New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-12
WHY NOT COMPROMISED

peaceful and constitutional manner, chosen
President for the ensuing four years. All know
who he is, and that he is the elected Chief
Magistrate of the entire Union-Of the States
that voted against him no less than of those that
voted for him. That he is a minority President
is urged; but to what purpose He has more
Electoral Votes than Mr.. Buchanan, and quite as
many Popular Votes as he, and the latter was
likewise the choice of but a plurality of the
whole People. And, if the fact that he is but a
minority President is pertinent at oil, it is an
argument against breaking up the Union because
of a result purely exceptional and foruitOus.
Still, the integrity of the nation is menaced, by
those who have just been beaten. They threaten
to take their respective States out of the Union
because they have lost an election. And the
journals and stump orators who were so lately
soliciting votes on the assumption that they
were especial champions of the Union, are now
egging on the SecessiOnists and trying to make
party capital out of their reasonable proceed
ings Nay: they actually propose to turn the
contented and loyal New-England States neck
and heels out of the Union in order TO win
back and retain those that have resolved on Sc
cession And, as if this were not enough, they
threaten to break up the residue of the States ill.,
to three or four fragments to punish them for
being deserted by the Fire Eaters; and ping
folly on treason, The Express and Dan Sckles
threaten to discover our City and its vicinity
from the State of New-York, in order to punish
her for being deserted by the kingdom of Cot
ton!
These antics DO not surprise nor annoy Us.
We do not expect reason nor Justice from those
| smarting under recent and signal discontinue.
| We only desire that the American People should
carefully note the fact that the Union is threat
| ened from the PrO-Sayery side alone.
"But will you do nothing, concede nothing, to
| " save the UniOn?" we are asked Our reply
| is, that we mean to remain in and be loyal TO
the UniOn we shall gladly see all do the same
| but we will hire nobody, bride nobody, pay no.
body, cajoe nobody, to remain in it. We desire
| no other Union than one that is just and equal
| if that we have is not such a one, it ought not
to endure. If its blessings are indeed partial
and one-sided--as is vchcnenty alleged, but as
we do not belieye-then il ought to pass away
or be essentially modified. But to make con-
cessiOns involving vital principles because
some State or section threatens to secede
is to incite constant bullying and men,
ace by proAering rewards for turbulence and
giving bounties for treason. Hence we have not
regarded with lively appreciation the raising of
the House Committee of Thirty-three. In its very
best aspect, the Committee implies timidity and
apology on the part of certain supporters of Mr..
Lincoln. Every demand for some explanation or
qualification of LncOas success is in effect an
assumption that we have no right to be Republi-
cans or that Republicanism shall really mean
nothing. And as we are not sorry that Lincoln
is elected nor that he stands on the Chicago
Platform nor that we have done what we could
to effect this result, we do not propose to sit
personally on the stood of repentance nor yet to
place our friends there. We regret that the peo-
pie of any State or section should hate the Union;
but if any do, we cannot help it. And as we
ask no one to suppress or trampe on his convic-
tons in order to keep us in the Union, so we do
not propose to suppress or sacrifice our convictions
in order to keep any one else in
Mr.. Senator Crittenden-a statesman whom
all respect aud esteem-is said to be about to
propose to save the Union by new COmpro-
mise, whereof the gist is an extension of the
Missouri line to the Pacific Ocean. We trust no
such compromise will be made-at all events, that
il will not be made by the aid of Republican
votes. This is an old friend with new face
"Monseur TonsOn come again" So long ago as
l8l7 (Jan 15th)-the bill organizing the Territory
lii, hof tha Pm Of
S. C.. moved Gin efecD this same extension and
il was voted down by la Nays to 81 Yeas
every Wing from tho Free States, with all the