New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-14
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..


Tbere have been good many revolutions III
this world but very few that have been perma'
ne,t II ia very true that revolutions don't go
backward. But it is equally true that one reSo-
luton is generally followed by another. France
and Italy have amply exempfed this TRUTH
Int il is attcsted with greater significance
still in the tropical ard somi-tropical re-
pions of this continent. South America,
Central America and Mexico, have no other
than revolutionary history. One revolution
is hardly ended before another is begun.
Our Southern brethren share The passionate
heats opgcndered by tropical influence, and
which flow forth in these neyer-endng revOlu-
tionary efiorts Texas ia hardly cold from
her old revolution against Mexico and her new
one into the American Union. South Carolina
has been trying to Get revolution on foot for thirty
years. Georgia has (llibusteTed in smaller de-
gree, but with the same sort Of temper for hardly
shorter period.
How long will il be, then, after the present
shareholders revolution is ended, before counter
revolution is begun TO undo what the frat has
accomplished If revolutions beget revolutions
anywhere, surely they viii do it at The SOUTH
especially amsng such cOnceited, egotstic,
theatrical people as those Of South Carolina.
Especially will this be so when revolution shai!
have been made easy under the Secession dogma,
which is to be- the cor er.stOne Of the new Con-
fcderacy We need never expect South Carolina
and Georgia to say nothing OF other Southern
States, to be long satisfied anywhere. They are
always aggrieycd and in hot water about some
thing. If it is not about negroes, it is about
Indians; and if il is not Indians, il is the tariff
They have chronic love Of the Gipsy style
Of political life. They can't camp lorg in one
place They viii begin their peregrinations
soon after taking up their first abode. They will
ne merely league Of tinerating States. lt viii
be Union to-day and Secession tomorrow. South
Carolina will be- the chief of this peripatetic
school. With knapsack ard frelock always
swung. she will follow the dictates Of her irrsci'
bilty, and Ay from pillar to post, disgusting all
her associates by turns, the Ishmael OF tue seced'
ing tribes until at last she win reap the full har
ye-t Of her deserts b. being let alone to the ten
der mercies Of her black population, and falling
before their rcsistlcss growth. qhe black South
Carolina Of the future We may expect TO be some
day capable Of selfgovernment. But this is too
much to anticipate Of the white South Carolina
Of our times.
But whatever counter revolutions and cOnsul-
sions, either near or remote. may be the result
Of the Secession movement, it is certain that
not ono Of the seeding States, after its deper-
lure shan have been formally permitted by the
central power, (if indeed, that should ever hap
pen) will ever be allowed TO return b the
Union, until Il shall have got rid OF Slavery, and
it may be, Of its black population. We may
coon re-absorb the Border States on the basis of
both these conditions. But II IL the doom Of cor.
tain Of the lower tier Of States, to carry the
burden Of the African race throughout centuries
10 come. In the event of separation, all that is
vigorous and healthy, and that can be made 70
minister 10 the national growth and life, will be
ultimately culed from the difntegrated masses
Of the seeding Statel leaving the residue 10 the
operation Of the laws Of moral putrelacton over
those districts of country where the curse of
Slavery shall find its last resting-plaee. What is
finally to become of this retiduum, under the in
nuence Of those regenersting forces which are
born Of decay and decomposition, is q probbm
which no one will now undertake TO solve.
But that separation vii lead to increased pros
periy among the loyal ststes, and bring TO an
end the great evil and anomaly Of Slavery among
Ms with greater rapidly than would otherwise
be possible, there can be little doubt. Slavery
certainly cannot stand IA well without the pro-
lection Of a great Government Ike that Of tho
United States as with it. We may expect, also,
that its dying struggles will be less violent and
disaitrous 10 the national interests than if It
wen. on gathering strength from tie protection
of Free States. .'.....
Thus, in every point of view, the issue of sep-
nrntion, which is being urged upon the country
By the reyolutonists, may be regarded with COM
parstve complacency BY the North. While il must
awaken feelings Of regret and modification in all
patriotic hearts, the consolation will yet remain
that, so far as man can discover TO great inter.
est Of humanity viii suffer by it.