New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-25
siem.ut Of disaHectioa and National danger,
saey must 500 Il they will but open their eyes,
ruR PENALTIES OF TREASON.

manifsstOes for Democratic State Conventions
must not DO startled should the ghost Of
Andrew Jackson pay them q nocturnal VISIT.
The trouble of times like these is, that WORDS
which used TO be full of significance have oil
the starch taken out of them by over handhngi
no that even Convention Committees, the cream
of the cream. forget that treason is the crime
of crimes. and analogous in politics to that one
sin which, by tho authority of Scripture, 10
deemed unforgivabe- that treason ("
an oeense which, in its black folds, envelopes
all Others, and makes murder, arson and high'
way robbery, singly committed, mere pecca-
dilloes by comparison. Failing sppreciatlVey
10 consider this, the Convention Committees,
after little rapid writing and vapid thought,
conceive and bring forth q rickeJ brood OF
pacific preambles and rose.water resolutions
We have their political philosophy by the
yard, and the net purport OF 1t H.
that oil things unfxed must be Immediately
refixed. These resolution -mongers tell US tha'
the Southern Treason must be stamped out.
How will you do it, VIII you shoot or hans
the traitors All no, they are our brethren
will YOU couGscats their estatesl All no,
they are entitled by the Constitution TO thelr
negroes. VIII you dsfranchlsc States which
have formally renowned allegiance All no.
they are entitled to certain rights, under the
Constitution, which must be relisiously res
pected What will you do then DO why
we will restore the Union And suppose they
sgain revolt Why, wo will again restore the
Union And so on to tho end of the chapter
These empires who pretend that they carry
about with them infallible pansceas, have
their ssddle-bcgs stuffed with straw after oil !
Now, against these manly retailers of school
girl suggestions, WHO arc about az valuable IN
these days q, Sir Abel Handy wa, at the fire,
we bring Tammany IIoll itself, and particularly
Grand Sachem Waterbury who said IN the
Wigwam the other evening: 1.-The punishment
" of the traitors who have sought TO destroy
q" the Union may be safely LETT to the proper
authorities" We are not so sure OF. that,
out taking it for granted, we may still ASH
What is the punishment to be Death !
Why, you can I hang hundred thousand men
or two hundred thousand imprisonment IL /"
equally impossible. Coniscation There you
hit between wind and water. Well you
proceed to confscate. Rebel No. /. has no
horses. no houses. no stock, no land, but ne
has one large negro, who is valued by ex-
perts at 81 ,5o0-shsll ne conilscate HIM
Heavens con6rcate fifteen hundred dollars
worth of black man Read the Constitution,
and you viii see that you cant do II. DO
Rebel No. l. goes UNPUBLISHED. We don't
think, after such important conclusion, that
either No. II. or No. III. would trembe very
violently ut their prospects. Every secession
sinner would be instantly turning his real and
personal estate into negroes, who would riss
rapidly in value, while we poor cresturcs at
the North we're reading through our taxed
spectacles in our taxed newspaper, that new
schemes of taxation were o. foot. Sla'ehold'
or. having enjoyed q mad aud merry dance,
would expect us to settle with the piper 81
that We might be obliged to cell our coats of
our backs, TO pay the expenses OF our
" breihrens' political diversions. This will be
d" Furnishing traitors with vengeance. How
thankful they viii be TO ia for orr Constitu
tonal beneyoencel Here are people pro-
nounced in Tammany Hall TO be 4" iuiquitou.,
pnd wo are actually Offering them a premium,
Tor returning TO their nquty upon tho first
convenient occasion
Ia accordance NTH the yiewa Of the Grand
Sachem are those OF Mr. Guthrie. Who said in
his Louisville speech ." There arc leading
- Rebels who should be punished Us an ex-
90 ample. leave the leaders to the justice
8. ana discrimination of the powers that be. >
This, so far as it goes, Is all very veil; but
tho awkward questions will sooner or later
arise: "Who were the lesder.i In thi,
g crime who were principals and who mis-
% guided associates! ?" When this revolt is
well quoted, our own opinion is that the
Rebel leaders will be among the rarcst OF
birds. Msor.Generals will be seized with
sudden 6ts Of modesty, and mock-Members OF
Congress will insist that it was all joke.
" hich, We AJAX, 10 the most dangerous enemy
Of the Union--a babbllng brawlng, whis-
ky -sodden preacher of rebellion from the
stump, OF a rich, respectable aud perhaps
religious msu, the owner OF many acres
Of land, and of many gangs Of slsTes--One who
make, no orations and brings no regiments
into tho field, but, remaining quietly at home,
merely lends his money aud his name to The
conspiracy Is Mt be q leader But We see
how il will be- if some men hive their way.
There is plenty Of poor. white trash at the