New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-17
TIKI ONLY SECURITY.

ytis quite possible that the Democratic Presiden
Rial Convention at Charleston in the hope OF re-.
tanning Northern votes enough to enable that party
10 elect its candidate may omit to insert into the
Democratic platform either the repeal OF the laws
prohibiting the Africsn slave trade or legislation
by Coz gress for the protection of Slavery M the
Territories But neither of these omissions can be
taken as affordng any security against the instant
revival Of both these measures, should the Demo
cratic party happen to succeed in the election, and
their being pressed upon the country with new
urgency. 1t is just at this moment the cue OF tue
Southern leaders, anxious to retain the control OF
our National affairs, which they have 81 long en-
joyed, to profess to be we'll satisfied with the tn
umpbs which the South has already achieved. We
find Stephens, Toombs, Boyce and others, all JONI
ing in the same shout Of exultation over the
triumphant position of the slayehodlng Interest,
though Stephens little less cautious than Others,
does not conceal his disposition to add 10 what hss
been already accomplished, the revival OF the A.
ricsn slave trade. These gentlemen may be per-
fectly sincere in their opinion that 1t is better Tor
the saveholders TO be content with what they have
got, including as part oft, and q most lmportsn'
part, the patronage Of the Federal Government,
rather than to risk the loss of this latter powerful
source of nlueIce by graspng, just at this mo
ment, at more. But the election over, and Dem
ocratic candidate chosen, we would not undertake
b answer for the continued moderation even OF the
men we have named; and it is certain, however
moderate they might be, that new set OF South
ern patriots would make their appearance, who
would consider what the slavehoders have ghned
already as only 40 occasion and reason ior he"
demands There is but one way of putting an ef-
fsctual stop to the progress of slavehodog sgSres
sion and sggrand,zenent and that is to pu' the
Administration Of our national affairs into the
hsndsOf the Republican party. In order to BRING 'ce
havehOlders to their senses we must have another
administrative revolution as thorough and complete
a. that which followed the election OF Jefferson
No President whom the Republicans VIII thnk OF
elecang can be more dreadful or obnoxious to the
sis'eho'ders than was Jefferson 10 the deieased
minority that day. The horror with which 80
many siaveholdipg politicians contemplate the
eecSon Oh Republican candidate, is not one whit
greater than that which was felt and professed BY
many OF Jsaerson's opponents; nor are the yati-
cinstons Of impending disasters. going even to the
length Of civil war and the dissolution of the
Union, should Republican be elected at all more
gloomy than those which We're freely uttered
In anticipation of Jeferson's election The Union
however, survived that event, which, SO far from
provoking civil war; Wa submitted h with per-
iect quiet; ard in of the election Of Repub-
Lean President, which DOW seems SO probable, We
eAl expect to see precisely similar result.