New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-24
THE CARNIVAL OF TREASON.

view Of the fall of Stocks, the suspension of spe-
Gle payments by the Southern Banks ond of pay
ments generally by the Southern people, the
paralysis of trade, with the consequent stoppage
OF many manufacturing establishments, and the
general apprehension of even greater calamities
at hand.
Done gentlemen do you say that IRE have
done these things II 80, you say what is man.
ifesty false We have done nothing but elect q
President and yice-President by honest legal
votes, on the largest poll ever known, after the
most animated and energetic canvass ever had in
any country. We have done just exactly what
We had right to do, what we ought to have
done, and what should have given peace aud
prosperity to the Union. All the cry that has
Since been got up, all the distress and danger
TINT now exist, spring directly and only
from the fact that the factions we have
fairly beaten now insist that we shall re-
pudiate our principles and surrender the just
fruits of our triumph, or they will break up
the Union. We do not propose TO dissolve the
tive never thought of such thing-we do not
even mean 10 let them dissolve it-but they
threaten to break it up and plunge the country
into civil war; and this is the cause-aud the
sole cause-Of our present industrial and CON-
mercial troubles There has been great drouth
throughout the Southwest, which has deprived
that region of its ability to buy other than the first
necessaries of life, and compels general delay of
payments, so that trade must have been dul and
jobbers pinched this Winter any how; but We
should have got along with all that but for the
jubilee of Treason inaugurated by the bankrupt
and desperate politicians whom the People for
their nsdeeds have just eIiled from the high
places of the land. They-and not those on
whom they mpudenty seek to shoulder the con-
sequences-are responsible for all the evils now
experienced or apprehended by Capital and In
dustry.
Hence We hear with joy that the Senate's Per-
ilous Committee has virtually concluded to do
nothing, recommend nothing, and that its elder
brother of the House will doubtless come to the
same conclusion. This is eminently right, for
these obvious reasons:
/. 1t i'll becomes the champions of Impartial
Freedom to sell out or qualify, or apologize for,
the signal triumph which the Country has just
accorded TO their cause. They were not sent to
Congress for any such purpose, and certainly
would not be sent again if they were now to
take counsel from their enemies and their fears
rather than their principles and their friends.
2. The beaten factions have no right to de-
mand concessions or explanations of the Repub-
LEANS az the price of their continued or renewed
fidelity to the Union. Mr.. Lincoln is President
and Mr. Hamln Yice.President elect not merely
of the States that voted for them, but of the
entire Union; and for South Carolina or Florida
to refuse to recognize aud honor them as such
is the grossest bad faiths treason to the
Union and the Constitution. For the North 10
proler any concessions or assurances now would
ba to prefer premium on rebellion, bounty
for sediton. We Republicans have thousand
times declared, in every conceivable manner
and with every possible assurance Of our SINGER.
ity, that We recognize no right TO abolish or
NEEDLE with Slavery in State by any other
than the People of that State, acting through
their lawfully constituted authorities. Every
intelligent man knows this to be an article of
our faith. Now, if We were asked to say just
| that once more as o condition Of Southern sub
| mission to Republican rule, We would not say it,
| because we would make no concession to vio-
| lence, no terms with treason.
3. But the South will secede." We do not
!, know about that. Passing Resolves and Ordi-
nsuees of Secession is not seeding. If all the
inhabitants OF Jupiter were tomorrow to vote
the solar system a nuisance and resolve them
selves out of it, the planet would go on obeying
tho laus of attraction and orryltotlOD ust IA Sbe
always did, no matter whether they did their
seeding through formal Convention or in sim
pie mass meeting And if Jupiter could not thus
ignore the suns influence still less could Venus
or Pallas. Tie laws of the universe are not
subject TO any such dictation.
Most CT rtainly We believe that governments are
made for peoples, not peoples for governments
that the latter " derive their just power from
% the consent of the governed" and whenever
portion Of this Union large enough to form an
independent, seliSubsisting nation, shall see fit to
say authenticity to the residue, 1--WE want TO
get away from YOU" shall say-and we
trust self-respect if not regard for the principle
of self-goyernment, will constran the residue of
the American people to say Go" We never
yet had 30 poor an opinion Of ourselves or our
neghbors us To wish 10 hold others in hated
connection with us. But the dissolution of a
government cannot be effected in the time re-
quired for knocking down house of cards. Let
the Cotton States, or any six or more States, say
unequiyocaly, ave want to get out of the Union"
and propose 10 effect their end peaceably aud inof
fcnsiyely and We will do our best to help them ont