New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-14

even of one little Territory sustained as tnc hahsas
men were, by the sympathies and aid of the civilized
and free North. We were getting along very well,
then, up to the sixth day of November.
What happened on that day. A very quiet
series of town and city meetings, which, shortly
after sundown, were found to have resulted in
the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presi-
dency, instead of John C. Breckinrdge John
Bell, or Stephen A. Douglas.
IL we had security, freedom prosperity pro-
lection, aud few national burdens, we we're thus
fortunate because We were living under free in
sttutions and proving ourselves worthy of them
by exercising the glorious privilege which they
gave u.s. of electng our own administrative ru-
lers. constitutionally and according to our own
best discretion. FIVE had failed to do this that is
TO say to elect Lincoln, or Breckenridge, or
Bell, or Douglas in our own way, and without
dictaiion or interference our prosperity would
have been counterfeit and not real, and our free.
dom not genuine, but sham. We did nothing
then on the 9th of November which Should have
brought upon us taxation, stagpation of business
and war. And here we bring The journal Of
Commerce to the precise point Of the case. 1t
goes on to say:
, of time became necessary II the opinion oil
the bicsn party that should know whether we havea
teach h. lesson has been declared to be one
Of tie objects Of the present Well we are In aia way to
learn it By experience We read it in the suspension of the
h,beas the violation o the right Of peiition-in the
b,cae szus of conespondenee-n the large increase oil
,h. Army and Navy by Executive power contrary to express
provisions Of te ConutonaD In other usurPstions when
even Napoleon would not have hszsrded In bis own oeoVea
France We ,s learn that have Government oy Its
onupTcsence In the shape Of tsHessIe-taIe' by ' con
call. or of men for the va" snd perhaps
by further restraints upon our hoertiea"
We pass over the preliminary hardships cited
by The Journal, such as the violation OF the
right of petition and the seizure of private cor
respondence without comment Coming from q
paper which has scientifically defended Southern
mail robberies and Congressional gag-laws, they
must be set down as its own inevitable can. and
nvincble hypocrisy, aud not be answered or argued
with. When a newspaper which has been IN
the habit of paying regard to popular rights
makes complaint Of these things we will take
due notice of it. But we admit the taxes; the
taxes on tea and coffee and other articles of still
greater necessity; the taxes on income; the bor-
rowlngs to be paid by some sort of taxation
hereafter. Now who is responsible for these
We beg leave to call the attention of The
Journal Of Commene to the dates OF few re-
cent important transactions. They VIII help to
clear up the mystlfcatOn Of some of is readers,
though We cannot hope they VIII render ihe
Journal itself any more willing to tell the truth
and do the Administration Justice:
Nov. 6, 1860. Election of President.
Nov. g. A dispatch from South Carolina says, :" Se-
ceseion is regarded u foregone conclusion
Nov TO- The Georgia Legislature engages in plans
! Of Secession.
No. 49, Special session Of Mississippi Legislature
/ called TO consider Secession. Senators 1oonbe ana
] Hammond resign.
Dec. 4. Congress meets at Washington, Georgia,
South Carolina Louisiana, MiSsSsippi, and Arkansas,
unrcpresented In one branch the other
/ Dec. 4. Secretary Cobb resGns.
Dec. 20. South Carolina Ordinance Of Secession
adopted.
Jan. p Forts Pulaski and Jackson, in Georgia, and
the Arsenal at Savannah, seized by the rebels also,
For Macon and the Arsenal at Fayetteville.
Jan. L. Fort Morgan aud tie arsenal ut Mobile
seized by the rebels.
Jan. s. Forts .Jobnsou and Caswoll, NJ c., seized by
the rebels.
Jnu. o. Star of the West fired on by the Rebels in
Charleston harbor.
Jan. 40. Fort McHac, Florida, and steamer Marion
in Charl, ,sion iIaIbor seized by the Rebels
Jan. II. Arseual at Baton Rouge, and Louisiana
fort, seized by the Rebels.
Jan r.. Nayy-Yard at Pensacola seized by the
Rebels.
Jan. ~. Georgia secedes.
Jan. .G. Louisiana sccedes.
Feb. |. Texas secedes.
Feb. 4. Congess of Cotton States meets at Mont
gomery.
, Feb. -. Nirginia Convention meets.
I We stop here, because wc have cited a suii-
/ cent number of acts of lawlessness and rebellion
/ to make evident this fact, viz, that weeks aud
| even nionths before the Inauguration Of Mr..
/ Lincoln, weeks and months before the attempt
to relieve Fort Sumter-eyen as far back as the
| first day after South Carolina acting under the
. Constitution, had east its vote for Breckinridge
/ aud Lane-the country was IN state OF rebel
] lion and the Cotton States were 'erying ,ear
I against the Government of the United States.
I If we were enjoying prosperity on the 9th Of
November, as we adGit who took incipient steps
on TIE 9Th to destroy that prosperity, aud fol-
lowed them up by au unbrUken series, until the
country was in blaze of rebellion Ii we
were living ia security at home on the 9th, who
brought war to our doors on the 7thl If, on
the 9th, our people in distant lands felt the pro-
tecting hand OF the Government, who, on the
7th, instituted a series Of measures which renders
cur foreign relations unsatisfactory and Insecure!
If. on the 9Th we were free from inordinate