New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-13


Republican, often perverted or exaggerated not 70
sneak of the thousand sayings sttrsuted to us
Of Garrison, Wendell Phillips, &C., who have
s,,adfastly bated and oppo,ed tho Republicans
from ire start-these tricks Of unscrupuou'
partisaps, while they have mAnifestly ceased to
answer the ends of their authors, are yet 'uu oi
the seeds o. great social peril. For it has been
90 habitual with nnti-Republcan speakers and
writers, especially at the South, to represent tho
Republicans u, intent on a compulsory emanciPs-
ton of the Blacks, that Negro insurrectfon-per-
bnps more than oue-is very likely to follow the
knowledge of Republican triumph The slaves
are allow ed TO learn nothing Of the sentiments and
purposes of the North but through the distorted
medium of their masters prejudiced and Grant
in pressions, too often based on the wholesale mis-
representations Of Fire-EatiDg demsgogues intent
on sgerandizipg themselves BY fmentng dlstrust
AID hate Of the Free States. Quite number Of
slaves were tortured or put to death in Tennessee
at the close of 1856, on account of an alleged con-
sprscy among them to rise in insurrection under
the expected lead Of Col. Fremont The danger
Of sin liar cOnspiracies next month, impeled solely
ty the gross aud general perversions of Northern
views and purposes nov current at the Solth, IS
one which calls for the exercise of WELDON, vigil.
ance and true courage throughout the Slave States
to prevent most deplorable waste Of human lives.
Ard, again, it is most desirable that the sensible,
patriotic citizens-who are far more numerous 10
TIE Slave States than they would seem to be if we
Judged the South by what appears in her news
pspers-hould interposeat once to stop the ridi;u-
lous gasconade of dsubOn which some who know
better with many VINO know scarcely any thing,
niichieyously persist in. 1t is now clear that this
exerts, and can exert no influence over the Free
States, except TO confirm them in their fixed re-
solve not to be bulied out of their convictions By
menaces which strike at the root of constitutional
government, and that make mockery of elections
TO undertake to browbeat the North out Of her
convictions b. threats of rebellion aud revolution
is to IenouIce the whole machinery of popular
electors, and convert our country into another
Mexico or New Granada, where each election is
expected to be followed by civil war between
those who carried il and those who were defeated.
OF course, if grown men have fancy for sticking
cockades in their hats, after the old Federal
pattern of 49, they nu,t be INDUCED in that fancy;
but when they give to these cOckades this interpfe
tation-"If we lose the election, we mean to up
" set the election" they proclaim themselves tra-
tors, MOTTO this or that rule butte the vital principle
Of representative institutions. A beaten party Is
not necessarily ruined; but party thatpndertakes,
because beaten, to raise the standard of revolt
which displays that standard in advance, virtually
SAYING Z" Give us power or we take it by force
is n,t merely ruined, but clearly deserves to be.
The fact that any clique or faction do not mean to
submit if outyoted, is Of itself conclusive proof OF
its unfitness to be intrusted with power. And if
the ChivaIy want to convert the impending defeat
of their Northern allies into an utter rOut, they
have only to persist 10 menaces of rebellion or Sc
cession in case the election shall go against them
On such an issue, they will speedily be divorced
from all sympathy in the North, and utterly over
vbelmed by the undemOnstratiye but resoute con-
seryatism Of the South.
The Union will in no case be shattered. 1t will
not even be seriously shaken. 1t is rock on
which thousands may make shipwreck of their own
hopes, fortunes, and even lives, but which will
Itself be unaffected by their criminal madness.
Parties will rise and fall ia ,ton may rave and Ca
bals may plots but Saratoga and Yorktown are
parts of ore common country, and go will remain
forever