New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-01


the succeee Of the Republicgr party. IT, indeed ns
time has ccue when the Democratic party mu& rule
by terror instead of rnling through conceded pue-
lie confidence then IL is quite certain th1 y ess-
on that odous prilcipe, il could not long save
either the Cons SUTTON or pablo MERRY. Du
shall believe the Democratic party VIII oonsent 70
stand IN this position though does through the 40
tboee who threaten disunion. know the Democracy
Of the horth. i know them now in their waning
strength. DO not know possible Disunio nst amoeg
them all. believe they viii be as faithful TO sne
Union DOW az thsy were in the by-gone days when
their ranks were fn and their challenge to the com
bat wac always the war.cry Of victory. Bot, II
shaIl prove otherwise, then the world Will all tbs
sooner know That every party in this country nn,s
stand on Union groundi that the American psople VIII
sustain no party that ia capable of making sscri-
ice OF rs ambition on the altar OF the country thai.
although party may have never no much Of prestige,
and never ouch traditional merit, yet II II be lacking
IN the virtue Of loyalty to the Union all It's ad
yantaqes viii be unavaIiogi and then obaoxoas a.,
through gcherished and obstinate prejudices, the
Republican party is in t1e capital Ststes, yet even
there it will advance like an army with Banners win
Ming the favor Of the whole people, and 1t will be
armed with the national confidence aud support, when
shall be found the only party that defends and mann
tsns the integrity Of the Union.
Those who seek to awaken the terrors Of disunicn
TO me to have TOO hastily considered the eondi-
tions under which they are TO make their attempt.
Who believes that Republican Administration ana
Congress could practice tyranny under Constiiuuon
which interposes many checks as ours re. snat
granny must not only be prscced bat must Dc ic.oi
cradle, ard there must be remaining hope for con.
stitutOnal relief, before forcbe resistance can IND
ground TO stand on anywhere.
The people Of the United States, acting In conform-
ty with the Constitution are the supreme trbuus 70
try and determine all political issues. They are a.
competent to decide the Issue Of tomorrow as they
have been heretofore to decide the issues OF other
days. They reconsider hereafter and reverse, II
need be- the Judgment they shall pronounce to-day, a.
they have more than once rec0nsdered and reversed
their judgments IN former times. IL needs no revou-
ton TO correct any error prevent any danger, uncer
any circumstances.
Nor is any special cause for revolution likely
to occur under a Republican Administration. We are
engaged in transaction, not even in new dis
pute. Oar fathers undertook great work for them-
selves for us, aud for succsesorsto erect free
and Federal empire, whose arches shall span the North
American continent and reflect the rays of the sun
throughout hs whole passage from one 10 the other OF
the great oceans. They erected thirteen OF is coumns
all AZ once These are standing now the admiration OF
Their successors added twenty more; even
we who are here have shaped and elevated three OF
that twenty and all these firm and as seadfast
as the frat thirteen; and more will yet be necessary
when we shall have rested from our labors. Some
among US prefer for these columns a composite ma
tera others the pure white marble Oar fathers and
our pJedecess ered In the way, and on the
same point. What execrations should we not all Units
in pronouncDg any statesman who heretofore; from
mere disappointment and disgust at being overuled IN
biz choice Of materials for any new column then 70 %
quarred ehould have laid violent hands on the i'm
perfect structure and brought it down TO the earths
there to remain wreck, instead Of citadel OF q
worlds beet hopesi
Iremsin now in the opinion have uniformly ex-
pressed here and elsewhere that these hast threats Oh
Dsunion are so unnatural that they will find no hand
10 execute them. We are Of one race language, no
erty and faith engaged indeed, in varied industry;
but even that industry, so diversified, brings US into
intimate relations with each other tnan any otnef
people, however homogeneous, and though hvng 1noer
q consolidated Government, ever maintained We
lanpuieh throughout if joint OF our Federal frame
is srnitten while il s certain that part dsseVered
must perish. You may refine yo7 please about the
structure Of The Government, and say that Il s COM
pact and that breach, by ono OF the states OF oY
Congress- or any one article sbsoves ali the Esnieers
from allegiance and that the States may separate when
they have, OF fancy they have, esnss for war bat
once try to subvert It, and you will find that II Is
Government of the whole people--ss individuals, a.
well az compact of States that every Individual
member of the body polite ia conscious OF nus inter-
less, powerless, hopeless, wren Il shall have gone
down. Mankind have natural right, natural
instinct, and natural capacity for seifgovern-
ment and when, rs here, they are sufficiently
ripened by culture, they will and must have self
government and no other. The trainers Of our Con-
stitution, with wisdom that surpassed all previous
understanding among men, adapted II 70 these inherent
elements OF humsn nature he strangely, onndy
thinks that It's only bonds or even its Strongest ilga-
ments the written compact or the multiplied and
thoroughly ramied roads and thoroughfares Of trade
commerce and social intercourse. These are strong,
indeed but ts chefest instruments of cohesion-hosa
which render II ineeparabe and indvisble-are tho
millions of fbers of millions Of contented, happy hu-
hearts binding by their affections, their ambition
and their best hopes equally the high and the low the
rich and the poer the wise and unwise the learned
and the untutored even the good and the bad, TO q
Government the first, the last and the only such ono
that has existed, which takes equal heed always
of their wsnts, their wishes and their opinions and
appeals TO them all individually, once In year, or in
years. q. least in four years for their expressed
consent and renewal without which Il must cease
No, go where You will, and 70 what class you may,
with commissions for your fatal service IN one hand,
and your bounty counted by the hundred or
the thousand pieces of silver in the other. .
thousand resseIs will rice up for every recruit you can
engage. On the banks equally of the 81. Lawrenos
and the Rio Granae, on the Atlantic and the Pacific
coasts the shores Of The Gulf Of Mexico and In tho
dells ofthe Rocky Mountains, among the fishermen OF
the banks of Newfoundland, the aud spnners
of Massachusetts, the steyedores Of New-York, the
mine rs of Pennsylvania Pixies Peak and California,
the wheatgrowers of Indiana the cotton and the sugar
planters the Mississippi, among the voluntary GU
zens from every other land not Ices than toe native
born the Christian and the jew among the indians on
the pFairies the contumaeous Mormons In the DeSere
the Africans Free the Africans in bondage the inmates
of Hospitals and Almshouses, and even the crimnab
the pententaries rehearse the story OF your wrongs
and their eloquently and never 80 noarh-
fully and appeal to them to rise They VII asa you'
" Is this alp - Are you just than asangton.
" wiser than Hamilton, more humane than Jeners9nI
80 What new form Of Government or Of Union nave
-" you the power to establish, even the cunning
device that viii be just, more safe, ore iree.
" more gentle, more benetcsn or more goIi1 Son VIII
"a tnis Z" And by these simple interogstores you WI"
be silsaeed and COMPOUNDED -
Mr. President, we are perpetual,y ioIgg''.us sn,s
subtle and complex, yet obvious and ns.u,s
Ism of our Constitution; and because we 10 %ss y,
we are continually wondering how 70 s: ors xsst