New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-06

pesred in the regular evening editions OF yes'er-
days Journals, and been read as it was wri''oo
rather than as the telegraph. working uhue' q"
enormous pressure for the utmost attainaD'o ce'o.
rity, could hardly fail to render it. May "o DO'
hope that repetition Of this error VIII 70
avoided
The brevity of the Message VIII DO un'of'
sally approved. An nterminable proiixI'y Is the
vice of our public documents. our S'o'eS"'n
write as though the People bad no prior kho"i-
edge of public events, and no business ooSide
reading their lucubSatiOns. This Message eschew'
episodes and crcumlocuton, and goes straight to
the work. Not sentence in it bespeaks the
phrsse.mouger. IL gushes out from the earnest
heart Of the author, and goes straight to the
hearts of the patriotic millions Utterly devoid OF
rhetorical establishment and official reserve, Its
positions will DO comprehended and its arguments
appreciated by every rational mind.
The keynote of this Message is the assertion
that the Union must be preserved in It's integrity
at whatever cost. To this end, the President
asks Congress to call on the country for -Four
Hundred Thousand Men (ncluding those al
ready in the ield), aud Four Hundred Millions
of Dollars. Large as these regulations are, We
are sure they will be promptly and heartily re-
spondcd to by both Congress and the Nation.
The Presidents argument against the pretended
Right of Secession is clear and forcble; but 1t Is
very much like arguing that mans leg has no
right to secede from his body. The traitors never
supposed they had any other right in the premises
than that founded in the strength of their battai-
IONS Whenever they fOd themselves whipped,
the Right to Secession will be no more.
1t is very clear, from the Developments of this
Message, that Fort Sumter could not have been
saved. by any means at the Presidents command,
at any time after Mr. Lincoln's inauguration Yet
we are not convinced that the attempt to relieve
il should not have been made instantly and un-
| conditionally. The colored man of God seems 10
have covered this point in bis illustration of the
nature and Limitation of obedience to the Divine
| law: "If God tells me to jump through stone
wall, I'll jump at it, any how" 1t would
have been a National Disgrace and disaster had
| Sumter been lost without an effort 70 relieve 1t;
while the loss of that fort under the actual CIR
cumstances was a positive advantage to the Ma
tioual cause. In good cause, it is generally
safe to do your best and trust the event to ProSi-
dence.
The Country will hail with JOY the Presidents
assurance that our foreign relations are uniformly
on q satisfactory footing. His statement that
Z" the sovereignty and rights of the United States
care now everywhere practically respected by
foreign powers, and general sympathy with
Z" the country is manifested throughout the civil
"ized world" ought to disspate all uneasineas
on the score Of our seabosrd defenses. We have
on hand the simple business Of crushing out the
! great rebellion, and trust every care will be
taken that il be not complicated with any other.
No Compromise with Treason; but the most ener-
getc efforts for its suppression such Is the
National duty and the National will. We re-
joce to find the President so emphatically faith
full to the one and so responsive to the other.