New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-14
mn. O.eILE.IyAN ON THR CRISIS.

To the Rspubioan Prsss az ths North
The oue,onis now at hut before youth s true aspect.
I, = no longer small rebellion it is apy il ever wore
t apparent aspec but large revolution, you have to
deal with The whole group Of the Cotton States is as
gool "A zone. Virginia and the rest OF the border
S;a,es saw, "Our rights in the Territories together
with a few minor poiu,s Of adjustment, or else of,
to- 60 i-ih tie South, aud, in the mean time, 10
" coercion
You have, therefore, 10 choose between these three
Alternatives:
T. Reconciliation, BY an acceptable Compromise such
o. Critiendcn'sl.
9. Pesceable separation.
o. Civil war with the object Of coercing The South
into submission.
Il il Of no IRE 10 disgise tho civil war under tho
Tbrases enforcement Of the tqps and protection y tie
pubic p7oDcrty This il mere matter Of words
They ac the same thing. Tho Southern theory is
that they are de jurc out Of tho Union by the Set Of
secretion. Whether they not they are 50 OF
leas, De taco by the act Of revolution you prefer
that name for il. Their theory-a theory which they
at least cary ont with great deal Of practical pluck
H. that the forte and asenals were coded TO the Federal
Government only for Federal purpOses-that is TO ssy
for the defense Of the States where they exist,
holds agpinst the States Themselves and that
the Federal purposes having now lapsed (dc jare
or dc Jacto just n You peasel the Federal Govern.
ment has neither right to hold them, and
that they belong moro reasonably and rghtfuy to the
States which have now set up for themselves II is
therefore, ~ least deba,sble whether they are DOW
Federal public propayi and at any rate to attempt
70 recover them inv jtves erR par, with fleets and
= - - 4. Il. Al.
applying 70 the ida Of naval blockadss.
IL may Il may not BIZ right and proper to make this
civil war but anyhow, nothing is gained by not call
ing by lie right name. It is War for the reeos24ea
Of the RcrolptioNized South, and nothing else.
All Governments not only recognize accomplished
revolutions which become rightfu and legitimate by
The plere fact Of their existence; but when rebellion
has risen into formidable proportions, even though not
yet finally recognized a. accomplished, they endsavor
20 paciy item by cOaeessions. When the object Of the
hostility Of the aroused people Is an obnoxious Minis.
try embodyng obpoxious policy Of administration,
the haughtest Of Governments proers the ove-brsnch
Of change OF The Ministry. Even Austria ia now
striving TO reconcile Hungary ION the eve Of secesion)
by conceding REFORM which 10 the abandonment Of an
that Austria fought for in 1913, and has maintained BY
force Of sr1s ever snce. You now in an analogous
position in regard to the South, excepting that the
claim upon you for concession, for psclfcstion and
Infinitely stronger, when you con-
sid%r:
First, That THE Il Confederation Of States, not
and centralized Government.
Second That Our whole system Of Government rests
On ths idea Of the willing consent Of tie people
governed.
Third Tha, The South at least niue miloDs strong,
united and ssasporstod and on their opa sol; while
You at the North have at least very large portion Of
your own people Il think yon viii lnd Us a large
majority before you g.: through utterly opposed to
.ueh war.
PonJsA. That sll ths. wakes he Union worth pro-
serving, or having would be certainly jeopsrded and
probably ruined, and all hopes Of future reunion s,
BY speh wsy
j take Il, therefore, for granted you viii not, after
title calm reflection, elect the last and infinitely the
worst, Of your three alternatives
Let me only add an allusicu 70 two historical prece
Tents,
I. lar9e proportion Of the Roman people ooce with