New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-05
Tic PRO-SlhA,GnGI REBELLION,
FROM WASHINGTON.
COMPROMISING TO SAVE TIE LOST
TRIBES.
From Our Special Correspondent.

There s great pressure here from mo puSl'
ness and high social circles of all our great cues
for compromise. There is something Saiishianic
In most of the gentlemen and ladies IN pursuit oil
h,rmonv under difficulties, in that word "com-
a. nrom;se.n They have an idea it is something
GOOD "a take. They conceive it to be an article
kept here by Congress IL unlimited quantities;
and they regard it as extremely stngy Of that
body not to be willing to give some to the
South. The Shareholders are supposed to be
clamoring for article in the Congressional cell
bar, and the question ia, why will not the menu
bers unplug to Southern demand And this ls
about the length and breadth of their ideas of
compromise" 1t is something Congress has
got to give, aud something the South waists to
take. Aud they see no more reason why it
should be refused than why the screams Of
sauallipg baby should not be appeased by the
application of the bottle.
But as compromise is not thing to be ls
Sled out Ike the contents Of punch-bovl, these
people manage by hook and by crook, at the
close of their various long feasts which they give
70 members gradually to see tine difficulties that
beset their eti,T-s I}y the looks of the stock
market in New ok GA Saturday, some of them
must have carried home, or sent home, the intel.
Egence that unexpected obstacles existed to
pumping out the requisite amount Of "cOmpro-
mise from the Congressional stock, to answer
Southern demand.
The great fact in our present case is over
booked. The Slaceholding States are IN TerotHt'on
Some in more advanced stages than others, but
Ill alike in revolution. The States which have
hrthest progressed in their rebellion do not want
10 agree to any terms of accommodation short OF
their resumption of the control of affairs IN the
nation from which they have broken away. They
are not rebels who have revolted because of IN
iust exactions Their revolt rests upon the ground
that they have been displaced from power. They
are merely princes in arms to recover throne,
or failing in that, to conquer a kingdom. They
are not subjects liz rebellion against oppression.
They de not desire anything except to be recalled
10 seats of honor and to places Of power. They
do not ask to live in peace and prosperity, and
the enjoyment of their rights under paternal
government. They demand the abdicatiOn of the
regularly Installed Government and that they shall
be allowed to administer it. On these terms. they
are willing to lay down their arms and come
back. But On these terms alone.
But it is thought or imagined that some OF the
States contemplating, though not yet occupying,
The more advanced position Of their confederates,
may be induced to forego their purposes on more
reasonable terms. That they will not ask COM
plete abdicatiOn Of the reigniDg dynasty, but
only to sbare the kingdom. And tue cOmpro-
misers propose to agree to that, aud they think
by doing so the revolution Will be arrested.
Herein is the great error
The Slayeholding States are embarked in
single cause. They are after one object, and
only one. They all alike aim at precisely the
same thing, only by different methods. And 1t
il this fact of diverse method which cOniuses
and deceiyes the Northern cOnprOmisers Al
the Slave States demand the recognition Of slaves
ss property, ard the acknowledgement of their
right to 20 into the Territories with that prop
erty. In a word, they demand the unlimited
extension Of Slavery. its protection, and its ma
tionalizatiOn. Stripped OF ali antiquities and all
yerbiage, this is the essence of their position,
after burrowiDg through and discarding al the
rubbish in which it is sought to enyelOp the
claim. This is the one substantial thing they all
aim at If they cannot have this N the Union,
they mean TO seek it out Of the Union.
Therefore il is that no compromise will answer
for part which viii not answer for the whole
re idea of dividing the Slayeholding States, and
holding part by the offer of concessions that
The remaining portion reject, will prove falla-
cious. 1T cannot be DONE No portion Of the
Slave States can be got to cooperate with the
Free States against another portion of the Slave
States, on any basis whatever. For this will be
deemed coercion" ami this viii not be toler-
sted. Hence, it is the whole or none of these
States that must be proptiated. / repeat
that, when oil is said and done, it will be found
10 the end that the slaveholdng States will be
anti in their demands. And those demands, as
v see By the attitude of the extreme Southern
ker of States, are such that they cannot be
yielded to, except by a complete abdication OF
Che positions taken by the Republican party and
Of the Douglas Democracy in the late Prenden-
iial canvass To make satisfactory compromise,
We must all bow our necks to the yoke of the
Breckenridge platform, which asserts the doc
r-es of the Savebolding States, as just now
expressed.
Compromising now, thus resolves itself wholly
Into the question Of whether this disgraceful sur
render shall be made. Who will make i'll Who
ls ready for the sacrifice, either to save the
Union, or for any other object' Mr.. Crittenden
is, and everybody is who sIstains his resolutions.
And everybody who talks Compromise will uti-