New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-12-07
LIMITED LOYALTY.

io"' u""ooineo, we may potch and
piece and solder and tinker, and darn but
the Union" will be but the fabric of
vision, and the disease Of treason VIII cbru.
icnlly affect all our members. CRYING .peocs~
makes no peace. Talking "Upionv unite.
nothing. We have had decisions enough Al.
ready; and if we cannot look facts in tbs f.cs
there is no help in us. The cur.e Of the South
American revolutions has been that they really
settled nothing; and of all sad spectaces in
this world, a causeless and aimless Civil War
is the saddest. To reduce strOngholds, burn
cities, and immediate whole divisions of men,
to fight as if we we're fighting our way out Of
h. or into heaven, aud, failing our breath or
our blood, to find ourselves in statu guo seems
to US to be not merely unworthy Of human ns-
ture, but folly that goes nigh to prove that
the libels of Jonathan Swift are tho most pla.
cable of praises.
30 much We premise, before noticing let
ter which Leading Citizen of Kentucky"
has written to Reverend and Dear Sir" In
Boston, and which we find printed in the news.
papers. The Leading Citizen is as strongly for
the Union as any heart could wish. He
calls the seceders 4" traitors" and their treason
vile" So far, the views Of this Leading CA
izen are unquestionably correct aud clear; bat
when he begins to talk Of Slavery, he loses bin
head and cries: 4" If the miserable party which
A." sets up its own ignorance and presump,ion
against Divine aud Human Law is permitted
" to control and give character to this contest
the victory, when IL ia won, will be the physical
A" desola.ion Of the South, and a Worse rnorL
desolation of the whole country" Nmay elu.
cidate tbis well.rounded passage if we cay that
in the opinion of the writer, Col. John CocA.
rane aud Secretary Cameron are the individuals
whose presumption against Divine and Hu-
man Law" 10 the most bitterly to be de-
pIored. They have determined most maiciousy
TO fight upon :" the infamous Slavery ISSUE"
aud their speeches and scripture " are painfL
symptoms Of a ruinous tendency"
Now, in the first place, we ask who tend.
cred this - Infamous Slavery issue 2" Who
but the "vlle traitors" as Leading Citizen
calls them--the Shareholders themselves No
sensible and honest traitor viii deny that
Slavery, at the beginning OF this war, 10 States
in which by law it exists, was soiidy ssfe.
We did not like it, but We were not disposed
progressively to NEEDLE with it. IL is not in
the power of any man 10 point to one act Of
the Republican purity which threatened tho
perpetuity of Slavery directly in South Care
| Ina To be sure, we could hot oppose ruinous
and wicked Slavery Extension, without saying
what We thought of Slavery itself: because,
we said that it should not curse fresh Terri.
tories, we were bound to show that to these
Territories it would prove, if therein intro
duced clipging curse. 1t was precisely be.
cause We ielt that it was entfe! beyond our
reach in South Carolina, that we were very
anxious that it should not be put beyond our
reach in Kansas. OF the truth Of what We
say. the evidence is upon record AbOiitioniss
proper nali.ned US after their usual courteous
In,b,op md baited our leading men with
cross-exannatons in all eaza's ana ~
NIL pic.pics: aud especially Go We re-
member poor Henry Wilson's ttIa, '"o
Framiugham (Mass.) Jeie ehGmpetrs OF July
A. 1860, when DO was SGT upon by Mrs.
Foster, and by Mr. Garrison, and Informed,
by implication. that he was no better than
man steaer-perhaps rather worse ereat're.
The complaint against us then and there vas
that we stunned this " infamous iSsle." The
complaint of this Leading Cit zen is that We
do not shun it. We leave these folk to ADJUST
their differences.
But to return to the main question. The
deatbIy doiDgs of Slavery, which without Sla-
very would have been left undone, are all
charged upon "our igporance and preSump-
" ton against Divine and Human Law
And, fest, of our Ignorance" OF what
are We Ignorant" Is Slavery thing IN
cornerl Is it something as unknown to WM
were the habits of the gorilla before the explois'
tons of M. Du Challlu' Ignorance, quOila!
Have we eyes and see not have sc ears and
hear not DO We not travel Is Mr.. Ohm
stead who yentured into the den of the beass
to satisfy, or rather to dissatsty himself, zig
norantl" Has the sweet dcmeanor Of Slayerys
representatives in Washington afforded US no
instruction ont we know tbs treef
Have MT we tasted its fruits and found them un.
commonly bitter This talk Of "ignorance'
is mere pretensc. We Know Slavery better
than the Shareholders themselves; tor We have
felt more strongly than they have, that the
question Of its extension was question OF our
life or death, at at least Of our own culture OF
barbarism. Every well.Dforned Northern man
has good knowledge Of plantation life, OF !"
crueties, makeshiits, coDcubinage, and crime.
We know them by demonstration, ana We