New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-08

, War is the sharpcst remedy in the pharmaco-
peia of Nations Civil war is the bittcress OF all
its cruel varieties, only to be administered in the
very last extremity. The disease must be bad
/ indeed that is worse than this medicine, and the
men TO whose hands Nation has confided the
/ care OF its life aud health take upos themselves
the very grayest Of human responsibilities when
they resort to its exhibition. Ii is the felicity Of
! President Lincoln aud bis advisers, that the dis
( temperature OF this Nation had reached 40 fatal
a hight that they had no choice as to the treat.
ment 10 be pursued. Whatever may be the is.
sue Of this war there eau be no question that
the verdict to DO recorded OF 1T by history will
pronounce that il was not only righteous but I'M
avoidable on tie part Of the United States. Ii
had been delayed TO the very latest moment, with
q patience which TO foreign nations and to our
own people looked like pusillanimity, and it has
been carried on with Indulgence aud kindness
OF spirit toward the Rebels which must appear
to the same observers TO SAVIOR of weakness. We
do not now condemn either the one or the 9th.
er course of conduct. The official persons having
the great responsibilities Of action have deliber
ately adopted item both in tie conviction, doubt
less. that this was the wisest way to deal with
the malady Of the land,
And purge Il 10 'oIrd ard pristine health"
The progress and the teachings OF eyents
however, may well make US al consider whether
the method Of treating the open and covert ene-
mics of tie country which has obtained thus far,
can, in the nature Of things, be much longer
persevered iu Wars, no more than Revolutions,
can be made with rcse.water. They grow out
of the collision Of fierce and mighty passions,
and the most eGrnest and violent Of those pas.
sons usually. carries off the victory. War,
however inevitable in the existing state Of the
world, and however much soltened by all the
mit,gations Of civilization, is ghastly relic Of
barbarism, only to he accepted as the lesser evil
in a choice OF which the alternative is a more
hideous barbarian yet. This war is virtually, il
not expressly, one waged for the conservation oil
Civil Liberty upon this continent. IL is delen-
sivo war on the part Of the United States for the
maintenance of Constitutional Government and
the right OF The people to rule Themselves. The |
great Conspiracy, ripening for thirty years, lis
qualifications reaching into every State and almost
every village in the land, the ideity OF its mem |
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blood Of slaves, broke out into fragrant violence
after the last Presidential election bad shown
that the North could and would Withstand sue
cessrully the prescriptiye dictation of the South
It's original design was not the disruption Of The
Union, but the compulsiOn of a reconstruction OF
H. by yirtue--or rather by ,ice--Of which the
freedom of speech and Of the press was to be
smo.hered, their champions silenced IN blood, if
need were, the supremacy Of Slavery made sure
and perpetual, aud the onicnl spols of the
Nation distributed among the parrcidal miscreants
there who were art and part of the plotted
wickcdness.
The effect of Tie opening Of the war BY the
batteries at Charleston having surprised and dis.
appointed everybody, true men as well as rosue'r
and driven the Northern reptiles to Their holcs,
whence they breathe out their Venom through
such spiraeles as Tic Day Bogt and Tie Jour.
nal If Commtrsf, AID as Tke Posi- and Coarise
Of Boston, the Rebellion bas acquired a sincerity
Of purpose which il lacked at first. The pro-
meters of il now see that the scepteH has de-
parted from them in Tic United States, which
the North musi bencsicrlh rule, and they nov