New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-23

M;,soar should bs little disturbed at finding
taemselyes and their services apparently overlooked
or ignored by some Of those who have taken con-
spicuous part In vindicating the rights Of the peo-
pie Of Kansas. Surely the people of Missouri have
just as good right as the people Of Kansas to
adopt the Free-labor system as the basis Of their
future growth and prosperity. And surely in their
efforts to introduce that system, to do for them
selves now what Congress wss cajoled out Of do
ifg for them eight and twenty years ago, they
have as much right IA the Free-labor majority Of
Kansas have rot merely to the sympathy, but to
the aid and support OF the Free labor States
agsrst all atteupts to interfere from without
agspst their right to regulate their own domestic
affairs in their own way.
1t is not surprising il. just at this moment
when numerous indications concur to prove
that Missouri /, about to eoter on the strug-
gle to make herself a Free-lsbor State, the
Ffee-lsbOr men OF Missouri should hear with
some surptise and dissatisfaction too the an-
nouncement on the Ao0r of Congress, from the
lips of Senator Seward. that the great battle be-
tween Freedom and Slavery 10 over, and that, hav-
ing secured d numerical majority in the
Senste, the Free-labor States will have no
further interest in that struggle or from Senator
Feosenden the declaration that the Republican
party have no idea Of helping aud supporting
those who may be struggling in behalf OF
Free.labOr within the Slave States. The truth
is, as the point is well put in the
article TO which we have referred that this ia no
longer matter a. to which the Free-labor States
have any choice. In the repeal of the Missouri
Prohibitions; in the Dred Scott decision; in the
attempt now making in Kansas to force Slavery
upon reluctant and struggling population; in the
new Southern doctrine that Slavery instead Of being
a cure is q blessng-the shareholders have thrown
down gauntlet which the Free Laborers cannot
but take up. The shareholders have party in
every Free State tf this Union-a party which they
labor to strengthen and uphold by employing the
vast patronage of the Federal Government now at
their dispOssl solely for that purpose. There are
papers in this city which already more or less
openly second the extreme Southern demand for
revival of the African slave trade, Not even a
City or Ward election can take place; scarcely
school committee man or a constable can be chosen
in the State of New-York without raising the
question whether or not the candidate is sound on
the goose. Innovations commonly begin at the
North, but in time they spread to the South.
Hitherto the Free-Iabor party of the South has
been kept entirely under by the reignof terror
" which it was attempted to establish in Kansas.
Such still continues to be the case in every
Slave State, with the single exception of
Missouri. But neither there nor in any
3ther State in which Free labor party may
organize itself, need any apprehension be felt of
want of sympathy and efficient support from the
States of the Union. This movement
IN Missouri has been hailed with Joy and satisfaction
throughout the entire North, which is n itself an
earnest of the future. As Minerva sprung full
grown and full armed from the head of Jupiter
beneath the sledgs hammer blows inflicted upon it
BY Vulcan, 80 the Republican party has sprung into
existence under the oggressiOns of the Slave Power
Politicians speeches in the Senate did not make
that party; politicians speeches in the Senate can
not rule it, The destiny Of that party is TO uphold
Fees labor as the only adequate basis of republican
institutions, civil Liberty and demOcratical govern
ments, and to aid in extending the benefits of Free
labor to every State which shall desire to partci
pate in them.
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