New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-09
THE fRO--SIAVERY REVOLUTION.
THE NETWORK COMPROMISE.

From our Special Correspondent.
. M WASHINGTON, Jan. Z, 1861.
The New.York Plenipotentiares have come
along with their Compromise. They are behind
the tmes. have already teleyaphed you what
Mr.. Douglas says of the project, and no more,
significant commentary can be made. The plan
10 immediately admit all the territory south OF
36o 3O "a State, with or without Slavery, as
Il may choose, is not thought by Southern men
10 give them chance in it which is worth any
thing. although New.MeIico is nominally slave
holding Territory.
II is alleged by those who profess to know,
that there are but fourteen slaves in the whole
Territory, that the poems are dead against Slavery
and will vote it down overwhelmingly when the
oueston is submitted to popular vote These
considerations, it is confidently affirmed, will lead
Southern men to regard the proposition rather as
a hostile than composing measure. .I b.
Nevertheless, there may be those in the border
Slave States who think, as have said on
former occasion, that the proposition, if it can
be passed, may afford them temporary holding
ground during the hight Of the Secession storm
But so far as / can see the case is past COM
promising, and has been for good while. Every
man who has comprehended the issue now
upon uS, has seen for years that when the Mis-
souri, Compromise was removed our two systems
of labor, with all their necessary conflicts ana
antaeonisms, were to meet face to face in strug
ole for predominance in the common territory OF
the Union: and that in that struggle one or She
other must give way. That struggle has come,
the conflict has taken place. Slavery has proved
the weaker interest in the combat, But instead
of being willing to submit, under the Constitu-
tion TO the inevitable necessity which defeat i'm
poses, Slavery now proposes to contest the battle
over again outside the Constitution, and by force
of arms How can a case like that be compro-
missed Still, if there are those who think 1t can,
let them try it. II seems to me very much like
Mrs. Darlington with her broom against the
Atlantic. This very New.York proposition being
considered, by men who are certainly capable OF
Judging, only a mode of more quickly ending the
controversy against Slavery, and not OF reversing
or in anywise modifying the results of the strug-
gle, confirms this view. Yet, amid the clouds,
and dust, and smoke of the revolution now pro-
crossing, the New.York Plenipotentiaries, as well
as some others. think their measure bear healing
in its wings.
II is wise 10 try 10 limit the revolt Of the
shareholders as much as possible, of course. HIT
il seems to me this can only be done through their
own appreciation Of the dangers and disasters OF
revolution Others cannot think for them, or act for
them, in an emergency like this. Everybody must
zee that the frenzied excitement, the wild delirium
of the secession epidemic, now raging and spread
ing. is not going to be propltiated BY ordinary
methods. This rude and sudden tearing asunder
of the national bond Of Union is so unnatural, so
contrary to every dictate Of self-intsrest and
sound Judgment 80 far az the border Slave States
are concerned, that to expect to check those who
are plunging recklessy upon these courses by
mild propositions, not having onetenth or one
hundredth part OF the weight attached to th'sn
that the general considerations belonging TO the
question possess, is little short of infatuation.
The Cotton States cannot be arrested at this point
of time. So much seems certain. II the border
Slave States can be, is il by proposition that
their people think ia 10 forever clcse the terrific
rial controversy against them They may be
willing 10 consent 10 this result, from other more
welghty and patriotic, ana enduring cohsu'rS-
tons, but how can il be affirmed with any show Of
probability that such proposition is an aid to
induce their assent to such a termination Of the
controversy
But after all is said and done, some patching
up of the case is quite possible. And even the
Gulf States may, very shortly, be only too glad
to seize upon the slightest apparent concessions
to save themselves from utter ruin. But that
anything can or will be done to yield any SUBJ
stantia fruits to Slavery, or set back the current
which is carrying Freedom to the Territories now
and hereafter, l do not and shall not believe.
The Republicans and the Free States are entire
masters of the situation if they bat stand firm.
fire that kndles quick goes out quick. Their
present course is taking the Slave States to an.
achy and ruin faster than their worst enemies
could DESIRE .. .. }. =. p.
FROM GEORGIA.