New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-24
THE PDO-SLAVERY REBELLION,
FROM WASHINGTON.
srcFssIoS OF THE BORDER STATES
PROSPECTS OF COMPROMISE

another. il would appear that tho ot"'e Dawes
"a all nike crazy together. The border Slave
States are little slower In action thah their
mora hot.headed brethren of the South. but they
are all infected with the idea that compromise
cf soue sort. n peace offering. is indispensable to
their remaining in the union. Thus Maryland
waits and appears TO hesitate about joining 'he
accession movement, when it is confidently al
legged that oil she is waiting for is to see whether
COMPROMISE will be offered that viii be salts
factory to the remaining border States, sufficient
70 retain them In the Union. But that If none
il offered which is satisfactory, and the other
border StMes do 60, then Maryland will try to
follow, almost without dissenting voice.
But the prospects of compromising here seem
in no wise to brighten. The thing which the
border Slave States are expecting or desiring,
and which may, think. be taken as the MIN
imum of their demands, is tho partition of er-
listing territory on the line of 36' 80, leaving
future acquisitions uDproyided for. Aud for this
settlement they want constitutional guaranty.
Simple legislation will not answer. Along with
this, they require a few make-weights, ous
would put up with show rather than substance
so far as they orc concerned. / am unable 70
see that less than this will answer their purpose
And il is by no means improbable that these
terms would be accepted hereafter ~ the States
which have already seeded, with the exception
If Sonth Carolina. So much, l think, may be
extracted from the sideway intimaeons OF the
seceders which find their way to light through
social circles.
The question is often asked whether the Crit
tenden resolutions, thus modified, would receive
any Republican votes. Doubt is expressed on
the point Some holding that there are very
few Senators, and o few Representatives, who
might be got, in the last final struggle, to vote
for them. While others declare that not man
would yield. must say that my Judgment Is
not settled on the subject.
Thus far the most that has been offered on the
Republican side Is to admit New-Mexico as
State, with or without Slavery, and 80 settie the
Territorial question. i have no idea that this
proposition VII answer the demands or expec-
tatiOns, or imaginary needs, of any Border
Slave State. The fact that the measure would
probably result in converting New-Mexico from
Slave Territory into Free State, seems to
preclude the idea Of the suggestion being re
ceiyed with any favor by the Slayehclding States.
But on the contrary, that it would be looked
upon rather as n hostile measure
The real truth is that what is uppennost in
the minds Of all in The border States who are
moleOntent, or who IRE expecting and requiring
a compromise of some sort, is the claim to
portion Of the national Territory. When oil If
said and done about personal liberty bills, fugi-
tive laws, and so on. the thing that is wanted
by al alike, is the recognition of the rights of
the slsyeholding States in the Territories This
they are in earnest in claiming and demanding.
To exclude them, they believe IL TO be unfair,
and to do them grent wrong. They claim to
have rigkts which are being withheld. And IT Is
TO this that they say they viii not submit and
cannot submit, for it is bumilating.
therefore conclude that compromise, such
as viii answer any practical purpose, is out Of
the question, and that all the slaveholding States
will, sooner or later, pass Secession ordinances,
with perhaps the exception Of Delaware. And
think the country ind the Federal Government
may az well make up their minds first as last
to be ready to meet and face this condition Of
things.
Georgia is reckones to have played a great
game on South Carolina, in passing q resolution
that the postal and revenue laws of the United
States shall remain undisturbed for the present.
There has long subsisted an intense commercial
rivalry between Charleston and Savannah, which
has of late years been stimulated by rival rail
roads. The recent diversion Of shipping from
Charleston to Savannah, in consequence Of the
extravagant action Of the South Carolina author
tiles on the harbOr, was hard 10 be borne, while
il was thought the discrimination would be brief
But TO zee the deliberate action Of the Georgia
Seeding Convention, prolonging these advantages
TO Savannah, in defiance Of all consistency of pur-
pose, creates heart-burniDgs and indignation I'M
tpeakable among the ChaIlestoEans. They are
left in the attitude of driving their legitimate
commerce into the ports of hated rival.
The distant apprehension Of Maryland action
on Secession, has already struck a severe blow
to the general business of Baltimore. Things are
already at nearly deadlock in commercial cir
cles there, and growing worse every hour. Sc
cessiOn will put everything head and ears under
water, not only in that city, but all over the
State. If persevered in, utter ruin must follow.
The Potomac River fxes the destiny of Maryland
Hretrievaby, and resistance to that destiny is
msdRess. y.s.P.
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