New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-15

them on the nstant-Usaaly by very meager
votes-hurry them into session. declare the state
out Of the Union, and not submit this most mo-
mentous act to the People ior approval or re-
ection-such is the all but universal programme
Ia the two or three instances where some sort
of submission has been accorded, 1t was done
with the worst possible grace, and only because
il could not be avoided. "Fote it down -
yelled TIE Richmond Enqairer when the Leg'sis-
ture had decided that the People, in electing
delepates TO a Convention, should say whether
tbe doines Of such Convention should or should
not be submitted to the People. But they would
not vote it down; they voted it up by large
maturity. and thus killed Secession dead in the
Mother of States. Aud thus wherever it is de-
cidcd that the People shall vote directly to go
ont of or stay in the Union, that is generally re-
garded as deathblow to Secession.
But the sham Secessionsls play far more
dishonest aud cowsrdly game than that of the
genuine Fire-Eaters While they profess to be
opposed to Disunion per Sc, they busy them
selves with projects Gor the dsin!cgration and
communion of the Republic into three, four,
FIVE, or more ccniederacies, each Independent OF
aud in effect antagouistic TO the others. New
| England is to he cut of aud isolated for her
beinous ofense against the Slave Power i'll yOt
ing with all the other Free States for Lincoln
and Humlin. New-York City and its suburbs
are 10 bc severed from the State and created
into sayeholding principally, to be ruled by
Fernando Wood aud closely allied with the Cot
ton Republic Of Yancey and Toombs. The
Northwest is to cut herself loose from the
East TO punish the latter for helping to elect the
most eminent and beloved citizen of the North
West to the Presidency of the entire Union.
| Virginia and the Border Slave States are to
stand clear of and keep the peace between the
rire.Eaters and tue Middle States Then the
Pacific States are urged by the Representatives,
of California in tho House TO set up for them
! selves. and thus make Of tue present United
| States an anarchy far more helpless AID III
| durable than Germany ever was.
| All these are the mere devices of defeated des-
| perate, unprincpled politicians. They are con-
| trYances to reverse popular verdict and restore
! to PROSTATE party the power it has most
! clearly forfeited. They have no root in any pub
| lie necessity or popular conviction. They are
/ the hideous masks wherewith our Chinese polt!-
clans think to retrieve their lost battle. If their
success were possible, it would be idle to seek
! again TO dislOdge these broken gamblers from
Office, since the People would shrink from another
! term Of anarchy caused BY fresh conspiracy to
menace and mimic Disunion IN order to regain
power. If Convention TO revise the Federal
| Constitution shall now be called and in due sea
| son held, We shall urge as ole amendment that
while genuine, honest attempts TO dissolve peace
fully the Union shall be always allowable threats
| aud feints of dissolution by those who have Tor.
| fcited power and seek thus TO regain it, shall be
| punished as fragrant crimes against public peace
and the general webeing.