New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-08

would be obtained from MEXICO, tno cOnbclcuco vi
the North at last found itself compromised
Slavery bad been abolished by law in all the Mex-
can Territories, and for that matter, in those dis
tricts likely to be now acquired, negro Slavery had
never existed. With a view to save the North
from any responsibility for extending Slavery into
territory where it ba never been known, the VIII
mot Provso was moved. IA this proyiso failed by
The deserton of some Northern Members OF Con-
gress who were looking after pay for their treacn-
ery the treaty of peace with Mexico at once raised
the question what should be the future condition in
respect 10 Slavery of the Territories thus acquired.
The miners of California by their prOmptltude IN
setting up a State Government with Free La
Dor Constitution, speedily settled that question
40 far as that lew State was concerned. AS to
New-Mexco and Utah, the barrenness OF their
soil, and their incapacty to support dense popu-
la,ion of any kind, deprived the question,
so far as it related to them, of any Immediate
practical interest. If, by the equiyocal proyis'
ions of the bills erecting those Territories, a
door seemed to be left open to Slavery,
the Northern supporters OF those bllls excused
themselves BY the suggestion that positive laws OF
exclusion were needless, since the laws OF nature
the climate and soil of those Territories-would
efiectually prevent its entrance.
But the shareholders would not stop here. They
must needs strike another and desperate blow
at that Northern sympathy and indulgence which
they had so long enjoyed and abused. The repeal OF
the Missouri Compromise, and the union of almost
the entire slayeholdug interest," however divided
before on party grounds, for the contamination Of
that gross breach of faith placed the Slavery ques
tOn before the country in an entirely new point Of
view The shareholders now put themselves for
ward as sectional political party, determined-by
the help of such mercenary Northern supporters as
they could buy up or such timid as they could
frighten-to govern the country in the interest OF
slayehOlding.
HavDgsuccessiully endeayored to break down the
barrier against the introduction of Slavery north OF
36o So they now eudeayored tOintroduce thelnstitu
ton into the Territory Of Kansas. They threw
aside all DISCUSSES and openly brought up their
fighting men in companies regularly differed, from
the South, to accomplish this purpose. Finding
themselves wOrsted in the contest they had pro-
yoked, they tried fraud at tho ballot-b0x
As this weapon was under their exclusive
control. and as their proceedings were con-
Dived at by the Federal power at Washing
ton, here they succeeded. They took the gov
eminent of Kansas out of the hands of the people
who had settled and occupied that Territory, ard
by the most unblushing political cheat OF our his
tory attempted to legislae Slavery into it, against
the wishes of an overwhelming majority of its in
habtans declared by poll for the purpose. In
this desperate game they were backed by Mr.. Bu-
chanan's Administration, which tried its utmost TO
consummate what the border rufhans had begun,
by having Kansas admitted as Slave State under
the Lecompton Constitution.
By this time the North had come 10 under
stand, aided by various contemporary events, Ike
| the bred Scott decision for example, that the
shareholders would not be content short Of a con-
quest of all the Territories under the National jul
risdctiOn to be devoted to the spread of Slavery;
and also the prospective admission of that inst-
tuiion into the Free States; and on the strength of
this perception they elected the present House Of
Representatives.
II is this series of events, here briefly unfolded
that has changed the whole tone of the North to-
ward the slavehoding interest. 1t is this series Of
Southern agSressons, Southern demands, Southern
law decisions, and Southern lawlessness and yio-
lence, that have stimulated the people of the North
to stand shoulder TO shoulder against these ourages
and set thousands to considering methods of weak
ening power so INSCRIPTIONS in its purposes. 1t
is this series of aggressiOns that has led like
John Brown TO fling themselves recklessly against
the institution in its strong holds. Ii is these
aeqessions which have changed the entire aspect
of affairs in the North on this subject and brought
the two sections face to face upon it. This attitude
has long been apprehended by our wiser statesmen,
and its results deprecated. If the South would
relieve the pressure of the embarrassment arising
tberefrom, it can do 80 by return to moderate
courses, and not otherwise.