New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-08
The WAR; FOR THE UNION.
FRcu WASHINGTON.
Our Foreign Relations
r,ou Our Own COrespondent


tberefrom some shape for the future There
,osa no no irritation, and there will be no war,
NJ east from any existing causes OF alienanOn
and disturbance While our family Government
Ia being severely tested, the parental relation
neross the water is MT entirely Tranquil ana
happy. There is some iDsubordlnation IN 'ne
nursery, and in the advanced ages OF youth ana
Young manhood there is chsmping OF the bit ana
curvettipg under the saddle The arm OF author
;tv needed at home, is not likely to waste
strength across the ocean in household quarrd
sf which the respected head has largely the ad-
yantafe over the rampant youngster. fl&ed
government has something in it venerable and
revered, even if it have no age to give IL
stately carriage and the gray hairs which demand
the Difference we pay without reluctance to the
wears of the patriarch. There is not const-
tuted power which can afford, with any regard
70 the stability of It's home or colonial policy,
to give countenance and encouragement to prlVy
conspiracy or sedition against monarehcai or
representative government.
You are surprised, are you, at the position oil
Enelandl SO am /; but my astOnlshment fol-
lows another guide-bOard than yours. My mar
vel is that in the hopelessness OF our Imbecillty
in January and February, they did not nc
cent as an accomplished fact what seemed 10
me. at least, 10 be as certain as fate-the COM
plete disintegratiOn Of our Nationality. l had no
hope but in the people. Government had ceased
its function, OF rather there ,oas no Government.
Ttular individuals sat In chamber and Cabinet,
no administration, and made a mimicry in the
most barren appearances of the exercise OF au-
tbority. 1t was united South and divided
North. Men talked treason in the Senate and in
the House, and went and came as if their blurt-
irg forth of rank revolt was but the innocent
and mild Jokes of the after dinner third bottle.
Senators in their seats indited messages to their
coDederates at home to seize treasure, insult the
flag. possess forts, and surrender the ships of
our revenue marine. 1t was not secret even
two thousand miles from here, and known, talked
about and permitted within the shadow which
the sun casts on a bright day from the mansion
of the President: aud when all was over, and
State after State sends defiance and farewell,
these same men weave fustan rhetoric into part
ing speeches with handkerchiefs to eyes--the Job
Trotters of Senatorial dissimulatiOn-pay their
bar ard board bIis-a large score Of the one,
and small account Of the Other-get into their
carriages for the railway station, with as little
hnderance and as much cOmposure as if they
were to be driven to diplomatic dinner at the
legation of the Imperator Of all the Russias.
Nv cheek burns az l write and recall this most
pitiful of all degradstions which, to the dying
hour Of him who loves HIS land and language
viii cleaye to him in sorrow and shame. Weak,
wicked, wretched, as all this was, the secret
history, as yet unknown TO the country, sends
us to q lower deep of humiliation. But there is
enough that is public, and let what Is now con-
cealed from observation remain suppressed at
least until we have purged ourselves from the
disgrace and scOrn of all ChristendOm.
Do you suppose that you, as an individual, can
have the respect of your fellow men and have no
respect for yoursefi Can you allow the dogs to
bark at you, and clowns to spit in your face, and
expect that your standard of intercourse viii be
higher than you have made il yourself And can
you expect your President and your Administration
to hold nations in fear, when they permit drunken
demagogues to shake fist under their noses and
sound the rally of rebellion under the arches of the
Capitol
Take the whole race, from the Esquimaux in
his smoking bovel, and his seal blubber to eat
to the last and living Duke of Northumberland,
and reverence and regard belong to the posses.
sion of power and it's use. Weakness has our
sympathy or our contempt, but strength and
manhood win our admiration even in their abuse.
1t is not Spain and Portugal to whose Courts
flock the ambassadors who seek treaty and friend
ship-it is to England, France, and Russia that
salutation to the ensign on sea and shore goes
with q ready and spontaneous alacrity. Not to
the war-club of the savage Islander with his ma.
kedness and poverty-his barbarian chief and his
wooden deity, go the tributes of gold and ivory,
the offerings of distant tribes and diverse climates
from bis brother cannibal but to them who sit en-.
thrOned in refinement in the mastery of the arts,
in wealth, and in luxury, that the untaught chill
dren Of temperate latitades and the tropics look
upon wonder, aud obey.
have said that England hates us. The word
was not happily chosen TO express my idea. Nor
can j, in this most miserable damp of rain and
cold, catch the epithet which would carry my
meaning. But, as Mr. Van Dump, whose geneo.
logical tree took root on the Island of Manhat- |
tan, under the reign Of William the Testy, and |
whose inherited cow-range has become corner |
lots, and poured into HE lap all gems in spark |
ling showers, turns up his phlegmatic nose at his |
Yankee neghbor Sykes, who has taken a new
6rst class house alongside of him-from the profits
msnufacfure-with genuine Reubenses and Ra-