New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-03
THE COMING ComPROmIsK.


had the luck to attract and win the regard of
woman in good circumstances who gave him her
| hand and fortune. This change OF condition,
| however failed to make John a gentleman: on
| the contrary, he spent much of his time in ale
| houses in the company OF his old associates.
| Once when he and they had thus spent day,
and become unusually cosy, bOon-cOmpaniOn adj
dressed him after this fashion: john dare
"do what you daren't." "No," responded John,
II defy your "Yes, dare-I dare spend my
last sixpence."
| Success crowns the efforts not so often of the
strongest as of the most determined. That party
has q great advantage in any controversy who
dares spend his last sixpence.
The South understands this, and acts accord
ingly 1t has just staked its last sixpence--a
thEeat of dissOying the Union. The North, in
the full flush of victory, covers before tive
mean its politicians do. And of course this
weakness is presumed upon. Recent dispatches
from Washington are of this tenor:
Kentucky and Senators and Representatives
that the Union held by thread and both States ready
y with their Southern brethren the NORM refuses salts
faction.
Nicholson Of Tennessee Brown Of Mississippi Wig Of Texas,
and many Others express these opinions
The opinion almost universal here that unless these
States consent to give the Constitutional guar
anees demanded all the vehOdng States will certainly secede
a. National Convention is growing in favor
This is the old story. isis" says young
one of four years, just sharpening his wisdom
teeth on the eyer-whirling stone OF experience,
" do you want piece of pel Eyes" "Wel,
90 YOU cry and mother II give you piece" Ad-
vice showing good calculation on the young ones
| part, but shocking bad one on that of the
mother.
Suppose the North had in the agony of the
LecOmptOn struggle, when every honorable mind
reyolted at the mOnstrOus iniquity of forcing o
fraudulent Constitution on a protesting strug-
| Cling peOpe-a bill that Senator Hammond (whO
voted for it throughout) has since said ought to
be kicked out of Congress-declared that, if that
bill were put through, she would secede from the
! Union does not everybody know that the threat
! would have been hailed with hOrse-laugh of de-
rsiOn from the unanimous South? Why should
it always be hers to threaten, ours to cOncede
| The North has just won a signal victory. She
made her issues fairly, presented them clearly,
went before the whole People upon them, and,
after canvass of unparalleled earnestness and
assiduity, elected her candidates The division of
| her adversaries doubtless aided to produce this
result; but that is not our business. We did not
distract them-they distracted themselves. They
fully understood that their divisions gave US the
election unless they healed them. and they re-
! fused to heal them. They practically cOnSpired
10 let US win; and now they propose to break up
the Union because we did win. For LincOln's
election is the immediate impulse to the threats
of secession. The clamOr about Personal Liberty
acts does not deceive one Of those who raise it.
Those acts have existed for years, and have
amounted practically to no more than so much
waste paper. The South has said little and cared
less about them. But Lincoln is chosen Presi.
dent and all at once the cry is raised Repeal
your Personal Liberty acts, or we will break
cup the Union"
Vanly do we urge that these acts, if uncon-
stitutiOnal, can, at any moment be upset and
dissipated by the Supreme Court, over which the
South has absolute control; while, if they be con-
stitutonal, the demand that they be repealed is
utterly unwarranted. The object is not so much
to have them repealed, to raise an issue on
which the North con be made to humIiate
herself in the eyes of the world.
We are opposed to any such back-down. We
share Falstaf's repugnance to rendering even
reasons on compulsion, and we have even more
dislike to making concessions under duress. If
the South desires any change in the laws OF
Northern States, and will request the same in
the spirit that sent Mr.. Hoar from Massachusetts
TO Charleston to test in her own Courts aud
those of the Union such laws of South Carolina
us bear hardly on citizens of Massachusetts, We
shall be very glad to meet her in that spirit, and
have all laws, whether North or South, that con-
trayene justice and the Federal Constitution,
simultaneously repealed. We would do whatever
is right but q little sooner and more graciously