New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-27
TIE WAR FOR the UNION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ftcm Our Own Correspondent


Department, to give garbled and distorted 'nior-
nation as to policy should be understood by the
country. Two days ego, long telegram dis
PLAYED on the first page, with startling heading
and the other cIslts and snbtleties of journal
iugelery, was a stripgiOg Of improbabities upon |
4 slender thread of facts What it had of truth |
was old, but its thick. coming fancies which hiiec
Dut the main material, were of fresh eoinnge ana
6 fruitful product. There is not now, ana mas /
not been the slightest reason to anticipate any |
serious troubles with any European Power arls-
ing from our own home disturbances. All that
We have of my Lord John Russel's Bunsby COM
municatcns, or my Lord Palmerstons assumed
premises and logical deductions tbereiron, are
not worth, in their real bearing upon the inter
national question, the printers ink which will
Do wasted on this page, if 1t should pass
into type. Lord John is mystic and
mytbic about behgerents. Lord Pamerston
thinks they may and they may not; that the
United States cannot divide without contest,
but perhaps viii, after pitched battles and blood
shed. Who can be surprised that Intelligent
statesmem abroad had no faith in the contn-
nance of our Government The last days oi the
Buchanan nightmare went beyond even the es-
timated depths of infamy.
Our own Administration might have passed
their earlier days more pleasantly 10 Themselves
and more proftably to the State than they do
While the country reeled on the edge OF preci-
pico-whiIe the foundations of the Constitution were
rocked to their ceuter forty days and forty nights,
the visual potentates King Cotton and King Hay
we're both deposed and provisional authority
the Blue Book and PatrOnage-reigDed IN their
stead. The soldier of Fort Sumter fed his hero
ism on spare allowances If salt junk and sour
bread, and the flag of Fort Pickens dropped Ian
gndy on It's staff, as if in doubt whether il was
to brave the battle ard the breeze, be gathered
10 the folds Of an unmanly surrender. Cover
pors and other officers of Territories, whose
white population was to consist Of the appointees
themselves, with sparse body guard of nomadic
hunters and trsnstu emigrsnts, must be selected.
Consus to Ming Po and Kurule Islands stood,
portmanteau in hand, ready to go down to the
sea in ships to their destination. The Postmasters
ut Hickory Run and Hucheberry Hollow
must read their titles clear to four-years
possession. The Senate adjourned. IL was not
day too soon. Then the lintstOck was
sppled to the sheltered cannon of Fort
Noultrie, and then, with the boom of its
discharge shook the great heart of the nation, as
the walls of Jericho trembled at the blast of the
pries,ly rams horns. Money and muskets ratded
IN a deafening chorus. All he who has watched
and prayed, feared, aud almost tainted through
tedious years of deferred hope had in tine joy of that
sxating moment an Overpayment of delight. The
old soul still survived sumbering but still alive |;
TIE old blood yet flowed in vein and artery, stag
mating but sangune and hot. This state to ss,
for ten days is now a quarter Of a century, is to
be new to Great Britain and the Continent The
government is not efete the nation is not nOr
can it be disintegrated rebellion is not to be revo-
hutton. From the cOnvulsion of instruction there
il not to be the calmness Of rebel Power, stable
in character, and supported by peaceabe alli-
ance with US. When Europe sees the last dollar
devoted and the latest man dedicated, Of the
22000, 900 of the North, they will provoke no COL
lsion with people thus resolved, and thus ex-
s,persted. In four months we have seen
the deeps of humiliation and the noun
tain SUBMITS of pride. The President and
the people are thinking one thought and
ePedklDg one language NO administration mere
could control or check this widespread en-
thusiasm, and no Ministry in England or France
can so far make themselves the Oracles of old
time barbarism as to war with Government
which carries the Orifamme and the Cross at
the head of armies to que the dying struggles
Of q nearly-extiDguished wrong. Diplomacy may
weave its tissues, Cabinets may supply their craft,
but the silky 6lament of the cocoon and the
cotton fiber Of the ball are as fimsy against
strength as such weak devices against this
mighty procession Of generation marching over
the wrecks aud ruins Of ancient tyranny and
exploded opinions. The n. Y. Herald may work
out it's calings 1t may make itself the treach.
srous organ of movement which it joined only
10 weaken and betray. 1t may stirup the disquiet
Of New-YOrk, and deride the one idea of snbu-
eating the Rebels by insinuatiDg the other that
We must capture in the attempt Liverpool and
London. do not care what may be the dis
patches Of Mr.. Adams or Mr. Dayton. Mr..
Gregory may ask questions, and Lord John Rus
scll answer them. Louis Napoleon may nod sig.
uiscantly, and Count Waewski pick his teeth
nysseriously. The rills and rivulets dry in sun
Or swollen i'll shower. are nothing. The tranquil
eow Of the mighty river goes on into the mightier
ocean, under laws which are eternal to matter;
and human life and human liberty, individual
and aggregate, are alike subordinate TO the be-
hests Of Providence which guides and governs
10 right ends in the whisper of the stll small