New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-15
THE RESULT.

Fort Sumter is lost, but Freedom is saved.
There is no more thought of bribing or coaxing
the traitors who have dared to aim their cannon
balls at the flag of tho Union and those who gave
their lives to defend it. 1t seems but yesterday
that at least two.thirds of the journals of this
City were the virtual allies of the Secessionsts,
their apoogists, their champions. The roar OF
the great circle Of batteries pouring their iron hail
upon devoted Sumter has struck them all dumb.
1t is as if one had made brilliant and effective
speech setting forth the innocence of murder,
and, having Just hidden adieu to the cheers and
the gaslight were to be confronted by the CORY
form and staring eyes of victim of assassna-
ton, the fret fruit of his Oratorcal success. For
months before the late Presidential Election,
majority of our journals predicted forcible resist
ance to the Government as the natural and me-
cessary consequence of Republican triumph;
for months since, they have been chcrishing and
encouraging the Shareholders Rebellion as if it
were very natural and proper proceeding.
Their object was purely partisan-they wished to
bully the Republican Administration into shame
ful recreancy to Republican principle, ard then
call upon the People to exPel from power party
so pronigae and cowardly. They did not sue
coed in this: they hare succeeded in enticins
their Southern proteges aud some time allies into
fragrant treason.
There cannot be a rational doubt that every
man who aided or abetted the attack on Fort
Sumter is involved in the guilt of Treason The
Federal Constitution (Art. g. sec. 81 says:
hail onlv Ia ffFu.
ing against e. sdhsrns to their enemies giving
hom ala and COMFORT"
That oil the besiegers of Forts Sumter and
Pickens have incurred the penalty of Treason
which is Deaths indlsputabls; but how much
do those come short Of it who still persist in pet
tifogging the canse Of the traitors : Witness the
following from Mayor Woods personal organ:
"s gree, fac, 4, upon u.s. Civil Ia, been commenced
Where will cad /. Known only to tia, Higher Power that
,h,r.s end, rozshh,w them as We w' Or one thins
however thoroughly eonvAced-ths soah can never be
sub ugAed by the North any marked successes be
achieved ,n them They have at every advantage They
sh, uton hslf o n soil IL bcalf Of their Gsdr rght-for
tie bic nsis,on, their homes and their property They
are sbuudsn.y supplied with all the and appliances for
the contest are commanded by officers who have fought
battle. ~ ID. side against whom they are now aHJed
With SLED by intelligent patriotic and brave "
sor faced foe. and determination never to DC defeated
IT,, So. Y.ssfrdton, hds been dyirsI % ne irnH
and ,,,ed % p,oeia- is ,adSendesc t.,sre,fton
and ks tho,saie slaughter Of ne rhe' vW alone sdfy ne
nardeyous dsfigH, Of ne dJoioni. The AdIninua,ion
egsed By tie haoo Of tho Black Republican journals o. TIL.
civ ts m.epsry force. to pick quarrel ard in
ia,e The soJk Of deoaoa and ruin. call Ia made for
my ovounss under the presIse tina. Invasion sppre
hended Of the Federal capita. and the step will be to
mon the slave population to r,yol, and massacre"
If any journal issued within the limits Of the
JEFF. Davis Confederacy were to publish any thing
Ike the above on the side of the North, its edi-
tors and all his abettors would at once be strung
up TO the handiest lamp.post or some convenient
limb Of tree We rejoice that We live in re-
gon where every ofense is left to the cognzance
of the tribunals and to the punishment prescribed
by the laws of the land.
Most of our journals lately parading the pranks
of the Secessionists with scarcely disguised
ultaton, have been suddenly sobered by the cul-
mination Of the slaveholdiog conspiracy. They
would eydenly like to justify aud encourage the
traitors further, but they dare not 30 the Amen
sticks in their throat. The aspect OF the People
appals them. Democrat well as Republican,
Conservative and Radical, instinctively feel that
the guns fred at Sumter were aimed at the heart
of the American Republic. Not even in the low
est GROCERY of our City would it be safe to pro-
pose cheers for Beauregard and Gov Pickens.
The Tories Of the Revolution were relatively ten
times as numerous here rs are the open sympa-
thizers with the Palmetto Rebels. The mani
fe.tatons at the Stock Exchange on Saturday
were synptomatic Of the feeling everywhere.
1t is hard to lose Sumter it is q consolation to
know that in losing it we have gained q united
People. Henceforth, the loyal States are unit
in uncompromisng hostility to Treafon, wherever
plotted, however justified. Fort Sumter is tenn
porarily lost, but the Country is saved. Live the