New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-14


your attention to the inevitable consequences OF
the back.doNn you now press upon as. Among
fhe more obvious Of these are tue folio"ing'
I An establishment of the monstrous, anarchi-
cal doctrine that any State may at pleasure ds-
soIre the Union All the Secession performances
of the last two months presuPpcse and are BASED
upon this assumption. Even where, as IN the
CAGE Of Florida, the territory was originally
bought of a foreign nation with the money OF
the American People. and the Five Millions touS
paid have been swelled to nearly Fifty Millions
by the cost of removing externinating Indians.
constructing forts, nayy-yards, lighthouses, &c,
improving roads and carrying mails, 1t IS assumed
TINT the handful of white men now nhablting that
State may, at their own discretion, and for what
ever cause shall by them be declared sufficient, go
ont Of the Union, and take with them all tho
Federal property within and around their State,
without 80 much az saying By your leave Even
the great fort ut Key West. just completed at
cost of million dollars, and constructed, not at
MI for the defense OF Florida especially, but for
the protectou aad security Of American Com
nerce passing through the Gulf il the rightful
property Of Florida according TO tins Doctrine
and may be resumed by her, together with her
independence, whenever. whether in peace or
war. she may see ft to do so! If this DO
| correct then we bavo no Goyernment-we ara
| not n People-we art only mob, such ~ any
6sh.horn may collect, aud any stream Of water
| from hrc.engine disperse. do not hesitate
| 10 pronounce submission TO this assumption
| greater calamity than either Disunlon or ClVn
War. either of which, though calamity, Is IN
it, nature temporary and remodiabe, while the
anarchy involved in the acceptance OF the Multi
fling theory Of government IA chronic and
| incurable.
H. You assume that the South is unanimous
in favor of secession in case We do not assent to
| the Critteuden Compromise, establishing Slavery
in oil present and future Federal territory South
| Of go 30. l emphaticslly deny 1t. Delaware
| has already spurned, with substantial unsnlmity,
| the lures of the Seccssonists. Maryland, sorely
beet on every side, stands noby firm. see no
| evidence that Virginia, North Carolina, hen-
| lucky, Tennessee, or Missouri really intends to
| seeed4 | presume most of them will join IN the
theatrical demonstration now in progress, tor the
| cole purpose Of correcting the North into acqul-
| esccuee in The Crttendcn Compromise; but feel
very sure that not one Of them would do THIS puI
for the hope that il vii prove the Republicans as
! weakened as you are. In plain words, Seces-
| sion is with thee game of bluff. based on
calculation that the North vii agree to anything
| rather than lczc the advantages secured to her
/ by the Union. ardcntly trust that this assump-
ton may prove unfounded
! III. As 20 the Cotton Statcs, l see that they
are virtually in the hands of Pennless aud desPer-
ate adyenturers, intent on plumber and promotion
| WHO maintain Reign of Terror more horrible
| than was endured in France under the WORT e1-
| ce.scs Of Marat and Robespierrc. Thousands oil
letters have already reached this City alone, from
persons who shout boisterously for Secession and
| wear eocLades In order to their lives aud
some remnant of their property, revealing ter
| rorism more fearful aud pcrJading than Paris
| ever dreamed Of. The original plotters Of this
nefar.ous outbreak are disunionist5 Of long stand.
/ he-those oi whom General jackson predicted IN
l-33 that, having tried the Tariff rs an excuse
| Tor di-solying the Union and broken down
| upon II, they would next make preteXt
| Of tle Slavery or Negro questlon;-bat these
have in great part been outstrpped IN tue
race by goddess, thriitless, desperate Diob,
| who uso Secession ~ cloak Tor anarchy
and plumber. / do not belisSe there is a
| State in the SOuth-SOuth Carolina possibly
| excepted--that would tomorrow give majority
| for Secession If every legal voter were free TO
| express his conviction by his ballot But the
| great majority Of quiet, thrifty persons, having
any thing 10 lose. take no part in this rebellion,
and an1iously await the rovstablshment of Liberty
| and Law. They do rot choose to provoke the
| enmity Of the rufian banda now dominant there,
| who are ready to stignatize every Unonist as
| an Abolitiobiat and lynch or hang him according.
ly; 80 they bids their time, anxously hoping that
/ tho carnival Of treason may DO short. conf.
IDENTIFY shsre their aspiration. The simple fact
that the tra!.orp everywhere shrink from submit
ting the question Of Union or Secession to pop
ular vote by balot-that they did not dare risk
| il even in South Carolina--proyes that the con-
spirators and terrorsts understand tho matter rs
do.
~. You coolly assume that tbs seeessionists
would be placsted and restoted to loyalty by tho
passage Of tho Crittenden Compromise. 1 deny
it. Where ia your proof Wherein has South
Carolina, or any other seeding State, justified
your assurance Nowhere. Look through
Hunters recent speech, and say, ii you ean, that
what answers for Mr. Crittenden will satisfy
him. We might eonchate few Southern Union
lists by adopting the Crittenden programme; bat
tina cannine Sace. soniata want nothing and will