New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-07

quite absurd Northern States s.pec Us to take
pose aseiT .codias can as.et "a When ever the. proclaim
the abolition OF Slavery throughout the Union they WIZ nase m
sentiment, the 'de But we have had no whisper 0
this hitherto"
do net deny that many foolish things are said in
England Of this war. Inefably foolish are her good
honest souls who 80 nnocentiy inquire why we do no.
let the slave STATES go II some OF her counties shoui
undertake TO destroy her and ion would
England let them 90 There would be at least three
conditions to her letting them go. ls The assurance
that the rebels who were plundermg her naeoba,
vaults and capturing her forts and vessels, ana
threatening to capture the seat OF her SI
and her principal ciiies, would LEI England 90. ID
That they should ay down their arms aud degis ron
their rebellion Sd. That they should by free vote
of their people, ask the nation to Jet them co. English
men, who would have England take as bigh gfouHu as
tis ra, her no lower ground than this low one To-
ward her rebels should not complain OF America for
taking the like ground toward American rebels FOR
the English prese to mpue rashness and rigor to our
Government IL ridiculous No other Government ever
lowed her rebel both to conf ete bis preparation and
strike his llow. But proud, prompt pugnacous Eng
land breaks her rebels at the fret revelation OF his
rebellious purpose.
l have referred 10 an improbable and TO less i'm
probable action Of Congress. Much IA have ever
been in favor, on the principle Of honor among
thieves" Of having the North share with the South In
the present loss by emancipation should neverhe-
less be sorry to see Congress medde with the matter
at the ex ra session, it, indeed now that circumstances
are 30 changed at any time. would not have one
moment of that session consumed in combating either
loyal oval sayeholders, ana especially because
would not have one step taken in 1t that should savor
however slightly of concession compromise. Ihen
again. there are no loyal saveboders If you refer TO
SHAREHOLDERS of the sl4yeholding spirit 1t is admitted
that there are many among those who from their own
ing few slaves from other causes, have not the
slayeholdng character. And in this connection L
No ldeav hat ba com leV
governed by the three hundred aud fifty thousand
sayeholders is very wide OF the truth In respect 10
such governing, tar more than half Of them are but |
nominal slaveholders. This ration II, or rather has
been sway by ess than hundred thousand slave
hodes and snphatically true is it that among all |
these there is not who is loyal No greater anag-
onism is there than that between slavehoidng and |
loyalty. Slavebolding despises law. Ice will Il ns
law. Search the whole land over, and y0u Will hnd
no one who ia in spirit and grain saveholdeF that
would not infinitely rather zee the Government than
Slavery in ruins
No. let Congress do nothing Mt the coming session
but provide for the most vigorous prosecution ana most
speedy termination of the war; 10 might alter the |
Iara-n0t however, 10 pleG1e free-trade or an-iee-
trade men-but simply to make il q more efficient |
helper in the war. II it shall NEEDLE with anything
else let il he but to bess with bankrupt law the cou
ner,ial men, whom the war is reducing to insolvency
AZ the Government pies and helps wounded soldiers,
30 also should it pity and help such inslgents They,
90, are war-wouuded.
/ spoke If abolisling Slavery by Proclauation for
hough there were law for abOlishing IT, nevertbe-
ess 10 the exigencies of il may be abolished not
only without law but agsinst law. Inter aTW0 tgeS
,en" 1t should be abolished under the Constitutions
and the people will soon have suffered enough from the
Dro-Slayery Interpretation Of the Constitution 10 make
hem willing TO exchange it for anti-Shvery inter-
pretaiion. They will from interpreting it
70 suit the interests OF those who are trampug upon
A. And where are there Shareholders who not |
irampling upon IL i--openIy where they dare, aud
secretly where tbsy dare not openly But it will DO
aid that some Of the slave States remain loyal Ii
his il soand thanks to the presence Of Federal forces
II isneyerheless there is State where in ten
Of the considerable tayehoders does not bate Con
.titution our Government, and Nation. Yes after
this war the anti-Slavery Interpretation OF The Cons.
luton, and Lysander soner, the abest advocate q
such Interpretation, will be popular Again, should
slavery be stupidity and wickedly allowed 70 survive
the war the abohtionsts would very quickly raise
marty large enough to vote II down. Hitherto the
est bindrance in their way has been the insensibiy
Of the North to her injury from Slavery but her
lorees Of fa and property In this Slavery-begotten
war connected with the outrsgng and murder " her
soionrners in the Souri, fast overcoming thr In
fensibiity, and preparing her TO listen 10 abolition
arguments and act upon them. Far, however, SIT !
from certain tnat time would be given TO the abolition
ists TO raise such party. The popular race against
Slavery might hurry it TO violent death before II
could be voted 10 a peaceful one. 1 believe that
the war and Slavery will end together. g, On
the one hand, the Proclamation aboisbing Slav-
would then have nothing left to fight for. On
the other tie North will not let the war end uness
the one cause of il shall also end The South bel1n
the war to make Slavery national and eternal The
North will end it by their unoeayed expulsion OF
Slavery from every part OF the nation An attempt on
the part of Congress Cabinet o end the with
ont ending Slavery would prove TO be fearful exper-
iment on human patience. shid that ending Slavery
would end the war. How great then the guilt Of the
North for not Immediately staying the etiuslon Of
blood by Immediately botting out Slavery
Fourth: The war ended and Slavery abolished, and
we shall again be-what for forty years we have no'
been-A sHrIos. All this time the hatred and con-
tempt of the South for the North have been growing
into hatred and contempt greater than ever one ma
tion felt for another This in no degree owing TO
geographical and climatic differences. The course OF
the AlleQhani - and the Mississippi is enough 10 prove
that nature intended We should be Of one nation IL is
Slavery alone-that great breeder Of arrogance and
scorn and all the elements of tyranny-wbich has !
aliepated the South from the North. That dead, and
Secession" which born Of ana iyes OF Is ais3
dead Slavery dead, and the people Of Virginia and
the Carolinas will rejoice and glory thonrand fod |
more In their national citizenship than in their compar-
atiyely petty relations to Virginia and the Caronas
That dead, and kentuekiaIs and Missourans VIII no
longer regard their national connection to be 50 loose
and cold as 10 make armed neutrality compatible
with IT, Let me cay in passing, that this armed /
neutrality" which is nothing ess than armng against
the nation, is as much meaner than Secession ~ |
assembling and skuking treason IL meser than open
and ayowed treason. Being more seductive and per-
ncious, il should be more surely punished.
II Il often said that we cannot live with conquered
South admit that her Slavery has at lssi become 20
rampant us to make II impossible for us to live with
sqrshoiding South be ste conquered or uneonquered
Rut with the South set free from Slayery-from that
DESTROYER of her temper-we can live. We can live !
with her when her idols confounded, her images
broken her stormy spirit tanquillized ard her soul
even "a weaned child" WecaDnot live with drunkafd
hut il does not follow that cannot, when he has
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