New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-19
BULLYING THE FREE STATES.


President of this Republic by the popular vote of
nearly every Free State, and the ruling poiti-
clans of the Slave States are not pleased with
the selection. We can fancy their feelings, as
ire felt much the same when they put most un-
desired President upon as four years ago.
Moreover, We can ard do in good faith advise
them TO do as we did-Bear it with fortitude,
and hope to do better next time. There are
other courses that may seem more inviting at
first, but this will prove altogether safest and
wisest in the end.
But the Southern politicians are rot so used to
adversely as We have been, and they do not ut
first take it kindly. Everybody among them is
expected to tear and rave over this Free-Soil tr
umph, under the suspicion of being marked and
| denounced as oil AbOlitionist Of course, the
! howl throughout the Cotton States is very gen.
| eral--partly in earnest and partly not. And the
lifelong Disunionists of South Carolina and two
or three sympsthizing sister States, seize upon
the excitement as gOdsend, by whose aid they
hope forthwith TO achieve their darling end.
Messrs. Rhett, RuGn, Yancey, and other lead
ers in this crusade were just as much Disunion-
lists year ago as they now are; the cir
cumstances have changed, but they have not.
They are intensely busy and noisy just now, be-
cause they fear that the golden moment will
speedily pass awaythat if they do not succeed in
dssolvng the Union before the excitement cools and
Mr.. Lincoln is inaugurated, they never will. Hence
| the indecent haste with which South Carolina is
hurried along the path of tres;en, without allow
ing time for reflection or consultation. The Dis
unionists dare not trust their cause to general
council Of the Slave States, nor even Of the Cot
Ton States, for they know they would be over
ruled. Their game is to rush South Carolina
into o poiutblank collision with the Federal
| Government, and then call upon the other Slave
States to rally to the delenfo of the champion of
| their common cause. BY thus raising false
issue and appealing to the sympathies rather than
the reason of the other slaYehOlding States they
| hope to effect what, on a direct appeal they
know to be impossible. And tins, though des-
perate resort, is the only one open to them con
| sistent with their resolution to shiter the Union
at I'LL hazards.
Now We believe and maintain that the Union
Ii to be preserved only so long as it is beneficial
and satisfactory to all parties concerned. We
do not believe that any man, any neghbOrhOod,
town, county or even State, may break up tho
Union in any transient gust of passion; We fully
comprehend that Secession is an extreme, an ulti.
mate resort-not Constitutional but Reyolu-
tionary remedy; bat VIC insist that this Union
shall not be held together by force Whenever it
shall have ceased to cohere by the mutual sttrac.
ton of lis parts; and whenever the Slave States,
or the Cotton States only, shall unitedly, coolly
say 10 the rest, We want to got out of the
" UniOn," VIC shall urge that their request be &C.
ceded to.
But one thing we must firmly and always IN
siss on--tbat there shal be no bribing, coax
ing, no wheedng those to stay in the Union who
want to get out Every step in this direction
tends to confirm the Slave States in their mis-
taken notion that the Union il more advantage
ous 10 us than to them-that it is cJntriyance
to pamper and enrich the North OF the cost of
the South. And this is to-day the chief source of
National peril. II is because tho Southern people
have been persistenty told that tho Free States
would be pecuniarily ruined by disunon-that our
people live by their suferance and thri'e OH their
bounty-that we are eternaly threatened with
Secession. Let it be fully and fairly understood
that the benefits Of the Union are mutual-that
we don't want the South TO remain in the Union
out Of charity 10 us-and this eternal menace OF
Notification and Secession will be hIshed forever.
The Herald has bulletin from Richmond,
which foreshcdOws the part which Virginia Is to
be induced to play in the drama now opening
as follows:
"Ih.,e lkeg eon .dsJe pain. - ssgeaia sa4t hs s.