New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-21
The WAR FOR THE union.
gR0m WASHINGTON.
Trm Ou Own Correspondent

suck pabulum in the galleries Of the chamber is
supplied with light diet and easy Of digestion,
bat not highly nutritive. Our Senators, instead
Of answering fool according to his folly, winch
would be- no answer at al, reply to vacuity
and vapidity of talk harmless for evil and help
Iess for good, which is dedicated to base uses.
But have no wish TO carry controversy into
the upper House It is a hapless fate TO DO
shil and fOrloln under the frowns OF the Grand
Humboldt of feathered valor, without rushing
INTO the arena of one of the powerful estates OF
Che realm. Minerva If less sanguinary than
MolOch, but the eOurtesies of the sex claim for
hearaDce, even il prudence did not hint that
proectiles on Seventeenth street and pronuncia-
ton at the Capitol made a guarded rear as
necessary as an intrenched front.
The very attenuated thread on which Mr..
Powell surnamed Lazarus from an evident faith
In the resurrection of the dead, suspended a
speech, was an amendment that the Z" Army
should not be used for the subiugatiOn Of States
bate provinces, OF the abolition Of Slavery" Then
followed a pleasant chat on violated constitu-
tons, executive usurpatiops, rights Of the South,
with other topics quite german, but very general.
The institution Of Slavery is not in half so much
danger az that of speech-making on that side of
The House. 1t is at point when extreme uDc-
tion should be administered. What was fiery
enee ia fippsnt now. Before the charm of
novelty had been taken away, tho words of the
mouth gave us government. We were ruled
BY Southern oratioDs and gently guided in our
line Of manifest duty by the teachings Of the
plantation erandee, WHO instructed obedience at
the North while his head oyerseer was writing
the seductive persuasions Of the law of love with
colt or cat on the naked back of Cufee
the born or bought thrall. We had well-nigh
come to the whippingpost ourselves. In a few
years more Of progress, refractory member
from the North would have been taken from the
Halls for forty stripes less one, when he pre-
saIned to refer 10 the Declaration of IDde-
pendence or contemplated George Washington,
except as the owner and worker of deeply
shaded brunettes Of African persuasion. That
We did not arrive at this happy contamination
10 owing, not to Northern resistance but to
Southern impetuosity. They could not follow
thu easy gradations which were taking us into
certain subjectOn, and in Fastening slow causes
~ sudden illusions, the sense OF danger was
alarmed. The second day of December 1860,
was starting point for other events beside
that Of separating South Carolina from the
VBion.
Since the days OF Pharaoh and the captive
Hebrew, there has been no such inflammation as
has seized the m'n Of negroes. The insane root
which takes the reason prisoner, has been eaten
70 o surfeit The cOmmoncst observation while
looking at aspects and events, sees something OF
tie surface and tendencies seeming to these men
10 have been hidden in their blindness. While
nj Christendom has been in the high road to tue
enfranchisement Of all forms Of control over
limbs and labor, they haze attempted to
strengthen its outworks and build higher its
parspets, as If the Creator, giving liberty and
law In every other quarter of the globe was re-
serving Himself for one stiperdiary domain of
ysssalsge on the Western Continent, where the
divine perfection of Slavery with its uneean.
ness and outrage was tn shine out in most
fascinating lOyelpess. What the Fourth of
July, lT6, was to the colOnists, the second
OF December viii be to the dusky child of wick
eaness and wrong. The hand Of God was laid
heavily upon the curse long before, but on that
day, the weaker agency of man came in TO has
Zen the tsrdy progress Of emancipation to q de-
graded race. As Thomas Beckett seoureed his
own back with the bloody thong in penance for
"a foul crime, you, men Of the darkness Of long
gone Oppression have taken the knotted whip to
be sefapplied in a chastjsement which illustrates
the eternal law, that whore guilt is sorrow must
answer for it: Senator's are sincere when they
say that no subjYgntiSn of States is intended.
They arc just 40 truthful in declaring that the
relation Of the chattel to his master is not TO be
jntcrfered with, and yet neither they, in the in
dividua capacity nor in tho legislative function,
lean change the order Of advance or stay for
isnonent the forward of result visible and
d inevitable. How long the Ownership and nss
ies men might have gone on under the peace and
ifsrbearance Of both sections, was a matter Of
forecast and Judgment. That il can hsye any
ietaer than brief existence with whole free
iYsoplc In arms against 10, cannot be hoped for.
teseD BY those who hug pleasant Illusions 10 be-
lid. In the march Of our various column. Il,
lBclthern kde-wsfer, how many Of these men ara
20 fock to our camps for refage7 What will
you do with themf Return them 10 their rsas,
ftess YoH dare not do IL. You woad as soou
return the razor to the maniac who had laid it
CO your windpipe when You had wfested it from
his band. VIII you sell him to the dealer in
flssh at st. Croix and St. Jago de Cuba WIN
ysu put the price of blood into the treasury TO
pay the debt or the pension 10 your soldier who
has protected Il from ra,,ine Ua xvouId snny,