New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-21

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are also, according to the Brunonian plan -
duced to ashes, with the exception Of G..
Brown who will have bayonet through n.
midrif. who we should like to know win bot
tic up the remains of Mrs. Brown aud h.,
pulverized progeny And though the wind.
may be perfectly willing TO pass over Der relic.
and to chant the funeral dirge of the family.
yet, In their pulverized condition, the Brown.
may get mixed up with the niggers"-wao
are also to be burned-so that the best-inten.
toned wind in tie world will not be all.
to tell to other generations whether this par.
ticular dust was that of a " freeman" or mai
On the whole we think that Mrs. Brown bad
better not burn, and we know that the it'll
Browns viii fully agree with us in this opinion
and if Brown himself could be persuaded 70
give up his notion of dying nobly at the point
of tie bayonet, it would be better for his fam.
lily and perhaps for himself if not for tho
State of Georgia. Still, if worst comes to
worst, We hope that nobody viii hold him.
The Governor seems to take it for granted,
that if the arms Of the Union prevail, it will
be all up with the Browns. He sees ahead,
in such ali event. burdens, taxation, military
despotlsm, standing armies, insolence, insult
bondage, degradation No wonder that he d
bent upon suicide with o bayonet), and Il
determined TO calcine bis family. But does N
not, after oil, take too dark a view of tia
future of his beloved Georgia7 To be urs
tho Browns might commit telo de @-that.
perhaps, is settled-but then the Smiths might
not, aud even the Joneses might be persuaded
10 live. Personally We should prefer to have
them step ont, and so no longer break our
peace; but will they step out VIII funeral
piles be erected all over Georgia VIII
suicide with bayoneD and suffice become
epidemical in that State
"Were We disposed to yield" Gays Brown,
sit is now too late to calculate the cost Of
"submission." 1t being thus "too late" Of
course Brown falls, as we have seen, to cal
culatiDg, aud that, too, in rather blue way
We beg Of him to cheer up little; for we
do not really think this " Sorrows-of-Werter
style just the thing in Governor. The par.
ticular injuries upon which these Rebels are
mounted we do not, to this day, know; nor
do We expect to know until the Governor
and Editors of the Fugitive States suspend
their general EXCAVATIONS, and treat the world
to bill of particulars. Brown tells US of the
aggravated crueities whichlthe General Govern.
ment, should it secure an opportunity viii
commit; but Brown does Mt tell us what
wrongs this same General Government has CON-
mitted. This puts the Loyal States in pretty
predicameDt, for how can We plead to the
indictment before hearing it read. We do rot
think it, at any rate, fair to try US, not for
what we have done. but for what we may do.
If it will be at al se3atiye to Gov. Browns
nerves, and if he viii promise not to kill him.
self with bayonet) we believe that upon the
return of the State of Georgia to her legal po-
litical position, the President will so make easy
tie final settlement, that Mrs. Brown and hex
children VIII not feel obliged TO perish upou
one common funeral pile" with Browns
property" In all seriousness, when one re-
fleets upon the horror of this wicked war, tk
money it will cost, the morals it will debaucl
tho terror which it viii inspire, aud then read
Browns Inaugural, so utterly fimGy aud mean
iueless, one is tempted to ask why Providence
did not inspire Brown with the idea of using
that bayonet upon his person great many
years ago. And 80 much for Brown