New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-17
yRUF AND FALSE PEACE.

civil war defes the confutation Of moot notori-
Gus facts: whoever iDsinuatcs it aRgraates cow
ardice by fulsehood. For this journal, almost
alone ia the Free States, dared ayvw and defend
It's preference even of Disunion t. q bloody and
6esolatirg civil war. Had the Southern conspir-
ators really had the Slave States at their bnck,
and been willing to divide the Union peaceably
aud go their own way, we stood ready to advo-
cato acquescence in their quiet departure rather
than see the land deluged in blood. We pre-
sumed they, too. would have preferred this, had
it been practicable; but it was Lot. The North
ern and Western masses OF oil parties were for
the Union anyhow and at whatever cost,
and majority of tho people of the Slave
States concurred with thom in opinion
and in sentiment, though perhaps not in the
intensity Of their devotion to the Que Republic.
Hence Civil War became a dire necessity 10 the
conspirators they could not get the Border States
out of the Union without provoking and com'
mencing o fight. Though they had reduced
political lying TO system, and prostituted the
Stump, tie Press, the Telegraph TO gigantic,
persistent alsehood, as they We're never perverted
before, yet the result of the extraordinary cleo
tons held in all tho Border States last Winter
proved that these States could not be juegled out
of the Union rs Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana.
Mississippi, had with difficulty been. Ii was
absolutely necessary to their great purpose that
the original and inveterate traitors should
force war upon the Federal Government IN
order TO be able TO raise the warcry Of "1he
{" North against the South " ard 80 drown the
remaining sense and reason of the Southern
People in the mad wbirwInd of sectional hostility
and passion. Hence the villainous perfdy whereby
the Star of the West was captured at lndianOo,
and the Federal soldiers made prisoners in def
ance Of even T~iggs4 eapitulation; hence the
bombardment aud capture Of Sumter. Having
resolved on founding new Slave Empire cn the
, ruins of the American Union, the consPirators
found it necessary to initiate Civil War to that
end They waited long to have the Government
begin it; that hope failing, they began it them
selves.
Now that their defeat and ruin are palpab.e and
evidently at hand certain hybrid politicians who
can Just dodge an indictment for treason in our
City on behalf OF the desparing traitors, ~ ing 10
inveiglc our Democratic wircwoIkerS into brca-
stairs intrigue to force the Government to "a mostly
and shameful Peace. Aud our exposure Of Ibis
dark business has drawn upon US the concenirr fire
Of calmny from the journals which are, more or less
openly, in sympathy with the treason and Tic
traitors.
Nowhere on earth would SPEEDY and hogCra-
bic Peace-a real Peace-be hailed with more
heartfelt gladness than by us. If the traitors
prove too strong to be subjugated, we arc Tor
Peace on their terms rather than uscless con-
tnuance Of the War. But Peace which solves
none Of the problems raised by the War-a
Peace which should leave tue authors Of this
War Of liberty TO iOment another at pleasure,
with substantial encouragement TO do so-such
rnochery and mirage Of Peace We cannot but
regard as tie greatest calamity that could posi-
bly, befall the country. For if the traitors defeat
the patriot armies in fair fight, and we there
upon acknowledge their independence end make
peace with them we DO rot Of all cOncede tic jus,
tice Of their pretensiOns, the soundness Of t5eir
constitutional doctrines; We simply yield to supe-
riOr force and admit the existence Of sOlidity
and strength in their columns which we could
never realize in their logic. We shall still be
NatiOn-tke United Statcs-more compact and
coherent than ever before, with our emphatic
unaLimity in denying the ground-pan of our ad-
yersaries cemented with heroic, precious blood.
But if we consent to such muddle of the con-
trcyersy as is now being secretly concocted, how
Will these questions be answered.:
|. Does the region bounded by British America
on the North the Atlantic on the East, Mexico
on the South, and the Pacific on the West, prop
erly constitute ONE country or thirty-four coun-
tresl Are Boston, New-York, Philadelphia,
New Orleans, Chicago San Francisco, all cities
of the United States, or are they really cities Of
so many different nations
2. Is any State at Liberty to dissolve our Fed
eral Union at pleasure, for such reasons as to her
,hal seem sufficient, joining any rival and hostile
coDfedcracy or constituting herselfa perfectly IN
treaties with foreign powers been negotiated In
fraud, and are they not morally invalid
.. Is the capture by surprise and treachefy
under State authority of u. s. forces posted in
that State solely for the defense Of its people
agans. SAVAGE raids and foreign invasion consist
en-. with good faith toward the Union and the
engagements under which that State was admit |
ted into the Federal family
4. May State which is dissatisfied with the
result of d Presidential Election justifably pro-
ceed thereupon to seize the Federal arms and
munitions stored in the Federal arsenals within |
her borders, surprise and man the ungarriscned
Federal forts take possession Of the Federal
Minis aud custOnl-houses, and convert H. its own