New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-13

have full power over all thu matters in dispute.
That Convention might amend the Constitution
10 any manner deemed desirable; 1t might author
ize a peaceful separation if certain States were
determined to 20 out. AS the Republican voters
of the entire Union are but Two Millions against
Three, it is scarcely possible that that Conven.
ton should not have an anti.Republican majority.
Our prefer of a Convention, therefore-made at
tho instance Of slayeboding but CGion-ioving
Kentucky-was in effect an offer to let our op'
pOnents fix the Constitution to suit themselves.
1t was an offer which our antagonists bad but to
close with to secure all the ends at which they
proposed TO aim.
Why was il contemptuousy rejected with
out being even considered by the party which
had originated it
Why is a parade still kept up of making the
Crittenden Compromise panacea Tor our
troubles, when not even Que seeded state-not
even one prominent SecessiOnist-has offered TO
accept and be satisfied with that Compromise!
To the first question we answer-Because the
NuIlifers had fully determined to break up the
Union by usurpation and traitorous vioIencei to
the second-Because the Northern allies and
tools of these Nufers were bent on binding
the People to the true character and real objects
OF that treason. They mean to make the Ignorant
believe that Secession is consequence OF Lin
coins election. when in fact that election is but
its preex and one deliberately plotted for by the
Nulhfers themselves. They broke up the Demo
cratic party at Charleston and Baltimore last
year with full, deliberate intent TO put the Re
.publcans into power at Washington, hoping
thereby to compass their long medtated end.
Disunion has long been their ohject-Aboltion is
the bugbear wherewith they brighten the South
ern people into their tolls. The Northern Democ-
racy, whom they deliberately divided aud betrayed
in the canvass of 1860, are now used BY them to
mislead, confuse, and thus paralyze the friends
of the Uaion in the Free States. Had they not
been bent on fomeuting civil war-had they really
wished peaceful redress of their alleged griey-
ances within the Union--they would have closed
promptly and gladly with the offer of National
Convention.
Never before was o rebellion causeless, so
wanton. so fendish. Ii the Russian mobiles were
and establish an omnipOtent Oligarchy instead, in
order to prevent the abolition of serfdom, they
might make brave parade of cOndscated prop
erty, of violated rights. But the Shareholders
implicated in the Secession conspiracy cannot
pretend that their detestable dominion over the
souls aud bodies of their fellow.beings was
assaled or even questioned by the Government
which they have combined to oyerthrow-thst
their legal right (what mcnstrous peryersion Of
terms y to buy and sell men, women, and chi.
dreu, was in the slightest danger Of disturbance.
Misled by ambitious dcmagogues who have moth
ing to lose and everything to gain by scramble,
they have plotted the overthrow of that Union
which was their stronghold, their chief security.
Bitter viii yet be their curses of the villains
who have ensnared them TO THEN ruin