New-York daily tribune., 1861-05-18

against Secession. nat soue chanEc au'cfrc W
the Unol has since been made ia their popular
sentiment, we admit; but this has been efested
by muzzling the Union Press, pervertng the Tel
egraph, and by inaugurating general system of
violence. outrage. and terrorism. The ostensble
unanimity of the S,uth in favor Of Secession is
precisely on a par with the uoauimity Of the
French in favor OF Robespierres dictatorship the
week before he wa. put 10 death.
Then as 10 the 4" fiaendly separation" Tie
Star blunders grossly. Ue n.rer hare had on op-
ponunity 10 consent 10 such separation. There
are multitldes in the Free States who would
have hailed and improved such an opportunity.
But the Secession movement assumed from the
outset an attitude Of hostility and de6ance-il
was inaugurated " the .forcibe seizure Of Fed.
cral forts, arsenals, armores custom. houses, and
even money, aud their conversion to the uses Of
the rebelion; before a. musket, or even pro-
clamaton, had been leveLd of the insurgents
they had corrupted many officers Of our Army
and Navy, including Gen. Twiges, commanding
in Texas, where o full third Of our little Army
was guarding the frontiers against eaysge ma
rauders. That force was striHasd Of it's arms
matcriei, ard provisions b. this Infamous traitor
aud in good part made prisoners through bis
conhiyauce. The Navy Yard and most of the
forts at Pensacola were wrested from tho Union
through similar treasons, as were many other
stroneholds aod repositories Of Federal property,
with several National vessels While the Federal
authority lay paralyzed in the hands Of traitors
or imbeciles, act utter act Of high-handed, trea-
sonable spoliarion was committed, until the
traitors had possession of nearly half our Atlantic
aud Gulf coast, with its harbors forts, arsenals,
&C., and more than half the Federal arms.
Need we argue that ga friendly separation
thus inaugurated, was impossible-tbat tame
submission to the traitors' requirements would
have demoralzed the country, pro0,red bouuties
t, treason, and been every where regarded as our
National humiliation and overthrow Since man
kind bad a history, no nation mhki0g any pre-
tense to character or public spirit ever meekly
bowed its head TO such deslh.warrant. Had
We done II, we should have found it impossible
to live on the same continent with the L" Con-
" federates;" we must have fought them after
acknowledging their independence, if not before.
1t is their mistaken presumption that We would
submit to anything rather than fght them that
has involved us in this trouble: even II we were
anxious and intending TO get rid of them, We
should have frst 10 meet them in the tented field.
But suppose you meet and beat them, asks
The star, what then How will you harmonic
afterward We answer, easily, cordially. The
Janizaries, the Mamelukes, who have fomented
this rebellion, are not the real People OF the
South. They are mainly the rest'csP, thriiiless,
turbulent class, who, nearly thirty years ago
stole arms from our National arsenals and there
with invaded aud conquered Texosi they are the
Fnlibusters Of later period, who kept the South
West disturbed by their plots and raids for fur
thcr conquests from Mexico. for the sSbjugation
Of Central America and Of Cuba; they are the
4" Lone Star" conspirators and " knights OF tbs
Golden Circle" Of more recent periods. Let
them be well whipped, and the South will be as
peaceful and thrifty as the North-Bowie-kni'es
and reyolyers will be at MISUNDERSTANDING
powers will rest secure in their possessions-snd
the rcopenng of The African Slaye-Trade will
henceforth be regarded as a hideous but family
remembered dream.
We beg our British friends, therefore, to'pos-
sess their souls in patience, and leave the Ameri-
can People to work out their own destiny. IL is
simply impossible that we should tamely submit
to ruthless conspiracy which denies us Ma
tional existence, or suspends that existence on
the breath of the least considerable fraction of
our Union. To give way to Secession is to in.
augurate eternal anarchy among us, and invite
every bafled aspirant every beaten party, to
raise the flag Of rebellion after each recurring
election. 1t is to reduce this Republic 10 the
present status of Spanish America, with ts pal
try, never-endiDg revolutionary wars, its poser-
", its insecurity, and its chronic impotence.
The worst that can happen to US is defeat; and
even that must be infinitely less baleiul in
its influences and consequences than a pusil-
luminous surrender. IL seems but yesterday
that our Northern sympathizerS with the traitors
were threatening us with q tearing up Of our
Union into half dozen petty coniedeTacies, with
the severance of the City from the State Of New
York, and with the ignominious expulsion of the
New England States IA Precipitation Of slave
holding ire. The guns traitorously aimed at Fort
Sumter have swept all that yillainons mons nse
into oblivion, and no now doubts that what
are left of us at the close Of this struggle will
form great, Free indissouble nation. Believe,
then, that we will not desert our brethren, gal.
lanily struggling in Tennessee, Missouri, and
other Slave States, against the ruffiansm that
meets their appeals for the Union with the
Bowie-knifc and revolver; rely on our assurance
that we shall not surrender Northwestern Vlr-
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