New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-14
A PEACE PROPOSITION.

To ne Editor Of Then y Tribune.
SIR: TIE great wise, and numerous people who
value union, peace, and money-and especially the
lrtter-haye now two difficulties before them These
difficulties are not two bundles of hay that allure their
vie tastes in opposite directions, but two memorable
millstones which will grind them TO powder unless one
or the other il itself pulyerized
On one side are the Southern patrarchs, who hold
that Slavery is divine institution and practically kill
every body within their reach who denies that dogma
Their numbers, though not large compared with the
entire population of the country, are considerable.
Their power il BY no TO be despised, any
may prove by defying them in any one OF fifteen
States.
States, ia much considerable number of
educated ard enterprising persons, who agree with
Blackstone, Bougham, Bolivar and other fanatics of
that sort that Slayery is naturally crime which legs
!aiion cannot legalize, and that in opposing il, a
ouf,oAc,. no one can be guilty of anything than
"a want Of wisdom. Thefe persons make no secret Of
opinions radically hostile to slave property 10 be
positively iniolerable in any Slave State Considering
that such opinions always lead to corresponding prac
ce that the slaves thesel susceptible of opin
ioue andt their ignorance is not proof against steam
locomo,iop and steam prin'nR-presses, IN any very
long rr it l. plain enough that the peculiar institu-
ton however divine, cannot be safe till such persons
are extermnated at least driven from the continent
Here then, are two irreconcilabe parties Of
whom reason is wholly imperative and the other un-
fortunsteiy las all the its side There il
positively and absolutely nothing for it but to Use the
ultima ratio reeum at and effectuay one
yarty the other, else their irrepressble conflict
Whether in the Union out of the Cnionl will grind
to powder together the peace Of the country aud all the
neutral lovers thereof.
The pious people whose divinity is Mammon, and
whose Bible is the ledger who have particular pre-
ference On behalf Of other people, between slave labor
and free labor may wei look this state Of facts in
tie f;ce and make their option. Let them, between
two days a. il Were, exterminate the Aboiionists
,hrOughou, the North, making them as scarce, or at
least "a silent as they in the South and
then there will be peace and union, for century or
lee. Let hem oil the other hand, by sudden ire
sistible blow annihiate, the shareholders the
slaves but the peculiar relation of the class to the
other, ond then there will be peace and union. But
if this immense, wealthy and conservative class neg
lecs TO do or only half does either of these things
and ,ainly strives TO argue down those who have all
the rehsoi on their side 10 convince without argu-
ment those who know they are wrong, and mean to
remain 20, then there will of course be neither peace
nor mon. II il childish nonsense to deprecate civil
war. IL is here: The only sensible question is.
wbicl, Of tie factions will the country get rid of
easiest, and TO the best effect. Az ABoLTTIoSIsT.