New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-05
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
SIN: Allow me YOUR journal to make few remarks
upon the complications Of The United States Of Amer
lea which, | am surprised to find, so little undeT-
stood is side of the Atlantic.
of the United States of America" to use the language
of our Conslituti0n fighting TO mar tain our ma
ti0HaIty, and the YTlHtpicS u HbTty upon %hlen IL
was fonnded-that nationality which Great Britain
has pledged bersef both by past comfy and the led
Obligations of treaty respect; those great principles
OF liberty that all power is derived from the consent
of the governed; tiI by jury freedom OF eech aud
the press; that " without i0tg there is liberty -
which we inherited from Great Britain herself, and
which having been found to lie at tie base OF all pro-
gres and civilization, we desire 10 perpetgae lor our
selves and the future of all the nations The socaed
"Coufederate States Of America rebel against us
against our nationality and sgainst all the principles
Of It's structure Citizens of the United Sates-oi the
one Government mot Of COniederated States as they
would have the world believe-but of us the Peo-
pie they propose not by common legal consent, bat
by arms our nation into separate independent
cie'. Claiming TO be let alone" they confPire
against u.s. seize by force forts stores and arms
appropriate themselves our mints moneys and yes
,es at sea- capture armies, and threaten even the
caTitol at Washington
The word " secession is used 70 cover mp treason
and deude the nations They stand 70 us IN the rea-
tion of one people" the idea OF " State soNe-
reipnty" is utterly deusiye. We gave up the old
Confederation 10 avoid Just such complications as
have now occurred. The States by our COnstltu-
tion derived of all the rights Of independent sove
regns and TIE National Government acts not through
State ORGANIZATIONS but directly upon the CITIZENS OF
the States themselves-to that highest Of power, The
right of life and death. The States cannot keep an
army or navy, or even repel INVASION except when
necessity will not allow time for national acton can
make no treaty. coin money, nor exercise any OF
the fret great essential powers Of sovereignty In
word they 10 more "seeede nom the Union
than Scotland OF ireland can seeede from England
The professed friends of the independence Of nations
and popular rights they have not only oyerhIown the
CONSTITUTION of the United States but the Constitution OF
tbe Confederate States themselves refutlng in erery
Gaze 10 refer their usurpatlons TO the votes OF the
neonle thus making themselves doubly traitors to both
The STATES and the nation. The despoc rulers over
COO of ensaved Africans, they presume to extend
over us the While OF all nations, the same des-
potism by ignoring the pol cal nights OF ell but thelr
own las by restrictions uIon the popular franchise
bv the suppression OF the freedom Of speech and OF the
press BY the terrorism OF Lynch law or tyrannlcal
enactments backed by standing armies TO crush ont
the indepepdence Of thought the ineradcabe instincts
of our worldwide humanity,-with the aroclous deg
ma that negro slavery lie the only basis OF real conser
yatism and progressive civilization, and that the true
sout ION of the contest Of all time between labor and
calal lie that capital should 0H the tab0TeT whether
The sneees Of such demands would send the tide Of
baTbarism not only over the millions Of the New Norld
and the isles Of The Western oceans but roll II back
over England and eInancipated Europe, and blot out
from history this, the greatest glory OF our times
q But can goa snbdHe tie reUolted StGtes - Oi
eonrse we can. The whole revolted States
" I73OO0l have not much white population as toe
single STATE of New-York (3,S5l,563) by l,JOO,OOO
ue6ple II all the Slave States were to make com
mon cause, they have only S,gO' ,s94 whites, WITH
600 COO slaves while the Union has about % 100000
~ homogeneous PEOPLE, as powerful In peace and war
as the world has Intelligent, hardy, and many
sided their late apparent etbaTgy and weakness was
the selfpossession Of conscious strength When they
had made up their minds that force was necessary,
they moved upon Washington with such speed, num-
bers and steadiness Is not surpassed IN history
We have the money lat lower rate O1 interest tbah
hafo mel
and the Internal waters. We can blockade them by
sea aud invade them by lahd, and cofe up the rebel
lion in a single year, II we are - ht anne fOr
the uouulaon of the Slave States Is divided perhaps
equally for and against the Union, the loyal citizens
being for the time overawed by the organized con-
spiracy Of the traitors while the North is united TO
man The late allies of the South, the Democratic
psty being now more earnest for the sublugatOn OF
the rebels than the Republicans.
g. % Bzt can g0u goUerH a 'SpbjnPdted' people and
TecoHsfrxct Tie Unton ~ We do not propose 10 sub
iugate the revolted states-we propose 10 put down
simply the rebel citizens We 90 TO the rescue OF the
loyal Uniopisss of all the Stetes. We carry saiey
and peace and liberty to the Union loylng people OF
the South, who will Of themselves the tyranny over
thrownl send back their representatives to Congress
and the Union VIII be " Tcc0REtTucted' without a
change of letter in the Constitution Of the United
Stats. Did England subiugate ireland and Scotland
Arc tie united Kingdoms lees homogeneous than Of old,
before the waIs against EebeOn7 So will the United
aes rise from the smoke Of battle with renewed sta
bity aud power. In turn, now let ask the British
pubic some questions
I. Where should British. honor place her IN this
coHtsI Ne overthrow that political element in Amer
ica which has all through our history been the died
depouncer and real hater Of the British nation while
we have keen always from the beginning, tie friends
OF England. Because, though under different t0THS
Of RoSeyamens we had common sympathies, and a
common canse. and, therefore, common interest
EDgiand was the conseryator Of liberty ia Europe
the old world; we In the new. II the Confederate
States are right, then Is England wrong If Slavery
must be extended In America, then must England re-
sore il 10 the Wes Indies blot out the most glorious
page OF her history and call back her freed men nto
cnans Let her say TO the martyrs Of freedom from all
the nations who have aonRht refuge and magnapi,