New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-03

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the Slave Power has many points of similarity with
that Of great nations resistance to formidable
invader-that of Russia against Napoleon, for ex-
ample. In the earlier stages Of the conflict, the
defending armies are seen falling back from one
position after another. which Immediately occu-
pied by their trumphantly advancing adversaries,
until the whole country seems likely to be aban-
doned and overrun. But the defenders though re-
treating, are constantly, though silently gathering
up their garrisons and receiving reenforcements;
they are actually strengthened by their losses of
positions, while their opponents are weakened BY
the necessity Of occupying or covering them; until
at length the order of movement is reversed; the
invaders are palpably outnumbered and forced to
recoil, while those who have so long and YEARLY
retreated become in turn the assaIants. Hence
forth, the issue OF the contest is certain and it's
end rapidly attained.
The struggle with the Slave Power has reached
it, turning point Kansas is its Borodino, Lecomp
ton its Moscow. Whether It shall be allowed to
triumph in fastening its detested mposturs mo
meuta1iy on a gallant, protesting people or not
will make little difference. 1t is bouLd to be
driven ANONYMOUSLY from the soil it has polluted,
the territory it has ravaged and its expulsion from
Kansas is likely to prove the knel Of its sway over
the Union. There will still be collisions, conflicts,
mutations Of fortune; but the hour which sees
Slavery legally and undeniaby expelled from Kan
sas marks the limit of its practical ascendency Ii
will struggle henceforth for Missouri, for Maryland,
for Kentucky, for Virginia; Lo longer for fresh
annexations-for the extension and consolidation OF
its power.
1t is true that we who have been engaged in this
struggle for longer or shorter periods 10 the past,
can retsrd or hasten the fual cOnsummatiOn we
desire. BY welcoming OF repellng those whom the
march Of events has Ut last brought into practical
accord with US. We can. bs magnifyiDg differ
ences which Time has virtually efaced by pro-
pounding &ibboleths which have lost all practical
significance, by interposipg Pharisaic pretensions
and high.caste exclusions, postpone the auspcio1s
day wherein the interests and instincts Of Free
Labor shall bear sway in the White House and the
Capitol but there is no need of this, and none but
narrow and selfish reasons for insisting on it.
On the contrary, it seems TO us the plain duty Of
Republicans to regard and treat as brothers al
who stand with Us in opposition to the Lecompton
fraud-to invite them to our councils and our con-
fdcnce, while cheerfuly asserting 10 their prose-
cution of their share in the common enterprise
under their own banners and in their own fashion
to act freely and faithfully in accordance with
our own convictions and accord TO them the utmost
Liberty in doing likewise.
The Leeompton fraud is a crime against Liberty,
against Humanity, against the fundamental princi
ples cousecrated BY the blood and sutSerngs Of our
fathers in the American Revolution. But it il,
moreover, an express violation Of the principles
prcfe,sed in the platforms established BY each party
in the last Presidential contest.
The Republicans, IN that contest, struggled
| against the violation of the Missouri compact in
respect TO Kansas, and the outrages, frauds and
terrorism whereby Slavery had obtained foot
| hold aud seeming legalization therein. Ot those
OutIases, those frauds, the LecOmpton Con.titu-
tion is the logical elimination.
| 1he DemOersts-all Of them ostenslbly many Of
them honestly as their present attitude proclaims-
c"nsended for the right Of the People Of Kansas,
and Of al Territories, TO frame and establish such
domestic institutions as they should judge best
adapted 70 their situation and their needs. This
iundamental requirement of the Cincinnati Platform
IL denied to the People of Kansas by the eLecompton
Col,tituton.
The American Platform insists with equal en-
| phas!s on the right Of each community 10 genuine
selfgoyernment, and condemns all rule based on
fraud, alien irruptiOn and ballot stuaiug. How
csn any honest adlerent of this creed uphold the
Ltconpton Constitution, which Wa, lot only
crad,ed in invasion anl nur.ured il fraudulent
voting but whc6 its ,u thors fused 70 s,bni. 20
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