New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-09
OUR rANIFEsT POLICY.

III le snalne ana q Olsgrace 10 lne lNepuOucan
party that there should be at this crisis Of tfairs
any hesitation, doubt, question, or division
among them, in regard to the true policy to be
Iursued by the Government.
Nothing can be palmer than that the Seces-
siOnists are on the high road to ruin and that
they will be soon encountered by resolution at
home which will end in their overthrow and hu-
initiation, if they are not sooner saved by the
succumbing Of cOmpromisers.
With the stOppage of Ncw.Oreans trade and
commerce, the repeal of the sugar duties, and
the abolition of the mail service in Louisiana,
that State would be in open revolt against the
dsunionilts in less than six months. Secession
had no advocates in Louisiana ten days after
Lincolns election. But suddenly the fever set
In and ran as all epidemics run. 1t has culmi-
mated in preciptating the State hastily into its
present position, But the Wh".cc movement rests
On. 10 solid casis whatever. A little time to
cool, little time for reflection, is oil that is
needed to bring the population back to their
senses. It's mOnstrOus to suppose that such rev.
olutcf, founded merely on the popular impulse of
day, can stand the strain of rulnOus experience
for any length on time. Louisiana never was
other than loyal Stait. What sire has done
now has been done in utter thoughtlessness and
haste She will make equal haste to retroce her
steps, when the benefcent protection Of the
Federal arm shall be withdrawn, and she shall
feel the consequences of her rash and uniustfi-
able conduct.
Every where the same experience will produce
tie same results The Secession movement pro-
duces ruin wherever it goes. 1t destroys credit,
it arrests trade, it breaks down prices, it extin.
guishes values, il excites insurrectioD, ii causes
general stagnation and universal distress. Ii
does all this Of its own operation, without any
effort on the part of the General Government
That Government needs only to withdraw IFS
bcnefcent influences ard patcrDal care, and stand
perfectly still, TO produce the overthrow OF the
traitors who have fOmented this cGuteless rebel
lion. There il no occasion for war, no occasion
for any strain on the national treasury, TO accom-
plish this object. The Federal Government has
only TO pursue Il policy of mastery inactivity in
order that The whole rebellion should collapse. 1t
can be patient. II can wait. II can prOcTastinate
And by this policy it can punish the seeding
States, and extingush their traitors almost with
out striking blow. The SccessOnists cannot
wait The seeding States cannot wait. They
must do somcthing--must accomplish something;
and they must do it at once. Business interests
viii not, cannot wait. The people viii grow in-
patient Ground down by taxation, every branch
Of business, every avenue Of trade, every active
pursuit and employment, every enterprise, stag.
nant and death-struck, they viii rebel against
their incompetent and treacherous revolutionary
leaders, and hurI them from power. The chiefs
Of the Secession movement VIII yet daDgle at
every cross-road in The South, if the true policy
is pursued at this crisis. The people Themselves
will execute vengeance upon their false guides,
without the intervention of the Federal Govern
ment.
Why cannot our public men see this Is
their vision blinded by The miSts of fear If any
man Is alarmed LET him resign Ond go home If