New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-25


facetiously defined an Old-Linc Wing to be "One
"who takes his liquor regularly, and votes the Dem
"ocratic ticket occasionally" At all events, Mr..
Buchanan's Constitution believing in the correct
mesa of the definition and deploring the discrepancy
between the drinking and the voting, advises that
the equipoiie be restored next year in this wise:
II we DO not altogether the signs Of the times the
probability that earnest and dnteresed OF the
6 Liue Wings will very opt the eOneiu'on that
nominations by them dhct ORGANIZATION VIII Dc
merely throwing away their votes pronctins the ch.ncss Of
they could scientifically prefer aud
would deliberately assist We hsvea very strong hope tha
~. further and select n. crdidss Nao. De 1c'scy
only national candidates in his field that have any prospect
0. success"
The success Of "tbe National Democracy" in the
CONT Presidential election will lead, by very
sbort road, to three results: l. The acquisition OF
foreign territory BY purchase or conquest, IL order
TO plant Slavery thereon. 9. The legaGzation OF
the already reopeLed African slaye-tradc 3 Con-
gressonal Intervention to protect slave property In
all the old and new Territories Of the Union.
These are the fayorite measures of the dominant
element Of the Democracy. 1t urges them upon
the party contiuually and vehemently. Those in
the Slayehoding States who would fam resist this
policy, ore cowed by the energy with which its ad-
vocates press it upon the public consideration, and
ara crippled by the charge of treachery to South
ern interests" which their lukewar pro-
vohes "TGe State Rights Democracy will spurn
them with loathng," says one influential journal.
Let the traitors openly join The Opposition re-
spends another fiery print. I've will incorPo.
crate these measures into the party creed at tho
" Charleston Con 7ention or blow the concern to
" finders" shouts Senator Brown. All those
Southern candidates for the Presidency who stand
any chance for a nomination favor these measures,
either openly or coyerty. The silent and wary
Slideli, who confidently expects to bear Of the
Charleston prize, has long been committed to them
all TIE frank ard hearty Cobb, who hopes to
win in the scrub race on the Palmetto course,
though carrying the dead weight of an OdiOus At-
on his back, is known to be sound
on TIE first and third Of these test propositions,
" bile his trainers say he will not fail the South on
the second. HuDter-calm cautious aud consider
ate in an eminent degree-was slowly winning the
favor Of the Northern Democracy as their derner
resort after the overthrow of Douglas, when he
suddenly finds himself involved in bitter feud with
Wise The cratic and epistolary Governor, though
utterly ruined himself, is none the less bent on de-
stroying bis Virginia rival. Whether he has
strength enough left for this, remains to be SEEN
He is capable of immense mischief, possesses vast
and varied resources, and, though he is apt to rush
into the arena without helmet or shield, and get
badly cut up, he do terrible execution upon bis
fee. If Hunter can either crush him or purchase
bis neutrality, and so secure "united Virginia"
he may distance all competitors at Charleston
And where stands Mr.. Hunter in regard to the
acquisition of foreign territory the reOpening of
the African trade and Congressional protection to
slave property He supported Sldel's Cuba bill
last Winter, gave cool but explicit assent to Jefer
son Dayiss Interpretation of the Kansas. Nebraska
bill in the famous contest with Douglas and as
Wise opposes the reopening of the slave trade, he
viii pretty surely favor it. inssmuch as he always
supports what Wise is against. His personal organ,
The Richmond Examiner, advocates with marked
ability, the doctrine of Federal interven-
ton in behalf of Slavery in the Territories. 1t only
asks, as a favor TO its friends the NewYork Softs,
that this new test of devotion TO the NegrOOcracy
may not be incorporated into the Charleston plat
form. 1t assures the South that the Northern De-
mccracy may be relied upon to protect slave prop
eriy il the Territories, with their ballots or their
b,yonets, when the hour of trial comes.
This, then, is the entertainment to which Old
Line Wings arc invited And the card of invita-
ton is issued by Mr.. Buchanan, who favors the
purchase OF Cuba and the acquisition of portions of
Mexico to enlarge the area of the Slave Power Of
the Union; who winks at the landing Of successive
cargoes of African negroes upon our Southern
coast; and who officially declared that Slavery as
really snd legally existed in Kansas as in Georgia
or the Carolinas.
The National fntetigencer, the most respectable
and huentia Old Line Whigjournal in the country,
effectively supported Mr. Buchanan in 1856, because
it pat faith in his protested conservatism his pledge
OF fsir plsy to Kansas, and his avowed purpose so
far rs his influence could avail, to quiet Slavery
sgitati in Congress and throughout the country
The appeal Of The Consultation to Join the Ma.
tiopal Democracy, part of which we have quoted
is specially directed to The Hnt,Rigencer. The vic.
tim of misplaced confidence in 1856, will it now
accept the cordial invitation Of Mr.. Buch,n.u's
organl Or, viii our venerable contemporary treat
it as drawing rather too largely upon it's creduty,
NDd presumipg little too much upon its short
meauory and good nature The Intelligeneer can.
not 4. ubt that, if Henry Clay were now alive, bis
voice wIad be swelled to its Hottest pitch in ear
nest pro.es.. against tie nefsrous schemes of the
ul,ras Of the Calhoun school Is It prepared to
advise such 6;sc>ples of the great Wing chief a.