New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-11

,,,;o. WEI, ,,ob = he cxssncy demanded Tho M>l.
ia rebellion could Ls been dealt WITH Instead Of tb. Tn
T, i,s;,o5 a., -" Eve sis States made Up thslr
mind, 70 20 out of the O. on they hsda right To do o.
we could no. help ourscy.. ana WINE congress al
nothing to Disnuioa, Tux 9ss ~ ''oo unto tAs
passage ofan rcppcrtune and imprre',N "o ''' law
gfaaiousy offensive England snd Fen "ne" VIC "oS
need their good villa Law which compicsA" u' ia various
ways when above all else. complications s'"' uA's ''
avoided
Add.ndG By Tic Tribune
The country VIII he happy to learn wh>S ID tbs
source and manspying Of all its woes and peri's
It was TnE TRIBUNE, it seems, that held on ~
that obsolete party Shbbolctb,' the Chicago
Platform, after The Albany journal had repu-
dated it and called on the Republican party 10
do likegise-which il was restrained from doing
By fear of THE TRIBUNE aforesaid. II was TuE
TRIBUNE that urged the arrogant demand"
that those who had gained an important election
by protesting certain principles should adhere 10
Office to the principles they had thus profcssed
in order 10 gain that triumph. Then it was TIiH
TRIBUNE that "bued Congress into the pas.
" sage OF an inOppOrtune and impracticaols
" Tariff law "a law which seems not to please
those foreign countries whoae manufactures are
likely 70 be supplanted under it in our parkets
by the products Of American Labor.
Now we freely confess that we did insist that
toe Republican party should stand by its avowed
platform, aud should not pro0er concessions and
pros.rations TO armed traitors. We heid-in tho
spirit of the paragraph quoted above from The
Proridcnee .yourRai-tliat tho demand for such
concessions raised " the great question whether
" organized and ayowed rebellion shall dictate
"to onr Government and compel recognition
of ils claims" We said No; so said The
PyorideRos Journal; so said Lot The hlbany Jour
nal. We also advocated and urged the passage
Of our new Tarlf-not asking nor caring how
England aud France would Like il, but because
we believed it would benefit our own country
| and give increased employment to her Labor.
Tie Aibcny Journal used to battle side by side
with US for just such Tariff; it has but very
recently found it 90 impracticabe. We worked
for such Tariff in 80 and 60, when wc could
| not carry it through the Senate; we really can
not yet see Wig we should turn against it tho
very moment its passage was within our reach.
And We cay to-day that that Tariff, fairly ad'
| lHlDlsttitu cuu "PhS'Nf 80 '"''N ~
the Free Labor Of our country than tho reteu-
ton of the Gulf States in the Union.
Bnt how THE TRIBUNE is held responsible By
III, Journal for the failure OF the last Congress
to EARN the Administration with such powers
as the exgency demanded" We do not COM
preherd Those measures were "howled down."
not by us, but by the representatives OF aS
Border Slave States whom Tie Journal was ~
tent on placating and who stigmatized oil such
measures as Federal coercion" We, certainly.
"bullied" no one into opposing those measutes-
on the contrary, we favored and desired their
passage. 1t was the spirit Of Cancellation and
compromise whereof The Albany journal was
the mouthpece that defeated those measured
acting on fear that their adoption would drive
the Border States over to the Secessonist.
We accept, then, the reproach-if it be re-
proach--of standing by the Chicago Platform
and urging the passage of the new Tariff; but
that OF defeating the passage Of measures Of
coercion belongs, if anywhere, to the othar sids
of the house. We repel it altogether.