New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-29
THE TRUE ISSUE.

The West gives no uncertain sound. Our news
columns show the military activity winch per
wade, the whole region, and the tone Of those
high in Office evinces the spirit BY which the
people are moved. Gov. Morton Of Indiana ad-
dressed the Legislature OF that State on Thurs
day last in q speech sound In Its statement 0f
tho causes which have led to this, as he calls 1t,
wicked rebellion" as it Is decided rs 10 the
way in which it il to be met. Going behind the
immediate disturbances of few months past, he
gives thirty years ago as the date of the origin
of the rebellion. cit Is well KNOWN ne says,
.that distinguished Southern statesmen, as early
q" IA Is2O, cherished the dream of a vast Southern
" slagehodlDg confederacy comPrehendng the
"conquest OF Cuba, Mexico, and Central America.
"Ths determination was then formed to break
our Republic into pieces by any available pre-
text The first one seized upon by South Caro-
Gina was the tariff question, and had not the
"nation had for it, Executive man greatly
"dstlnguished for patriotism, courage, ana de-
{" ei,on of character, wlde-spreadIng ana dbas-
trous consequences might have followed. By
"prompt and energetic action, the rebellion was
"crushed out for the tune, t. be revived, a.
Z. ,ubseauept events have shown, ON new features
=. and in another form"
.. ,ars this time, t'ssta Nss- ti@eyi~....N "hs
=, ,-,. Il q, II be- Slavery" And General Taylor
anew thus 40 well Us General Jackson and, had
be lived, BE- would have shaped the policy of
the Government that Southern traitors would
have been compelled to premature deyelopement
Of their plans, and have been more easily
defeated or have been prevented from ever
making ue attempt In the enthusiasm of the
military ardor Of the moment We must not loso
sight Of history. So long as Southern slsyobod-
ers were permitted 10 hold possession OF the
Government, and prostitute its powers To their
own aggrandizement and 10 strengthening their
system of unpaid negroabor, they content
with tie Union. The North they have looked upon
as an appcndage to the South, pcopled by an in
dustrious population Of - mud -sIlls" fit only for
mental service, and allowed only certain priyi-
legcs Of suffrage and representation 10 be used
for the interests and subject To the dictaton of
the natural sovereign, Southern gentleman.
A strong people are always magnanimous and
the North, careless of Southern arrogance,
untrammeled in its march to prosperity and
power by the feeble jeaOuses and attempted i'm
positions OF a retrogradnc and demoralzed peo-
pie, dreading the madness of disunion, and dcpre-
eating the evils Of evil war, had tolerated and
lorborne till patience and mercy have almost
ceased to be virtues. Nor las 1t even known /
the extent of ia own endurance, till now com
PEELED To shake Itself loose from this detestable I
dcspotsm, il rises mp rs one man. recognizing 1
how great the burden has been by being relieved .
from it, and determined it SHALL be- endured no
longer. The Souh-the poyerty-stricken, the I'M
beetle the brsoitcd SOuth-Iiitlo knows the rrtri-
button that awaits her in return for the long Sc
RES OF wrongs inflicted upon private citizens for
sectional Sggressions, for hostile legislation, for
ron,umely hcapcd upon Northern workiDgmen,
for the studied insults and outrage visited upon
Northern statesmen for singing impuiations Of .
want al courage and manlincss in the Northern .
character, for all that for these thirty years
she has endured without r,senting but :
which now that she is moved TO resent them she
will do 20 with tripL. vengeance, that she has
injured long. Not an item of that large debt
ias been wiped Of IA it accumulated and the
cttDnc N The more scriOls tIat the whole score
s TO be paid up at once. 1t is time already that
he fell upon her knees and prayed to God that
II wiping out the debt we do not wipe her out
'!so, and plant h new race in that pleasant
.ountry cursed hitherto by Shareholders and
layes. In the message of Gov. Morton, from
which We just now quoted she is reminded that
'ur divisions ut the North were merely politi.
cal and not fundamental" and that party lines
ave faded instsntly from sight when the Nation
i in danger. She has made the fatal mistake of
clieying, because she had hosts of friends among
u on merely political grounds, that therefore she
would find submsa.On when she made the issue
etwecn the existence of democratic form of
government and the absolute rule Of q slave.
gliding section The mistake is 80 fatal that it
az led her to that madness which ends only in
i,l death The North the West aud the East,
le FREQ States as = whole are, at last, in
angerous temper, and one not to be triaed
nth.
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