New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-11

TRICTS-FOSSIL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PICK
EMS AND sUMTER-TOUCEY-BLACK &c.
From Our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. 8, 1861.
The country is deeply indebted to three men
fpr saving it from the worst consequences oil
treason and imbecility, and for placing the Cap
ital of the nation and its approaches in pos
ton to defy the traitors. These three men sre
Gen. Scott, Mr.. Holt, Secretary of War; and MI
Stanton, Attorney. General And perhsps as
much is due To The latter gentleman as 70 eilher'
Bat they have each, In their own sphere Id
bored with an assduity, PATRIOTISM ana an
energy of which the country knows nothing, and
never will know till the private history OF the
times shall have been written and read.
If Secession has been in the least headed or
fyrned back in Virginia and Maryland and Del
aware. it is because of the vigorous and deter
mined efforts of these men to meet and arrest 1t
hare at its former central stronghold, and put
n down by the strong arm of power. We are IN
the very pinch of the game yet, but the prem-
mary steps have been so far advanced that the
control of events is probably secured, IN spite oil
the imbeclity of the President and in spite OF
the demoralizipg efforts of the Compromises.
Awhile ago, great reliance was placed upon
Mayor Berret of this City, and his Police
force, for he spoke most fairly. But it turns out
that he too is among the infected, and that he
has no sympathy with honest efforts to check the
spread of treason or the efforts of traitors. The
auth il. the whole slave district is infected
with the pangrene of treason. 1t has every
where made up its mind to rebellion and revOu-
and oral
ned. The love Of country is swallowed up in
hnaticism for Slavery. And the sequel will show
there is not one particle Of genuine loyalty any
whore among the Shareholders, to the CoDstitu-
tson or the Union, except on the basis Of entire
Surrender to their insulting demands. OF course
there ia an immense body Of the People of the
Slave States who are not thus debauched, but
who remain true to their country, and will yet
redeem their States. But the men in power and
10 place the social and political aristOcracy, are
everywhere rotten. And it is just as true Of this
city as it is Of any other place. It's condition
would be improved by turning even the turbid
waters of subterranean democracy right through
fs center, and washing it out right hand and
left. For genuine Democracy is here to-day
stencil in the nostrls of the people occupying the
Capital of the Republic.
The Executive Departments are not yet purged
Of reasonable complications The bitter and
malignant partisanship of Secretary Toucey, and
his completely with those High Priests of treason,
Floyd and Cobb, are being every day more and
more fully developed. 1t is no secret that
strong desire exists in the Cabinet to get him
cut. and has existed ever since the explosion Of
The plot by which this city was to be captured,
and provisional revolutionary usurpatOn pro-
claimed from the steps of the Capitol, as the de
faeto Government. But he may, nevertheless,
worry through to the end, by dint of close watch
ing, without being expelled But it would be a
great relief TO the honest men in the Government
20 have bis place filed with somebody in whom
confidence could be placed.
1t is very evident from information received
here that attempted secession in Maryland, Mis-
souri,, Delaware and ether border Slave States,
will be inevitably followed by civil war within
those States among their own people, in every
county and every town. Judge Catron of the
Sapreme Court does not hesitate to declare that
this result will certainly take place in Tennessee.
And other testimony equally emphatic is abundant
10 regard to that and all the other border Slave
States. Like pig swimming river, Secession
win thus cut its own throat if left to itself. Our
eompromisers are the only men who are redeem
ing it from the DISASTROUS consequences of its
Infamous disoyalty.
There is only one honest complaint among all
that are made by the Shareholders, and that is,
that the ultimate security of slave property is
endangered by the predominance Of anti-Slavery
sentiment If they think that could receive any
additional security by the constitutional stipula
tion that it shall not be interfered with, they
may not be blamable for asking for so much.
Beyond that, their complaints may be all summed
up in the fact that they are beaten. But tinker
ing the Constitution won't prevent Republican
hiumphs.
A very good answer to the proposition to ad-
NIT the territory South Of $50 30 as Slave
States has been made by Mr. COlfax. That is,
that i this were done, and New-MexicO made
Slav. State, it would at once secede and 60
with the new Slaveholding Confederacy, and thus
necesntase war to prevent the destruction of our
Bne OF ctntact with Mexico, by interpOsDg an
enenys conatry between us and the unoccuped
territory of tat dissolvng State.
The proceedings Of the fossil Convention to
save the Secessitaists are strictly diplomatic. Its
members have thu far been chiefly engaged in
salaams, and in bahncing to partners. 1t is
sham concern throughput. Among it's members
nobody means anything except those who cannot
accomplish anything. What 10 really wanted is
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