New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-30
SIGNS AND PORTENTs.


of tae JEFF Davis Constitution and is much
concerned lest that provision which al
lows the admission of Northern States into
the Southern Confederacy, may work
great mischief aud make new deal
necessary. II now perceiyes with alarm
that Z" there is nothing to prevent the admission
- of Northern States into the new COnfedera-
20 ton" Now we do not think there is any i'm
mediate danger that any one of the Free States will
voluntarily knock at the door of JEFF. Davis ap-
plying to be LET in; yet, after all, there
may be some ground for The MeroHrys suspicion.
Leaving the door open had meaning, and was
not altogether accidental. Only few days ago
the same journal gave expression to its fore
bOiing that after all the independence and su-
premaey of the Slave COnfederacy, which has
been the dream Of his lAe was to be defeated.
4" There are specks," il exclaimed, "uPOn the
"Southern horizon that ere long may become
90 dark and muttering clouds. We fear recon-
g" struetiOn on the basis of the new Constitution.
The correspondent of THE TRIBUNE, at MontgO-
merry, who is deep in the secrets Of JEFF. Davis,
probably had clearer vision Of these clouds,
when a few days since he telegraphed us in the
following language:
The Government the Confederay send Ebs
sailors the Democratic Conventions Of all the Free States
cspt those of wEngsnd The authority Of the cid hulk Of
the Union will be disresrded EeTche V johnson and john
Side will probably be ambassadors to NcwNok 90
treat with Peter Caggsr and Dean Richmond You may expect
original and Startling diplomatic moVemontsn
Mr.. Breckenridge, when making his speech in
The United States Senate last week, had the same
thing in his eye, but instead of q cloud, he
appears to have regarded il as bow Of promise.
The late Vice-President permits glimpse when
he cautiously draws the curtain aside:
Border Slave States eunie this Confederacy
The majority Of the savohoDg States alone have the power
do and he expressed the opinion with grief but with firm
conviction that unless the Republicans who
are manifest spin. give the equality which he Border
Slave States claim the question viii be solved In one Of these
sys ", may drift into civil strife II the PEOPLE sowedno
opportunity speak hut We have not civil strife, then apeaoe
u separation by treaty Republican statesmen and their
friends remain finn rigid and determined there be other
than drive the Border Slave States iao union Will the
Confederate States in the belief that that Government represents
the e principles Of the old Federal system. If tie Border
Slave States hold Convention which probable and the
people of the nousveholing States deem their duty reject
such propositions may be essential then the disruption Of the
Union viii be inevitable the extent Of fifteen Stss and
den. day the COnfederroy viii be the largest this
.tihent."
This is as definite as we could expect, at
present, from Mr.. Breckinridge; but The Penn
SyIranian, discussing his speech, puts the idea in
the following emphatic language:
The issue then unavoidsby a:ise do the people Of he
Northern prefer Republican sdninssra with pnc
pies policy perrorcs and Of necessity e-e'ds The
whole Of ssyehodng States vii they ioPadAie these
sud harmonious eonfederacy cfhyour States This
% the root, ihe very pivot Of all 6scussionS'
The n. o. Pioayune rays the future is free
from all doubt and that there viii be perma-
nent separation on such terms as may be de-
handed BY the Seeded States or 1" honorable
reconstruction" The same idea crops cut in
various localities in the dominODs OF Mr. Jef.
Davis. We find it also nearer home. at Dem
ocratic meeting lately held in the town OF New
Rochelle, Westebester County, in our Own State,
she proceedings Of which were published in The
Journal Of Commerce, pa ''"0i! vi "''VUN' " ~
nearness in sympathy with the '''i''"
pressed, the following resolution was adopted:
Rs.oved That the Democracy Rochelle adopt their
party platform the Constitution Of the Southern Coud
States"
As there ia a reason for the milk in the foreign
cocesnUt so there is one for it in the domestic
article. New Rochelle has the honor of being tie
residence of Richard Lathers, esq, formerly of
the City of Charleston, S. c., the same gentle
man who originated and engineered the famous
Pine-street meeting, gotten up mainly TO gorfy
himself. 1t is also the residence of several Fed
eral Custom-House employees whose bread and
butter being seriously threatened by recent APP
pointmeut by President Lincoln, are ready to bid
for pay and rations from the crib Of the Southern
President.
Tie albany Atlos and Argus also appears TO
have scented the reconstruction idea on the basis
OF the JEFF Davis Constitution for it has of late
been prAisiDg that instrument as " admirable"
We may expect soon to see JEFF Dayiss Com.
missioners among us, and the Democratic press
throughout the North with full accord sup
porting the plan. On our part, we are
ready for the day which is to witness
the opening of such o contest, and We trust
that the Inachinists and scene-shifters, whose
Office it is, viii not long postpone the lifting OF the
curtain.
We do not often deem ii necessary to take the