New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-13
the PRO-sLAVERY REBELLION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
COMPROMISE INDISPENSABLE FROM ANY
POINT OF VIEW.

Sspa the policy OF Compromise.
philosophy recognizes the Republican party as
/, POLITICAL organization struggling for the great
object Of preventing the spread of African
Slavery on the American continent. 1t stamps
the object as good, and approves the meehod'
For the one is humane and the other
peaceful
AT the moment of the success of this party,
Compromise steps in and says: Stop, and
allow Slavery to SPREAD" or, going still further,
4 says: "Stop, and establish and protect
Slavery everywhere within our jurisdiction south
Of tho parallel of go 80, and everywhere below
that, on whatever soil we may acquire in the
remotest hereafter, even to the Antarctic
circle"
Compromise thus antagonizes philosophy, and
declares plumpy against it's dictates.
Ssetesmanship urges that Slavery prejudlces
Industrial development and weskens and de-
grades nation. Therefore, it proposes to
check its advance into virgin regions that they
may be peoplod with free citizens.
When, after long struggle, a party is coming
into power which proposes to act upon this en-
Bghtened dictate of wise policy, Compromise steps
IN, and says: "Check not the advance of Slavery
into new countries, but let it difuse itself wher-
ever il viii. And if the owners of slaves insist
upon ii, then plant and secure Slavery where
they demand, even if in doing so you have to
suiorce it upon country and people who de-
spise and loathe it."
Here again Compromise antagonizes statesman
ship, and insists that its deliberate counsels be
disregarded. 1t thus puts itself in open hostility
to both philosophy and statesmanship and claims
nat both be set aside at it's behest.
Why, then yield to Compromise
Because we are told that if we do not, then
the shareholders will create disorders, fOmeDt re-
beIHon, i1jurs trade, depress prices endanger the
Union, and embarrass the Government.
But suppose they do all this Is it reason
why both philosophy and craftsmanship should
foreeo their cherished purposes, and why their
benehcent ends and aims, for which Government
il but an agency, should be discarded Surely,
nobody viii pretend this.
Government becomes worthless and unit to
stand, when it must sacrifice the vital objects of
il existence; to the convictions Of the governed
IN order to purchase right to live; and then
bold that right at the caprice Of revolutionary
element in the State, outside the regular author
iy, and which proposes to enforce its DEGREES
hereafter in the same way, whenever its wishes
sre not consulted.
Anything is better than this. Fighting to quen
such revolutionary temper, il better. Separa-
bon from such flibustering crew, is better.
The Government that surrenders its right to die
tate the policy which the governing power sp-
proves, is no Government. Whether the Govern
meut be good or bad, it is alike imbecile. We
might bs glad to see bad Government thus
thwarted by rebeIlious temper on the part of an
oppressed people. But we should be correspond
ingIy sorry TO see good Government like our
own assailed by rebelious faction to thwart
the legitimstely expressed wishes Of the majority.
Compromising great questions of public policy
BY ignObly agreeing not to do what the Govern
ment was constituted and inaugurated to do, is
thus to render that Government contemplate.
II Is to emasculate and destroy it. 1t is to
make it . sham and reproach. 1t is to offer
II 40 target for all who desire an object for
insult and opprObrium.
But we are told that in yielding to COmpro-
mise we do not exactly do this; or that, at
least, it is not absolutely necessary to do this.
We are met by sublimated kind Of reasoning
10 show that if a party only gets into power, it
can afford TO fOregO the application of its princ
ples. We are told if we can only get the Sc
cediDg States back, by agreeing to renounce and
suppress our principles, and by accepting and ap-
plying theirs, we ought to do it. And if we
reply that this is to demOralize the Government,
and to destroy the party and Illustrate all its
high and noble purposes, we are still met by
the declaration that mere nominal maintenance
Of the Union is better than all the great objects
we propose to ourselves by vigorous admins
tratiOn or the Government upon our own line Of
policy.
But whether in one way or another, whether
10 one view of the case or another, we contend
that nothing is nor can be 90 bad as to surren-
der the Government at the dictate of armed re-
bellioD, or even threatened rebellion, under the
guise of Compromise. The revolutionary element
ought to be conquered or repealed. And it is
iuo PIofiucc VI staUosuousuIP W uOI4uo nnOh ID
best for the country.
For our part, we are indispOsed to insist
upon comforting blessings at the point of the bay
Onet. And If the SlayehOlding States, or pOr-
hon Of them, declare that they will go, in prefer
ence to submitting to the Constitution and the
laws, like the rest of us, we say, Let them go.
Only, in going, we insist they shall go about it
regularly, and not take what does not belong to
them, or what ia requisite for our own national
safety aud defense. We deem it not only pru-