New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-10
WHAT Is THE REAL DESIGN'

WHAT Is TIE REAL DESlGNf
Te n, Editor Of TAsN y. Tribune.
SIN. Wien Senator Wilson said that the friends q
tie Constitution and fee labor, by the election Of Lin.
coin and amln had got their feet the neck of the
| Slave Power, he true in fguratve sense. In a
| practical one, not quite. That power which has
always Lad s feet the South and for halt century
has Lad tie Union under s thumb, if not under its
feet, " Ill not be likely to take its thumb oil without
struggle-of practical character. The power which
ru,' us into Of robbery on Mexico, and lost the
rcl est srt Of the bootywbich broke its faith the
boundary Le veen tself and Freedom. and then ex-
rort, darmed voters to make their booess laws against
tie latter-has probably more tricks in its bag
Of the same sort. 1t Processes with terrific
din that if new and specific guarantees of Slavery
aud slave catching are not given by the peo-
PIE Of tie North it will not submit to be constitu-
Ii, nally governed But in that it will the best
and only thing il can do take the Southern States, or
at al events The Cotton States Of the Union peace
ably if can forcibly if it must. Docs expect any
such concessions No. 1t knows well US we that
lhey are simply imposs bic. Does it mean to slough it
felf IF from the nation and content sel with South
EN- eonlcderacy, which does not include Washington
City and the whole prestige if not the whole power, of
iEe teDtrhl hONernUltul tTtbUt 0hUUHs Il hoh I
believe it. Tie leaders of the Savocracy men
cunning enough to keep their own counsels; they are
not Io cred with too much freedom of the press in
Il cir own dcminiCBs they not kelyto threaten the
tlirg which they mean to do. They demanding what
II ey 60 not exrect TO obtain, with threats Of some
Il ing which would by no means content them in the
event OF their expected failure. What they mean by
wi at they are doing and saying is doubtless this to de-
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peaeeable secession put its "wide awakes asleep OF
Il cir guard and the old government is on their side
or rather absolutely theirs and not likely to take any
slcng military precautions 10 secure the undesred con-
sliuiional succession, into Washington on the
9Th of March next with such mob as TO prevent the
Inauguration of Lincoln. They will not probably
Il ink il exIedent to make outaud-out coup detd
ard inaugurate candidate of the fusion MAORI
~, like Breckenridge or some Napoleonic individual
like Cushing, but they will make their old simatacram
held Crer sort of inevitable and constitutional thing
wi en- under their VOLTS argument see the fable Of the
of ard lie lamb of "sectionalsm" they have prac-
tically demonstrated the impOssbity of naugurating
Lincoln. They will thus, on the 9th Of March and
tleeLfer, lie throwing the demoralized North the
responsibility Of Iebeng against the de act0 Govern
ment or the United States, having possession of the
Tubc Duldpgs archives, treasury 10 DE sure
Int suc,iops-the forts and armories snd the little
army ard navy, Offered chiefly by Southern men,
Tie only consttu ional day for the constitutional
{, sion will have passed They will then, porbaps-f
any body can 80 far believe in their consistency and
cemency give us our choice OF submitting TO such
Prc-S!ayely laws az they may dictate, or 'peacoably
seeding, and forming Northern ConfederaCyl
Coed people at the North, whose travels have not
extended beyond free communities, may think this
valcination impossible and ridiculous. But Others
1ust know that such scheme derives an immense ad
vantage from the locality OF the sea, Of Government
surrounded by population whose sympathies are
mainly in it, favor. There is only thing which
can he expected TO prevent it, and that il not the honor
CT good faith Of the Slave power Nor il it miscella
crowd of spectators from the Free States whose
prefence would only aid the Southern mob, just in
IroToltcn to It's own Numbers 1t is well organized
volunteer police force of free citizens, hand IN due
reason, ard amply prepared to defeat any violent at
TENT to prevent the Inauguration. If Congress does
not provide for such force that OCCASION the con-
sentative, law-and-order loving citizens must, or lose
tteir labor in electing an honest president
No 70 Areryat Ro,toa, Dec g. 1860 ELlLUR WRIGHT.