New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-07


ences and maintain the integrity OF the Union.
They do not doubt your sincerity nor your pat
riotism They realize that, even when you mcst
wronged yourself in upholding the policy EN-
bodied in the Nebraska bill and the consequent
dragooning of the free settlers Of Kansas with
intent to bend their necks to the yoke of
Slavery, YOU WELDED to a local ignorance and
prejudice which you could not control, aud
which, because you would not minister unre-
servedly to its wild exacticns, has consigned you
TO private life after the 4th of March next.
They make due allowance for the ierocity OF the
Pro- Slavery fanaticism which has thus ostracised
You, and leniently judge that, though a holder
man might have done better an average man
would have done worse; and they are NOT I'M
grateful for your honest and earnest efforts to
save the Union from disruption and the country
from the horrors of civil war. They feel sure
that. were the People of the Slave States
in the average as enlightened and a. just
as Won are, the dangers now impending might be
dispelled or averted. Nevertheless they do not
and will not assent to the Compromise proposed
BY you-that is a fixed fact. Here and there
one who never shared their convictions but only
affected them in order to get himself elected to
some high Office, or who owns real estate IN ASH
inQton CITY and feels that it is likely to be
ruined by Disunion, or who has great Railroad
contract in Missouri or some other Slave State,
| and NAV be broken by the depreciation of that
States bonds, or who is lame duck in the
| Stock Market and hopes to win back all he has
lest and more with it if Compromise can be
! fixed up, may accede to your project or to some
thing equivalent; but ninety-nine of every humid
red Republicans are opposed to any such bargain,
and will not be concluded by it if made. More
over. thousands of Democrats and of Conserva-
tives who stood with you on the platform OF
The Union, the Constitution, and the enforce
| rnent of the Laws" are also opposed to any
| such arrangement while the Federal authority is
defed and the Union threatened with subversion.
| Let me briefly set forth the reasons winch unite
| the North in resistance TO any Compromise at
present:
/. One State to-day is in open rebellion against
| the Federal authority; others are preparing to
follow her Immediately Federal arsenals and
forts. containing great numbers of cannon, many
thousand stand of arms, and great quantities OF
military stores, have been seized and are now
held by the insurgents not IN South Carolina
only, but in Georgia, Alabama, and believe
other Slave States which have not yet declared
themselves out of the Union. The slender Fede-
raj garrison of the forts in Charleston harbor IL
this hour in peril of destruction by an overwbelm-
ing rebel force, and not only its commander but
the President of the United States is rallied at
and DETAINED because that commander has con-
ceutrated his three or four score soldiers In that
fortress where they can hold out longest and sell
their lives most dearly. The Federal Custom
House at Charleston has been turned over to
| the State, and the late L. S. Collector assumes
to clear vessels the authority of the nation OF
| South Carolina. That pseudo nation assumes to
be out of the Union, withdraws her Members from
| Congress. and sends ambassadors to Washington
as to foreign capital. In view Of these high
| handed proceedings, and the scarcely dlssembed
meDaces that all the Federal forts in the South
will soon be seized by the Disuni0nists, and the
inauguration of Lincoln at Washington on the 4th
.of March next prevented by an insurgent force,
| the People Of the Free States very naturally
repel any Compromise that will enable these
| rebels to boast that they have frightened or
backed down the North. We are not frightened
hereabouts; we do not feel bit sorry for what
we have done; and we do not capitulate to
traitors. If, then, what you propose were in
herently admissible, We could not assent to il now
III. need not tell you that what you propose
| (the line of go 80, with free course to Slavery
| below it) has been thrice offered to and thrice
rejected by the Free States. We deem it unfair
on many grounds, but conspicuously because,
when Louisiana, Florida, and Texas were sue
cessiyeiy acquired, the fact that they were pre-
viousy slavehOlding was relied on to bar any
demand that they should henceforth be even
half Frees and we insist that the rule which
| gave them to Slavery now cOnsecrates New
Mexico and Arizona to Freedom. You would
not expect Republicans to vote for your project
| if there were no threats and no danger OF Dis
union or violent resistance to Mr.. Lincoln's rule;
and you must not hope to extOrt from our fears
| what you could not expect US to concede from
| sense of justice. You do not mean to degrade
US; but your proposition, if accepted, would have
that effect; and you must allow us to judge what
il due TO our own honor.
III. Your friends in the Slave States do not
talk right. Take the following samples from the
resolves of Union meeting held on the LIST inst,
in your own city Of Frankfort, KY, and ad'
dressed by your friend, Gen. Combs:
18th That the revolutions Of compromise submitted BY Mr.
Crttenden 4 s. Senate should met with prompt
copance the people all the States and by their constituted
and while ask for nothing pM sub
20 nothing iess.
eh That condemn oil hssty and pecp,ae action by in