New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-14
THE PRO.sLAvERY IDEA OF THE
WAR FOR THE UNION.

Il
WAR FOR THE UNION.
The people of the United States really mean
and earnestly strive to preserve Tor restOre) the
Federal Union. Not in the North only but in
the South also, the intelligent, independent Me-
cbanics and Free LabOrers feel that the disrup-
ton of the Great Republic involves not only polit-
ical degradation but commercial and pecuniary
disaster-that it would require more labor to
earn fair medium livelihood in either section
after disruption than before and that such labor
would be less constant, and procured with greater
difficulty, than of old. Whether this impression
be well or i'll founded, we do not here discuss;
we rest in the notorious fact OF its existence.
This feeling was the basis of much of the old-tme
popular hostility to Abolition, which was repro
bated not as abstractly right or wrong, but as
menacing the keystone Of the arch Of American
prosperity and security. To-day, if the Free
Whites of the Southern cities and villages who
earn their living by their own labor could stop
the Rebellion by an unawed vote, and restore the
Union as it stood one year ago, we are confident
that they would cast that vote by large majority.
If We are ever tempted to despair Of a
speedy triumph of the National cause, it is by
reading the journals which claim to be its
especial champions. Thus The ~. Y. Express,
| in its last issue, declares that
The Republican journssbut yet their readers begin
to comprehend the Hatey-only, the natrie however OF
the war They have pretty well worked into their hssd.,
what ali Union knew in November last thli in goo
graphical civil were to be pounded well a. 70
pound and that the States from the Potomac to the ho
Graude were be Ore but TO be J0sg oTeIiyer
by river mountain by mountain, valley BY valley and that
thus pound and thus to fight need-noi alone the hsf
million Of they have been aiming sfterbu full mil.
non-tbe half million to occupy, what another half mil
oseupy, can subusae the soutSwith Taxes enough
S ON ony y; SSGh s1 y IN the ssn 4. Million ss
likely to be fothcomngunle,s something more done TO
and develop volunteering IN the Central and Eastern
Two powers rule and conquer and ,ubjug.te In this
world the men, money gun'-bg ones, too ships the
genius nspifatiOn-ths is Phiosophy. Although III. Re.
pubcsns have now been pretty well educated up 70 the com
prehensien OF the matyid Of the war they utterly fall yet
70 comprehend the pado,ophy We Union men may As wei
Fst: The subusa,cn Of the South short of million Of
men being utterly impossible and the million Of men
not being ready now, nor 10 be ready before nett sum
mer, II called for may well give up this idea OF
subjugation Indeed such idea has been but
the dream Of few Abolition lecturers and editors who
stay home and rail at soldiers in arms for not turning
, sSiSss.jon. then being 90 costly 90 far OIL so
dreamy SO mpo,sibe-whst foliows1 Should Sbsndon
Government,
but the more and more cling them, and tbs phoso
ply Of coDcisiion compromise, sefsoVemment consttu
second The subjusaon of the South being thus impos
be- resort to the spirit and the elements Of the Con
stituon Of m trainers in 1871 and OF sshngonb Farewell
Address in order bring back the South into the Union
As long the North stands In the attitude it stands be
pEsTRoYER-we looked upon and resisted this hosts
OF Atls Genghs Khan True very true this not the
attitude Of the koIthbut the South believes it Is and the
South had some reason 80 10 beeve-when Fremont Issued
his Unauthorized, seemingly Abolition and COnhscstiou
" The poor whites Of the sonth half slaves them
selves override and this property Of the South at
pressure South and On Abolition terror OF the North Pres
iden Lincoln himself Kentuckan born in the spirit Of Clay
and Crttebden would only 10 his native state and
tell face and through them all Southern
men, TO save. not to destroy to conserve, not to
overthrow that confding presence Of President OF the
United States would be worth fry regiment. to standing
y 1hs Sod SnS bp, Iby bellies n. Govern
and the President bat the moment that lie IL put down
that moment tie Star, Stripes win begin
their magic power in Kentucky missouri, Tsnuo.ee Viz
gina North Carolina and IN Northern Georgia and NoIhen
Alabama. The war will thus be eeded-'
Comments by The Tribune.
We have thus given place, rerbatim, to more
than half of long leader in The Express,
whereof the manifest purpose and drift are to
inculcate the belief that tie restoration Of the
Union is possible only through ne'o Northern
concessions, submissions, guarantees, and pro-
testa,ions of derotiOn 10 Siarery. The same
purpose is evinced by The Herald through its
foolish, bullying attacks on England, its recon-
mendations of joint Northern and Southern
raid on Canada and Cuba, and its clamOrs for
the imprisonment of all ant-Slayery journalists
in Fort Lafayette. Whoever, in the face of this
most AagitiOus and unprovoked Rebellion, clam
Ors for new concessions to Slavery, means that
the Nation shall humble and disgrace itself,
and that JEFF. Davis shall be practically recog-
nized and inaugurated as President Of the
American Republic. Let us patiently expose q
few of the fallacies above quoted from The
Express:
]. What the Nation desires to do and ought
to do is to put down armed, law.defying re.
bsLlion at the South, or wherever it shall be
proved to exist. This is not to subugate the
entire South: ON the contrary it is to rescue
large portions thereof from present subjugation.
East Tennessee is to-day loyal, Union.loyiDg
region, trampled and writing under the iron