New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-18

them, upon any claim Of portion Of their people to
the right OF self-government would submit to dismem.
bernent, submit to be divided into two Kingdoms or
empires. Sooner would they wage of centuries,
war, as they would justly consider it, Of national
life or death.
To submit to the separation OF the United States into
two independent powers, would not only be the most
fatal example hatwe could set for the existing genera
ton of men, and to all generations that to come
after u.s. but would render the whole Of the thirty
four States Of the feebes and most wreched por.
tons Of the civilized world. ALI old glory would
be turned TO midnight darkness. The two repnbhcs or
two monarches supposng that to be the number into
which our country should at first DO divided, could
never remain for even year at peace. thousand
causes would render collisions and ware between them
inevitable. Neither OF the two could have the least
security agast its own distegration and dissolution
The United States Government at Washington, having
established the precedent OF permitting eleven ortwelye
or fiji States to 20 on at pleasure, could not RESTRAIN
other states from doing the same thing. Eaeh
and every State remaining even temporarily in the
United States would feel that it had the power to as
sert aud maintain lite right Of either seeding into the
Southern COnedeIacy or OF establishing together WIN
such other States i might be able to carry with ~
an independent sovereignty, and it would exercise this
fancied right Whenever for any cause, frivolous or other
WISE it should become dissatisfied with the acts OF the
Government of its section. What Is row the United
States, an distinguished from the Confederate States
would almost certainly, within half dozen years.
consist of half dozen petty and Earring powers, win
no common head. 49, .
lhe same or even worse WOulQ De lIe COnuItiVn Va
the States of the Southern Conederacy based as that
Confederacy avowedly it, and would be, upon the as
sumption, as fundamental principle Of government,
that every State every two or three STATES hiuh.
be recognized having the right to establish an
independent government or independent governments
at will. There would lie government IN either sec
ton tit 10 be called Our country, that we nave
been 60 proud Of would be in worse condition inan
the miserable little Republics Of South America. no
pretended sovereignty North or South conld ever ob
tain from abroad loan of the most incOisluer-
able amount, for European nations woult scorn TO m
trust their money to Governments not even claiming
10 elnbody any principle of selfpreservatiou. Inc
powers which have not dared to provoke tho warlke
energies OF earths great Republic would deride us IN
our heiplcssness and by the presence OF even si1ee
man-of-war compel us 10 yield obedience 10 'heif
banbbty and tyrannical Oictaiicn. Horrible serVlie
ipsurrections would break ont everywhere in the
saveholdng region, making fields and hFe-sides
desolate
Masses of slaves first from the Slave States nearest
to the Free States and afterward from those more
remote, would escape-sOme by stealth and Others
o:enly-ill the last vesiige of slavery would dsap,
pear All tie petty powers Jealous ana h0sule would
have to keep standing armies, vast IN proportion 10
the means Of supporting them, aud the consequent
taxes wor Id mpoyersh the people the point OF hope
less and Unbelievable ruin. Hundreds and thousands
of desperate men, accustomed To blood ana Violence
aud having no means OF honest subsistence for them
selves and families, would organize gang of bandtt,
such as for have infested Mexico. But this con-
dition of anarchy hafanarehy could not lass Tor
ever or even very long From tie midst o. all the
confusion and hwlessness aud strife, bold MASTER
spirit would spring up and ralyiug thousands to bis
standard pursue his cOnquering and devastating march
until the whole Of what has been the Unied States
would be made bloody aud relentless desposrn, as
drear and remorseless any recorded IN history.
And how the question il whether the United States,
through Tread Of tie incQnyeniences and even the
great sulerngs and sacritces OF the war that is upon
US ought to accept this ooni0no things for the sake
of brief, a hollow, nominal pence. To our minds
il would be dreadfu crime against God and the hu.
nan race. 1t would mark the present generation OF
the people Of this country the guiltest enemies and
murdereis OF freedom in all the history Of the world.
Our glorious old fathers of 76 beQueathed not more %
us than 10 the generation that TO come hercaiter
their posterity as well oursthe great aud magnh
cent Inheritance Of the Union. Our fathers Of later
periods received guarded transmitted the sacred the
marriicent bequts 10 us, 10 be IN turn IHsatd down
by us those for whom, for ourselves, the pa IOts
who won It by their blood ordained il. And now
should We we, dare we, N the face OF heaven and
earth stop the awful bequest In its descent, silver It
into worthless fragments destroy that which IL not
our own but mankind for this and the coming ages
defrand poterity Of the richest blessig ordained for
them by the iinted and Luxurious dead of dead
tury swndle all the human race Of this and all the
future lime Of what myIids Of millions have cOntem
plated with gratitude and alteration the mightief
boon Of God 10 his creatures, and leave our names TO
cTeak ard blaCken the gibbet Of iniamy as the
names of men who cursed their race and shall be
cursed by as long there shall be atmosphere TO
bear the sound Of a curse upon its bosom