New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-16

The Government bestated, tempotized, waited,
forbearipg for moutL even TO attempt the
rel ef of sorely pressed Sumter. 1t would have
fcrborne still longer, had il not been compelled
TO make on effort TO relieve Fort Sumter or see
its little garrison starved out Ii any one
chooses to blame it for this forbearance, we
baye 40 word Of replication.
st length, feeble attempt to provision SUN
ter was made and failed. The fort was bonn
barded and taken. The loyal States instinctivtly
stood to their arms. The President issued ais
pr clamation commanding the insurgents TO dis
p,rse within twenty days aud calog out Seventy
five Thousand Militia to rotake the stolen prop
erty Of the ukted States and reassert its lawful
authority.
What was there in this step which any SIN
cere Unionist could object to- What was there
that was not inevitable if the Union is TO be
maiDtsnedl Could the President be expected
TO submit Indefinitely to an armed defiance Of
his authority in fourth OF the States Must
he tamely acquiesce ia the diversion Of the Fed
efal revenue into hostile chaGnes and the dis
play of hostile Gag from the battlement, Of
half the Federal iOrtressesl Must he submit to
zee Fort Pckens treated Jas Fort Sumter had
Just been7 Ii he should, what lawyer in the
Southern Confederacy would undertake to defend
him if impeached as guilty Of Treason7
Ard vet, because the President did not betray his
trust in this emergency aud let the Federal Gov
ernment drift hoPelessy to utter destruction,
certain sham conservative UnCnists of the South,
led by that purchased conduit of treason, ihe
RcLmOad Ukig, have gone over bodily TO Seces-
sion John Bell in Tennessee and George /.
Badger in North Carolina train in this company
with (it is said William C.. Rives and William
Ballard Preston Of Virginia. Aud nearly all the
late conservative UniODIsts Oi the Border States,
Kentucky excepted are claimed as acting with
them; though this we greatly doubt Doubtless,
thousands now vociierate " No Coercion - just as
our correspondents in the strOnghods of treason
are apt TO wear little larger Secession badges
than anybody else.
We'll: thank God that the touchstone bas been
applied, aud that the laie false friends Of the
Union have been driven into the ranks OF lts
open enemies. If there be " few more lcit
who pretend 10 love the Union bat insist that ii
shall lie still and have it, throat cut, we eXhort
them to "go 20 their own place" at once. They
belong with tue traitors, aud should muster
courage % share their and perils their fortunes
The Union Will be upheld and preserved by those
who believe il has Government, and that Gov
ernment ia clothed with power to resist hos.
tlllies and punish treason. If there be not
enough OF these TO subdue the rebels, far better
the lo.s Of dozen States than submission TO
theory which destroys the Nation, and makes
the Const tuition a mere league between inde-
pendent States, which any Of the II may annul at
pleasure. We trust that the Union is destined
10 emerge triumphant from this conflict without
tbe los OF q single star; but far better even the
slouphirg of Of section than shameful surrender
OF the vitality of the Republic. However bounded,
the Union Of the future will be clothed with un-
questioned power to vindicate its constitutional
authority by suppressing insurrecton aud punish
ipg treason throughout its entire area. Let those
who prefer to live in chronic anarchy, under a
government essentially impotent, eGilgrate at once
10 Spanish America, for they will hardly find rest
for the soles Of their feet under the patrlarchal
sway Of JEFF. Davis.