New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-05
THE WAR FOR THE union.
PHom WASHINGTON.
pror, Our Own Correspondent.

unwelcOme tdiDgs, has losing Office. IL you
would transform friendshipsintO hatred lend money
uh;cb the borrower never intends to repay, or,
what is more complete for the contamination OF
an enhancement beyond Cancellation, incloso q
note which the prOmsOr begueaths to you for
naymeut. as a monument of his past regard, and
a pledge of his future enmity. Still, l shan not
DO deferred from speaking boldly, both 10 the |
men of power and the men Of the people, III
these entering stages of danger which we are 10
travel in cOmpanionship full of danger to tie T,
present, and fruitful of result 10 evil 81 gOoo 10
the future Gentlemen upon whose SHOULDERS
rest the burdens of great events, write 10
you I saw sorite, fer although five minutes
walk would take me into your presence,
I am as far separated as if mountains inter-
posed. or leagues of solid land divided the
distance. ] could, of course, after finishing this,
attach it to a long pole, duly sealed and adj
dressed to the Secretary of State, and pass 1t
I'D to his open window, but the boldness OF the
act would undoubtedly secure me the attentions
of constable with release on satisfactory
recognizance for the observance ct the peace ana
dignity of the city hereafter; or If l had
Chiopewa bow and arrow, | could, by an eloft
of mark manship send the missiyo into the Will
dow of the President, at the expense TO the
Treasury of pane of glass, and sutry nights
lodging in the lookup with the injurious and
damaging suspicion of having attempted the life
of the Chief Magistrate, which would exclude
me from any hereafter bidding to diplomatic
dinner and restrain from my palate any
of the spread butter of the Quartermaster-Gen-
erals profits. If was dolt and wrote u. S. 5.
after my name no matter whether the means of
nv education were of a character to make my
destination more properly the penitentiary than
the Senate Chamber, or if | was on the family
register of the DamphOOls, and only escaped the
presentment OF the Grand Inquest Of my vicln-
age because ] had entered into q profitable bro
keroee of Offices as member of the Lower House.
the welcoming doors would fly open with impetu-
GUS recon and Earring sound. Gentlemen, again,
have high consideration and high charity for
you. Human nature has not been presented to
you in its elevating or ennOblmg phases. The
decentralization of our politics throws men in the
foreground Of the picture who do not add to
the inviting tints of light and shade; but Yet
have some trust in your race and in your brethren.
In much that is selfish and mean, yOu can, if
you will use your observation, see something
that is not all gross and all sOrdd. In the grow
cling dirt of self-seeking, and establishment,
there are some sparklngs of the Divine. There
are those who would see you, not to beg nor to
badger for influence and place, but to talk with
you calmly and anxously, and il may be wisely
of the dangers of the Republic. They are not
one but many, and they do not sail into your
anchorage under your port guns, and answer the
hail of your sentries on shore with " For For
eigu Mission" OF " For Governorship," plac-
arded on their standing rigging, as the steam or
the clipper craft is advertised for Liverpool or
Hayre, on her bow or bowsprit. There are
some, know, who do not sigh for your 6eshpots
who hapless as you may have considered their
lot have a most grateful pleasure in the reflection
that none of their BIRTH blood, or affinity, eat
of the aims of your excbequer-wbOse bread, huns
bic if it lie, is honest and has been earned in the
manhood Of manly natures, without degradation
or discredit There are thousands who, all un-
selfish and abnegating give thought and action TO
the impending calamites of the countrywide
have grasp to take in the whole scope of its n-
1uences, and hear, in the gradual opening of
grand epoch the swelling overture of oratorio
whose deep diapasons strike the loud earth breath
less as they sweep upon the widening air.
But let me enter upon theme on which
have paused too long. There are now within
three days march and concentration upon this,
your Capital, at least sixty thousand Rebels, the
rose and flower of their army with the Chief
Rebel hmself, the sole director Of the columns.
Possessing military genius, which it would be
folly TO deprecate, be has an added advantage,
great in al war, of having the single train to
direct. Without division of authority or respon-
sibility, bis command is absolute. The capture
of the CAPITAL is to them what the occupation of
Richmond il TO us-the pivot Of the war. 1t is
more than that. Rebellion sitting enthroned
here, by conquest, being lifted to RevOlu-
ton, Mr.. Jefferson Davis is made the
usurping William subduing and spelling the pos
sessions Of the legitimate Harold, and driving
out the Saxon yeoman to pass his goods and
estate to the freebOoting Norman barOnage. To
US, in our relations TO our own people, it is
much-in our attitude to Europe, it is immense.
A fugitive President aud a flying Cabinet, taking
refuge where they may, carry with them in their
flight the life and the fortunes Of the land.
10 oppose this array, you have within your
control $4,000 troops than whom, in rawness and
lne1perieDce as they are, the world never saw
finer In soul and snew. You have in camps, at
places not distant, $4,000 more. But how are
they and how are your Virginia on your front