New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-19

To HgsRY c. CAREY, e'q, Phdddafhd o. g.
MY DEAR SIR: For months have been waiting to
hear your voice; aud L am very TAR from 5tandihg
alone in this respect In England DO not believe
there is single man who looks upon the division OF
the United States and the attitude Of the two sections
of the Union arrayed against each other who mas
not many times calculated en- bcnoP Let ~ DC
granted that The Southern States have done wrong III
their Secession. They either see their own interest
truly or they have mistaken it, II they see It truly
surely they have right 20 the extent OF their power
to struggle in lite maintenance. But, 70 tako the
Northern view, Assume that they DOM know tnelr
own interest. Are they likely to be brought 70
better frame Of mind by coorcon Go on In the course
indicated by the Message Of President Lncoia (wblcn
| have Just read and II successful, YOU conquer
them; and II rot, they rpu!7e YOU, deieat you,
disgrace YOU. Aud what Is the meaning-the only
conceivable apiuI1a0f CCnqucli0R such country as
the Southern StaleS loIin, and 20 peOpled IL has
never beer dcIc yc.. And venture TO think At never
can be. Bat suppose IL done. Why, even u MAJOR
ity of The inhaDial were favorable to the Union, 30
bitterly mast they - made e. eel m pure ana IN PER-
son. the effect OF anS thing like conquest so newt
ably must they suffer with their neghbors, tnat the
very process OF recovering these States to the Union
by such means mus, 20 Tar 40 Wiling adhesion " con-
ccrned defeat its own end And for what is oil this
rlsked To mainian g the Union'--to be enabled TO
continue to hold NJ Europe tue appearance OF " a
great and powerful State" Why, that we have IN
several forms on this side of the water. What we
have net and what some among US begin to hope was
people who made not the external grandeur OF the ma
on but the freedom and happioe Of the people them
selves the object of their political existence. Now
you 90 the old, old, worn-out wrsiched way. 10
keep thirty-fo stars upon the banner you rase an
army Of 100000 men, and lay 800 00 OCO as first
sacrifice upon the altar Of civil war. Excuse my say
ing "you" do these things. You, l dare say, zee
what 80 few If your countrymen seem to have any
suspicion of-that that way freedom does not le-not
freedom, but despotisn. A Washington IL not born
every day. Nor can the Executive, which commands
10000 fighting men, and with them oyeruns, and
conquers and holds bound country like the Southern
States be expected to conform 10 the rules hitherto
found binding upon your Presidents. Tie man who
can grasp and use such powers does not bow to a
baot-boX or seek hs supporters IN tayerns or among
stump orators. lie is not commonly sentimental
Parsonage, or apt to care for words whch have no so
meaning in Them OF direct interest 20 him or HIS In
short no 49, Of necessity, inclined to despousn ard
very con,ciously fitted for carrying ON that business
with more than average sucoess. Bat into the hands
of such "A person you haston TO put yourselves,
II Abraham Lincoln lie your guide. What Is a large
army without iit leader Your call Tor the one Is
fefvent prayer for the other. Then look, not at
homo but abroad aud first at the wTetched, covering
States you will on the morrow Of your conquest have
10 deal with The fight will haze been tough one.
Ango-Saxon blood IL plentiful from Richmond 20 Gal
weston. Many deaths and much devastation VIII be IN
the memory Of the conquered, and no little txaPeIation
in that Of the eonqneIos. You canho, fehNest tnem
with equal political rights That would be TO ehastise
them hisf oer y0ur backs 20 their rnd Shila
theira vet smsrted. ThOy would vote Themselves out
OF the Union and leave you with a yoley Of Cures
and give YOU again 10 do task which you now enter
upon only because you don't know what IL IL. The
conquered must become subject. Then what Of the
Union :" You would repeat, in exaggerated form,
the error you now charge against the southern
States seeking TO cure negro slavery BY ensllvng
both master and man. NJ dear SIR, IL there NO voice
loud enough In the eas Of your Northern eountTymen
10 convey "A warning against what We, here, cannot
Int deem the wiHest and worst blunder a young na-
ton ever committed You will be great with the
fse and now much loatked but neediul greatness OF
the OIL world. Icu will shine befoye your AeighboTs,
md for this Won will unsay every lessOa learned from
the great and good men who set you on y0nr course
old world. To "look big Ito unfold flag with
many stars before the nations OF Europe-you will en-
slave many communities and in binding up natural
and inevitable breach will destroy, alike in the bonds
and the thing they bind together everything that ba5
hitherto made either truly respectable.
ious most truly,
p. S.-Notbing surprises sensible men here much
az the notion entertained in America that rejoice ut
your present troubles This at first but we begin to
that this notion comes OF tho main root OF the pres
ent great error. You wish TO be respected here but
your notion Of respect includes fear. You wish 10 be
regarded as a great nation. We should respect you
moro as two or three, or dozen sensible free and
hoJDy conLaRKities. And we cannot respect your
puore imitation Of our unfortunate old-world wGillke
ways-puttng the shadow before the substance. Ex-
cuse my yehomence. The " United States are de-
sroynQ too many illusions among the lovers of free
dom for any OF them TO think Of the subject with pa
tienee.
MIR. CAREY's REPLY.
DEAR Sin; There are few, probably. who apPreci-