New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-29
PROBABgLIYEEs.

suppress Southern insurrectOn promising to
subvert a Government formed to secure the
blessings of liberty to themselves and their pos
terity; and before they lay down the arms TO
which they thus resorted from such dire neces-
sity, there are two things which they mean TO
see accomplished. They mean, first. to see the
instruction thoroughly suppressed and tn. chief
traitors published; and, secondly, they mean to
do it 80 enectually that no second rebellion from
similar causes can ever again raise its h.deous
head in this country.
So earnest is the determination among the
people at large to compass these two ends, one
referring to the present. and the other TO the
future, and so strong is their faith in their own
will and power, that the very suggestion Of
| Compromise with the enemies of the public
peace, the traitors who have worked such dire
disaster, who contemplate such foul wrong to
the history and the hopes of this countryside
bare suggestion is received with excavations that
may serve as a dreadful note of warning to those
who venture upon making it, The strength Of
purpose by which tho people are moved has the
| force of religious conviction, the enthusiasm of
the most ardent patriotism, the energy Of
| righteous anger the consciousness of an indon-
liable courage, and the certainty of an overwhelm-
/ ing power to carry it out. Treason and the fear
Of treason are to be so extirpated that the mother
who bends over the cradle of her child may feel
content that never again during his life, though
it be prolonged to the full measure OF days
allotted 10 man, of threescOre years and ten,
shall treason cross bis thoughts by day or trouble
his dreams by night.
The cost Of this war already il such that to
attempt patched-up peace is to work against
the laws of nature, who permits no great c1-
penditurc without due return aud tOlerates 10
extravagant waste of forces without some COM
pensation. That which has been expel ded in
the actual material of war is large the absolute
sacrifice that war has made inevitable is larger
the commercial ruin and the Sd Dwreck Of prom
iced prosperity that preceded the resort TO arms
was immense; but above oil is the moral strength
that throws away all the cherished hopes Of n
lifetime, hopes Of private gain and public well
fare, and accepted, not merely with resignation
but with enthusiasm, oil the widespread private
disaster the overthrow Of the political ideas of
lifetime and throws everything into the scale
of country against treason. The exaltation of
spirit, the sublimty of the patriotism of the PEG.
pie in this juncture we have as yet only glimpses
of; they remain for history to note; it, indeed,
our time shal have any other history than one
over which we must needs pray vail mag be
dropped to hide it forever from the eyes Of our
children.
The indications that the Southern insurgents
have come 10 their wits ends and TO the begin
mig of the end Of all their resources. are too
many and too striking to be di.regarded. There
is nowhere in the world a civilized people Of eight
millions less capable of seli-support than the
Southern States of this Union. In ordinary times
of peace, with the utmost freedom Of production,
with the most untrameled use OF all the appli.
ances Of industry, they cannot raise for them
selves the coarsest necessary food to sustain life.
They depend upon States north OF them for the
ord Dary hog and hoininy which make " TIE chief
"of tleir Diet not only for their slaves,
but for themselves; while the labor Of
their working class is devoted 10 Tie pro
duction of the three great staples OF Cotton
Rice aud Sugar. The rice they can eat, the SUI
gar they can swecten it WITH and it is not Of
much u,e except as cordiment; but the cotton is
useless except as an article Of merchandise. As
merchandise eyen they must wait for it at least
five months, supposing that even then they should
have the bagging to put it in-which they cannot
manufacture aud which ought to be made con-
traband-and unrestricted permission to gel it to
market 1t is idle to reckon upon any aid from
England in such emergency. England VIII not
risk general war for the sake OF opening our
Southern ports. But even if she would at all,
she certainly will not until compelled TO do 10 by
an absolute scarcity of that staple in her own
warehouses; She cannot have on hand at this
moment less than nine months supply; the de-
mand for cotton goods the present year il
sure to be less than usual, the demand
for the raw material of course must de-
crease, ard therefore her nine months supply
will last, probably a year. The cotton statistics
Of Great Britain show that short crop in this
country has always been met by an increased
supply from India; for it is the price OF cotton
in England, and not its production in India, that
regulates the supply from that region. But be-
eide India cotton, much will seek market from
Egypt from Africa, from South America, the
West Indies, and Australia, where its production
will be stimulated, the present season, BY the
apprehcnded diminuton of the supply from this
country. The exigency, therefore, In my case
that could move England to interfere with our
domestic aifars for the relief Of her own manu-
f,cturers. will not occur for year or eighteen