New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-11
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Suppose the Democrats had carried the late
election precisely as tho Republicans did-that is,
by plurality of the Popular with a large ma
iority of the Electoral Votes-and that certain
Republican States had thereupOn proceeded to
do Just what certain Democratic States have
doHe-call Legislatures, hold Conventions, and
therein assume to seCede from and break up the
Union; suppose Massachusetts, had declared her
independence and seized the Springfield Arsenal,
the Charlestown Nayy-Yard, and the Boston Sub
Treasury, aud that New-YOrk had been inspired
by her example to clutch the Custom-liOuse, Sub
Treasury, and Assay Office in this City, with all
the forts around our harbor but one or two and
and that we were now investing them-dOes
any one believe that single Democrat in
all the land would have demonstrated against
a recovery Of the Federal property by any
needul amount of force Would HOrati0
Seymour, Sanford l.. Church, Peter Gag
ger, James S. Thayer &c, have gathered
IN State Convention to protest against the
coercion of the insurgents, even though they
were their own immediate neighbors Would any
requisite concessions should be made to induce
these insurgents to retrace their steps and that
If this were not done, the aw-abidng. authority
respecting party would be responsible for what
ever bloodshcd might ensue, and for the break
ing up of the Unionl
These questions suggest their own answers.
Are they not fair ones Can any one assign q
good reason for requiring of Ant-Slayery men
loyalty which is not expected Of Pro-Slayery!
The naked issue now pending is-Shal the
Government be demorazed for the benefit of
faction For it were idle to hope that Slavery
shoud now triumph by menacing the integrity Of
the Union and that the precedent thus estab-
lishcd should never be followed. 4" Bloody in
" s.ructions" must 4" return to plague the in
"yeutors." If Secession may be rehearsed for
the benefit Of Slavery, why not for that of Anti
Slavery If the Union mOy be dissolved this
year in order that Slavery may be extended,
why not next year in order that Cuba may Cor
that it may mott be acquired Whittier shall
we DRIFT if we once establish the principle that
the parties beaten in an election may justifably
combine to prescribe terms to the constituted
authorities of the nation, and that, if those terms
are not acceded tO, the blame of the consequent
disruption is justly 10 be laid on the heads of
those who persisted in standing simply BY the
Constitution and Laws
We do not err--nO one believes we dO--in say
ing that if the relative positions of the two great
parties were exactly reversed, and the Repub-
leans, having been beaten, were now demanding
new guarantees for Freedom in the Territories,
under penalty of disruption of the Union, the
Eyeretts and Winthrops who are now straining
every nerve TO force US into compromise which
they know to be at open war with our prlncl-
pies would be making the land rmg with denun-
Citations of our treason. Mr.. Choate, you re-
member, could not bear tho idea OF assOcatng
with any party that did not I" follow the nag
- and keep step in the music OF the Unlon."
Happy man he is dead now, and does not see
where his Union party has landed, and to what
uses it has lent itself. Hiram ketchum, Wash
ington Hunt, Josiah Randall Joseph f. Ran
doph, Com. Stockton, and host of such, how
supreme how absorbing was their devotion to the
Union, 80 long as they could make UniOnism SUBJ
scryient to Slavery Extension. And now
Tho People see. They cannot help compre-
bending. We Republicans have borne the stigma
of Disunionsm up to this time. Can We be made
to bear it longer If to-day We insist that the
Union shall be maintained, the Constitution up.
held, aud the Laws enforced, we are accused of
a bloodthirsty adherence to Coercion. If We
say, Let the Seeding States 60, We are charged
with seeking dissolution of the Union. We can
satisfy assaiants only by ceasing to be Republi-
cans and withdrawing all opposition to the Ex-
tension of Slavery. Our opponents are not con-
tent with being allowed themselves to difiuse the
National shame-they insist that We shall JOIN
hands with them in the giant inlquity. They
claim to be threefiths of the People, and that
tho residue are rapidly going over to them; yet
they will shatter the Union if We do not abandon
our fundamental position. Let them shatter 1t,
then while we stand in the clear light OF Prln-
ciple and walk in the plain path OF Duty