New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-14

eoNFEDERACY.
ps@ Our SSceial Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Feb, ", 1861.
fbs result Of She Tennessee election has done |
great deal of good here. 1t demonstrates the
Srtao there " in a bold treatment Of the Be-
session treason Senator Johnson in his speech
month ago denounced the great heresy in I'M
measured language. The Southern traitors stood
sgbast ~ his boldness, and many Northern men
were alarmed thai, even Southern man should
mus venture to express his condemnation of the
evolutionary movement. Mr.. johnson was
styled trait or 10 his section, and threatened
with miscellaneous lynchiDg the moment he
nhould set f1ot IN Tennessee. The whole body
q revoluksonsts in the Senate, which was then
searly fnl1, yuashed their teeth with rage, as he
launched his defiant snathemas al. their heads
And now 'oehold the result. Secession is
sestroysd eve rywbere in Tennessee, but more
completely tn an anywhere else in the portion OF
ME State fro which Mr.. johnson comes. In
nat part Epst Tennessee the vote is over
whelming cen against Convention to consider
NE subject IT is to be hoped, as il is to be ex-
pected, 10 at mch a conclusive commentary upon
we PonCI Of standing BY the Government as IL
%, ana the Constitution Ss it IL, withoxs COM
vronsks, al I'd without surrendc-, and without re-
gard 70 greats, viii 3",'--s what may remain
81 eae compromising ald Submissive temper N
Rerubhc an ranks. Political circles can be wholly
Prrged of the whole race of slave-knes Ike
feombf 1 Mason, SlideI, and others, and their OBJ
sequio Is lackeys in the North, if the Republicans
but Of aud firm for their rights ard their Princl-
PIES without finching. The whole breed Of slave
1..s.f ho hnmil
INTO retirement by the exercise Of even 3 moder-
ste 5egree of manly determination. But it is the
cas- kst thing IN the world 10 lose all that has
be- n gained IN the Presidential electien, and re-
IN cate this same race of lordy and arrogant
y seregns to their old place of ruers of this ma
hn, by now pusillanimOuIy begging for peace
nd union on any terms they may choose to dc
kte. Only let them understand that the Repuo-
J kcsns are willing to sacrifice everything to the
Onion, and that is the end of Republicanism, as
q 10 the end of all Government that is worth
having.
1t IL 40 inoomprehensible as it is Notifying
-Ss feel that there can be two opinions On this
subject in Republican ranks. Let us all rejoice
xhAt very few events like the Tennessee cleo
Son viii be enough to end the doctrine Of ooln-
promising 10 save the Union
The brief speeches of Preston King and Mr..
Tessenden in the Senate yesterday fell ike re-
1reshing showers on thirsty soil. Not alto
xether 90 much for what said as for what
was indicated. and for the tone and temper they
displayed The main body of the Republicans IN
that branch have been disposed to be very for
bearing and reserved in their expressions IN the
present crisis, but they are the less ferSent
to tha Autv and
necessity of going straight through on the hue Of
She Chicago platform. As body, there is nc
difference Of opinion among them. The time has
however, now come for utterance, and they vii
hastily Republican principles, Republican ideas,
and Republican policy, before the would. And
tAey viii not desert or belittle those principles,
or IDEAS, or that policy on any preteIt what
ever. If there be outside politicians who regard
M parties as mere associations for public plum
der and patronage and who are thus willing to
abandon their Republican organization as one Of
fAem through alarm at the results of its tri-
smph, they will not find their counterParts
among the men who give tone to the party in
Che Senate. They at least believe that great
principles are at stake in this contest, and they
win adhere to them, let the consequences be
what they may.
As to any specific measures Of compromise,
opinion in Washington seems to have become
sigid and glazed. 1t ia longer in molding
condition. The soft clay has become hard. And
he various figures essayed while opinion was yet
Auetile, remain at first formed, and stand as
abortve mementoes of an eager desire, rather
mar as finished achievements of either just con-
eepnon or of executive skill. 1t will not be long,
fancy before the various members Of the dis
nal groups viii be hurried from sight, to be
stumbled and forgotten Like the unused clay Of
he moldng-bOard.
Opinions conflict here very much in regard TO
She future Of the new Southern Confederacy.
Ga the enc side there is powerful and most
4enacious sentiment that the Union cannot be
Corn to pieces, and that it will preserve ITSELF by
kroe Of that centripetal power that has created
4 in spite of all efforts to the contrary.
1t il well known that both Jefferson Davis and
Alexander Stephens, the new President and Vice
President of the Confederate Slave States are
wholly averse to separation and would gladly
get back into the Union. They only desire to
maintain the ascendency Of the Slave Power
And if they can have this within the Union, they
much prefer it to having it without the Union.
II the dOughfaces can succeed by means of amend
ssent to the Constitution, or in any other way,
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