New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-23

from free Labor 10 convert every Free State into
non ground for the recapture Of colored persons as
slaves WHO were free and 20 put the Federal
Government in all ia departments under the control Of
q slave oEgarchy These and al other eraaa,ems that
could be- resorted 10 ar0uae Hnagonsic feelings which
were welded with turbulent psssons. Ashley planted,
40 they Ieaped. Now that victory had been Won by
the Republican party, and Government must be admin
stsred upon q national policy; the assures in the
ground occupied by them became apparent, and hence
there would necessarily BIO large detection IN its
rfinks among the more ultra of ts adhereIts who
were, MS u general thing, IDEAL speculative
aud not practical men. Dat OF actual power 3 party
WAS apt to be radical Sest il with power, and II be-
came conservative This was The ordeal through winch
the Republican hike all other parties, was now pass
Ing and he hoped for the peace OF the country and the
triumph Of practical rather than ideal policy and msl
suree. Herein consisted the almoet insuporabc
difficulty Of coming 70 any feasi1te ADJUST
ment upon the existing discontents- Tho bulk
OF poEtiiisns, North and South, were bound
by Past record and past pTotcssioDs They were, IN
fact, thinking all the while what Mrs. GruAidy
would saw" The people themselves understood tie
cause OF the difficulty and II tney out once nieFer9a,
now lie appealed whether it Was not that IN the
hands Of uhras North and South the Shareholder had
been used as shu,tledore who for purposes utterly
dis,imilsr Rad been banded from South Carolina 90
Maseaehuqetts and from Massachusetts back again 10
Sonth Carolina until now the ast point OF endrancc
had been reached. Every voIent word uttered North
had been sent South, and the South had responded
| in Tire eufl, lDt <iuOtNWIinV uANA'Sh S'NA
granted M audience in every SOuthern city, at every
Southern political meeting, and the mcst violent,
nsnlting aH7ian speeches. repeated even In the hear
ing OF the slaves themselves. Was IL not humihating
to confess that the very people who would burn IN
efigy, ii not at the stake, Postmaster who would
dare 20 distribute copy OF Abolition speeches, honor
az among their chief defenders the candidates. who
could quote the mort obnoxious passages from all who
had made Southern politics vast hot-bed for the
propagation Of Abolition sentiments. The two great
sections Of he nation stood at that m0men. toward
each other like encampcd armies waiting the orders
to engage. The pa,ri5t planned, deplorcd, ana
appealed, but found little succG in tho only
quarter where succor could come. The Aboh-
ZIONIST revelod III the madness OF the hour. lie saw
the cracks in the iceberg at last To him the desert
and the battle field was alike welcome. He had knet
down in the deeert with the camel for speck In the
far distance showed that the SIMEON WA coming. He
locked into the future as into dark cloud in the
ing when nothing but tho early lark was on the wing
Bot soon history, like the light OF the Eastern
horizon, would curtain back that cloud, and paint
in blood's ,7iddiest tins field and forest, hamlet
and city, tho very mountains to their pine
! crowned tops, and the great ocean itself, as an
epsapg'iRsd flood wheN brother c0ptegded