New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-14

g0rS.s 70 :n Ss. At nSsssd %e did
and s1Pis. he% op the rebellion only be put down
.;rs the loyal 10 profess " nat tney 90 90 no' oe e.;
md promise what ,ssy s'nn1 hsn we should prefer should
order 10 M rights that do not freely eoncede
I en- and whenever the heoci 'pA' w sS'! NSA'
,esre on this basis. we are reaa''
Ty,sse DECLARATIONS; or tha views expressed by
ru, Ta,pusE in the foregoing extract, cannot DC
....;,ea with its first concession that the people
~ :, pohe, States had the right of revolution, the
-, NJ their connection with the General Gov
'unI an, ,vben in their opinion it subverted their
- or their best interests demanded It, IL the
latter assumption is correct, and 90 far 10 III RIB
,r ia concerned it admits that II is, its present ad-
voeacy of force to compel the States that have east
off their allegiance to return to loyalty ana 'lie
ful6llment Of their constitutional Obligations in the
light that that paper presents it, is but an ACT OF des'
potsm-an attempt to force an unwilling obedience
to an allegiance which they have pronounced to be
oppressiye unjust and destructive OF those interests
which il is the object of Government to protect and
Ipromote. The TRIBUNE affirmed that the Rebels
had the right to dissolve their connection viii the
Union and set up u Government oil their owh' AZ
1.-THE article we have quoted, it says: we claim ho
rights that we do not freely concede to all men,
What are those rights 2" According to TIE
iTp,nusE. they are these: "Whenever any form Of
Government becomes destructive Of these ends, it Ii
1.-The right of the people TO alter or abolish it, ando In
ls,itute new government laying its foundation Oh
such principles, and organizing its powers in such
form as 10 them shall seem most likely TO elect theil
safety and happiness"
This is the right which The TRIBUNE comedies to
the, as Mr.. Seward termed them, revolutionary
States" According to The TRBUNEs logic, thos'
State have the right 10 DO what they dld-in the
words of the Declaration of Independence " ins,i
tute a new Government, laying its foundations OIL
such principles and organizing its powers III suct
form, as to them shall seem most likely to etec
Their safety and happiness And, as we read III
declarations, The TRIBUNE is ready, whenever
the Rebels shall be ready, to make peace Oh TIM
basis" II such are it's honest CONVICTIONS we can
not fathom its /" ordeal OF patriotism" which de
mands that the country shall be plunged into TIN
terrible war to compel people to return to " 10y
atty" and the fulfllment Of constitutional obliga
tons" which they have repudiated, as The TRIBUNE
said they had the right to do.
We have referred TO the position and logic OF TIE
TRIBUNE, and that ochool Of politicians, to show
that they lead right square into secession and that
too, upon the principle, conceded by them, that th'
people have the right to alter or abolish Govern
nent whenever it becomes, in their opinion, op
pressive and institute one, on such principles
and in such form as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their safety and happiness. If there arr
any Secessonists upon principle it cannot be dene'
that The TRIBUNE, and those who follow 1t, may
safely be set down among them without doins then
any injustice.