New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-30

Beware Of iu,o quarrel but being In bear I. that
the opPOsor may beware Of thee.'
The immortal bard himself could not have
asked US Ia follow more closely than we have
the advice OF Li, first clause. The, quarrel be-
tween the people of the loyal and the rebellious
State. was stunned by the former only too long.
10 AK them now to lay down their arms, is to
lay taey we're fools ever to have taken them up.
Any time these forty years, the people who be-
iieye IN freedom OF opinion and freedom of
speech, sinenabe only TO law, have owed the
power nov ia arms agiin.t the Union sound
thrastng. Sdch q thrashing years ago would
have done both parties much good.
There Is pet species Of property. 20 called
at tue South which ensenders in its owners a
wonderful conceit--a wonderfully growing con-
ceit. They demanded, when this Union was
framed, a good deal more than was asked in Ia
vor of any other species Of property; aud,
though they didn't get quite all they demanded,
they did meet with success which made their
own best statesmen blush, aud ssy they did not
mean to perpetuate advantages 80 directly at
war With the principles Of democracy. Now
these Southern owners OF sort Of property
when ali the Northern States r,hnquishcd lopg
ago, as incompatible with republcanism, would
banlsh or lynch their osn fathers, should they
rise from their graves, aud promulgate the opiu-
IONS they carried into them. There may be dit
iersnces Of opinion among the people Of the loyal
States about this property, apd about what
should be done with It, or not done with it;
but thsrs is no difference Of opinion about the
following propositions;
/. Ii there had been no such property there
would have been no rebellion, aud no attempt
even to sunder the Union.
2. II there had been the same freedom Of
speech and of the press throughout the South as
Throughout tho North. even p't. that property,
there could have been no formidable rebellion.
>. rns great majority OF the people in the
Southern States are not benefited bus injured
by the existence of the peculiar property which
suppress-s freedom OF speech aud generates re-
t-lhon.
4. Freedom Of speech and Of tbs press, on oil
subj cite. Throughout tho 'nt're nation, berg e.
,eut.al n tho national life, aud the only safe
guard against sucn reb-ilious conspiracies M We
now suhcr from. must be fully vindicated. what
ever property or life 4! may cost.
WAetAer il viii do the slaves, or their masters, or
The world any good to convert slave property into
is, To make the legal correspond With the
VIII be- various opinions. But on
the qu sion whether il will do the Shareholders or
their ccyaers good to take the conceis out OF Them
.htre eau be- 10 two opinions. waf To subiugntc
-te South For halt century, by lynching out the
ice op,Aon Of the world, the south has been sub
seatrd by mountain Pile OF negative and positive
lies, aud battle which will pgostrate the miserable
ar, that has been mustered to defend that pile Of
lies will be che blessedest thing that ever happened
10 tn. whole Southern population. The annhilaiion
of un army is by no means the destruction OF
n people. A conquest is often deliver
ance iheu subugation. The conquest Of The
North by the south, II that could taAo place,
would indeed be n subjugaion-ap unn'itisa'ed
calamity. But te reverse, il thorough and com