New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-04
AUOUT FIGHTING.

There either is or there is not Union party
in the Gulf States. We do not mean to imply a
doubt that there are thousands in those States
who love the Union and utterly condemn the
Pro.Slavery Rebellion as inexcusable and wicked:
for we are assured through q hundred channels
that majority of the People in nearly or quite
every State but South Carolina are Of that faith.
The simple fact that the JEFF. Davis oligarchy
dare not submit then Confederate Constitution
to popular ordeal proves this beyond cayil.
That Constitution is not essentially bad one in
some points, it is an improvement on the Fed
eral, which it assumes to supersede. The main
if not the only reason why votes would be cast
against it is, that the people condemn the Sc
cession movement and in their hearts yearn to-
ward the good old Union of their fathers. Yet
even in South Carolina the Confederate Consti.
tuition is not submitted to the People for ratif-
cation. Can there be dOubt as to the reason
But Union party Of sheep will answer no
purpose; and il there is no party on the Gulf
that dare speak out for the Union and will not
shoulder arms in its defense, there might as well
be none at all. If the Precpitators" can awe
to silence all Southern voices but their own we
may as well regard them hencefOrth as to all in
tents the unanimous South.
Messrs. Unionists of the South this is your
fight Are you prepared to play a manly part
in it : If not, we may as well give it up first
as last. BE not deluded with idle dreams of
reconstruction; heed not the mOusing poll
ticians who are spinning their little webs of in
f., Of 70 If ittot
PEELED BOurbOns; for if the Federal flag is once
ANONYMOUSLY expelled from the Gulf States, it
will not return. The logic of events is too pa
tent to be thwarted by the schemes of little
juntos of justly displaced ofice-bolders. Were
Texas once fairly out Of the Union, we should
protest against her return to it as yehemently as
we did against her first coming into it, If she
does not know enough to stay and behave herself in
Union which spends Five Millions per annum
to defend her and carry her Mails, receiving less
than One Million in all back again, she will GER
tainy stay out if she ever gets out Even the
Northern Democracy, which fought desperate
uphill battle to bring her in and barely sue
ceeded through adverse blunders and divisions,
will count her cost-DOt so little as One Hundred
Millions up to this hour-before deciding to fight
her in again.
We believe the new Administration has done
right In hestating, pauSng, considering, taking
account of stock, before rushing upon the for
midsble batteries that surround Fort Sumter
We believe it was right 10 exhaust all reasonable
chances Of pacific solution before giving the
order which, however imperative, must in.
augurate civil war. We believe it well that our
Government should stand conspicuously apart
from those "whose feet make haste to shed
blood" And now, the first question to be
decided is, Is there Union party in the seeded
States mot merely the tmid and voiceless units
out Of which, with the addition Of needful pluck,
such q party might DO constructed. but the vital