New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-25


have advocated concessions to the Border slave
States. The elections in Missouri ana ArkanSas
have not been without their influence. DouOt
and hesitation begin to usurp the place OF that
argent feeling of the necessity of yielding to the
Secession storm that has prevailed in many minds.
IL NAV turn out, therefore, that we shall get by
HE 4th of March on the proposition to call a
National Convention. think the feeling grows
that the Border Slave States, especially TenLes-
see aud Kentucky, have recovered their equanlm'
Ky, IT, indeed, they ever lost 1t, and are willing
b accept the proposition of Convention as an
earnest that the Republicans mean them no harm,
and are perfectly willing to hear and to redress,
% Ear as lies in their power, any grievances OF
which they reasonably complain, II there be any
which come within the scope of the action of
Che Republican party.
The thing which has tended to cOmplcate, to
embitter, and TO cast DOUBT over the events
taking place, and about TO take place, in the
Border Slave States has been the presence in
Congress Of a band of Secession cODspirat0rs
from those States, Whs have been cooperating
with those of the Gulf States to bring about
HtpaIALlOu Oh TIC lIOm tuc ChiobJ
either against the viii Of their people, or by the
md Of temporary political frenzy, excited and
stimulated for that purpose These men, OF
whom Mason aud Gay ~ o. Virginia, and Cling
man and Crage vi North Carollna, are exam
plea, have industriOusly fomented and famed and
masnifed every circumstance that would have
tendency to produce that result, They have
done it, and are still doing it, from mere Politi-
cal and personal reasons. 1t is one OF the most
scandaleus features of the whole Secession move
ment, that the prominent actors are guided by
personal diSappOntments and ambitions. 1t
is partisan hate and nothing else, that slim
ulates the activities of these men, and such
presses as The Richmond Enquirer and TIE BAL
sis0re Sun and Others who back the movement.
So urgent and self-confdent and bOastful have
these agencies been, that they have largely con-
tributed to form public opinion here in regard
30 the imminence Of secession, which daily
transpiring events do not sustain.
Hence / conclude that, while the mania for
concessions still runs high and apprehens obs OF
very grave consequences still exist in case they
are not granted that there is growing doubt
IN the minds of those who have wayered or who
have absolutely favored submission to the clamor'
Of the revolutionists, whether the danger OF the
secession of the border States has not been IN
duly magnfed. And this doubt fayors the belief
that Mr.. Lincoln may not be after all so over
whelmiDgly pressed to occupy the advanced posi-
ton of the comprCmisers, as has of late seemed
inevitable.
And here let me again remark. that in setting
Sorth the Albany school," or Mr.. Weed, as the
representative of this policy Of compromise to the
extent Of allowing Slavery to go into the terri
tory South of $50 so, if it could be established
and made to flourish there, which result Is 80
ssoutly denied by Mr.. Seward, and perhaps with
eatire truth. | have never dreamed that was not
accurate ia my view Of Mr.. Weeds position. /
had thought he openly advocated it IN Washing
ton. and / had been Inclined 10 consider Mr..
Weeds complaint that he could find nobody here
among the Republicans TO agree with him, not
70 much a complaint of their Obstinacy, as an
advertisement of his own clearer view of the cri-
ais that would be demonstrated when his policy
should be, at the last found the only policy
adequate to the emergency.
And So in holding Mr.. Weed as the early
representative of the position the Peace COnyen-
lion has seemed, and still seems, likely to reach
as the result of all their prolonged deliberations,
kheugbt was giving credit to Mr.. Weed, and
not at all incorporating or disparagiDg his
position.
have said and repeat, that if there is to be a
compromise Of the position Of the Republican
party there is but one practical form it can
take, and that IT, the concession to Slavery of a
portion of the common territory. For the Ostensi-
BILE if not the real ground of quarrel between
the Free and Slayeholding States is in regard to
this very question Of equal rights in the Terrific
ries. A former generation, in a similar emer,
gency, settled similar quarrel by partition.
That was the result of all their deliberations and
all their wisdom. 1t was no great stretch, there
fore, TO assume that we were going TO be driven
into the same alternative, if We were going to
allow ourselves to be driven at all.
There has been tremendous effort made TO
hold out against the prOdigious forces Of revolu-
ton at one end of the Union, treason in the
Government ITSELF and the fright and clamor OF
the trading and industrial interests of the cOun-
try. TIE Republican parry has certainly been
split in the effort, but whether the fssure will
prove complete, or just how near the edge the
crack will come, is yet matter Of doubt.
Those who have argued that the true policy of
The Republicans is to stand firm, and resist the
storm as they best might trusting to their prin-
ciples, and the wisdom Of the Constitution, and