New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE PROPOSED PARTITION or THRRrr0aK--
NEW LEASE TO sLAvERY-PREssURE on Mr.


| NE" Lease ~ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES VI ~"
| LINCOLN.
From Our Special Correspondent.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 1861.
SO the Old Gentlemens Convention Ia ended,
and we have that result which I have already
informed you, twice or three times, would b
reached. 1t is often easier for composed oh.
server Of an excited body to perceive what 10
will do, than it is for the body itself, or MEM
Der of the body, to know what its action will be.
There is nothing in the world so plain as tho
point in controversy between the Free and Slave
States, but people so confuse their minds with
propositions and details, that it is often almost
wholly lost sight OF.
This Peace Convention simply assembled 10
see if the Republicans would back out and con-
sent to the partition of our territory between tho
I free States and the slaveholding States. That
was the whole of it. They have been working
at this business for nearly month. The rep
resentatiyes Of twenty.one States were present.
| Of these thirteen were Republican States. and
voted for Mr. Lincoln, and fourteenth was from
Kansas, admitted since the election. Seven we're
slayehOlding States and voted against Lincoln.
The Convention has succeeded in its object 80
far as the delegation Of FIVE Of the Republican
States were concerned. majority OF the deie-
cations of these FIVE have backed down end
agreed 10 this partition. And these five, added
to four of the saveholding States, have carried
the proposition; four States not voting Cabsnet
considerations and tie votes, account for the
rositon of the four States which did not vote.
If all had voted, however, the result would have
been the same There has been all along.
enough of the twenty-one States to make q ma.
iority of one in favor of the general scheme OF
a partition
And il is this fact that I have before an
nesuced; fact that was pre-ordained, and IN
eyitable from the nature Of the connection. liz
came together especially 20 advise partition.
And now We have got it's adgice to that effect.
Other concessions are thrown in along with it,
But only FIVE of the fourteen Republican States.
agreed to the proposition. This is nothing, how
ever, as they wero enough, and more would
have done go, had their votes been needed.
The only extraordinary thing in the case u
that these venerable patriarchs should have taken
twenty two or three days to do what might have
been as easily done in as many hours bat for
the everlasting swash Of talh that every act OF
our representative bodies has to be embalmed in-
The old Egyptian embslmers beat us moderns
hollow. Their labOrs seem TO have been I'M
measey formidable as we Judge after sackine
one Of their sarcophagi; but they were nothing
in comparison with those of this Peace Congress.
Their mummy, long ago prepared BY Dir. Crit
teudsn and now completed under their hands,
has BEEN unwound from bardages OF talk aud
dsquisition long enough TO FL. an entire pyramid.
The brown and well-know body is to be taken
to tho Senate to-day, at L o'clock, where our
wise ulsn are going to try the experiment OF
beating life into it. Belzoai, and Champollion.
ard GGddon, never attempted this with any Of
their subjects, but we are ehead Of them. Tho
Interesting process will be watched with intense
interest, and you VIII be informed BY telegraph
long before this reaches you. what success tho
resuseiyat;onists meet with.
TIE Cabinet too, will Do pat into walking
condition to-day or Tomorrow, and you viii goS
sn advance glimpse Of its structure about tho
Same time. When It's shadow shall have reached
you, you VIII perhaps be- able to judge whether
its substance will be OF the stamp requisite to
face tie mtimidstng policy of The audacious gen.
slsmen who are running the Southern machine
at Montgomery. May the Powers above forehead
US, if We shall refuse TO defend ourselves. The
gods who viii thunder to us from the new Olym.
pas OF Slavery at the South will give US soma
refreshing commandments 20 obey. l fear We
shall have no need % pray for the meeknsss u
Moses 10 receive them in proper spirit. But
viii not anticipate.
There is pressure on Mr. Lincoln this morn
ING t. make him izdorse .he dOings Of the COM
prouiisors' Convention, as il
d" znersi'al Providsrce fashioned him hollow,
TIA he mi ht with ease his principles swallow
While | write, the guns are booming in favos
of tho advice, bpt do not believe it can even
be Shst into him. Tho most the inaugural 10
likely TO contain on tie question Of concession to
the complaints Of tho shareholders, is a recon-
msndation for a National Convention, and Der.
haps suggestion in behalf Of giving Constit,t.
tiOnal guarantees that Slavery siisll never be mo-
les.ed in the States by the Federal power. But
only Judge from general conversations, and nos
from special information. J.s.p.