New York Daily Tribune

Commercial Advertiser, which, under pretense of devotion to Whig principles, gives its aid to slandering Fremont for the benefit of Buchanan.

Mr. Ingham, as a Democrat, finds himself constrained to vote for Fremont: and Mr. Fish, after a full survey of the whole ground, finds himself, as a Whig, also constrained to vote for Fremont.

Thus supported by all the honest, intelligent and consistent men of the two great parties which have thus far divided the Union, it is impossible that Fremont should fail of an election.

Two events of recent occurrence, if viewed by themselves, might lead to the belief that the Administration is strongly opposed to the slave trade. We learn that Mr. McKeon, our energetic District Attorney, has received a letter from the Secretary of the Navy warmly commending his efforts for the suppression of this cruel traffic: and it is at the instance of the United States Minister in Lisbon that the Portuguese Consul at New-York has been suspended from his official duties until his skirts shall have been cleared of all complicity in the business. But why engraft this exception on a Pro-Slavery policy? Why so squeamish about the petty trade in negroes between the Coast of Africa and Cuba or Brazil? An Executive who connives at and covers whatever is done for Slavery along the border-line between Missouri and Kansas might, one would think, let a few Portuguese help the cause according to their ability. No need of more than a hint to the Government officials not to be too hard on the poor fellows, but to draw it as mild as is consistent with making a suitable impression on those who cling to the old-fashioned prejudices of their ancestors and look upon Slavery and the slave trade with abhorrence. Is President Pierce not aware that some of his warmest admirers, both South and North, openly advocate the reestablishment of this branch of commerce under the flag of the Union? Can he not see that this measure is the natural corollary to the avowed articles of the Border-Ruffian creed? Has he never heard that Slavery is the great civilizer of the negro, and that therefore every lover of mankind ought to bring as many as possible into the dark valley through which they may pass to the Delectable Mountains beyond? And, finally, is he ignorant of the history of Kansas? Does he forget that the great deed of his Administration has been to give it over to Slavery?

Surely our Chief Magistrate knows what he is about: or, if not he, those who think for him and direct his actions. It cannot be that he has turned Know-Nothing, to help on the projected coalition with Fillmore, and is directing his present animosity against the Portuguese, as such. More likely, however, he means, by decreasing the supply, to raise the price of "niggers" to the standard which his friend Gov. Wise desires; possibly, we dare say, he has an eye to the day when the Ostend Manifesto shall be put into practice, and is desirous of reserving the Cuban slave market for the benefit of the First Families whose patriarchal estates produce only slaves for export. Or, it may be, that he is governed by some natural human selfishness, from which even great men are not exempt. He may be going into the business himself. When he retires from the Presidency to that farm in Maryland which he is said to have purchased, he may be disposed to seek occupation for his declining years in the congenial business. At future State Fairs the ex-President may yet gain prizes for the best niggers of his own raising.

A meeting of some of the most wealthy New-York bankers and dry goods jobbers in the Southern trade was held by special invitation last evening at the New-York Hotel to take measures to remedy, if possible, the present desperate position of the Border Ruffian Democracy. Some fifty magnates of finance and cotton were present, representing a capital of not less than twenty millions of dollars. Some of the merchants, who took part in the proceedings, are slaveholders. The tone of the meeting was one of great despondency and almost of despair. One venerable gentleman who addressed the wealthy audience told them that it was necessary to take instant and powerful measures to prevent the defeat of the Buchanan ticket at the approaching State election in Pennsylvania. Such a defeat, he said, would be almost conclusive in favor of the election of Fremont. It would dishearten and break down the Democracy, inspire new courage and energy in the Republicans of other States, and in fact leave little hope of resisting the triumph of the Free-State party. Money must be raised, and raised in liberal quantities. With regard to the sums subscribed we have no means of knowing precisely, except that they were large. Long before the meeting was brought to a close, the list stood at not less than $20,000, and we presume it far surpassed that sum at the end. At a former meeting of the same kind at the same place, it is understood that $50,000 was raised all to carry the election in Pennsylvania. The true Democrats of that State have a fearful power to contend with in their efforts to carry the State in favor of Free Labor. When the great capitalists of the country thus make common cause with those who employ murder, robbery and arson as the means of subduing the free people of the Territories and forcing Slavery upon them, it becomes more than ever necessary for the honest masses who live by their own labor, to rise against this combined power of money and barbarous brutality. There is, however, one encouraging fact to be remembered in view of this combination; and that is that the lords of the money-bag and the cotton-bale have never yet carried an election against the Democratic masses when they were thoroughly aroused. Let us then see to it that they are now called into action. Farmers, workingmen, men who wish to leave your children free and independent! It is for you to save the country from the combination which threatens to exclude white laborers from the Territories and hand them over to the sole occupancy of slaves and slave-breeders.

The telegraph from Washington announces that it is not true, as reported from Kansas, that Pierce has fulfilled his promise to Mr. Campbell by ordering a nolle prosequi to be entered on the Kansas treason indictments. We doubted the fact when first announced. For Pierce to keep a promise, whether made to friend or foe, would indeed be an oddity.

The telegraph also announces the entertainment of a hope at Washington of peace and quiet in Kansas. Such hopes have our best wishes for their realization; but in order to realize them, Gov. Geary must reverse the common usage and do a great deal better than he talks. His inaugural speech is a most inconsistent document, and unless under the pressure of a bit in his mouth could only come from a very shallow man. All the first part of that speech is made up a eulogy on the Squatter-Sovereignty principle of the Nebraska bill and of an expression of Geary's determination to carry it out