New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-25
TIE pIsuNIoN scuRnH.

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adopted as the grOund-Plnn Of their se-called
Confederacy, the Constitution Of the United
| States, and they have also adopted as
a superstructure-at least, for the present,
the code Of the United States and the
decisions of the Supreme Court based
( upon it. One might suppose from this that the
! only object of the DiaunioD movement WIS q
mere geographical division Of the country into
two communities each with its separate pOlti.
cal organization, but both organizations, In most
respects, the same.
But in truth the Disuaoniats aim ct something
far beyond this. They seek to withdraw them.
selves not merely from an administrative connec
ton with Che Frcc-Labor States, but equally, and
even more, from the moral and social influences
Of those State- 1t lie not merely secession from
| their connection with the North, POLITICAL social,
! and moral which Is the object Of their elortsi it
is equally accession from the sympathy of all
| Chrsiendon. They not only declare Themselves
independent Of tho United States; BY the same
| act they withdraw Themselves from all fellowship
with tho entire Christian and civilized world.
Rejecting the moral political, and social ideas Of
the nineteenth century, they undertake TO build
I'D peculiar and special system Of their own
taking for their gudrs and models tho ancient
| Jews, Greeks, and Romans az they understand
them, and fcndly anticipating TO Guido the Jows
in piety, the Greeks in learning and arts. and
the Romans in arms.
Whatever may have been pretended, the
whole course Of This Secessinn movement, from
its commencement twenty years ago, down TO the
prcseu, moment aburdautly shows that the thing
dreaded, clamorcd about ard complained Of
has been not any direct exert:On Of political
authority on the part of the national Govern
mont t. modify the nstitltion. Of the slave.
holding States, but sympathetic moral inAucGce
the slow and silent working Of Northern sent
mcnt and Northern conscience, or We might
rather cay, of the sentiment and conscience Of
the Christian world. The separation from the
Northern States ia 70 bo not merely political
but still more, moral and social separation; aud
as il is through The Northern States that the intel
lectual as well as the economical connection Of the
ssyehOlding States with the rest Of the civilized
world has been mainly kept Up, it seeHis TO be
expected that this movement may serve TO shut
consistent with the s'2as qgo Of tho secediGg
Statef.
The Sece'souis.s, in fact propose 70 assume,
not merely us to the Feeo-I.G5or States of the
North. but "a TO the whole civilized world, the
position which two hundred years ago Turkey
and The other MOhammedan States occupied
toward ao Christian States Of Europe. ANY
L. 4 -, I.hrr arl rsin
venture. 10 visit ther coanlry, must be careful!
10 keep his opinions to HIMSELF Nay, if he has
auy regard for his own safety, he VIII don the
turban, aud pas, himself of, if ho con, US Turk.
All the schools AID colleges are 30 be purified.
schoOl.book, are to be made On tie Pro Slavery
model. 4 siFic. censorship OF tho prcss ia to be
eslsbilsLed, and the rising generation ia % be-
carefully guarded against the danger Of adopting
infdcI opinions upon the divine origin snd
moral rectitude Of slsychclding. As 10 the
unfortunate masses Of IaboriDg white people, who
may have the i'll luck 10 be born in tho region
thus consecEated aud se. apart 10 Slavery, their
position, should the sch3mcs OF the Seeos'i0nIsts
be carried out, az beat can only be compared Ia
that Of The Christian natives Of tho East, whom
the Turks tolerated indeed, but held in q atato
OF miserable poverty aid the most pitiablo de-
graduation.
Such being The scheme which the Dsunonist
plolors propose " Themselves, the question arises
is il possible {, carry II ont And upon the an
swcr to this question the fnsl result OF the Dis
union movement must mainly depend. Unless
tie lateholding States can be isolated cut OF
from all moral and social ,ympaGhies with the ad-
yancng civilization, not merely OF their Northern
ueiEhbOrs, bu. Of Europe also, Secession, SO far
as the yerpetuatiOn Of Slavery is concerned, vii
20 for little or nothing. The seccdsrs might as
well como back ut once into the Union, and so
save themselves the heavy expenses and tho mul. |
tipled Inconvenience of various kinds which all |
sdmit must grow ont Of any division Of the ma
ton, even suppoeing that such division could |
be quietly ard peecoiuly effected. But in the |
pres.nf condition of the SlSyehOlding States, aud
of the rest Of the world, any such isolation as
the Secession scheme looks to il wholly 0ut of the
question. II, Ike DR.. Francin in Paraguay, or |!
Brigham Young ia Utah, the Secessionsls were !
erbosomed in the midst Of 4 great continent, il,
Ike the Chinese aud Japanese, they were abc and !
content TO live entirely within themselves, with.
out tire necessity Of any external commerce, there
mi 1t DO sme hopes for lie success Of their p.an.
But this is very far from being the caso. The /,
slareh0lJiug States exist or! as on ougrowsh from
and an appendago 10 the Free Labor States OF the !
world. Tho great bulk Of what they produce |
they produce not b CONSUME but 10 sell. For |
considerable pal. Of tie food that they cat, for |