New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-17

War, at the best, is full Of brutality, though
in the Divine order this may be overr1ed for
GOOD. But as the brawls of brothers are tho
most intense, so the barbarities Of evil war
are the least mitigated. An army illegally a.
sembled fer mere raid and rapine can have no
legal commander, and therefore no discipline;
for where there is no loyalty to the civil power
there cah be no loyalty to Beutenants; and that
commander who begins by throwing away his
fidelity to his country, will hold power as it Is
held by the captain of banditii. Who, without
feeling this, can read fhc plain statements oil
Andrew johnson made at Columbus, Ohio'
He tells us what Secession is; it is rape, rob.
berry, murder-it is this ia Tennessee, under
Mr.. Johnsons own eye, and in his own State.
He told the people Of Ohio to have guard;
for that these devils, the spawn Of his unfortu'
nate State, were marching toward them, and
might soon be upon them. Andrew johnson is
a man who weighs his words; and be speaks
of what he does know.
Now. there is one consideration which fhculd
engage the attention Of most of the Western
and Middle States The people of these rebel
communities are already absolutely democrat
lied: but the success OF Secession will make
them as bad as they are bold. There has
never been much law even in Virginia, the
seeding State with the most lawyers In
many Of these revolted provinces there have been
neither law nor lawyers, no peace to break
and no jury to indict, and no sheriff TO arrest
and hang; no courthouse and no calabOose,
and no Justice but Justice Lynch; men have
collected debts, or have triamphantly resisted
the collection of debts OF the point Of the
bowie.knife; murderers, blind With whisky,
have sometimes slain their friends, and some
times their foes, as Fortune, herself blmd
I Jade would have it; without pretense OF Judi
cial form, the negro has been now hanged,
now burned, now scourged to death, nov
smearcd with honey and left to the
flies of the forest All this bideous and
restless contempt of restraint and uneasi-
ness under government, has eliminated in &C.
cession. There is but one way of saving our
selves from it. Treat it as you would moo,
for it is an oyergrown, unweldy, gigantic
mob, and nothing more. Make terms with it,
and it will murder you To daily with the
monster viii be death There may be treaty
with ordinary treason, but none with treason
like this. There would be raid from Virginia
into Pennsylvania before the prelimlnsrles we're
adjusted. The frat batch of ambassadors sent
By the Federal Union into the Confederacy
would be hanged by the people; the second set
might escape with tar and feathers aud tho
confiscation of their carpet bags; and the
third-but probably no third would be sent.
Have those Of our readers who are skilled 10
protocols and diplomatic etiquette, ever thought
OF the extreme ignorance of the Law Of Ma
tons which prevails in South Carolina fan
ignorance, we are sorry to say, attestcd by
history Think of PleBipotentiary dangling
| from the forest bough with assurances of dis
/ tnguished consideration gurglng from bis dy.
ing throat Think of an ambassador, in full
| fig, approaching the palace Of King Jefferson
the First and finding the tar already boiling
and the feathers already plucked for his hos
pitable reception Then,'ye gods what Ger
respondence letters, memoranda and other di'
plomatic penmanship would follow! Nobody
pretends that we can enjoy diplomatic res'
tions with the King of the Cannibal ISLANDS,
because all Justinan and Pufendorf to ooos
could not prevent him from killing, dressing
roasting and eating our ambassadors ho"
much better would il be to have them snot
stabbed, hung or tarrsd and teathered IN klca'
mond
Well, says somebody, savagey, we would ae'
clare war All my fine fellow, We happen 70
be at that red work already Is II "oi"
while to be at peace simply that IN qua''o'
of year wo may be at war again-at war,
too, about roasted EmbassadOr, which WON.
{ be very cruel war indeed Do you eiPeo.
these leopards to change their spots "m
these brethren of ours love us better a'se'
thcy have left us, Besides, they will have ~
Government TO treat with. We know the Po-
teDtate ruling, or pretending 70 rule those
,oitated realms to-day; but he may exchange
~. tbrops tomorrow for the rude rail or the
rome. What is to prevent Louisiana from IN
,.dir0 Georgia, or Virginia, South Carolinaf
Certainly not this precious doctrine OF seces-
.on These dear boilers expressly retain, sl
Of them, the right Of being at loggerheads, osea
with the other, whenever to any it mar seem
plessapt, The Capitol Of The CoDfederacy VIII