New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-14
THE IMPENDING COMPROMISE.

THE IMPENDING GOMfho"hSH'
The great peril of the Republic now imminent
is not so much feeble, aimless, ineffective prosecu-
ton of the war for the Union, "a premature
and shameful peace, which shall render all the
perils and sacrifices already incurred of no avail.
We are assured that already secret agents OF the
traitors are in Washington and this city trying to
ensnare leading Democrats into backstars arrange
ments for putting an end to- the struggle by some
muddle that can be called a compromise They
profess to desire formal separation aud recogni-
lion Of the independence OF the rebel COniederacy;
but ~ they know this will not be- entertained, they
hint that perhaps reconstruction which involved
full guaranty of ''the rights of the South" might not
proye inadnissibe In some quarters, 1t is vaguely
given out that the Crittenden proposition, guaran-
! teeing the existence of Slavery in all present aud
future territory South Of 50 3V, would not be re-
| ;ected without careful consideration. And from
| another quarter we hear that President Davis
| would be very happy to accommodate President
Lincoln with nn arrnistice Of sixty or ninety days.
10 afford time for negotiations
These various ieelers oil imply the same great
truth. The Finances OF the " Confederate States
are in n condition OF hopeless collapse The new
and desperate e1pedient of making their Treasury
Notes a legal tender, and exchanging them for the
notes Of all their banks il simply cOniriyance for
absorbing the specie of the New Orleans bauks, and
whatever other movable capital may remain in the
South into the gulf OF universal bankruptcy. The
Confederate" armies are cowcd IL not dlsorgan-
ICED. They dare not step on tire soil Of the loyal
States They dare not attack Cairo, nor P.ckcns,
nor our lines in front cf Alexandria and Arlington.
They dare not meet the lInionists in fair aAd open
battle These rebel soldiers get no pay, and their
ranks require constant reinforcement by drafts and
conscriptions. Washington having become sour
grapes to their leaders, who are at their wits end
for provisions, aims, and munitions, they would hike
10 improve their solemn circumstances in any posi-
bic monner-fghting being the recourse that they
have least stomach for. Yet they moy be driven
even to thst
There are a few primary truths that should be
borne steadily in mind-these, namely:
1. To enter into au armis.lce with the traitors
is in effect to acknowledge their independence.
An armistice between warning nations may he
proper; between a rghtfnl government and q
wicked rebellion, it, advantages must oil ensure
to the latter. Equality is tho implied basis Of
every armstice.
9. The rebels are in q state of virtual famine,
from which al srmistice would instantly relieve
them. They would sell their remaining Tobacco,
| Sugar and Cotton buying in return arms, ammu
milton and brendstufs. They would thus he en-
abed to resume bosttes with immensely in.
creased power of doing mischief.
3. Their Wheat crop is already ripe or ripcn-
| ing at the far South. Forty to sixty days hence
they will be grinding new Corn and eating it,
They might then subsist large army at halt the
present cost.
4. They now pretend that they have 10000
men under arms in Virginia We do not believe
H.: and it il morally certain that they cannot
concentrate 100000 and hold them together
through bare fortnight, for want Of Tents,
Wagons, Provisions, &c. Their boosted num-
beers, then if they had them, would avail little
against large, compact. wcDappointed, advanc-
ing army.
! 5. Were Union force of One Hundred
Thousand men, with artillery, cavalry. aud am
pie supplies, now ready to move from Washing
ton on Richmond, it would not DO necessary to
attack strongy.intrenchcd and fortified positions.
such as Manassas Gap is said TO be or is to be-.
Such positions might be safely turned or OBJ
served, so long as it is morally certain that
famine must soon compel their abandonment in
default Of fresh and constant supplies, it may or
may not be the same after harvest.
As to the coming project of Compromise,
which the assemblage Of Congress three weeks
hence Is certain to inaugurate, we ask that these
facts be maturely considered:
/. The moral effect Of Gen. Jackson's decisive
dealing with Null fcation in 1888 was greatly
impaired If not destroyed BY the simultaneous
passage of the Compromise Tariff To this day,
the ignorant Southern multitude believe that
Modification compelled or "coerced" the repeal
of the Tariff of 1882.
ii. There is no pretense that there Il now any
law on the statute-boOk Of the Union that at all
trenches on tho rights of the Slave States. On
! the contrary, the Territoril' q of last Winter
oere such a. they could md did not com.
plain of. And .he traitor y 9 perfectly aware,
at the time they inaugural 5eces,ion, that they
had tho next Congress ready secured TO
Slavery in either branch, had they chosen simply
10 STAY in the Union aud behave themselves
They bolted from the Union, just us they boltcd
a year ago from the Democratic National Con.
vention, because they didn't rant to have their
own wav choosinp 10 be beaten and raise ut