New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-11
THE WAR FOR THE union.
Cmn AMERICAN QUESTION IN
ENGLAND.
From an Occasional Correspondent.

whatever its intrinsic merit may be, has Hone
deal Of good, by forcing the anli-NoiheTn organ.
the London press to speak out and lay Oei0io ~
general rublc the osensible reasons Tor thel' soo
1,pe against the North, and their ili-eonce'"'u
pathiss with the South which LOOKS ra'hci S''"rY
on the part of people affecting u''er pVl'V' -
Slavery. Their first and main grievance j. 'a'S INV
D,-sent American war il not one LOT tDe @0oii''V
of Slavery" and that, Therefore, the hssD-h'h''u
R,i,;sber psed 10 undertake wars OF DIS O"h' ON
int.re 81 himself in other peoples wars only vi '.0
basis Of broad humanitarian principles canno' NC
expected To feel any sympathy wan hls Nor'"eih
oonsins "Ip tie first place, Gays 4 ne 4 cohoH''S.'
9Th. ASSUMPTION thar the quarrel between The NORM
and Sontb ia Quarrel between negro freedom on inc
ane aide and rsgro Slavery on tho Other IS as impu-
a.ot 90 IL is Buirue." THE North says The
ISo,,,5a, Perie,g, does not proclaim abolition
ant never pretended to fight for Anti-Slavery. The
North has not hois,ed for its OTURdmme the sacred
SYMBOL of justice TO the negrO ito cTi de gHe'Te Is
pot unconditional abolition" eff" says 1hs
Examiner, we have been deceived about tho real
s.pifcsnce of tho sublime movement, who but the
Feoerali,ts themselves have TO answer for the de-
eeptioDl"
Nogp in the first instsnce, the premss must be con-
eeded. Toe war has not been undertaken with
view to Put down Slavery, and the United States
apIbo,i1es themselves have taken the greatest pains
10 project against any such idea. But then, II
ongh, tobe remembered that it was not the Moth,
bur the South, which undertook this war the former
octjng only ON the defense. II it DO true that the
North saiter long besatons and exhibition Of for
bearncs unknown in the annals Of European his
tory drew at last the sword, for crushing Slave
nv. but for saving the Union, the South, rs Tart
inaugursed the war by loudly proclaiming the pc
culiar institution as the only and main end of the
rebellion 1t confessed TO 6ght for the liberty OF en-
Saving other people, a liberty which, despite the
Northern protests, asserted to be put in danger by
abe victory of the Republican party and the election
os Mr.. Lincoln 70 the Presidential chair. The Con-
feerate Congress boosted thst its new-fangled con-
s;,u,ion. az distinguished from the Constitution OF
she Wasbingtons, JeHersons and Adsmss, had recog-
pized for the first time Slavery thing COED IN
itself bulwark Of civilization and divine insti,n-
ton. If The North professed to fight but for the
Union, the South gloed in rebellion for the suPre-
macy of Slavery Ii Anii,Slavery and idealistic
England felt not attracted by the profession OF the
North how came it TO pass that 1t was not violently
repu ED by the cynical confessions Of the South
TIE Saturday Reulelg helps itself ont Of this
ugly dilemma by dsbelievng the declarations Of the
eecgders themselves. It sees deeper than this and
discovers that Sloosry had veTy iitSs 10 do '7Hh
Secession ;" the declarations Of JET. Davis and COM
pauy to the contrary being mere eonventionaiIms'
with about as much meaning as the convention.
asms about violated affairs and desecrated hearlhs,
which always occur in such proclaulations."
The ,tsrle Of aro--~~~' on the part OF the anti
n.,.rn papeis is very scaty, anu ''livoe'-. III
of them we ind almost the same sentences recurring,
I;a tho formuas Of mathematical series. al cer,ein
;r,e,yaIs with very little art Of variation or cOmbi-
nation. "Why," exclaims The Economist, it ia
o,,v yesterday when the Secession movement hrst
GAINED serious head, on the fret announcement Of
Ar Iipeon's election, that the NoTtberners offered
9, The South If they oud remain in the Union,
every conceivable security for the performance and
invioiabiity Of the obnoxious institution-rat they
disayowed in the most solemn manner all intention
of Interfering with itihat their leaders proposed
comp,omise after compromise in Congress- all based
upon the concession that Slavery sbould net bG
vnaddlei with" " How happens it, says The En-
amiAer, I" that the North was ready to compromise
maters by the largest concessions TO the South as I,
Slavery How was it that a certain geographical
line was proposed in Congress within which Slavery
was 10 be recognized as an esseDtial institution
TIE Southern staies wero not content with this."
What The Economist and The Examiner bad 10
ask was not only Why the Crittenden and Other
compromise measures were proposed in Congress
but why they were not passed They affect 10 con
slider those compromise proposals az accepted nv tbs
North and rejected by the South, while, in point o
fact they were baflled by the Northern party, tina
had carried the Lincoln election Proposals neye
matured into resolutions, but always remaining il
che embryo state of pia desiderid tho South bad o
course never any occasion either Of rejecting or &C
quiescing in. We come nearer TO the p.tb Of thu
question by the following remark Of The Examiner
"Mrs. Stowe says: The Slave party, fnding
they could 10 longer the Union for their purpose
resolved 10 deslrOy it, There is nere admission
that I'D 70 that time the Slave party had used the
Union for their purposes, and it w0nId bave been
well if Mrr. Stowe could have distinctly shown
where IL was that the North began 20 make its stand
against Slavery.
One might suppose that ThsEzamiaer snd the
other oraees Of public opinion in England had made
themselves sufficiently familiar with the contempt
fsneous history to not need Mrs. Stoves information
on such al-important points. The progressive abuse
of the Union by the slave power working through
dts alliance with the Northern Democratic putty, L.
90 to say the general formula Of the United S,aies
history since the beginning Of this century. The
successive compromise mark the successiye
degrees Of the encroachment by which the Union
became and more transformed into tho slave Of the
slaye-owner. Each Of these eOmIIonis es denotes
new eDcroaclnent Of the South, & new CONCESSION Of
the North. At the same time none Of tho succe ave
victories Of the South was carried but after bot
contesf with An aOonisiic lprce IN the Eo~if On.