New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-12
THE UNrON-TnE WHOLE UNION.

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THE UNKON-TIE WHOLE UNION.
We believe the people of the Free States, with
more unanimity aud earHestness than they ever
exhibited before, concur in opinion upon the fol.
lowing propositions;
/. They demand that treason and rebellion
shall be speedily crushed in every State and Ter
ritOry Of the Republic.
H. They insist that the whole Union shall be
preseryed; that not single stripe shall be
erased nor a single star polluted on our Ma
tiona ensign; and that the Federal Government
shall not be shorn of any of its ancient powers.
III. They require that all forts, arsenals,
navy-yards, minis, and other public property now
held by the Government in the Southern States,
shall be preserved at any cost that all OF that
description of property, together with all vessels,
arms and munitions Of war. which have been
stolen from the United States by the pirates be-
low the Potomac, shall, (unleSs absolutely des-
troyed), be re-taken at all hazards; and that the
freebooters who seized them, shall as soon as
they are within our power, be punished for their
crimes.
". They demand that at the earliest prnc-
ticable day, the Federal laws shall be enforced
in all the States, and not merely the laws for
the collection of the revenue, but all laws. For
example, there are Federal laws concerning Nav
igatOn, Patents Pensions, Copyrights, Public
Lands, Postal Service, and cOgnate matters in
which the whole American people have an inter
est. All suits spriDgiug from these sources must
be tried in Federal Courts sitting in States
where the controversies arise. To determine
these, as well as to enforce the Federal penal
code, which embraces a long catalogue of
onenses, the Federal Courts must be restored
and maintained in all the thirty.four States
" They will look TO see traitors within our
own jurisdiction speedily arrested, and in due time
tried, and, if found guilty, punished. All who
give " aid and comfort to the Confederate rebels,
by furnishing them with ships provisions, weapons,
powder, and iniOrmatlon;-in word, all who
could, under the Articles Of War, be hung as
spies if found acting in our caup as they act out
of it, are guilty, and should at once feel the rigor
Of the law. Let them beware
VI. They intensely feel that anything short Of
crushing out this rebellion from the Chesapeake
to the Rio Grande, and enforcing the authority
of the Federal Government over every rood OF
Federal soil, will prevent general breaking up
of the Union that if the States beyond the Po-
t0mac are allowed to separate from the main
body all those lying west Of the Alleghanies and
north Of the Ohio may copy their examples and
that ii we can now look with complacency upon
one President in Washington and another in
Montgomery, the time may bo near at hand
when we shall witness the inauguration Of third
at St. Louis, to be followed by fourth at
San Francisco, until the united Republic Of the
West, once SO great and powerful becomes
confused mass Of petty and feeble municipalities,
the prey of adyenturers at home, and the con-
tempt Of foreign States.
VII To secure these benefits and avert these
calamties, the people Of the Free North will
send any number OF men to the battle field, and
give any amount of money to the State aud
National Treasures They only ash that the
means they go layishly bestow may be wisely d.
rected to legitimate ends They demand that the
Govexnment admit that the loyal States are at
war with rebels, and that the contest cannot be
waged merely on the defensive, but must be made
aggressive. While, therefore, they desire that
the Capital be adequately defended, they hope TO
see armies of sufficient magnitude and power to
master the exigency sent i'll due season, into the
rebeliOus States, with directions to extend pro-
lection to all loyal citizens, AID to subdue by
force of arms all who resist the authority of the
Federal Government.
VIII. Finaly-knowiDg the desperate charac-
ter Of the nen we are coDtendng WITH and that
both parties must stand the hazard of the die,
our people warn their rulers against oil halfway
expedients, all attempts to meet the foe on some
middle ground, but urge them to ponder the
apothegm Of Edmund Burke. AS that great man
said, sin a conflict between nations that State
" which is resolved to hazard its existence
=" rather than to abandon its objects, must have
- an infinite advantage over that which is re-
- solved to yield rather than to carry its resist
ance beyond a certain point"
The felOw.feeng that makes us wondrous kind