New-York daily tribune., 1861-03-05
THE PRO-SLAyERY REBELLION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
GETTING OUT ON TO, DRY LAND
xFu BACK OF COMPROMISE. BRoKEN-TiiE BOX
nrR SLAVE STATES.


yuo ara eettine out of the surf. and are climb.
aae toward the dry rock. If no bad wave washes
ma back again, we shah escape. We have been
Aeating about so long among the fOgs and break
srs of Compromise, that it is relief to see an
spen channel again, and behold the sun bursting
through the clouds. We had no business amld
tre dangers that have environed our path. Noth'
Ing but bad pilotage ever took us upon tue
treacberous shoals and ledges where we have
barely escaped laundering.
The back of compromise believe to be broken.
Cur smiable and innocent opponents VINO nave
no modestly sought to get possession oi kePuo-
hcan Administrative and surrender its creators
and natural supporters TO the tender mercies oi
iAesr dire enemies are foed in their purposes. 1t
raises blqsh to think there was ever any
esound afforded for the hope thst such scan
aslous enterprise was possible.
"Let this safe maxim be my virtues guide;
He comes too who comes to be denied"
n the Republican party has escaped seduction
Il has not been because it has not been taken
&own 10 the Five Points Of politics and subjected
70 temptations But the virtue of the party has
Aesp too great for its bawds. And by these let
sae not be understood as meaning gentlemen VINO
have simply engaged in holding out tne ol'e-
branch of Cancellation and goodwill, but those
who have said what they could and have done
what they could to undermine its virtue ana 10
make it yield to the insolent demand OF those
Who have looked upon it as only victim 10 De
ssyished.
The representatives of the Republican States in
fAo Peace Convention who have voted for the
measures which finally passed that body, are e1-
nusples of the class / refer to. They have gone
and consented to capitulate to the men, and the
iatsresSs, and the party, whom the kepuohcans
arfeatedNfairy defeated-in the Presidential cleo
hoa. And they may, if they WILL already see
What thanks they get for their treachery ana
puaiIlarimity. The Virginia Secessionlsts VINO
were in the Convention, and others who were
net are Just as arrogant, and imperious, and
revolutionary as the South Carolina traitors them
selves: and they have gone home only 10 denounce
The surrender Of the North made in Convention
m not sufficiently complete ard unconditional. The
ieaders who have been 30 very clamorous Tor con-
ecpion and compromise in the Border Slave States,
are lust thoee men who have not intended To be
Snfisfed with anything less than the absolute
,andoiug Of the Presidential election, and The
,,eou;se of the North never to do so any more.
..hey have demanded, and do demand, not only
As virtual extinction Of the Republican party,
but the unqualified abdicatisn and surrender oi
Ae position of the entire Douglas Democracy.
The audacity of their claims surpasses aoythlng
40 the past history of our politics. And it is
ssle. and worse than idle, and has been so from
Ia thpIn. IL,
Ar,olvea a humiliation Of conduct that emitted
yhe party, of whom the demSnos "ere maui "
,.,.h,no better than the contempt of those
who insuted it with those demands. And
n would seem that everybody might have reeog-
uiyed the fact long ago. But now that even
witbered politicians like John Tyler, have gone
down, fresh and warm from their seats In the
Convention, only to spit upon and e1ecrate the
sery platform which they have built by the AID
,f tinlid and hollow Republicans, one would think
That nobody can longer doubt as to the real pur.
pases OF these Border Slave State Secessionsts
Everybody must now see that what these dis
ssrbers of the peace Of the country meant, and
fAe lesst they meant, was that all the Northern
psliticsl Observation-Disclosures men, Bell men,
and Lincoln men-shoud succumb before their
railing imperiousDess, and accept the terms
-xsuchsafed by them and their revolutionary cen-
sederates in arms
Perhaps the lesson may have its uses, and
rood come of it. Some animals are born with
their eyes open, but somo require nine days
pupilage. Let US cherish the hope that
nh Republicans, even those who are 80 from the
dictates of self-interest only, may soon see that
ihere is but one course open tO the Admlnlstra-
tion, that promises success; and that is the ex.
ercise Of the legitimate powers Of the Govern
tassnt 10 the direct line of their principles. This
r. clear and solid ground, that every Republican,
md every Democrat, and all the world, can un-
asrstaDd end will appreciate. 1t is the path Of
duty, it is the path of honor, it is the path Of
xeetitude, it is that win alone save the Govern
tpont, and we believe it is the path of
triumphant success. But whether this prove
10 be 30 or. not, must be left to time
as6 event to determine. IL is enough
Ear o party and an administration to de-
Isuye succers. II is beyond their power 10 com.
ssxand II. But it is scapdalOus 70 attempt 10 win
gsccess by casing to deserve it. None Of the
'boaeessioDs Of position or principle that have
been 80 strongly urged upon Mr.. Lincoln and the
Republican patty cen be made, consistently with
4hsse views; and il is coDsOhDg to think Dat we
have reached, or are about reaching the author.
astive assuraDce that they are not b. be made.
Tbe argument that yielding the territory south
,sf $50 so to Slavery is Only to yield barren