New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-24


debtncurring policy Of Buchanan and hi, advisers
elect snti-Tammsny County officers, and -end 10
Albany eight or ten Assemblymen to support
Registration Of Legal Voters and every other
measure Of sslutary and practical Reform.
All TIL. il within our reaeh-within your reach
Messrs. Delegates but TO III attainment IL Is IL"
dispensaby requisite that you concede iuii snare
Of the nominations to those Americans who are
willing 10 Cooperate with Us on the basis lndl'
Gated al the Union City Meeting Of the 9th inst,
and more fully st forth at Syracuse on the 9th-
and that YOU present a. candidates men OIL un'
doubted capacity and eminent private worth VINO
are known 10 br substantial, exemplary citizens
not addicted 10 seeking and who have had no
hand in packing or manipulating delegates with
view to their own nomination. In short, what l.
needed j. that you nominate candidates not De-
cause they want but because they are wanted. Do
thi. and our cause viii triumph; do otherwise,
and We shall be beaten, and you will be responsible
for il.
As to the Congressman, We ask only that the
Americans be- accorded their share Of the strong as
well a. the less hopeful districts and that Horace
F. Clark be heartily supported in the uptown dis
trict. Our reasons for wishing him supported,
though often indicated, may be briefly reststed as
follows:
For some year, past-indeed for nesriy all OF
the last thirty years-the Federal Government has
been in the hands of those politicians whose cardl-
nal purpose is the extension and perpetuation OF
Human Slavery To this purpose, every public
interest every question Of foreign or domestic pol
icy, has been subordinated. II was this purpose
which carried the Annexation OF Texas, while still
on nsurgent province Of Mexico, at the expense of
good faith and of IN unjust war. 1t was this pur-
pose which dictated repeal of the Missouri Re-
striction. 1t was this purpose which subjected
Kansas for years 70 the most outrageous tyranny
and oppression ever endured by civilized commu-
nifty. 1t was this purpose which impelled the
Dred Scott decision. II Wa. this purpose which
instgated the Lecompton frsud which was in
tended to perpetuate BY bogus State Constitution
the slavehOldiDg domination which had been estab.
lished in Kansas by violence and ballot.stufing,
under the protection and with the connivahce Of
the Federal authority.
In this last attempt the Slave Power was sig
nally, ANONYMOUSLY foiled, and foiled by the help
Of such Southern Americans as Crittenden, Bell,
Humphrey Marshall, Winter Davis, &c, and such
Democrats as Messrs. Haskin, Clark, Hickman,
John q. Davis, &c. II was the first time that
the solid vote of Virginia South Csrolins, Georgia,
Alabama, &C., had been overborne in the House
on any question vtaly affecting the sggrandze.
ment Of Slavery. The defeat Of LecOmptOn was
a practical reply by the People, through their Rep
resentatives, 10 the bred Scott decision. And,
though this defeat was salyed over by the passage
of the English BILL the recovery was apparent
only, and had no practical value. The People Of
Kansas promptly, emphatically put their feet on
the bride held out to them; while, as to the menace
of persistent exclusion from the Union embodied in
that BILL even its supporters from the Free States
are now recoiling from it, and promising the People
that if reelected, they will vote to admit Kansas
forthwith and on any reasonable terms she may
prescribe. So that bill is pretty ehectuslly dis.
posed Of.
Now there are Democratic Members who op.
posed the LecomptOn and English bills who have
since fastened TO sbase themselves at the foOtstOol
Of Power-to protest that they meant nothing or
ss nearly nothing ss possible by that yote-and to
promise to swallow blindly every Executive edict
henceforth. Some of them have had the GOODNESS
to assert that, by the rejection of the English
bride, the whole matter is settled an assertion
only surpassed in mpudence BY the ALbony ArgasS
declaration that, since bred Scott is dead, the
bred Scott decision is DO longer Of any practical
account OF course, We desire the election of
none of this sort Bur, as for those Members
chosen az Democrats who sternly opposed the orig
inal Lecompton scheme and its lineal successor
who braved the frowns of Power and spurned the
allurements If Patronage in order to wrest Kansas
from the clutch of Slavery and usurpation-we
feel that the Country owes them debt Of graft
tude which no Republican should hesitate to ac-
knowledge. They saved the country from conyul-
sion, perhaps from civil war; since the People of
Kansas were inclined IN resist the imposition of
Lecompton upon them, and they had friends in
the Free States who would not have stood tamey
by and seen them crushed out by hireling
soldiery. Many OF these Members have been
discarded and deserted by the managers of the
party which elected them because of their course
on the Lecompton and English bills-can We con-
sent 10 see them broken down for this cause If
we expect or desire ever TO be in power, must We
not prove to those arrsyed against Us that they
may vote with Us, when imPeled by their conyic
tons TO do So, without committing suicide How
is minority ever 20 become a majority except by
accessions and what so certain TO bring acces-
sions 10 the Opposition as the spectacle Of por
ton of the representatives Of the majority defying