New-York daily tribune., 1859-02-01
IRON B.ISHfTGTON.
TIL NEW SLAVERY ISSUES, TARu Z; &c

1ne cOIs-Nt.St1ot VI ipAty '''''''' '''''~'
the parchas. Of Cuba, comes up by appointment To-
morrow. II msy however, BE- superseded D other
bUsress.
The discussion on il will take very wide rspse.
Tie entire shyery question in sl its relations VIM
be opened. II is another conflict betwoeu freedom
snd Saver. and Ike all such conflicts 10 the past
il VII be marked BY all the zeal the er esgy, aud
the determination that are ever exhibited IN the
conflicts ofeppoSing priucplss sn1 systems sod IN
the struggles Of antagonist interests for political
power.
The uea Slavery movement is at distinct
and gigantic. Slavery presents three demands and
the polite contests of the more immediate future
before nc are to turn upon them. The irst is for
Cuba. asa Slave State or Slave States, Havana sud
the Moru Castle 10 be the ceutral citadel where the
slave power of the South is 10 enrcncb its future.
The second is for the repeal of all the laws against
the sla se-rade standing upon the statute o)ks
of the Federal Government. This demand, as Is
well known, was distinctly put torta III the late
debate IN TIE House.
Tba third is the sbrogat0n Of that clause of the
Ashblrton treaty which provides for hc keeping OF
a squadron On the coast OF Africa tc4suppress that
ira dc.
This is the programme OF the Democratic party
for the future. to be- developed just as last rs
circumstances aDd Presidential 2.ectlon interests
viii permit.
The coming Senatorial discuss, Ons will deyelope
same Of the necessiry counter projects of the
friends of freedom 10 meet tJS new phase ol
Slavery aggression.
Foremost among these, We nlay presume will be
the copsid6 ration of the question which is pressing
'self upon tie countTy-as 20 what shall be the
future condition of the free coored population ca
this country 1t has been proposed, heretofore. 10
Offer them facilities for colonization in the Sousb,
in Mexico or Central America. II We art 10
acquire more territory OF Mexico. it will become
serious question wtethe. Il is not the dictate of
humane statesmanship and an enlightened State
policy 10 set apart gwen portion OF II Tor class
OF our citizens whose sIate and condition s9Ee OF
our State constitutions, and our highest Judicla
! tribunals, are eudeaycrng to render most uaen-
vable aud oppressive. But ii not in Mexico, then
| in Central America. or even in Cuba Itself shelter
and cougenial homo may be found for them.
| MARYLAND has q large body of them Which that
| State is already threatening to drive out from
! within her limits, or to cnsaye. Virginia has had
| the same subject under serious consderatIon and
| has manifested the same determination. Tne pro-
spcriye condition OF these large MASSES Of popula
ton thus thIeate ned cOnstrains the attention of
the statesman, and the suggestion of acquiring new
| tropical regions naturally and necessarily involves
the consideration of the question for the great eur
| rents of African migration on this continent must
| SET toward the equator, and not 10 the cold cll.
| atps liUt, NltthJf We are 10 eAtthu our i'IIl
toral limits southwark not it is equally import.
| ant TO know whether the demands here suggested
cannot find solution in specl1l grants from Otner
| Governments for this express purpose.
Beyond this, the discussion will also undoubtedly
bring out il rtcresting disqulstons noon the pros
poets of the speedy Authorization OF all the islands
| of the West Indies, ard the influences of such
| result upon the expansion of our limits IN that
direction Mr. Calhoun's earnest opposition to
taking the mongrel population of those islands, of
! Mexico and Of Central America, will undoubtedly
find expression from some quarter sensitive TO the
dangers they threaten the peculiar institution.
The idea of our absorption OF the foreign and
heterogeneous clements OF the central regions Of
| the continent must receive more screening cx-
! animation than ever before.
In fact the discussion is likely to be broader and
more general than on any subject ever before intro
duced into Congress. 1t is not only impossible to
dispose Of it in single month, but 1t is oven
doubtful if il will not occupy the most OF the next
long session. unless those who provoke it at this
| shall be glad to withdraw it from consideration.
! The Pro. Slavery men, however, seem madly ben
! upon perpetual agitation of the Slavery question
in one form or another, and if they will they must
be graiiied.
The Tariff question: YOU will see, s disposed of
by the dete rDinatiOn Of the majority of the Senate
| to do nothing. This conclusion was early adopted.
! The idea now ayOUcd Is the one i some time since
expressed as being the one entertained by the
trolling minds OF the party. The next move is to
rase what money is wanted by loan OF some sort,
either by reissue Of Treasury notes or otherwise.
No business of important character is thus left 10
be transacted beyond getting authority 10 borrow
what is necessary to carry on the Government
with, now that the Pacific Railroad is disposed Of.
tisan error to suppose anything can grow ont
/ Of the proposals TO be advertised for under Mr..
Bells substitute for Gwins bill as it passed the
I Senate No honest re respOnsible Company will un-
dertd ke TO make contract to build railroad to Cali
fOrnis at fair price without requiring two or three
years for preliminary investigation, and detailed
| survey of the route. Nothing short OF this would
serve as d basis for an intelligent calculation of the
! cost.
But, beside this, no rcsposible private Company
will ever undertake in good faith, to build rail
road that must cost $50 0G0, coo at the least aud
| be twenty years in the making, and agree to fake
it. pay in land which is mainly what the promoters
! Of The enterprise propose.
| JEFF Dayis's ten million project only contem.
| plated a road from I'll paso in Texas, 10 the head
| of the Gulf of California Tie eight hundred
/ miles beyond, and the similar distance this side,
/ were lett UDproyided for
! Nevertheless, there may he lively times coming.
Lots Of stealings, biz debt, an abandoned enter
prise, heaps OF obloquy, broken regulations, and
| civil revolution. Who's afraid J>.r
! To ire Editor ef The ~ y. Tribune
| SIR: 4 Correspondent at Washington, H." has
| pl iced q con mmuIicaton in TIE Ereaing Pas, which
ycn have copied, and in which it h4s made charges,
lectiyely is concerned feres Of onbushOg false
! hoods, and We desire cOntrsdicJ Of the same
through your colpnns We have relative in either
brauch II the Unlts States Congress the State Legs
| la,ure, or the city council
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