New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-14

,d not b. much better accomplished without H. good citizens
should submit the burden cheery and without murmurns
But II only necessary because wi not consent TO en-
peace but insist bringing the South into subsection
before we will negotiate thereby mpcing her aud ourselves
to maintain large armies. and po.rsct the war to an indefinite
period or such will be the effect ofhs No Comprome pocy
the is materially changed"
"Peace," "negotation, compromise Who
has offered either one of these The chronology
which We have already given shows that the
Rebels not only have shown no disposition 10
negotiate or compromise, or to have peace ex-
cept on condition of complete disruption OF the
Union, but that they did not even give our Gov
ernment time and opportunity to offer terms.
The treason broke out into overt act almost be-
fore the polls had closed on the 9th of NoVem'
Der. And up to the day Of President Lincoln's
Inauguration it progressed constantly, and from
no Convention, or Legislature, or public man OF
the Rebel States, from the 9th of November to
the 4th of March, did there come any hint even
of purpose to stop short of complete break
ing up Of the Government, and the substitution
of new one for it. Early in February, indeed
Virginia, then contemplating the treason which
she committed in April, held conference with
other States, but there was 20 evidence that the
Southern confederates looked upon her efforts
with appreciation except as afording them more
time to carry out their preparations for war.
We challenge The Journal Of Commerce to point
out one little of evidence going to establish the
probability that peace can be made on any other
terms than tue recognition of the Rebel Conted-
eracy. If it is an honorable peace" which
admits that the Government may be wantonly
broken up because an election is decided one
way or another, which compels the country t.
maintain a powerful navy and immense army, or
else be content to live under the imminent risk
of new secessions whenever New-iOrk, or Massa-
chusetts, or Illinois, or California, or any other
State takes an affront; which subjects the Bor
der States, wherever they may be, to constant
alarm aud constant dagger of parsisan raids;
which leaves us subject to the loss of Delaware
and Maryland, and Kentucky and Mssouri
which sends 10 the gallows Andrew johnson and
John s. Carle as traitors, and Into exile, or
Imprisonment or poverty, through cOnfscat on
and attainder all their loyal allies in East Ten
nessee and West Virginia. which divides our
the right to occupy them and hold men and
women ia them as slaves; which cOmpels us to
pay not only our own war expenses but the ex-
penses of the rebels also; which exacts from us
new securities for the return of fugitive slaves;
which, finally and as the climax of evil, estab-
fishes, with only au imaginary and ever-shIftpg
line between us, o Government based on Slavery
and Piracy aud a determination to propagate
Slavery AID Piracy;-if this is Gan honorable
peace," we can have it, We see no proof that
we can have It on any less Illuminating terms
The Journal Of COmmtrce may be ready for 1t;
for the sake of the triumph Of Slavery over
"Abolition," it may be willing to see the coun-
try dishonored and the prey Of civil discord for
a hundred years; but We DO not believe the peo-
pie ore ready get.