New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-31
PEACE WHERE THERE H. Nd PEACE.


PEACE WHERE THERE gs Nd PEACE.
That war, whether cvil or foreign, is great
evil, is point on which there is no dispute
among morallsts and Christians. But that there
are evils greater than war is point just as in.
disputable. So also tOTnadOes, the vivid light
ming that Stays with fash and the terrifying
thunder are not agreeable phenomena to most
pcople; vel there are WOrse things to endure
which it is the order Of nature to correct by
such methods. In the good old tines that the
French Revolution did away with in terror and
blood, noblemcn shot peasants as they did pigeons
for amusement. There hos been peace and
plenty, religious liberty and political freedom,
the right and the power Of general intelligence,
art and science and civilization, for many eener
atoms, smiling upcn England and making her
the foremost nation of all the earth, because
through civil war she worked out her great
destiny. Italian rule is better in Italy than
Austrian, aud it was purchased with blood.
Eight wears of war dcsOlatod the British Cole
MES of America, and feeble people went for
all that time hungry and naked and poor, AID
incurred in almost every household the loss Of
the lie most precious and valued, that out Of
those colonies should sprlpg the United States
| Of America. Was it wei Was it wise Let
twenty millions Of people the ircecst, the richest,
and most enlightened twenty millions of indi.
vidual men and women in the world, answer.
The deI elopment Of Massachusetts and of Nova
Scotia, tie growth of Halifax and Boston for
these eighty years show whether the choice Of
war or peace was, eighty years ago. the wiser.
Tie Journal Of Commerce has started like
question for us to-day. 1t is not often our good
fortune to agree with that journal about any
thing but we do agree with it that tax Of
fifteen cents on tea, Of five cents on coffee,
" Of two TO fye cents on sugar" will certainly
enhance the price Of those creature coMforts
that direct tax on land ard an iucome-tax
Of three per ceRtgm creates at least new out
60 which most Of US will have TO meet by
saving somewhere. Especially win We not yield
to it in the sincerity and the depth of our lam
entations over those, our sons and brothers, who
have fallen, or may yet fall into bloody graves,
lamenting, nevertheless, with this consolation
that they laid down, or viii lay down, their
lives cheerully, even gladly, for great cohyic-
ton which, baptized in blood, VIII, as aforc-
time, do the viii OF God on earth, and make the
w.,rld, in time TO come, wiser, and better, aud
happle.-
But We pant company with THE JOsrad before
We have reached this point, for it, dlaim at the
fifteen cents, the five cents, and the two cents
-. b. ,Ita toto Of
our grocery bill, and at the land-tax and the
inc0mc-tax, render it incapable Of considering
that the sacrifice Of life is voluntary sacrifice,
made at the bidding Of no master, and for holy
purpose. For, says The Journal, "all these
things might be suffered and borne, if any
great object were to be gained-any substantial
good accomplished" We doubt neither Tie
Journals intelligence nor its honesty TIE
object TO be gained the substantial fact TO be
accomplished, It understands as well us we do;
but we differ in tbis--that The Journal does not
believe the object to be gained a great one, or
the fact 10 be accomplished good. Herein it is /
quite honest Its love for the Union is only q /
conditional affections; and upon human liberty it |
sets 10 value. How cds il, then, approve of a !,
war which is maintained only to establish one |
Government within the present limits of our
country, and to defend our own hesrtb-stones
against Il sldyehOlding despOtisn, which, be. .
ginning with the Slavery of black men,
ayows it has 10 limit till oil labor,
whether black or white, is enslayed--to be main
tained, too, by onerous taxes on groceries, lands,
and incomes, and some cost of life The Jour.
nal is consistent and logical. 1t believes in
Slavery; ard its sympathies. therefore, are with
Shareholders, not with freeinen. DESTROYS always
of slaveholding supremacy, approving always
OF The long course of political action Of the
South that eliminated in that most dastardly and
cruel act ever perPetrated by GOvernment-the
assault on Sumter-Ihe journal loathes from its
very soul, and no wonder, war Whose only
purpose is to defend ourselves against the sggres
sOns of despotic class of mea who, when they
learned that they could retain their supremacy
no longer BY ballot, resorted first to threats to
frishtea US int submission. Oad thea 70 bullets