New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-02
THE DEMOCRATS AT ALBANY.

We cordially agree to one of the resolutions
reported 10 the Democratic Convention now in
session at Albany, setting forth that the present
crisis is one which should raise patriotic citizens
boye considerations Of party, and impel them 10
sacrifices that may avert the calamities that
threaten u.s. There is no body 81 men IN the
country who more need TO bo guided By such
counsel than those who are called upon to con.
cider this resolution: non" Tho ore Ices pheiy 70
heed It.
The present crisis in our national history
should properly obliterate all party lines, and
appeal to the patriotism, the good sense, and the
respect for law and just Government in every
American citizen. A small minority Of the people,
led by no higher motive than personal ambition,
and governed by no higher principle than a de-
termination to extend Slavery without limit and
to perpetuate it forever, have risen in rebellion
against the Constitution and Union under which
We have lived and fOurishcd for more than three
quarters Of century, and, by possessing them
selves Of all the strongholds of the Government
within their reach and threatening others, are
attempting to subyert that Government and turn
it from the benefcent purpose for which it was
created. When such a rebellion is fOstered aud
strengthened by body Of men at the North,
ralying under a party name and with partisan
purposes, cherishing, at such a moment even
their partisan feuds, lest one wing should gain
an advantage over the other, then only it begins
to assume dangerous character, and the people
should learn that treason ia not confined to the
E.ot IN ia bnr
rid front
The question before the country is the suprem-
acy Of the Constitution and the Laws. The doc
trine assumed aud established by the Republican
party is the fundamental principle of the Con-
sttutioD, but by the acts Of rebels in arms, the
struggle has assumed the larger proportions of
the existence Of the Government itself Here
we know no party. That known as Republican
may live or die; the principle remains the same,
and all who love their country who cherish its
interests, who care for its honor, who are proud
of its past or who hope for its future, are bound
as they love the name Of America to rally now
TO discOuntenance and put down faction and
treason. These men at Albany who call them.
selves Democrats are responsible in great de-
gree by their misuse Of the Government which
has been so long in their hands for the Preacher
Gus imbecity which has brought the country to
the brink of anarchy, and by their misrepresenta-
tons have made it possible for Southern demagogues
10 lead their confdiDg and ignorant followers into
the madness Of treason. But they miscalculate
the strength and the forbearance of the people if
hey hope to lead them, to serve their party pur-
poses, into completely with that treason. The
one INDUCED in by some of their speakers may
ind response in the most vicious of n portion
If the population of some of our large cities, but
viii have no echo from the sober, law-abiding,
linking people of the country at large. II they |
ave no higher virtue LET them at least be pru-
lent. If they are incapable of understanding
ow much the future welfare and honor Of the |
ountry depends upon carrying out the principles |
{ the fathers of the Confederacy, and limiting |
he extension of human bondage and checking the |
rowth of the Slave-Power, let them at least be- |
rare how they weaken the allegiance to law, and