New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-15
WHAT WE mUsT PREPARE FOR.

We trust that all those good people who continue ~
dream If the possibility OF recognizing the PoAtic'
and parties of the country the basis Of thirty years
seo Will carefully read and inwardy dges, the late
yaledlcto1y speech ofMr Stephens of Georgia. Even
weIe such reorganization possible, why should
the Industrious lab0rers of the North wish TO play
over game by which they have been perpetual
losers Let them wish it, however, as much as
they may, they may learn from Mr. stephens
speech that the very foundations upon which those
ola political combinations rested have slipped away
from under Us, and that We are now called upon To
encounter political sud social theories-aDd must
therefore prepare TO encounter systems of policy
founded upon those theorles-utterly unknown To
tie men OF thirtyJesrs ago.
Thirty years ago the doctrine Of political equal
ity of which Jefferson had been the great apostle,
Was accepted by all parties as the fundamental
basis # our politics We sill agreed 10 repudatlng
the des Of any night 70 govern based on pedigree
or race II Was agreed al. hands that the ins'l'
tuition Of African Slavery was an unfortunate
anomaly, Inconsistent wi,h the full and complete
working Of our political system, but al anoual,
which II vas fOnd'y hoped ~e should IN time OUT
grew or 10 some way escape from Even those
VITO. st the time of the Missouri controversy had
argued in favor Of allowing Slavery in that new
State to, k the ground that the diffusion of the
evil would tend to diminish is malanancy and
would thus operate rather 10 shorten than to pro-
lorg is exstence.
Well might Mr.. Stephens dilate as be did upon
81 Of srj m AL
law Of change. Throughout the whole southern
section of the Union totsly new or radical.
opposite political theory has come into yogue-a
theory which every day gain. new converts and
advocates, and which Is fas! being adopted as the
basis not only Of the whole political system but OF
the social system Of the South No logger confined
to few speculative enthusiasts It is now rapidly
being adopted by those who are entitled 70 be con-
sijered as the most intelligent, judiclous sl1 con
sentative of the Southern population. The doctrine
now set up at the South IT, that superiority OF race
is the basis upon which government and society
can best b organized, and upon which alone.
civilization csn be carried 10 any high
degree of perfection Il is nov openly procl,imed.
even by such men ga Mr. Stephens. tait the
trainers of our Constitution, ana the iathers OF
our political system. We're totally mistaken 10 the
estimate which they made Of negro Slavery, and
the autipathy which they felt for L. That stone
Which the builders rejected : now To be made the
h, ad of the corner. Mr. Stephens Procl,ms him.
self Ike Mr. Seward, higher-lav man. H. be-
hcyes in higher law-the law OF races-which
must, from the necessity OF things, mould and
change all our existing laws aid institutions.
Negro slavery is yet in lis infancy 50 Dir. Stephens
empha.csuy tells Us. Infant IS /. IL, It has tn.
umpbed duribg the sixteen years past over al
attempt. to tie its hands cripple its action, and
Mr.. Stephens distinctly indicates the two gre.,
objects TO which il viii neIt address Itself. These
objects are the conquest: Of the feeble nations aud
inferior races south OF Us and the reoPenins OF The
African slsve-trsde.
These sNo lines IL policy are the Logical ,ni ne