New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-01
No HALR MEASURES.

| she has stll good deal Of work before her.
| The Mississippi River, she must remember, is
| under her peculiar care, and as. she ~ pledged
! that it shall not be- closed by rebels to the in
jury Of the commerce Of the country, so she "a
bound TO see that it is not kept open for the MD
| aud comfort Of our enemy. To distress q foe in
| every way, 10 deprive hin of the Injuries and
even of the neco ssares of life, to stop his trade,
TO undermine his strength, aud to slarye him in-
| to Submission are measures justified by war.
| Not that We propose in our contest with the
South, 10 follow their example, if, indeed, 1t
were possible that people trained IN the arts
of peace and amenities Of civilization could iIni-
| tate the SAVAGE rufIanism which has neces-
sarily beea engendered by isolated panta-
ton life where there can be but LITTLE
social culture. and where there is perpetual con
| nict with slaves. conflict Of servile vice with
| the unrcstrancd passions of irresponsible power.
| We think, ior example, an army Of l3,1Oo
| Norherncrs would not exert It's Whole force To
crush out half--tarvcd garrison Of hundred
men; nor that if they did, they would ply their
batteries when the foe had ceased firing, and
! were handing water to save themselves from
| being burnt 10 DEATH nor that they would con-
| tinue 10 pour hot shot and shells upon an enemy
evidently beyond defense, and over wAom waved
ilag of truce. We do not think that IN any
Northern city it could possibly happen that,
when obnoxious troops were passing through 1t
whom il was desirable to crush, the popuace
would wait till one small company was detached
| from It's fellows, and then attack It with q most
oyerw heming force much of it placed in the
upper stories Of houses. And we are quite sure
that, in times Of peace, the Northern people
are utterly incapable, whatever fanaticism might
possess them oi throwing women into dungeons,
and turning them, at length, unprotected and i'm
po,eri,hrj, into the street, or Of tarring and
fcatherng, Of whipping of mutilatiDg, and of
| hanging men, because either were suspected OF
| holding opinions not agreeable 10 the mob. We
are certain that the rudcst of the least-ciyilzed
rural district or the rcughcst Of any city "Roughs'
north of Mason and DiNons Line, are incapable
of standing by with jcers and laughter to see the
backs of naked women cut up with cartwhips or
shout with deylish Joy and laughter while tied
to tres or amp-post are slowly roasted by green.
wood fires.
Therefore shall we initiate the South no more
| in war than in peace. But, nevertheless, we
mean to conquer theIn-not merely to defeat, but
| to coagaer to sIBJJGiTE tlcm-and We shall do
this the most mcrcifully, the more speedily We
do it. But when the rcbeliious traitors are over
whelmed in the field and scattered lihe leaves
before an angry wind, it must not be to return
| TO peaceful and contcnted homes. They must
find poverty at thei, iirc-sidcs, aud see priya-
| ton in the anxious eyes OF mothers and the rags
of children. II is little enough the slaves viii
| do when masters are at the wars, and 10 b.
| id, and wastcful is the least harmful thing in
which they are likely TO engage themselves.
There will be little cotton raised in the Southern
States this year, and that little must pay the
enhanced expense Of new route to market, if
allowed TO 90 at all, the price thereof to be re-
turned in the bare necessarics Of life, IN limited
quantities, at starvation prices. The whole coast
OF III, South, from the Delaware to the Rio
Grande must be- solitude, save from the pres
ence of blochadng squadron, SO that no relief
shall come in to the beeagured people from the
sea. The other great highway, the Mississippi,
il ia the duty of the West to hold, and TO pro-
hibit its use, either partially or totally,
az the obstinacy of these infatuated rebels
shall promise to be- of q shorter or longer dura-
ton. The South, even in the best of times,
never feeds herself, and the want of productive
force and productive will, makes this more i'm
possible this ycar than ever. 1t is in the power
of the West literally to starye her into submis.
sion. Even now but little, we hear goes down
the Mississippi, except from st. Louis, and all
that trade and any that should seek an outlet
from the Ohio, could be put stop TO by suf.
ficient force at The mouth of the latter river.
The West can drown or starye the lower cOun.
try as it pIcases, if q continued rebellious OBJ
stinacy slaI compel the North to accept the
alternative. Cairo is already possessed by
strong body Of troops, but sufficient force
should be placed in the river, and all trade
stopped at once 1t will not be long before there
is nothing left to eat in all the Southwestern
region.
And the measure il as wholesome enc for
the East as the West. If Maryland goes out Of
the Onion, and Baltimore continues contuma-
cious, the same means Of coercion should be re.
sorted 10. If Baltimore should be anything more
than the name OF an extinct city after the seces-
sion of that State, not another barrel Of flour,
not another bushcl Of corn, not another hog, not
20 much as spring chicken, should be allowed
TO approach her by land or wato-. halfway
measures will not do with an enemy who will
conquer US and desecrate all this fair land with
their accursed barbarsm, unless We conquer