New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-22
THE PRO-SLAVERY REBELLION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
FII.LIBUSTERING IN CONGRESS-
TRAITORS IN LEGIsLATIoN-THE FRUITS OF
SLAVERY.


SLAVERY.
r,sm Our Special Correspondents oo 400,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 1861.
IL is expected that serious factious opposition
will be made in Congress to all the measures
necessary to put the Government in condition
IN meet the duties which Will deyolve upon it
ha consequence of the revolutionary proceedings
Of the Confederate States which have set on foot
the Government at Montgomery
Two bills for this purpose have been intro
duced into the House, both of which are threat
cned with fllibustering proceedings. One is the
bill of Mr.. Bingham of Ohio providing mode
of collecting the reveoue at the ports of the Sc
ceding States from tie decks of national vessels;
the other is the bill of MIR. Stanton of Ohio EN-
towering the President TO call for volunteers.
The Representatives of the SecessiOnists III Con
gress have already announced their determna-
On the floor of the House to prevent the passage
Of these bills by factious hostility.
Thus while the new Southern Congress is
homogeneous body, going forward on direct
and affirmative line of policy, with skill and en-
ergy, raising troops aud putting them into the
field to make war upon the United States our
halls of legislation in Washington are occupied by
The accomplices of the revolutionists, who boldly
eonspire to prevent the Government from acting
sven 10 sef-defense and, binding 1T hand and loot,
are epdeavoring to hand it over TO the tender
nercies of its ebeuies
This anomalous ana pcri,ous condition of things
may well challenge the attention Of the people
But what is of more immediate consequence Is
ne necessity it imposes upon the legislative branch
of the Government to institute some method OF
e1tricatng itself from such dilemma. A ma
prity of tie body viii too surely incur the impu-
tation of pusllanimty if it hestates at any step
necessary to tbwart the reasonable purposes OF
the traitors to the Government who are not yet
purged from its councils.
The Slavery question has been, and is, the
psrvadiDg vice of our political system. 1t has
created an aristocracy of men and of opinion,
that ia interviewer with every fiber of the national
growth aud with every ramifcatiOn OF ad-
miDstration. To eIpel this influence from the
structure of the Government and nurse its re-
eoyery therefrOm, is a work of great labor aud
patience, and will take much time. The nation
IL, 90 to speak, sodded down to Slavery. Repub-
kcanism is the breaking up pillow, whose action
consists in cutting up and turning this sod pre-
paratory to future crops of new and better
character. The land has been sOwn to the grass
Of Slavery too long. 1t has, in the language OF
The field, become moss grown and bound out. AT
the first touch of the pow, before, indeed, it has
run its first furrow, while the team is yet being
harnessed the old cultlyatOrs crowd about, and
ery out with real or feigned terror, that the
land Is about to be ruined.
Such is the condition Of things just as Mr.
Lincoln approaches the commencement OF his Ia
hors In the Senate, in the House, IN the De-
partments, in Conventions, in State Legislatures,
al over the South, one universal howl Is set mp
m behalf of this pestiferous influence of Slavery
and slayeboding. 1t is oDly DOW that we see how
deeply and thoroughly the Government ia mbedded
IN m ooze of Slavery. The slime is everywhere.
It stands like cold sweat over every pore of the
political body. Walk where we will, not only in
the balls of legislation, but along the subterra-
mean corridors of the public business, on the
decks of our men-of-war, along the ramparts
sf our fortresses, through the bureaus and
among the officials of our civil and military and
naval service, we find glariDg upon u.s. in letters
Of lurid light, from every entrance, from every
wall and every ceiling, and burned into the very
pathways, and pavements, and floors beneath our
feet, the warning, "Harm not Slavery" Injure
not Slavery" Condemn not Slavery" Go
where we will, we seem to be meshed in net
work of Slavery. 1t spreads itselfs through our
political system as the tree sends its roots in ten
thousand intricate ramifcations through the earth
- II ;fa.lt l.
Ecs concerns as the nerves of the body ramify
throughout the animal system, SO that pins
prick anywhere over the entire surface makes
the whole body shrink and criDge with pain. So
u it with Slavery. RepublcaDism cannot, no ad-
verse influence can, impinge upon the Govern
ment anywhere. that Slavery does not cry out
IKE the devils of old, "Jesus of Nazareth, why
pSrsecutest thou me-"
This polypus in the nose, this cancer in the
bosom, it is that is causing the agonies of the
nation at this hour. Listening to the clamOr of
the possessed, in Congress and out in political and
trading and commercial circles, in the channels
of administration, in the sensation press, every
where high and low the screams and the howl
ngs of Slavery finding voice through one interest
and another, almost make us feel and exclaim.
"Hen IL empty
And all the devils ae hereb
What rends the country and causes the embar-
easements, the fears, and the commissions through
which its interests passing, is this detestable,
everywhere e. present nuisance IL is its expulsion