New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-22
PEACE AND ITS FRIENDS.

BaSurd wants peace. Ben. Wood delights in
peace. Nay, TINS sentiment Is not confn-d 10
rhe Free States; for JEFF. hiuself absolutely doies
on peace He is so fond Ot it that he has q
great mind not to take Washington, though the
volunteer portion If his forces have enlisted for
nothing else. In fact, every one wants peace
We ouly differ as 10 tho terms Some want il with
| the Union; SONS wlthout-a eerlOus divergence:
while other some, who would prefer either Uuion
or Disunun with real and Listing peace to a
dcsoiatipg civil war, insist that such peace il
ouly possible on q basis which recognizes the
| Right of the Natiun t. BE. Let us look ut the
matter moment from tho standpoint Of tbese:
The City of New-York. with Long Island,
! Staten Island, WestcleSter, Rockland and Put
nam COuntes-ih Otber words, New-York below
the Hghlands-cOntains a population Of about
800, OOO which has doubled within the last
twenty years. IL is surpassed 10 Population by
but six, and in Trade and Wealth by stll fever
of the States now composing our Union. IL has
peculiar interests and impul.es, and il apt TO
differ 10 politics from the residue Of the present
Empire State Its demagogues have often threat
ened its severance from that residue aud its
erection into separate State. No one doubts
that 1t possesses tue elements Of ouch separate
existence; and though We cannot doubt that the
separation would he u grave mistake, We MAIN
tain the ioaenabe right OF Its people IL seek u
whenever they shall fit. aud to urge it by
| all legal and constitutional means.
But suppose it were to igoore these and re-
sort t0 violence, usurpativu, ibsurrectiou--tbat
cabal Of it's Democratic pol tIcians out Of place
were to assemble and declare these Counties
severed from tho old aud erected into Dow
STATE, were to proclaim Fernando Wood or
rome one else its Governor and We're ~ pro-
coed to seize the State funds Deposited in our
City Banks the State arms stored in our City
ArmOry, DC, &C., AID to arrest, imprison tor
ture aud hang all who sholld disclii their au.
thorty and hid themselves still citizens of the
old Empire State, would 1t answer for the State
aud her loyal citizens to acquirsce 10 the separa-
ton Would such acqulescence secure peace
Would it not, GU the contrary, initiate aud le-
ginnize eternal anarchy aud war For, were
thus secession to DO quietly submitted 10, ali
must realize that it would be followed by al.
other and aoother. Every defeated party 10 a
hOtly contested election would undertake to take
the section in which it prrdOmDated out Of the
State; every lecal grievance, like that Of the
Anti. Renters would seek redress through q repu.
GiatIOn OF the States authority; and tho iney-
liable end would DO universal chaos and chronic
dissolution. Under such rule. Property would
vanish, Industry languish, and the ony right
practically recognized would be the right Of the
strong hand. Hence, if we regarded tho Division
Of our State as an uDnixed good, we should still
Dsist that it ouly he safely, rightiuly effected
through the commenting action Ut the State as 1t
is aud Of the Union.
My. Senator Bayard-fresh from the high
councils of Montgomery and New Orleaus-tells
hs indignant constituents that they have to
choose between bloody civil war and unquali-
fed acquiescence i'll the secession of the States
south OF the PotOmac--ttat there is no third
course. Happily Mr.. Bayurds judgment is not
beyond appeal Or mitigation. Up to this point,
he has been the intimate and confidential ally of
the disunion consplratOrs. Ile acted with them
in connecting and passing those Senate resolves
of 1S5J-60, affirming the indeieaslbie right OF
each aud every Stakeholder to plant Slavery in
the Federal Territories, with much more equally
Objectionable, which doomed the Democracy ~
inevitable defeat IN the last Presidential Election.
He went t0 Charleston az the leader vi tho dclega-
ton from his State. and did bis Htmost--and it
was not Lttle-tO divide and defeat his own
party He followed up the blow ut Baltimore,
bulted with the boltsrs, united with them in
nominating Breckenridge aud Lane, and gave
those candidates the vote Of his State. No man
hos doue more, according to bis ability, to pro-
duce the existing state OF things, than james A.
Bayard. Aod if be now backs water, it is from
want II power, not Of will, to 60 further. II
Delaware could be- dcluded. infomed perverted,
as Tennessee and North Carolina have been, BIZ
would BIZ heDcelorth member of the Congress that
sits at Montgomery rather than OF that soon to
assemble at Washington. But Delaware cannot
DO thus bewitched-sne ies too near the Free
States, sees their journals, understands too we'll
their spirit and purposes. and therefope viii not
be he'd into rebellion. The worst that Dir. Boy ard
ran 90 is to threaten to resign his seat III tue
Senate, and that is not appalling. That seat. 90
soon MS vacated, will doubtless be filed by q
better man. who will need 40 bodyguard Ia