New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-31

and tie scales better than the musket and the
gun-carri0ge Not, however, that it is to be
blamed therefor; all things are good in their
place-the arts Of peace, aud the arts Of war,
when war is for good cause.
To avert the probability Of even such con-
lct, trade is always ready to sacrifice everything
else. III times Of peril, when national honor,
when great questions Of right, when future peace
ard far-of justice are TO be purchased at the
price Of present sacrifice merchants are bad
cOunselOrs. They are true to their interest, aud
that demands always tranquility and order. In
the nature of things, it is careful to be early
represented when political disturbance is threat
eied, because Of all interests it is earliest and
most easily influenced.
We have no complaint TO make because dele
cations Of the most influential character from the
great commercial centers hasten to Washington
at this crisis Of our national affairs IL is natural
and inevitable that it should be so. Nor would
We, if use could, prevent their having their due
influence. But we protest against their being
received, in tho absence of tie representatives of
other classes, or because they may possess a
prepOnderating consideration from social and
business position, rs the wcightiest or truest
representatives Of Northern feeling New-York
City is not the State Of New-York; Boston is
not Massachusetts,; Philadelphia is not Pennsyl
yauia. The men who own ships, and warehouses,
factories and founderes, have much at stake, and
when they counsel prudence, and moderation,
and concession, let their counsel be SO needed as
TO be check upon hasty end passionate action.
But the men who fill the workshops, and till the
farms, and work the quarres and the mines,
who consume the merchandise which ships fetch
and carry, WHO use the products Of fOunderies
and factories, though they send no delegations
TO Washington, aud rely only upon the public
press to make their voices heard, are, never
theless, the jury who will decide in the end
upon the acts Of their Representatives in Con-
gross, ard Judge them with righteous judg-
ment. In tins large class there is no timidIty
and no hesitation. They accept tie fact of an
ncipient revolution and do not shrink for an IN
slant from the alternative which the South forces
upon the Free States, of Concession or Seces.
SION They abide by the decision they made at
the balot-boy in November, aud cOncede nothing.
They will not even concede the consideration Of
concession TO rebels with arms in their hands,
to traitors who have betrayed their country, to
maraudcrs who have robbed it. They ask TO try
conclusions now with the revolving States, and
want no parcy; the question Of Compromise
they hold to be not in order so long az the party
asking it, or on whose behalf it is asked, main.
tain threatening attitude, insist upon adher-
ing to their policy of aggression, and ayow their
purpose of proceeding TO still further Outrages If
the Federal Government moves q man in defense
OF itS own.
The people Of the North, We know, so far as
il is possible TO learn the current Of popular
opinion and feeling, in towns and villages, in
fields and workshops, everywhere where the COM
mon peOpe-thc strength of the millionaire un-
corrupted by the mere trading interest, of COM
mercial centcrs, uncOntaminated by the close and
sitting atmosphere of shops, with wider range
OF VISION tEan shelves OF dry goods end ware
houses of cotton and groceries, ask first that the
majority Of the law shall be indicated that the
strength of the Federal Government shall BIZ put
forth to its property and quell rebellion,
that there shall be no weak and watering policy
suggestive even of the possibility of the sightes.
sacrifice Of the rights Of Free States and Free
Labor; aud then, when this is DONE il the
South-suppliant and modest as a people should
be who ask that something may be conceded to
their weakness, their folly, and their misfortune
shall sue for consideration people, strong in
the might Of material power and of truth viii
mete to them that measure Of magnanimity their
unhappy case demands. This ID the popular feel.
ing Of the North and any other representation Of
it is a misrepresentation, and is sure to miscsd
those WHO are lured to follow il.