New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-10-06


and Liberal parties in Mexico. Slavery wanted the
patient discipline of Rome. 1t might have lived TOT
centuries had it been content with Missouri anu
sought new cOnquess nearer the equator. respecting
the compromise Of 1920 So long as no direct attack
was made upou the North, there was enough OF Con-
seryatsm-of shipping merchants and other factors
of pennsvlvania and Massachusetts, manufacturer
of broadway and the BOwery-tO act as sedatYe 10
public opinion and prevent any Northern uprising.
That Northen sentiment WasVery loyal 10 the South
II mobbed Mr.. Phillips with due regularity, earreo
slaves back with commendable pronptness, voted the
Democratic ticket printed solemn tracts about Onesl-
mus and gave extended credits TO Southern merchants
Many sincere lovers OF freedom acted with it-honest
and true men, who hated trouble, prefeTng 10 let
politicians take their course while, like Uncle Toby,
they smoked their pipes and worshiped God. Inc
WiImot Proyiso disturbed them, but great comfort
came from the Compromise measures and the speeches.
of Webster and Clay. The new leaders OF slavery
departed from the policy of Calhoun, aud accepting
the advice Of ambitious recruits like Douglas and
Pierce abrOgated the Missouri Compromise ana de,
mauded the Territories Of the West. Nebraska Killed
Northern Democracy. The perhdy was so manifest
and ipexcusable, that the honest Democracy WIN,
drew their allegiance from power which, conceived
in sin and brought forth in inquty, proposed to dis
honor every pledge and rise TO empire upon the RUNS
of American liberty. tremendous effort was fnaue
10 elect Col Fremont on this issue, but aleo ahu
the friends Of freedom carried their niles 10 hansas'
determined 10 defend liberty at ITS hresde. MI
Pierce retired from the Presidency abandoned ny the
men whom he had served to his own ruin. lie was
an amiabe man, wanting force, nerve, moral purpose
the power 10 say no. son OF New-Engiahd' nc WAS
Gil alien to every Eew-England sentiment
time when he Of all men was least worthy His very
virtues became vices in that period OF agony and up
roar He managed the ship oil State very much aiter
the manner of the Greek mariners, as told by noted
traveller hugging the shores "a londly as the Argo-
nauts of old manifesting most unsaorke love for
the land and preierring rockbound coast the lee
TO no shore at all. His nomination was COM
promise. Mr.. Dougas had destroyed himself and
The North by the Nebraska bill, aud had as yet
shown no signs Of that repentance which shed
so much grace over the closing months OF bis life.
He had done the bidding Of the South, and they
wished no further service at bis hands. Mr.. Pierce
associated with Douglas, and tho knowledge, that as
President he had been the mere instrument OF Jefer
con Davis prevented his nomination. The wrath Of
the North was so genuine the nation distressed
no statesman prominent in the repeal could receive
the Northern vote. Mr.. Cass was old. Mr.. Marcy
had the sins Of Van Burenism and the Albany Re-
gency TO e1piate. Mr.. Dallas had ruined himself in
Pennsylvania by opposing Protection. DIR. Bu,
chanan, however, had passed the stormy season Of
the Nebraska dsunion, under the refining influences
of the English courts, discreetly silent, saying no
word of approval or condemnation, pleasing the
South bv Slavery extension manifesto at Ostend,
ami returning home TO be welcomed as refuge and o
bV the anxious leaders oil the democracy.
Kansas became the battle-ground Congress had dis
honored the Missouri Compromise; the Supreme
Court had directed the slavetrbeS 10 60 up and &C.
cupy the land. Freedom took its rife and made the
issue one Of strength. The growth OF the Republic
had shown that wherever enterprise courage or
thrift were permitted TO shape a contest, freedom,
from the very conditions Of its existence, would con.
quer Slavery saw that without the aid of the Gov
eminent it would fall and It came 10 the Govern.
ment and demanded that the national authority
should he used to strengthen its dreadful dominion.
Mr. Buchanan yielded under the pressure OF the stern
and resolute men who had mastered Mr.. Pierce
Of Davis, and Slidell, and Toombs. Then
came the Anti-Lecompton struggle which
gave the Republican party power, and
taught the South that the time had really come
when, In the memorable words Of Mr.. Seward,
"either the cotton and iice-helds Of North Carolina
and the sugar plata ions Of Louisiana should be
titled By free labor ami Charleston and New Orleans
become the nsrts for legitimate merchandise alone
or else the cOrnfelds aud vhcattold5 OF MasSachu.
getts aud Newly ork should again be surrendered by
their farmers to slave culture and tho production Of
slaves, and Boston and New-York become once more
markets for trade in the bodies and souls Of men, 4"
The irrepressibe conflict had begun indeed.
The AntLecomptOD agitation was violent and
long.protracted, destroying the Democracy by
throwing into the ranks of the Republican party those
whose allegiance had resisted the crime Of the Ne
brasSa bill Events rushed upon us, and the Kansas
contest was soon transferred TO a larger field. Now
must IL BIZ decided whether this country shall
DO altogether slave or free. For its own life
from the very nature Of its life, apart from
any opposition of the NOTth-must Slavery fight.
John Brown made raid into Virginia. Great uproar.
and calling out of armies, and speedy sending Of sol
diers by James Buchanan (pty such speed was not
initiated year later , and brave old man was
hanged This one death showed in Slavery a curious
union Of fear and anger. Unless Slavery placed
behind the bayonets Of the nation, no could tell
when another explosion would take pace-such an
explosion, perhaps, as We SEQ IN nature IN tho
phenomenon OF spontaneous combustion. And
yet Slavery was strong with the aggressiOns Of
so years Its history that Of hundred victories
II held the South; the Mississippi Valley was the
heart Of its empires it controlled most Of eastern
sea-boaTd; il had gained slave empire from MeXico
Kansas was Slave State by laws and decisions, and
beyond Kansas-the golden West-all opened 10 its
legions. IL owned the Senate, the Supreme Court
seconded It's DEGREES, tho army and the navy did its
bidding 1t had practically suspended habeas corpus
and trial by jury in the North and It's ablest leader
was Boosting Of the day when he would call the roll
OF his slaves on Bunker Hill Not the yainest boast
by any means-for in 1860 the slave interest COM
manded the United States II reigned-but the
time had come in Gods Providence to fgh: for its
dominion.
All this time there was an agency AZ work in Amer
lea which exercised great effect upon tho war; and
which must not be overlooked Of It's controlling
causes. We should omit important element in this
inquiry if failed TO consider the growth the tre-
mendOus power, the almost imperial sway OF the nfu
ence which We call 'the public press About the
time Mr.. Calhoun and Mr.. Garrison came into antag-
onism this influence grew up In America, and espe-
cially in the city OF NewYork II was to be TO Sla-
very and antiSlavery what the air is 70 breathing
The newspaper Of the early part Of the century bears
as much relation TO the morning journal Of break
fas-tabe the numbering stage of 1920 does to our
locomotive. These early day journals slow,
prosy, dull pretentious merely with the latest
nd ~ eat Omleido NH a
corner along with poem from Lord Byron an ex.
tract from Mr. Jeffreys last essay, a eulegy the
racing qualities Of Eclipse, and an appeal to tardy
subscribers to come forth and pay the patient printer