New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-05

and distinctly presented by The Senator from
Louisiana in his place in the Senate chamber
They profess themselves wiling tO brave it all
ay, wecOWe it al-sOOner than submit ~ con-
stitutional decision Of the people in regard to
the election Of a President for the brief term Of
four years. Was there ever such gigantic folly
and madness And viii the Border Slave States,
that have hitherto neither entertained nor con
teWplated any such hideoas purpose, allow them
selves to be suddenly and unthinkingly hurried
into such friehtful abyss as thjsl Unless the
people of those States shall become utterly be-
reft Of all reason, it seems impossible. Let them
panse while there is yet time. This National
Government will be preserved. This Capitol
will be retained and maintained at all hazards
No matter what it costs, no matter what the
sacrifice. 1t win be dole.
| 1t is TO be hoped the President will be prompt
ed by this last intelli sence from Georgia to
emerge from the dangerous and fatal delusons
by which he has been encouraged and blinded,
and come out into the light of day and see his
own ard the cOuntry's position in its true light.
1t is not too late for bin TO retrieve his reputa-
tion and receive the forgiveness if not the bene-
dictions Of bis countrymeu who mean to stand
BY the country and its fag And they are mil
hons. and they will with the might o'
millions. .............- % O. r.
THE GEORGIA FORTs-DAKER's SPEECH.
Prom Our speeia Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 3, 1861.
The conse quences of the vacillation tmidity,
and imbecil,y Of the President, are just begin
ling to show themselves. The news that Georgia
has seized even before seeding, upon the two
principal forts of that State, which guard the
bsrbOr of Savannah, is announced this morning.
One of them, Fort Pulaski, is powerful fort
ress, mounting $50 guns, IS Of which are 81
Founders, SO of them 24-pouDdes, and 22, and
lO.nch mortars and bowitzers. Fort jackson,
the other fort seized, mounts IA guns, of which
10 are 24.pounders.
This, suppose, is but the beginning. Every
uDguarded port Of the South is now likely to
fall in quick succession into the hands Of the
revolutionists. l presume we may expect to hear
Of the loss of the forts of Mobile and at the
mouths of the Mississippi without delay How it
forts at Pensacola, do not know. Everything
may fall, if not captured where there is no force,
then by treachery and treason where there is.
If the Government had acted with vigor and
celerity at the start there would have been no
difficulty of this sort. A, it is, time, which now
flies quickly in the operations Of the revolution
ists, will soon disclose t. US the result the future
has in store.
Dir. Bakers speech receives high praise for its
great ability. But the secessOnists no longer
care for talk. The most Of them busted them
selves during its delivery reading and writing,
excepting Mr.. Benjamin, whom he 80 badly
roasted. 1t locks now as though the revolution
lists meant to 90 on and take possession of all
the United States forts and arsenals and navy
Yards in the South which can be taken, and
while this 10 doing TO sit here in Congress aud
obstruct all measures designed 10 tbwart or pun
ish such proceedings. They also design to pre-
vent, if possible, the counting of the votes BY
which MIR. Eincoln was made President Mr..
Toombs avowed this latter purpose before leaving
Ge0Igs. They may be expected to make the
revolution, which they have now formally com
menccd by seizing the United States forts and
arrcnals in Charleston and Savannah as thorough,
as formidable and as widespread az possible
What can be SO preposterous % proposing
compromises on the Slavery question to men en-
gagged in such traitorous work J. 3. T.