New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-08

Brecklnridges puerllltles. Ibe purpose Oi us
speech is tolerably plain, and is all that gives 1t
value He knows, and we oil know, that there
is in Kentucky very strong Union feeling which
the Disunionsts find very troublesome; aud 1t Is
to combat this that he strives. Accordingly, we
find him attacking those Kentuckians who
"camOr up the Union without condition" who
openly declare that they are satisfied to live
under the Constitution as it liz; he urges item to
make demand for their rights, to present an
ultimatum. He says to himself knowing that he
anxiously desires disnion: 90 If these Border
" States consent to stay in the Union as it now
" stands, all hope of Secession is gone; therefore
" they must be driven out. They must be induced
to demand certain concessions; these the North
evil not grant; then we will raise the cry aloud
% that the South is spurned, and that ts dignity
eau only be asserted by joining the Cotton States.
" But this stupid rubbish about the Union as it is,
Z" this determination TO keep faith with the people
"who have beaten us in an honest and rightly
conducted fight, must be ended, or our pro-
jccts will come to naught."
So Mr.. Breckenridge advocates a Conference of
Border Slave States; he IS determined that this
Conference shall effect only one thing and that ia,
the irritation of the sectional prejudice against
tho North; be and his coadjutors in treason are
determined that whatever compromise is sug-
gested by this Conference shall DO one which the
North cannot accept. And this is the simple
plot to the furtherance of which all his talk
tends. 1t remains to be seen how far it VIII be
successful.
1t happens to suit the plans OF the ex-Vice.
President to be occasionally honest in the ex-
preston Of a truth, aud in the speech under con-
sidcration we have some instances of this willy
candor. He tells HE hearera that I" it is not the
"policy of the dominant party to surrender
single one of their distinctive principles" lie
again declares that the great party of the North
have not the idea of yielding in the slightest de-
gree on a matter of principle. He says that be-
cause the Territories of Colorado and Nevada
were admitted without any express prohibition of
Slavery, such prohibition being made unnecessary
By Nature some people hold THAI the Republi-
cans gre ready to open oil the Territories to the
shareholders; but he warns bis audience against
such mistake. +" II u deluson, idle mockery,
to say that there is any purpose in the Re
publican party TO recognize or protect this spe-
" cies of property in any Territory"
And Mr.. Breckenridge is right. 1t viii be
well for the whole country to understand this
clearly. The Republican party will not recede
foot, will not yield jot Of its principles, so long
as those principles are in accordance with tie
Constitution il supports has ever supported, will
always support No extension Of Sayey-let II
come in what guise it willis the foundation
stone Of American Constitutional Liberty, aud
upon that the foot Of the dominant party is firm
" set Mr.. Breckinrdge is right in this
The Northern people are satisfied with the
Constitution as il ia. If they should to-day speak
10 their brethren of the Border States their word
would be this: If you love the Union as you
say you do, strike hands with US under the
Federal flag, enjoy as well as you may all your
rights, and freely grant us ours. II you are not
satisfied with the rights you have under the Con-
stitution. you are not for the Union, and you
may at once cease your hypocrtical talk. Hold
what conferences you like, prepare compromises,
draw up forms Of concession. arrange plans for
adjustment, then present them to US, and We will
refuse them. II you choose TO save time and
the expenditure of breath, make your decision
now. The Union under the Constitution is our
ultnatum This is tho voice of the North; Mr.
Breckenridge knows it, aud finds it convenient TO
say as much very distinctly. Notwithstanding
the source from which il comes, the Kentuckians
and their neighbors in the Border States will do
well TO heed the saying.