New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-10
THE GusT OF THE MATTER.

A Louisville correspondent of The Times,
who gives gloomy but We fear Substantially
accurate view of the state and prospects of the
Union cause in Kentucky, concludes as fol-
lows:
sit is not ia the providence Of this rebellion to
grant the nation a triumph which, by reason of its
easy acl evement shall be barren Of results. This
contest must aud will give birth to higher and
purer and broader civilization and We shall be driven
back by disappointment ana defeat until we reach
and perceive the primary causes Of our troubles, ana
grasp the principles of true The direction
in which the unconditional Union sentiment OF Ken
lucky is setting lie significant. On every side may
TO heard the as vet but feeble expressions of what is
nevertheless a profound conviction. The opinion Is
fast taking hold OF the public mind that hs 0ieted
and unnatural rebellion grer ont Of me reckless and
| fendish and iHeeadiaTy SPIRIT Uhich Slar1y Jos
terS, and MGt the ray TO crush The trtasoI IS To
strike at us oause. Moreorer, IS betiegfd that
| Si1rery ,cW PERISH an hls ,rdr, and that the
! first aud only duty of Kentuckians in this rela-
| ton is to save Kentucky from perishing with
! Slavery. OF course II will be long before these
opinions will make themselves visible in the
political arena, but l repeat that they are I'M
QUESTIONABLE the growing conviction OF the unial-
trrlng loyasts Of the State. At the same time these
men are bitterly oppoS to any bigh-landed and
violent interference with Slavery by the military
authorities and uld resist such step, by force OF
arms, as the drest OF all calam tcs Tlne viii show
that tie late act OF the President in this respect was
as sagacious it was Just. Slavery will he gradu
ally exlnguisbed by the people of the Border States
themselves and as the horrd incubus rolls away, the
country will coalesce into closer aud better COM
pacted Union than hitherto. Such, beyond doubt,
are the moral forces which the mighty contest has
evoked in Kentucky. Such result, sooner or later,
is inevitable"
If We had wished to subserve special
end, we should have omitted the latter portion
OF this extract; but We have deemed it due
both to the writer and to the country that his
whole view of the matter should be set before
our readers. 1t is quite possible that he is as
right as to the means as he clearly is with re-
gard to the end.
Through ten long years Of intense but mainly
bloodless controversy between George III. and
our Revolutionary fathers, nearly every Colo
NAL manifesto teemed with protestatons Of
fidelity to the British crown-honest aud ear
nest we doubt not; yet in due time the Decla-
ration Of Independence appeared and new
Nation was born. Through years OF convui-
sion and struggle the representatives OF the
Fronch people protested their devotion to
monarchy aud Louis XVI, yet in due time
the monarchy was abolished and Louis XVI.
beLeaded. We may yet have one or two more
Presidential and Congressional declarations that
Slavery is to DO upheld while the Union is
restored; yet it is just as plain as preaching
that, if the Rebellion is persisted 10, either
Slavery or the Union must go TO the wall. There
is YET time to save Slavery By desisting from
Rebellion: how long this may be, none can say
"A, least. we cannot. Whoever finds an in.
terest in watching the PrOtean changes OF the
HARLEQUIN Of the Press will find leaders in The
Herald within two years from this date show
ing that its editor always knew and proclaimed
that tho Rebellion must destroy Slavery unless
its leaders would hearken to his warning
voice and desst from their War on the Union.
We do not, Of course, indicate any time,
past or future, when the fact that Slavery is
the deadly foe Of the Union should have been
or should be recognized and acted on by the
Government. The President has bis own re-
sponsibilities, and they are quite sufficiently
arduous aud difficult without the interposition
of counsel which must SAVIOR of dictatioD.
4" For every thing there is time and sea-
60 SOM" it is now time to set forth the vital
truth, for the Country must have accepted and
realized before the Government can safely act
upon it.