New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-16
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FROM PHILADELPHIA.

MAKING PRoGREss-How WE STAND THE CRISIS
REMEDY wANTED-CoLORED ExoDUs-sAvAL
ACTIvITY-FUGITIvE SLAVES.
From Our Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13, 1861.
The public chafes impatently under the trying
delay between the exit of q dead President and
the advent Of live one. Hope and confidence
have sustained Us thus far, but time never moved
with pace 80 cruelty slow. The calendar makes
this month the shortest Of the twelve, but every
man can testify that February never seemed TO
be so long. We move impatient and restless az
q Gagged bear, shocked at the past, anxious for
the present but exutant at the future. Don't
heed the story that all Republicans here have
backed down from the lofty position they oecu-
pied three months ago. There are hsil spirits
among those VITO voted with us, there are
elsewhere; but can you be made 20 believe that
that State which gave 10000 majority for Ln-
coin can become even measurably debauched by
fear into q single dishonorable concession Not
40 by any means. We echo back the heart.
cheering cry 30 loudly and consistently raised by
THE TRIBUNE TO stand firm on the Constitution
and Laws as they are. Our masses ask no
better charter than these and we have the strong
eat faith in believing that when the country has
live Government, in which honest men only pre-
side totally different condition OF things VIII be
apparent But il is hard TO bear up under the agony
OF this dreadful delay, and we are chatting to be- up
and doing. Yet by heavens blessing We have mace
some progren-the counting Of the votes Tor Presl-
dent has been secured-the world does move, and
in this crisis the suns shadow Will not be per-
mitted 10 20 back on the dial. This community has
had from your columns clearer indications Of It's
great duties more cOpiOus and reliable Information,
and more soul-stirnng inv0catlons TO stand up I'M
hinchingly to the mighty work OF conscience on
which the Republican party first rallied aud then
triumphed than all other Oracles beside. Ihlh con-
scientious duty fulfilled, your reward VIII be I'M
speakable, and the nation itself VIII experience the
recompense of preservation.
Ii is now beginning to be our opinion that Seces-
sion ia on the high road 10 being played Quits
back broken, it's efervescence subsidlng IN TACT
gone 10 seed. Sumter will not be attacked, ln-
deed we never really believed il would be; and
Pickens is too dangerous customer TO be grappled
with Secession evidently staggers TO Its gn0minl-
Gus fall Lincoln's enthusiastic reception ON ms
progress TO Washington shows what KIND OF hearts
are beating in Northern bosoms, and that II they
thus cluster spontaneously round his mere presence,
what clouds of them will gather should he ever
sound the trumpet for rally under the flag OF the
Union! Thanks to Republican backbone for these
evidences OF substantial progress townrd peaceful
and permanent solution. Thanks TO The TRIBUNE
for It's sturdy defiance when Others, once seemingly
as brave, gave way with pusillanlmous alacrity.
The country will assuredly remember both. These
indications are having the happest effect Men
breathe freer, stocks brighten, and the interval 10
the Inauguration loses something of its semblance
10 Young eternity. Mr.. Lincoln will have al eX-
ultant reception here. Few of us bnow HIM per-
sonay but the confidence all feel IN his ability,
his integrity, his frmness, il most remarkable: IL
has been strengthened by everything he has SAID OF
done since his election. His little farewell speech
in the car-house at Springfield has won all hearts
by ts touching pathos, and it's reliance on the DIVINE
aid His demonstration at Cincinnati was equally
happy and far more significant. II his progress
South is 10 he signalized by healing enunclahons OF
this kind, in harmony with what Republicans de-
mand. and directly contradicting every allegation
from the South what may not the whole country
realize when it reads his Inaugural Other men III
like straits have Numbered into greater ones "hen-
ever they ventured to speak or write But our hero
wins favor at every occasion, confirming Inc WaVer-
ing and strengthening the weak aud in all respects
assuring us that he is the man for tins emergency
Capital here is extremely abundant, but not 30
accessible as when confidence abOunds and business
hurries briskly along. There is plenty OF money
but no getting at it, The banks are able 10 take an
the prime paper Offering because business Is so duh
that very little of it is being made. EXTENDED pa
per that hangs over from 1857 can very rareiy oe
done at any rate, and even good paper tha' doh
happen to BE- generally known goes up to TWO per cent
a month. The middle of this month ought 10 Driig
us the pioneer buyers from the South but there are
faint Indications of even the least movement IRON
that quarter and 10 fact no business has been 81.
pected from it, Secession and suspension together
have taken away al ability In the South 70 buy ieI