New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-23
CONGREGATION.

mercy WAS shown 10 Tue No!aliSts. though
many Of them were sincere lovers Of their cOun-
try, and were Tories not because they were con-
tentcd with oppression, but because, like the
COMPROMISED, of later period Of history. they
preferred submission under tho existing order
Of things to the risk of change, yet they
were held so unequivOcally the enemies Of their
country that they were banishej, sometimes
threatened with death, and punished almost it,
yariaby with loss of property. When the
Treaty Of Peace was made. aud tie Independence
of the Colonies acknowledged all that could be
wrung from the sturdy Commissioners was re.
luctant consent that Congress should make
recommendation to the States to repeal the laws
against the Tories. The recommendation was
made, but ii was web understood that il was
only matter Of form TO which the States would
not give heed, as they never did. The success
iul party felt that for eight years they bad fought
for their lives and property, as we'll as for their
sacred honor; that had they been defeated II
would have been owing. in large measure, to tue
efforts of their own brethren in array against
them; and they felt it, therefore, to be no more
THAI just that gone penalty should be inflicted
upon the enemies of their independence, though
a far mider one than they would themselves haze
been called upon to suffer, had the issue Of the
war been reversed. OF the Loyalists who took
up arms, there were, probably, not less than
10000, almost az large a number as the troops
Of the revolutionary force. And so strong was
this feeling of resentment against them that, when
! CORVALLIS surrendered, he was unable t. procure
any special terms on their behalf, and was only
permitted to seud off by ship some Of the most
obnoxious TO preserve them from the popular
! INDIGNATION. The anger of the ReyOlutionists had
in no degree abated, after an eight years strus-
Gle. against the men who had stood in the way
of their possible achievement Of National Indc-
pendeuce. But, ii was not that these men were
rebels against an existing form Of Government;
it was not that they were endeavoring to snatch
from their hands blessings already in possession
and enjoyment; but it was that they withstood
| the efforts of men TO achieve their rights with
! their own good right hands, and were attempting
TO deprive them of hoped.for good which they
conceived to be theirs by the laws Of nature and
Of God.
| Was their example good one' We of this
generation have q hundred-fold the proyocation,
! and we cannot better the example. For eighty
years. we and our fathers have been blessed with
| Government of which there is no parallel in
! history. The blessings OF religious liberty, Of
| universal education, OF civil freedom, of pros
perity almost too uninterrupted, have been SO
lavishod upon us that this literally has been
| Nao World, where the human race has been
placed in circumstances such as it has never
known in any other region, in any other age, for
those eighty years. In one short week, what
change has come over US! In one short week,
We are brought front to front with war TO be
waged, as is already evident, with q mercicss
cruelty worthy only of savages and towards,
commenced on behalf Of human Slavery, and to
be ended only, should it be carried to q success
fiIl termination BY those who have begun it, when
every race upon this continent shall be degraded
to political, social, and moral thralldom but
one remove above that of the African. With the
blessing Of God, that aLall never be! With the
blessing of God, the memories Of the men who
began one war on the 10th of April, 1715, and
tho memories OF the men who began another on
the 18th of April, l-6I shall be embalmed to-
gc.her IS the men who began the beginning, and
who began the end, of the Great War Of
American Independence, which, it seems,
it is TO take eighty odd years to
finish! And We of our day shall follow the
example Of those Of that in more than one way
We hold traitors responsible for the work upon
which they have precipitatcd us, and We warn
them that they must abide The full penalty. Is
pecially le. Maryland and Virginia look TO it, for
as they are greater sinners, go their punishment
viii be heavier than that Of others Virginia is n
rich aud beautiful state, the very garden Of
the COnfedcracy. But it is garden that is
doomed TO be good deal tramplel, and its
paths, its beds and its boundaries arc likely to lie
pretty completely obliteratel before we have done
with it. 1t has what it is pleased TO call property
in men, which will probably take care of itself
in the struggle, waiting hat in hand for any new
confer disposed to give fair days wages for
fair days work. But il has other property
property in houses, in lands, in Mines in forests,
in country aud IN town, which will need Ia be
taken possession Of and equitably cared for. The
rebels of that State and of Maryland may not
fGtter themselves that they can enter upon war
against the Government, and atferward return
to quiet and peaceful homes. They choose TO
play tic part of traitors, and they must suffer
the penalty. The WORKOUT race of emascuated
First Families must give place to sturdicr PEG.
pie, whose pioneers are now on their way TO
Washington at this moment in regiments. An
allotment Of land in Virginia will be a fitting