New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-03
aOUTHERN UNIONIsTs.

Evidently the keynote OF the aDettors OF urea
son at this moment is peace. Mr.. Breckenridge
in the Senate, here and there a Secession news
paper still hanging on to feeble existence and
here and there hedge-row meeting composed of
dozen or two of small politicians aching for
notoriety of some sort, vociferate peace. There
is peace either in the minds of the people or in
the possibility of present things; it requires, new
ertheless, but a small number of small persons to
make much noise, and we take heed, therefore,
of this camor in the air for a word or two
thereon.
Peace now means either cowardice or treason
such treason to the rights and interests of the
North that it would sacrifice them all to give
the South her way, or such cOwardice as would
never raise a hand in their defense, LET who
would be the aggressOr For all who advocate
peace are ready to accept the ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF
the States. Disunion is the end and aim of the
traitors, and to grant it is to confess that our
Government is failure, incapable of suppress
ing the first serious domestic insurrectiOn that
has assailed it, and procaiming itself, therefore,
a ready prev to any future violence, whether do
nestle or foreign. Even The Journal Of Com
merce at last acknowledges that all the subserv-
iency which it has always been ready to render
TO the South would not avail now, and that the
only terms on which we can have peace IS entire
separation. In other words we are to ackno"i-
edge ourselves yanquishod and yield to their
terms. Nothing is impossible in the Providence
of God, and it may, therefore, yet come to pass
that great and free people shall be so subdued
| e an1o lt,tt, tod in nj "A
| to accept such terms; but not yet
But disgraceiul as such peace would be now,
and oninOus for our future welfare, it would
fall with crushing force upon those whom by
every constitutional guaranty and every dictate
of honor we are bound to protect. We are so
| in the habit of using for convenience sake the
terms North and South, that We are apt to
forget that there is large body of people below
| Mason aud Dixon's line as loyal to the Union
| and Northern in sentiment as we kLow mat
| there are men at the North of The Journal Of
| Commerce class who have never had an opinion
or an aspiration in accordance with the free
institutions of the North. These Southern
people with Northern sentiments arc IN The
very heart of the slayeholding country. In tie
mountains and high lands of Western Virginia
and North Carolina, and even of South Caro-
| lima; in Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Tonnes
see, and the Northern part Of Georgia, is vide
! extent of country inhabited by race OF hardy
men, holding few slaves, conscious that their III
teIests have always been sacrificed to the wishes
| aud the interests Of the wealthy and arist0cratc
shareholders of the low country, and depreceting,
| above all things the success of this insurrection
| and the dissolution Of the Union, which is 10
condemn them for another century, perhnpf, 10 re-
| main az they now are except where they border
upon the Free States thiny-scattered, poor,
uneducated people, hardly removed from the
condition of the early pioneers who settled that
region VIII the peace men thus abandon
whole people, whom, by accepting peace, they
acknowledge they cannot protect VIII they
surrender the better portion Of them, who-
will he worth making al example of,
| such men as johnson and Elherdee OF Ten
nessee, as Clay and Fee Of Kentucky, and the
host of Union men in Missouri, Frank Blair for
instance, who have reused thirst for vengeance
which their blood will hardly sate-wIl they sur
render them 10 such tender mercies as they
would receive at the hands Of Southern law and
Southern mobs 1t is hardly worth while to ash
what becomes Of that clause Of the Constitution
which guarantees republican form Of Govern
ment TO each of the States, for Constitutional
considerations have little weight with men who
would be base enough to yield without one stout
| blow to all that treason has sought to accom-.
pIsh But the advocates Of peace may as well
cesse their treasonable or eOwardly counsel,
whichever it is, for the people Of the North are
not disposed to forget the Constitution which
they inherited from their fathers or the people
of the South who look to them and to ii for