New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-13
The WAR FOR TIVE UNION.
Rgcm WASHINGTON.
rrm oos Own Correspondent ,oc,
WAsHiSGToN, May TO- i0oi'

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: oS~..,e.l os the records and resembances oil
A,.,ory The land to which ve trace our
,..ass has its psralleIs b which we are now
,epsioe in corresponding lines heoelno"7 anu
ware of disputed Succession run through hef "no'o
nost Her colossal greatness hes grown III
series of bloody convulsons slch as no" '"i-
e4nd over u.s. But strength and not weaSn''''
prosperity and not decay, followed every iopuiA'
victory; and the training Of long years oI ran,
guinary strife, through periods oi diseord anu
l;saster ended at last in that crOwnlng Iu'ter o'
her arms at Waterloo. Il was net WIN ,"'"
at any time o war Of sections. IL was not ioih-
,hre against Kent or Cornwall; IT was the pi''
terest and most enduring Of all ieuds, the father
against the son, and the elder sgainstthe younger
brother. Exasperated and exhausting as were
these long and seemingly irreeouclable hatreds,
they did not subyert the monarchy nor dsln-
tegrate the popular power, which has lifted the
United Kingdom to the supremacy of nations.
n MIR. Russell had looked at the reeliug
columns of MarstOn Moor and the utter rout
at Naseby, and thereupOn written the epitaph OF
England, he would have done an act as preln"-
tprely prophetic as he now does when lie
aiugs mOurnful euthaDasa over tie dyins
vasps of the American Union. From these
broken works and ruins Of fraternal encounter
came the proudest of British trinmphs and Ihe
most glorious of her names which, with only the
likeness of kngly crown, left name spoken
with the earlier Caesar and the later Bonaparte
the warrior statesman Cromwell, from whose
leins sprang the freedom for which, after three
quarters of century, we are to renew the
struggle Nor did sovereignty and strength sink
a the turbid waters OF the Thames with the
Great Seal which the fugitive monarch, the last
Of his race cast into It's depths in his flight from
The palace OF his perhaps less unhappy father;
xsr yet again did the glory of the State go into
eclipse when this same fated king Of fated
race took last look of his English heges, IN
arms against him, at the BOyne, and turned to
IN exile which became to him and to his house
q perpetual exclusion. Even the dynasty OF
Brunswick has purchased its security by blood;
and only with the brutal atrocities of the Duke OF
Cumberland at Culloden did the undsputed sway
OF the present reigning family date its tranquil
possession.
The problem we are now to demonstrate is,
whether constitution under which we have had
q rapidity of growth unknown TO other periods
has in it the principle of self.preservatOn. Ample
for ordinary conditions, We must determine
whether it is worth the keeping, for the turbu-
lent outbreaks which have threatened all govern
ments at some period of their growth. For the
hast four years. it must be confessed, its whole.
some restraints have been held in suspension.
Upon our Western border we have had raid and
rapine, aud in our Southern quarter outrage and
invasion Of all the rights of property and person.
THE TRIBUNE, in pocket would secure for the
possessor hOspitabe gratuity of tar and feathers,
and a timid intimatiOn that African Slavery
was not, after all, quite the highest form of
social organization, would invite to hemp and
\ hanging. The delicate attentions of BedOun
Arabs, or the passing cOurteSies of Druses and
, NarOntes, in numbering and robbing Syria,
we're more to be cultivated than the accidents of
journey for business or recreation through the
region from the Potomac to the Brazos. II viii
lead to an erring judgment, unless the progress
an this bitterness is traced to its fountain source
The South have been pampefed by an unchecked
ssurpation of the whole policy OF administration,
which has been enorcca oy au .nsolence of de-
pland and an autOcracy Of use which, to them,
has become q virtual right. Not in methods
only, but in men, they have bed iD grasping
hands alike its perquisites and its power. To
psss the scepter to hands, to them, unliBeal
was a wrestling of prerogatiye, which was
wrong and would sanctify resistance to re-
bellion. In all Of this the North have scquiesced,
but it has been sulen submission. Peaceful,
in the association of peaceful pursuits, they have
waited for satiated appetite and cessation Of
sxactoD, forgetting that acquisition of power as
of everything else, never Pauses while there
is aught to possess. Pressed 10 the point
they cannot pass they are stung by the recolec
tion Of unmanly concessions and ignOninous
compromises, alike without avail; they now
summon up their long arrears of resentment for
mighty retribution. The men who take their
dignifed cOf5e and toast and liBgcr, in their
nastication to study politics in The Joarad Of
Commerce, or hear cOtton-wooied theology in Tie
Nete- York Obserer are now the Radicals of the
uprising commosiOn. The scOrDed relgionist who
read sacred and prOiane history, and saw
the hand OF God and the blight OF disease on
slavery, and raised his voice against it, and the
despised AbOhtionist, whose name was by-word
and Kissing, now jog along quietly behind this
furious vanguard who now comprehend the full
danger on which they have looked heretofore
with flmy eyes. Dir. Russell then may see. il
DO will, the old battles of English Revolutions
fought over on this shore Of the Atlantic BY