New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-06-12
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
S,sm Our Own Correspondent.

cana dozen III you pledhes ho'0 w" v" VIZ
witness.stand-judging from my board bill-about
a year, but it may be- in point Of chronology,
,omething less than that. / am to be submitted
10 direct interrOgatOry and cross examination as
the court and counsel please; and with reason
able memory, fair imagination, and as much re-
yard for truth as ono can have and stay IN
Washington, hope to give you plausible and
pertinent answers. "Why don't We let the
South 60 out peaceablyl" Simply and solely
because it is impossible. There are ninety-nlne
reasons behind this, and if you are not convinced
with the extended reply tina; shall give you, l
will run through the whole catalogue.
You and your wife do not agree-pardon me,
this is hypothetical, and only assumed for Illus
fratiOn. You are fond of a cigar, lOrum OF
hot whisky, when you are released from Wall or
Water street-read modern literature bound in
yellow when you wish to elevate your literary
taste, and possibly THE TRIBUNE when you de-
sire 10 improve your mind and heart; and some
timer, if you have consciousness of wrong
doing take Mr.. Everet.'s articles in The Ledger
ms moderate panacea. You may sometimes,
100, ring your dOor-ben at unreasonable hours,
and be more facetous than is natura! TO your
usual flow of spirits. Your wife, on the con-
trary has fearful lOoking.fOr of future retri-
button, which solemnizes her temper and tastes
reads Baxter's Call to the UncOnyerted, or Dodd-
ridges Rise and Progress, and adorns the doctrine
she holds by making herself miserable and you
uncomfortable. So under the general plea of
incompatiblity Of dispositions, you have quiet
separation-Madam with generous alimOny, takes
a suite of rooms somewhere near Hydropatbic
institution in Winter, and seeks sea-bathing dur
ing the Summer solstice; while you remain IN
position at the homestead, get venerable
Duenna, sufficiently old and satisfactorily ugly
TO avoid scandal. The children, if you have
sorted and sized discrcetly, are divided; the wife
takes the two girls, who are to be educated for
the Chocktaw mission, while you are left with
brace of boys, one of whom, if You are sensi-
bic man and support the Administration, can 60
into barracks at the Military Academy at West
Point, and the younger can swing in hammock
ut the Naval School Of Newport All this is
agreeable and does not ruffie the calm Of so
ciety.
But when you come to o higher matrimonial
relation, the case is more complicated. You
cannot divide the estate, nor can you pay off in
legacy. From the essential conditions, it is indi.
visible and cannot be separated. If Mr.. Jeier-
con Davis could or would go down to Honduras
with his ebony harem, and initiate the policy of
his State (Mississipp), issue bonds and utter ir-
redeemable currency and occasionally make a
fOray into an abutting province, just to keep his
hand in--or if Mr. Howell Cobb would take to
l:xn.o1c +lo Troasnrv nana rt,nant of His hroech-
less Majesty of Mosquito, and spend his bottom
dollar-or even if Mr.. Reagan could propagate
a race Of nimble fingers and open palms, such
% should be legitimate to the absorbing and ac-
cumulating principally of Te1as-in its early
settlement rural penitentiary or penal colony
all might be agreeable and peaceable; but this
cannot be.
We will suppose that commissioners should be
appointed, and an amicable separation negotiated;
the fifteen millions paid for Louisiana is extin-
ruished by free gift, and the uncOunted heaps
which have been lavished in purchase, war, and
annual support are cut off by our comprehensive
receipt in full. We will 80 further, and give
them handsome outfit to set up the business of
Government aud enter into treaties to hold
smity and good fellowship with them; and
what thenl river and land line divide the two
nations. On one side is freedom and free institu-
fions and the other is bondage and the iron rule
Of an oigarchy. The labOrer Of the border hates
the system which places his sweat and toll on
level with the OK and the ass. He scorns de-
cree Of social and political arrangement which
makes him mere beast Of burden, to be fed
and clothed as q horse is stabbed and fOddered,
and to yield the fruit Of his Drawn and muscle
&c the recompense of bruises and blows. The
lord Of the plantation gives back in hate what
goes to him in luminosity. The born thrall snuff
ing the bracing air of Northern independence,
takes the wings of the morning and flies to more
congenal and compensating drudgery. No longer
bound by the extraditon of an infamous law, the
citizen gives him good cheer or God speed.
Then comes the resentment and the re-
prsa Restitution is refused, and raid
begins. A fred barn or burning grain-stack is
to retaliate for the ofense Of food and cold
water to the fugitive, Soon follows boOdshed
and mutual outrage AN armed police patrol the
border line, lacking nothing of standing soldiery
except the caprice of language Then fortreSses
are built on bluffs, and batteries with surly can.
non guard the peace of the people from incursiOn
and robbery. What there is of private defense
and individual revenge soon passes into legsla-
xioD, and we have Introduction and embargo, con.
fscation and sequestration. The mouth of the
Mississippi, which is to be free to us, is closed
to outlet, and open war concludes what irrita-
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