New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-06
GOVERNMENT BY MENACE.


GOVERNMENT By MENACE.
We do not credit the Washington rIlmor
that a considerable proportion of the Members
of Congress from the Border Slave States pur-
Dose 10 abandon their seats in case stringent
Confscation bill shall be passed The Border
States have been the seyercst sufferers by the
Rebellion. and their representatives should be
among the most earnest and thorough IN the
support Of measures designed TO suppress the
instruction and punieh the rinsleaders HE
most heartily loyal citizens oi those States
suco men "A Andrew johnson, parsOn Brown
low. and John ;. Phcl rs--have been foremost
in demanding that the rebellion be nowisc pai-
tered with nor bought of, but decidedly put
down. They know that their loyal constituents
have been wantonly, wickedly menaccd' pun
derea. outraged, and murdered, by the Rebels;
and they have been calling zealously upon the
country to arre.t these crimes aid punish the
criminals. That tncy should now turn short
about, and threaten to desert the Nation II IL
Grnl, s,.rr.y with the Rebels, would bc an IN
cons fIsteucN 700 DuElaib '"a p'+i'''
Ia fact. the only real objection TO Coniisca'
,on ON the part Of loyal men - Its inrVitaoic
tendency TO sap tho foundations oil Slavery. IL
- az notorious that the Shareholders IA II class
have fomented aud organized this rebellion,
tbrustirg forward the Poor Whites OF the
South to fight its battles and nj ITS trenches
that all at length sec that to confscaie the
property Of even the prominent Rebels Is 10
lberate half the slaves in the seeded States.
Hence the present recoil Of q portion Of the
Border State Congressman.
Mr. Garret Davis sgnalized bis entrance INTO
the Senate by submitting Conii'cation bill.
1t WAS pretty thorough measure. aud PROT
ably Congress would have acted wisely had 1t
taken that bill up aud promptly passed 1t with
ont altering a letter. Having done 10 much,
# would doubtless have been easy to do what
ever beyond was requisite IN strict accordance
With the principles already established in Mr..
D.'s bill.
Mr. Davis, in one Of his earlier speeches, thus
dealt with Slavery as a cause OF the rebelion:
"I admit tha, Slavery 1. Of the caaHs-a remote
! c4u
slave spor have become wealthy, ard many Of their planters
have pnneely reyonues-fiom $4,000 to $4,000 yeor
r wealth hs. besot prGs and rHioi.ee and ambition, and
these points Of the Southern character have been dsr'ei
most siy in the hall, Of Congress A. class the
WEALTHY cotton f9wef insoeIt they proud. they ac
doni ceng they ambitious Thu haze mon0Te'sed The
Gere,4me4f ia hoor JOr Jory 81 fifty yesfs' win ie"
Interruptions When thoy tbs sce9ic about 70 rat
from them the election Of Lincoln, sooner trn give up
Office ad the spois OF ohce n the nGi and wicked AM
bon they determined 10 disrupt the cd AID
erect new oi0eia they mould hare TndfpHi a'er
Mn, cut Of ten Of tho Noh, people sound upon the
subject They opposed the Extension Of slavery,
aa do no, condemn them Tor bot they were willing to
sceofd to tho szvehoders and ih Slave States all her
{ ooasi. .uiondi riykf."
Such being the conceded facts, ii cannot
well be that Mr. DAVIS should now object 20
Coniiscation, which he among the first to
propose, nor yet to the confscaion of slagcs,
when he has himself asserted that Slavery is
" one of the causes-a remote, bat pretty pow.
eriul one of Il ebellon. We shall be dis
appointed if the loyal Members from Missouri
and Maryland can really desire to save
Slavery from the doom which il has invoked by
treason.
From the outset, the politicians and presses
more or less in sympathy with the rebellion
have charged the more thorough Republicans
with seeking to peryert the War for the Union
into War against Slavery. Is it too much
that we insist that measures essential TO the
maintenance Of the National authority and the
punishment of fragrant treason shall not be
iorborne or defeated merely because Slavery
must suffer from their enactmenti