New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-15

gTees ana the various STATE btS'no'Hco' A
trial of souls is not precisely the Same as that our
fathers underwent in Seventy-SiI.
The Republicans have ct last mcceeaoa
in winning the first victory ever gained
over the Slave.Power and its Northern par
axites. That the shareholders should rage Mt
seeing the scepter that seemed to have grown
IN their hand thus wrested from them, and that
their creatures at the North should imagine vain
things in view of losing the iatnesS that dropped
on their heads from it, is in no wise surprising.
What are these imaginings' Simply, that the
yictors shall surrender to the vanquished all the
fruits of their hard.won victory Only that the
oououerors shall pass under the yoke of the con-
ouered Merely that the loyal citizens who have
iuirly succeeded in eecting the man Of their
choice to the Presidency shall make bridge OF
heir nscks. ever which those who refuse
70 submit to the issue of the balot.box when it
has gone against them, may pass trlumphantly
back from their false position to stronger ono
thpn they held before! Modest conditions truly
TO be imposed on the victorious party by the de-
leated one. The old formula of victorious insult
Te JIofis! will need to be amended into
Vo Vietoribus, 1t was CORVALLIS that should
have dictated terms to Washington at Yorktown.
Ii was Wellington that ought to have dispersed
bis troops and taken to his heels after Waterloo
IL hardly seems credible that there can be any
danger Of the public men Of the Republican party
consenting at the very moment OF their success
10 do homage and make dishonorable concessions
to their discounted antagonists, as IN apology
for their victory. And yet the temptation Is NOT
q slight one The Enemy approaches them In
the parb of the Angel Of Cancellation, and with
the honey of persuasion upon bis lips. Civil war
and tie dismembermeut Of the country are threat
ened and they can stay the tide of ruin. And
il is not much that is asked of them. Nothing
indeed, that touches their own immediate busi-
nen or bosoms. A reconsideration OF the
policy which has been the vital principle
of their political existence and has strength
ened them up to the point Of victory, and
an abandonment Of their objection TO Slavery
entering in and taking possession of oil and
singular the National Territories, will be consid-
cred as a modest installment Of the price of the
forgiying of their enemies Possibly tls may be
all that will be asked Of the men at Washington.
accepted BY the conquered as satisfactory unless
the several Northern States which have made
laws for the protection of all their citizens, with.
out distinction Of color, repeal the same and
leave those citizens without protection against kid
nappers. These TRIES conceded, Peace will again
spread her white wings over the land, the money
panic will melt away like the early dew, dividends
and commercial profits will again wax like 10.
nah's gourd and the Fire-ea.ers will take the
tow out Of their mouths and cease to brighten US
with smoke and fame.
Before our public men, at Washington or else
where, proceed to perform the kOtou demanded
of them, let them be quite sure that they will
get what they want by it. Let them be warned
by the fate of the Boston negro who rolled him
self in the dirt at the outskirts Of one of Whit
fields meetings in an agony of religious enthusi-
asm, and who, on being told that it was not Whit
field that was preaching, had nothing for it but
to shlke himself as clean US he could and eI-
Let these honorable gentlemen too, be very
sure beforehand that they will not dirty them.
selves for nothing" And, first, as the least
thing will they cure the homeopathic BY any act
of this kind I All impartial and intelligent OBJ
servers Of the current history of business for the
last two years know that the present panic,
though fastened and aggravated just now by the
political state Of the country, is in no wise oc-
casioned by it. The crisis was as inevitable n
that of 1887 or Of 1857 and has been foreseen ana
provided against by prudent men of business.
The organ of the Disunionists and Alarmists IN
this City, The Herald, itself devated into the
truth not long since, when it told its readers thai
the crisis was occasoned by the South over
trading in lands and negroes. This is the exact
fact.-ouly they oyertraded in other things as
well. The acceleratiOn OF this crisis by the cleo
ton of Dir. Lincoln, far from being misfortune,
is piece of good luck. Its coming might have
been delayed few months, or year or 80;
but it would only have been TO be much worse
in itself and ~ have found the country much
worse prepared to meet it. What politics did
Lot cause, politics cannot cure. Tho crisis is u
self-limited disease, aud will work itself off ali
the sooner for being let alone alike by quscSs
and regulars.
As to the threatened ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of tho
Union, what effect could any humiliation Of Com
promise have in hndering it, We presume tina!
nobody will deny our first proposition, which is,
that South Carolina and tho other Cotton States
either are in earnest for Secession, or they are
not. Now, if they are moi in earnest, and all this
buster and faniaronade are only meant to scare
the North, it IS very clear that any quantity OF
rolling in the mud would be purely gratutou,.
But suppose South Carolina IS in earnest, aud
,c,Ily re,ps IN oo out nf the IIninn in tba Az