New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-08
STCCESa DEhlRABLE,

sirsble There few, very few, persons IN
the ranks of the Republicans who talk and act as
| if they had grave doubts about the proPtety OF
| carrying the country in 1860 Or, rather, they
seem TO think that the Of the means necessary
to that end would involve 80 much Of evil that de-
feat would be preferable to victory. Though hoping
for the success Of Republican principles in some
remote period of the future. aod BY some provi
Dental Intervention that rbal pretty much dispense
with human agency, their faith is SO weak that they
neither look for nor labor for a National triumph
in their day.
The large mass Of transcendental ascetics refuse
to cooperate with the Republicans. They prefer
to waste their strength upon impalpabe Issues and
impractcabe leaders. But, just enough Of them
csim fellow ship with us to frighten the timid and
mslead the credulous by crying, Don't lover the
sstaDdsrd!' whenever men quite as honest And
good deal wiser than themselves attempt 30 to
conduct the pending Presidential contest that it
will result 10 glorious victory instead Of disas-
trOus defeat
As for ourselves so fond are We of Republican
principles that We eagerly desire to see them ella
waited to the most conspicuous positions In the land
So benefcent do We regard them, that We are eI-
ceedingy anxious to see them controlling the policy
and shaping the destinies of the country. Through
SO many weary years, and sometimes almost des-
psiringly have ~e advocated them, that defeat in
the present struggle would somewhat shake our
faith in human progress.
But We spesk not for ourselves only. For
quarter Of century many Of the noblest Ameri-
can minds have stryen to repel the expressions Of
Slavery upon Freedom in this Republic, and pre-
vent its extension on this continent During this
long period the political sky has deepened in gloom,
tl, in our immediate time, the darkness, like that
which eDyeloped Egypt, has beeo palPabe to the
sense of touch. The repeal Of the Missouri Com
promise aroused to clear conception OF the I'M
pending crisis many conservative men, who, TIL
then, had either averted their eyes from the omin'
Gus signs in the heavens, or had beheld them with
SEE ming indifference. The subsequent attempt to
force Slavery upon Kansas, through border inva-
sops fraudulent elections, bogus Legislatures, and
Federal bayonets, startled from repose still more
of the stad and quiet portions of our people.
These classes combined to swell the volume OF that
indignant remOnstraLc CO that echoed through the
land in 1856, and awed for time the consPirators
into silence Gathering courage from the triumph OF
Mr.. Buchanan, secured under the hypocrtlcai cry
of Fair play for Kansas" and from the political
pronuneiamiento Of the Supreme Court in the bred
Scott sase, enuuciated under false pretenses,
these conspirators attempted to carry the
Lecompton Constitution through Congress by
corruption, and to secure its adoption IN
Kansas by bribery. This audacous effort to
subdue the representatives of the people to the
Executive Will, and to induce the inhabitants
of Territory to accept Constitution which they
despi.ed, and domestic institution which they ab-
bored aroused still another portion Of our sober
citizens from their letbarG. Tnese rendered valu-
able aid in administering to the Administration
terrible rebube in the last Congressional elections
in the Northern States; and recent indications
show that its hold upon the confidence Of some
portions of the South even is seriously shaken
But, not driven from their purpose by these reser-
ated exhibitions of the public abhorreree the Pro-
Slavery Democracy, should they perpetuate their
hold upon power for another four years, viii win
copquests for the Negro Propaganda which the
widest Slavery extensionists dreamed of ten
years ago.
And this is the stage in the road to ruin which
the country has already reached. How much
further can it 80 without abandoning all hope of
recovering the ground it shall have lost If Mr..
Buchanan is to be followed by q successor whose
Administration will, in respect to Slavery in the
Territories, and in regard to financial prohixacy
and corruption generally, be as much worse than
bis a. his is woise than Pierces, then il VIII be
difficult to measure the depths Of that degradation
in which the country will find itself on the ith Of
March, lS65. And if We are to haze q series Of
Administrations, each of which will. by sort of
pOEtico-geome .ricAl progression, BY kind Of self
acceleratiDg gravity, drag the nation downward
faster and lower than its predecessor, who can
fatbOn the abyss Of infamy and peril mo which
We are plungDgl
Unless We have wholly misconceved and grossly
overstated the condition Of the country, and the
tendencies Of Democratic rule, in respect to Free
DOM Public Virtue and Official Integrity, is it not
high time that patriotic men Of ~h.tever party
name banded together to wrest the rens Of govern
ment from hands which are driving it to perdtion
IL Dot success in the next Presidential election
desiyabls Ns!, meTe-u it not necessity