New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-17
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,v i'm a strain OF dlthyraMDlc eOiucuce,
,b,,b aDDeals TO the feelings rather than TO the
so6rr,ent. In point Of style, the work reads Ike
> trarslation from the French, rather than al
ordual production; but Il savorS OF the merry de-
nunciatons of Lamennais more than OF the
siaies,paplike wisdom Of De TOcqueyille. Ac'
coflaa TO the writer, tie only problem now be-
fore the people Of this country is the formation oil
,notber Union on the ruins Of the past, with The
principle of Justice TO the African slave as the
cornerstone. In the sense OF the poitIclans' he
maintains there is no longer q Union to DC pre-
served 1t is only a satire to speak OF Union
in which what is regarded on one side as blot on
the national escutcheOn is adopted by the other as
Ale balance-wheel of the national machinery.
ain fact, as far as the old Union is concerned,
argues the author, " the only arms now defending
it are in the South aud they have reason, toritwas
possessed by the demon Of the South, It's proper
soul drugged into tOrpor, supposed by many dead.
Tho Constitution is not to be taken as necessar
" the fortress of freedom. 1t would be no diff
cult matter TO point its guns against Liberty H.
stead of Slavery. The Constitution has been
considered as an inspired document, has almost
been wOrshiped as an idOl but it has only driited
Us among the breakers. Compared with the
Declaration of Independence. it was decidedly a
step backward
The Declaration of Independence has been oalleda
GENES Of "glit'erng generslilies:" low was the
spirit in which this hrase uttered, il is certainly
true in q most Important sense. That Declaration
Was "a study Of tie millennium, and that does not
bloom on the sapiDg of one revolution, nor o.
thousand. Humsp brotherhood s in il; the instru
plents aro scarcely Internationally not tuned-tO
render that svmt bOny. The men who announced
tlOse anrora theories of human rights went home to
brv ard sell their human charteis rs before. The
French prcverb says, "Nhen the ssiuts day over,
farewell The saint" TIE sign r. OF that Deciara-
ton did but make saints day; aud II IS 10 our
credit frat we rejoice in IL than in all The days
whose transactions became the rhteis OF the house
we live in.
IL w8s "pattem shown in the mount after
which all things in tie plain below were to be fash
icne3 but no sooner had the tables Of the law been
given, and the l;,htuiugs OF revolution amid winch
they were announced -hestbed than the pToseic eAi-
Rences OF the hour Asserted their Qualifying eiauses
God is great; Moses eau Hpirc n him: golden call
IL more comprehensive To- tie multitude.
SO the fiery Declaration cooled down TO the Wise
and wary Constitution.
The political situation OF the parties to the pres
ent war does not, however, proceed from any de-
fleets in the Constitution.
TIE North goes 10 the battlefield with record Of
constitutional obedience clearer than some Of her
best friende could wish II. She has bowed her back
90 the heaviest burdens that could be c1nstituionaly
imposed upon her. She has been put to shame in her
own tes through long weary years, and consented
TO toll on toward her dy OF delveIaUce by tie slow,
prescribed pGlhs. r. lulhng The hard legal cOnd-
lions Freedom bad climbed the bill Difficulty kissed
In her path by tie Constitution self, aud WAS near
90 he gates u The beautiful palace Success when
ApollyOH, mad with envy aud hate, broke through !
his own hmIis and prepared lis darts ut the very
of he oh u
tiona disp argemeBts OF Liberty have indeed reused
Liberty % lighef eXerflOHs fhs bus been more in
earnest than n q fteman's vote had been equal 10 a
SHAREHOLDERS the shame OF repelling tie fugitive
from her door has nerved to the aOnemeIt she IL
now ready 10 make by tie Shedding Of blood; but
there has been 10 evsi0nnO oyeIleaplng Of c0ndl-
tOns-uo cutting of knots she had agreed to unite.
Boston saw the skeleton Of George III. exhumed,
bone Ieied 10 bone, and the gTiDning skul crowned
in her COuft-Houset,istO often 81 she surrendered
her fellow citizens TO SitveIy. CINCINNATI saw tie
Tour de Nesla rebuilt. OHIO under Republican
Governor nei4 ne clothes Of those who stoned
Margaet Gamer and her clldren to death, and said,
" Her blood lie upon us and oar children"
Not Slavery now appeals TO arms, because Free
dom, in her slow bu steady prog ess has lett no III.
formali'y-no faw-wbich can be- seized on TO re-
verse the decision she has gained IN any higher court
Tie South is fully conscious that tho present
struggle is one of life or death.
Slavery, with the keen sense Of the savage, lays
is ear 10 tie ground, and hears 10 those ballots
[sl6pg flr Abrai sm Lincoln the fatal tramp OF many
centuries tie mastering for liberty of the ages that
feke no step backward; IL does not panse even to
igeu TO the oJotestaiiors Of Freedoms picketgnard
thar her grand army viii never invade TIE sacred
soil of Constitutional Oppression; cares not TO in
aure whether they ho. sri, or otherwlsei knows
Better; prepares defend every i0ch OF Us bloody
deck, every feter in its collie. Thank God for that
savage instinct which, VIXEN yet there was no
NORTH, saved ne from the deadly evils that spring
from the making of promises that Fate must forever
forbid us to keep!
Accordingly, there is 10 further room for COM
promise. America must turn to cope with Slavery 1
though she be torn asunder, but let the holy child
Liberty be saved.
This, then, being the moral situation of the two
parties each knowing the very existence OF the other
70 lie is destruction, the very field OF coinpro-
mise Is the field OF battle.
Freedom and Slavery have been hugeing each other
o. hard that it has grown TO death-bug.
We need not tear negotiation too murb; IN tins
stage of the conflict, any compromise will be only
nag Of truce. Some tuid officials, webbing to get
ont Of the region Of villinous saltpeter. may send
out such flag, and gain aO arnisiIce Tor lew
months-Or yeaTs-bnt the end cannot come until
Slavery or Liberty lies slin
Ii IS written :" righteousness aid Peace have
Kissed each other" Sixty centuries OF experience
have added: " Unrighteousness and War are for
ever linked together"
Can any comprOmiser promise us, as the result Of
Ills plan, thing else than the old rrepressible
cenfietF YOu must cut the heart out OF every |,
thinker and reformer in America you get any,
hing esei and resistance is the multi licationable
OF Reform.
Is this, then as affirm, the swelling Of food
that shall presently subslde agaiul