New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-26
THE PRO-SLAvERY REBELLION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE HERALD,s COMMENTS.

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peBroaches me for the answer / have made to
President Davis's threats TO make the North
smell Southern powder aud taste Southern
Steel" and to lay waste the Free States with
FIRE and sword.
He is no safe counselor or guide who hesitates
70 expose the dread reality Of the contests which
the revolutiODists are madly provoking. 1t Is
with no willing or hostile hand that essay 10
draw aside the curtain that reveals the he'll OF
horrors that lies in the path of civil and servile
war; Instead of desiring to retract or qualify
anything have said, rejoice that have been
able to say that which startles even the arch
fomenter of all disorder-1R Herald itself |
rejoice that that journal seizes upon and circu-
lates the language of warning ! have used, in
circles in which it would not otherwise be heard.
l rejoice if those words can reach the ears of
the tboughtless and tumultuous crowd who stand
surging upon the brink of that awful chasIn,
switch, SO far as human foresight can scan, or
human imagination can iathOm, is filled with the
fire and the blood and the thick darkness OF civil
war"
Instead of decryiDg those who would depict
the fearful consequences of this dreadful strife,
bet The Herald turn its batteries of rhetoric and
denunciaton upon lluse who are aiming to bring
it on. Let it's InyocatOns be addressed to thOse
insane agents of destruction who are engaged in
undermining the foundations of the great temple
of peace and prosperity in which we all dwell,
and whose fall will involve all in common ruin
Let it heap its imprecatOns upon those desperate
cODspifators who have leagued together TO over
turn the fairest fabric OF human govern
ment ever reared by man, and who, with
arms in their hands, marching with fren-
zed fanaticsm TO accomplish their fell purposes.
Let it hurl its choicest anatbemGs, being assured
il will fall short of their Just dues, upon those
architects of ruin who would drag the Border
Slave States into the yawnmg golf of a fathOm-
hess calamity. And let it cease its vain and mis-
placed appeals to those who have done no wrong,
and mediate no wrong, but have only succeeded,
by peaceabc and constitutional means, to the adj
ininistratiOn of the Government.
1t is these consprators, who are now imperil-
ing the peace, and the honor, and the prosperity,
and the existence Of the Union and the Govern
ment, that demand universal excavation; and
who are responsible in the eye OF the world, and
of History, and of Eternal Justice, for what
dire consequences may flow from the commissions
they have already caused, and the greater ones
that impend Wien We reflect upon what this
nation is, in its exuberant enjoyment OF peace
and happiness and elevation, OF distinction,
greatness, and glory, which mantle and float
around it like garment, and contrast that con-
dition with the understandable discord and disrac-
ton and woe which they would bring upon IT,
is it any exaggeration for Inc to say that those
conspirators seem but the brainless spawn OF
some malignant influence rushing upon GER
tain and frightful DOOM" Do they not seem
to be impossible creations of humanity, who
would peril and sacrifice all the unspeaSable bies-
sings that have flowed from this Union and Govern
ment for no cause whatever which mankind or
history is to-day willing to recognize or approve
In fact, from no cause whatever, beyond vngue
and groundless apprehension Of possible danger in
the remote future, stimulated by pride, and pas
sion, and political disappointment.
1t il not vet too late to bring men back TO
consciousness of their folly and their danger in
unlOosing the hounds Of civil war; and We may
all be thankful that the very humblest words,
used TO pursuade the reason or alarm the fears
of those who would igDorantly or wjllfully pre-
ciptate it, obtain the widest currency. If there
Do danger that civil society," anywhere in this
broad country is to be levelled with the dust, in
Gods name, let it be loretold and proclaimed
everywhere. Let not the country rush blindly
and ignorantly upon fate over which the angels
shall weep, and which history shall chronicle in
letters of blood.
And will the men Of the Border Slave States.
in whose bands are clasped the Issues Of the fu-
ture, and on whose action depends the very exist
ence of those States, perhaps, embrace, volun-
tarily embrace the dire alternative of rshing the
last fatal plunge into the bloody whirlpool of civil
strife in preference TO holding fast to that Union
aud Government where all their past glories are
garnered and whore all their future hopes are
ancbOred2
The progress Of events is rapid. Already,
deeds of violence are perpetrated and threatened,
until they reach sven the person Of the President
himself Have Virginia and Mary land no interest
in arrestng the furious currents Of revolution,
and maintaining the supremacy Of law and order,
aud the unity Of the Government Or do they
court the overflow Of the volcanic tides that bub-
BILE and seethe in the huge craters Of popular
passion, of which the deeds and threats referred
10 are gllmpses
These are problems and questions with which
they have to deal, and in which, it is safe to
say, none are more interested than they. Let
ma hone their decision will he cFedifabL dixie IN