago confessed
aristocrsts, and rail, now as then, at the leSehng
deuocracy and equality Of the North as unit to
sustain the social fabric and sure to plunge every
thing into ruin. Following the example oil the
States of South Carolina aid Georgia 10 he federa
Convention they even insist that the African slave
trade shall b. egazed or at least winsed at, astne
only condition of their continuance in the Union.
linlan. and Georgisns Of that day. They not only
iosis, upon the liberty of stealing slaves in Aires,
but upon the additional liberty of stealing lands
upon which to work them in Mexico, Central
America, and South America generally.
But though New. England and the South stand
thus opposed to each other now, as they did IN the
times of the Reyouton-New England IA tie
champion Of democracy equality, and the dignity
aud rights Of laboring men, the South as the adVo-
cate of an aristocrac class of Slavery, and OF the
degradation and political disability OF labor-the
old contest is again renewed under very different
circumstances New. England then stood alone,
with only some short-ived aid and assistance from
Pennylyana and New. jersey. Now, though com
parstlyely much weaker herself, she finds ranged
by her side the great State Of Newfork and all
the vast and populous West, sna.ched-thanks TO
TIE Oriiuance Of S7-from the hands OF the slave
breeders, and at length fully impregnated with
New-Englond ideas largely settled, as it
has been, as well as New-iork, BY the sur
plus population of New-Engand. New-Jerssy,
too, and Pennsylvania, st last also are
coming to their senses, aud. sick OF the
husks on which they have been fed-s very few
adroit and selfish politicians having contrved to
appropriate all the corn-are coming back again to
their old revolutionary connections. Thus reSn-
forced, Democracy stands again face to face with
Arstocracy-an arstocrscy no longer dlsguited, but
confessed ard exultant, aud even trampling under
foot such of its former associates as like Douglas
still insist upon some small fgeaf of democracy
with which to hide their nakedness
Backed up and sustained by the deeprooted
democratic sentiment of the North, the slave
holders have been all powerful. By this aid and
enly by this aid they have contrved to rule the
country for some sixty years past. We shall see
what sort of hand they make of it now that,
emerging from all DISCUSSES they stand revealed
under the Ithuriel touch of the Slavery question,
eoofe.-ediy the aristocrats that they are, and
always have been.