New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-20
rr,v vnRK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 20, 1867

bv which America il at prescott bound nor, ~ may
he hoped even if de Gacto Independent would tney
be admitted 10 the conrt~sies OF clpioma,c ih'er-
course, unless tboy granted IN me most eSile. man
nor the riobt of search To allow the slave ships OF
a Confederation formed for the extension OF
slavery TO come and go free, and unexam-
lined. between America and the African co@S'.
would be to renounce even ths Pfe'eu'o VI
attempting 10 protect Africa against 'ne
and abandon that continent 10 the horrors OH Is'
larger scal. which were practiced before GrahVihe
Sharp and Clarkson were in existence. but even ~
the ,o of interceptng their slavers were acRnowi
edged by treaty, which IL never wond De, Inc arlo
gapce Of the Southern Shareholders would mol Ione
submit TO ito exercise. Their piloe ana
sveled TO an inordiDate hight by their succes'lal
struggle, would defy the power OF England ~ tney
had aresdy successfully defed la, Of their Northern
countrymen After our people, by their cold olssp'
probsrion. and our press by ia nveciye, had com
bined with their own difficulties 10 damp inc SPIN,
of the Free States, and drive them to submit ana
make peace we should have to fight the Slave States
our,eyes Mt far greater disadvantages, when we
should no longer have the weaTied aud eAnausteo
North for An ally. The time nigh! come when the
barbarous aud barbarlzDg Power, which we by our
moral support had helped into existence, WOMB
required general crusade OF clvlhlsd EUROPE 10
exinguish the mischief which it bad allowed, ana
we had aided to rise up in the midst Of our CIVIL
zation. .,
For these reasons I cannot join with those who
cry, Peace, peace. / cannot wish that t'is wal
should not have been engaged IN by TIE North' OF
that being engaged in, II should be terminated on
anv conditions but such MS would retain the whole
OF the Territories AZ free coil am not blind 70 the
poseibty that il may require long war TO lower
the arrogance and tame the aggressive anDhion Oh
the slaveowners, TO tue POINT of either returning ~
the Union, or concerning 10 remaia OUT OF At WIN
their present limits. But war, in good canse, Is
not the greatest evil which nation can suffer.
War ID IN ugly thing, bat not the ueiieSt
Of things the decayed and DEGRADED state OF nor"i
and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing "o't1
war, is worse When "A people are used a. mere hu-
man Instruments for firing cannon or thrustng bayo-
Beis in the service and for the selhsh purposes g"
master, snch war d-grades peol lie. war 10 pro-
teet other human beings against tyrannica IJHs'ce
war 10 give victory TO their own idear on Igbt ana
rood aud which is their own war, carried on TOT an
houest purpose by their free CHOICES often the
means Of their regeneration. man who mas noth'
ing viii h he il willing to fight for, nothing WHICH
he cares more about than ne Ices about hlh personal
safety is "a miserable creature who has no chance Of
being free unlers made aud kept 30 by the exerDn
OF better meu than himself. As loug as justice and
ipiu.tice have not terminated thar ever renewing
iigit for asccndancy IN the affairs OF MANKIND NJ
man being. must he willing, when need iS 10 90 Dat
he for tn one against The other. am lar IRON say
ing that the present struggle, on the part OF the
Northern Americans il wholly Of tbi. exalted cnar'
cer; that il has arrived at the stage OF beng alto
gctner a war for jnslice. war 81 principle. but
here was from tho beginning, and now Il, a large
infusion of that element in it; aud this !. Increasing,
ull, increase aud if the war ass, will ~ tie eua
nredominate Should that time cone, not only VIII
tic greatest enorniy which still exists among man
lind IA an institution Give lar earlier its corp 0t
r0ce thnn there has ever, until no~, appeared 3oy
probability of but in eieciilg this the Free States
viii have rai.ed thea Ives TO ha, elevated position
In the scale Of morality and diguiy which Is derived
from great sacrifices eon'cIonsly made M Viftous
c,u. aud tbs sense of measurable benefit 10 all iu-
ture ages brought about By their own voluntary Ell
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