New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-02


dayG settled nai either Sidreryo' ne Gosernmeni mu"
ssh that DAY Sforrrp uSq BE dooed The Northern PEG
pie are determined yield to this sccured rebeion and
ItaH prose hat hey ernHot conquer WITHOUT E"dHeI
"a, ion then H COZ 9aey WITH Emancipation This would
be to them Only impulse bt necessity They Know
f well that tboe would be living on the same continent
with the once successful psrcide and sooner than entail
upon themselves perpetual or bsse compliance they
would finish with the spot once and forever come whf
might The Southern people, they not utterly gene In
iuaiuson will stop short they push the North to this
direfu extremity"
1t will thus be seen that the only point on
which our conservatives differ from our awful
radicals ia one of time. They say they r'H
proclaim Emancipation whenever they shall
have become satisfied that the Rebellion can only
thus be put down; those whom they denounce
and execrate as incendaries say they are al
ready satisfied on the vital point, and are ready
to act accordingly. Is the difference worth
Quarreling about
Our own view of the matter may be sue
cinctly set forth as follows:
l. Slavery is the primary and aaimating
cause of this atrocious Rebellion, which has
not a single partisan who is not also devotee
of Slavery, while very few thorough devotees
of Slavery are not also partisans of the Rebel
lion. But for Slavery. there would not now be
a seeded State nor a regiment in arms against
the Union.
III. The white opponents of the Rebellion in
the States which claim to have seeded from
the Union are practically slenced-temporarily
dumb. Thousands of them have been drafted
or dragooned into the Rebel armies; tens OF
thousands have been made to contribute largely
of their substance to sustain those armies.
The Union has scarcely one open advocate
within the territory dominated over by the
Rebels.
III. Now it will be found exceedingly diff
cult--ge do say impossible, but very diff
cult-to cOnq, Zen Millions of People who, to
all practical intents, are unanimous la uphold
ing the Rebel cause. But, let decree of
Emancipation 90 forth from the National Capt.
| tol, and Four of these Ten Millions are at
once transformed into nrdent and active allies
of the Indiyisble Republic. They will oil hear
of such decree within a fortnight after its
issue, and will know how they are affected
by il; and from that moment the monstrous
| Rebel lies that the Unionists mean to Kill
them. cell them to Cuba, colonize them as
slaves in Central America, &C., will be as the
| idle wind. They will be constantly planning
escapes to points occupied by the Union forces
| the dominant race will be compelled to distrust
and watch them, and will DO parayzed by
| fears of seryile instructions. In short, from
the hour in which the decree of Emancipation
shall 90 forth, the Four Millions of slaves will
have ceased to be an element Of strength to
the Rebellion, and will have become an element
of positive and alarming weakness.
| ". These facts aA considerations being pa
| tent and palpable, and our most invetera,e
Hunkers who still love the Union more than
Slavery having been swept by the current to
| the point OF saying, of tho Rebellion cannot
''be put down ,cithout Emancipation, it shall be
"by Emancipation we are utterly indisposed
| TO hurry matters. We do not judge the Gov
ernment; we prefer to follow and support il.
| The Rebels may see fit to succumb in season
to save Slavery; or they may possibly be con-
quercd without the aid which a decree of
Emancipation would inevitably bring TO the Na-
tonal side. If not, and two or three more de-
feats are necessary to educate the loyal mind
Of the country up to the decisive point, we
may regret the necessity, but shall defer to ii.
1t sufiices us for the present that the most
blear.eyed Hunkerism at length sees that we
! can have -Four Millions Of the people Of the
Rebel States ardently devoted to the Union
whenever we shall see ct by words merely to
justify their adhesion to the National cause.
For all beyond this we can wait If we must.
Gods time is always good time, and we have
no reason TO repne over tho slowness OF the
march Of Opinion, and will not grumble that
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