New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-19
MISREPRESENTATION.

If some hot headed fools in the Slsyelolding
States are not stimulated into treason it will not
| be for want of effort on the part of the anti
Republican journals of this city. Ever since the
commencement of the Presidential campaign
those Journals have been constantly engaged in
attempting to propagate the belief that the Repub
Leans intend TO improve their approaching victory
BY making a sudden and violent assault upon the
local institutions of the Slave States. He'e at the
North these aspersions are without any effect.
How totally they have failed to make any impress
sion upon the public mind is sufficiently evident
by the result of the recent elections in Pennsy
vana, Ohio and Indiana. One might suppose
that the entire failure of this system OF electoneer-
ing, go far as those States are concerned, might
have produced a change Of tactics, and that in
falling back upon New-YoTk as their last fjrlotn
hope some new method of operation would have
been devised So far from it, those jou mails have
no other resource but the constant iteration of the
same old story. Every expression of Iepugnance
to Slavery, droppedby Republi, ian orators is sedu.
lousy sought cut and paraded as going 10 show an
intention on the part of the Republican party
forthwith to abolish Slavery at all hazards. Whereas
every body knows, that 20 far as Slavery has
been a subject Of discussion in Congress- or has
become party test, the question has been, not its
continued existence in the present Slave States,
but 8 extension into new States yet to be formed.
The Republican party owes its existence entirely
to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and to
the attempt the part Of the sayehOldlng interest
to seize upon territory, whi,h, under compact
long regarded the settled policy Of the country
had been expressly set aside to DO erected into
Free States. Such being its origin the object Of
The Republican party is, not the abolition of
Slavery, but its restriction within its present limits
The Republicans wish to control the Federal Gov
eminent, in order to have it in their power t, put
an efectual veto upon the protests in agitation for
years past for the acquisition of new territory for
the express purpose Of erecting it into new Slave
States. They with also to carry out in good faith
our treaty stipulatlons, and 10 enforce laws
for the suppression of the African slave trade the
revy al Of which has lately become fayorte policy
with many Southern politicians. They hold that
the policy of the General Government ought to be
chapel with special view to the interests not of
our three or four hundred thousand shareholders,
but Of the millions who own no slaves, and Wh)
depend for livelihood on the labor Of their own
bands.
If TIE nti.Republican journals Of this city really
have that friendship for the South Of which they
make such loud professions they "ill surely give
over 81 stem Of interpretations so useless and
90 dangerous. The Shareholders just now suffer
enough from the constantly recurring panics OF
local Instruction. Why add 70 tSeir torments the
unoaDdtd fear that Slavery about to be abolished
by the direct interference of the General Govern
mentl II is absurd to suppose, with the demo
cratic principles which have always prevailed IN
ibis country, thbt the shareholders can In that
capacity be allowed to control the Government OF
these United States. They are but small minority
OF the nation, and they must be content to leave
u" Government of toe Union in Tire hsnds Of tboas
VINO, under the provisions Of tbs Constitution,
sLall obtain tie control oft