New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-07
The PRO-SlAVEnY REBELLION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
COMPROMISING BAFFLED.

1n4B FIRST ACT OF TIE NEW Uhhhh
TpRH or THE BORDER AND GULF STATES
s,ss ou Special Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 5, 1861.
The new Administration is launched, and the
x,inv next in order ia the action Of the Border
Shave States.
Mr.. Lincon.has successfully resisted the pres
sure upon him to recede from the Republican
ppstion on which the party Won its victory, and,
10 his Inaugural, stands firm.
The Unsuitable demands for compromise have
Been, at least once in our history, bahled and
xspulsed. Ii the Administration shall but stand
Ay the terms OF the Inaugural, We need ash no
more.
We shall soon see where the Border Slave States
stand. They win row have an opportunity to
declare distinctly for Union or DisuDiOn. All
true men would have much preferred that the
battle should have been fought Oh the COnstitu-
hen as it is, and without any suggestion OF
change. But pernicious policy of concession
and compromise early invaded the ranks OF the
Republicans, and the party has been weakened
and demOralzed by it. Ii has been fight as
with wild beasts at Epbesus to hold the Com
promisers at bay, and prevent them from per-
petratng some deadly folly. Their finchmg
temper has had the mischevOus effect OF making
he true men of the Border Slave States more
euactng, and thus weakening their own as well
- the Republican position.
We may console ourselves with the reflection
Sna. the result of the whole movement has been
zSthing worse than the reluctantly -extOrted con-
sent of Congress to strengthen an existing con-
st5tuteAal provision by making it irrepealabe,
and n suggestion of the new President favorable
10 National Convention to consider amendments
% the Constitution. The convictions Of the very
bsst men in the Republican ranks have been
asainst doing anything whatever; but So much
was finally concurred in by q majority on the
ground that it could do no harm, and 1t might
do good, in the coming struggle OF the Border
Save States against the Secession mania.
And thus we stand ready for that contest. II
xhose States shall show themselves content with
Ire Offering, so be it. Let it be yielded. If
hey will not accept it, but will insist upon more,
then the disposition to grant this much viii easily
Be destroyed. For what is done is not done IN
n spirit Of submission, but in q spirit Of irater-
nal forbearance toward mental malady now at
Acting those communities.
The States referred to are at turning point
10 their own fate. They can bring destruction
spon themselves, or they can refuse to do 1t.
The battle has this issue, aud nothing less. We
may thus web regard it with solicitude. The
fa& that every Border Slave State which passes
a Secession Ordinance, does it with the certainty
sf bringing on a civil war among its own people,
anads me 10 the conclusion that those States will
avoid that result. They viii hardly be willing to
proyoke such a consequence But tins rs the
very problem of the hour, and we need not spend
cur time and breath in prOgnosticatiDg, for the
decision Of the question Is not Tar DISTANT lne
xabiect is complicated, to degree, by the action
sS the Peace Convention. Their propositions VII
be put forth in those States. as well as IN The
free States, as the basis of action for new
marty, or rather of an old party under new
name The Compfomisers viii rally on those
propositions, and thus try to turn the whole
Secession movement in the Border Slave States
into a political scheme to overthrow the Republic
can party at the polls.
This will be the first act in the new drama OF
svposition to the incoming Administration.
The members Of the Montgomery Federation
lave part of their own play. Their position
his more of difficulty and danger, and wider
scope of action. They cry peace, but seem to
mean war. They are undoubtedly creeping fur
ther and further back into a state of barbarism,
md internal discOrd, and strife; and their future
IN full Of clouds and darkness. 1t would seem
nat they must get back under shelter of our
Government yet once and again before the time
shan arrive for their final expulsion from our
system. J. p.