New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-18
TIVE NATIONAL CRISIS.
FROM WASHINGTON.
SECESSION IN MARYLAND-TRE CUR
RENT TURNING.


.7 s.e. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1901.
Powerful efforts are making TO arrest the Sc
sesdsn movement in Maryland. and the prospect
now hooks encouraging. saoessSon is rain TO
MARYLAND and ruin TO Baltimore. The people
If the State Seem Weakening up to the momentous
fat, and YousiDg themselves 70 resist TIE machi-
nations Of desperate politicians and msdmsn.
Baltimore lie thoroughly reused and herce in her
discrimination to roll back the food that threatens
TO enga)f oil her interests and all her prosperity
10 common, destruction.
But not only in Maryland but everywhere
among the ranks Of tae Seesssionists and their
ynpathizers, the truth is breaking upon their
benighted understandings thet we have Gov
eminent after al, and one mighty TO save aud
mighty TO puniAh. TIE stapeDdous folly OF recent
Senatorial debates in assuming that the Union is
dissolved because few disappointed msdcaps
N The Slave States have made fools Of them-
selves and Of their States, and tlat the Govern
uent bas gone down because few traitors have
Se6ed its authority, is fast becoming maniiest
even TO the most aeuded.
On al hands we bear among them the cry for
fsrbearance, for moderation, for coneihat0ry
measures. Time for settlement time for re-
Section, ne coercion, are nov in the mouths
Of those who weald stay the dread results
Of folly ard msdness We hear no more that
Shis Government lie pOwerless. The prayer
BOW is that it should not put forth its
strength. The traitors expected 6sisions, gym
patty, aid, and anarchy in the North. They ind
neshiDg of the sort. But everywhere patriotism,
anion, and unanimous determination 10 uphold
and execute the Laws, and maintain the Union
and the Government. The spectacle file them
with dismay. The Cushings, and O'Conors, and
the Woods have quietly gone down out Of sight
befoxe the unanimous uprising of the Northern
people. Treason finds none of the expected aid
and comfort that wac lccked for in the Free
States, .....-.s
The eoDsequeBees arc immediate and most
significant. The rebels are already oO~ed at the
disulal prospect. The changes in the Admins
tration, and the vigorous action Of Gen. Scott,
shoss name IL q tower Of strength, and one Of
whore orders at the present moment Is worth
whole volume Of ambiguous oraeOry, lend efficient
support to these demonstrations
In one word, the secession current has been
arrested, and is now turned; and the Govern
nent and the Free States are, to-day, without
striking q blow, eotre masters Of the situatioD.
Aud an this has resulted simply fr0sn the demon
ssra,;c,,,s Of sound public opinion in the North.
In Gods ,, spe, let there now be no ouch folly
aa surrenaer;ns lie advantages thus quickly
gained, by pusiIanimOus .cnPfemses' Let tDe
seoedsrs 80 on, if they will, where they can
Bot Of oil eYepts, 1t stes$ S: resoute ooGrssaA
b. pursued in dealing with them. Let there be
DO hasa, no unnecessary severity, bot let mod
GRAFTON guide and rule. But then, after that, let
krnness and determination rule the hour. We
are not engaged in playing stake for day,
or for generation but for mighty future-Ior
all time. Let it be done as though men were at
fhs helm.-men conscious of the Importance and
sso dignity Of their duties. We don't want talk,
NOR a;plonacy. nor Surrounding tenpers at such
a sr;sis. They are but folies and WeahDesses,
and obtraive hndranees, Lei them staDd aaide
Dor mere convenient season.
The only hope Of the eoDntry lee ia boidOess
md energy. The masses Of The North, the great
sopeeryative element of the Middle States, and
Of the now voiceless South, cry aloud for these
qualities. We hear il here, IL Washington from
sssrters that one 10 assoljshol ~ fad sympa-
,betie or vocal in sueh crisis ss this. The in
Repse swell Of public opinion IN iavof Of decisive
measures TO arrest revolution, is here felt to
forge ahead without leaders, unless Anderson and
Scott NAV be 80 considered The laundering
surge is az audible os the Iumbiings of coming
earthquake to every man who Ii alive TO tie
beat of the public pulse.
An things are ripe for decisive settlement OF
the question whether We have got Government
and wee, woe, TO those who shall eenclsde to
net as though we have not. Ia the demOnssra-
ton to show it, the prineips order that need be
gwen is that gwen by NapOlesn Oh the eve Of
bis battles in Egypt: "Asses and saysns to the
Your regular tslegraphic correspondent ia in
error in saying that al the forts Of the South
except those he enumerstes are IN the hands
ef the Rebels. He ogericoks the two most
nnportaot fortresses OF the Scuthern coast,
namely. that at Key West, mounting lSS guns,
and the one at Tortagas, mounting, when CON-
p,eted. 2os guns. The former is in or hands,
and beyond danger of capture, and the other ID
being succored by nen and supplies already sent
tbither. Though Capt. Meigs has only TO"
rifles, and hardly any men. il Is doubtful II the
lafers can get into the fort. But if it shal be
seized, it will be recovered, for the insurgents
would soon be starved out by q single ship-of-
mar Az to Pensacola, we hold the controlling