New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-05
THE COUNCIL OF THIRTY.FIvE'

On Saturday last, in Washington, thirty
five Conservative gentlemen solemny re'
resolved that the Abolitonists Will leave 10
the country but little hope OF tho restoration
Of thu Union or peace, if schemes OF Conisca-
,ion. Emancipation, and other unconstitutional
,,.a.u,s. sball be enacted under the form OF
laws" The Thirty.dve gentlemen voted 10
nript thi. rather than else thrilling opinion, LOT
the benefit of mankind in general. and then
tbs Thirty.fve gentlemen broke camp ana
want back to their boarding-houses. There
hasn't been anything politically moro porten'
tous since the Three Tallors Of Tooley street
issued their Proclamation, beginning "We,
the People Of England" Considering tho
srost Importance of this demonstration, it Is,
to be regretted that Conservators did not, byE
rome address moro enlarged than resolution,
let us know by what process OF reasoning they
arrived at the conclusion that tho Abolition OF
Slavery would forever bar the restoration oil
the Union. If we were inclined to be hyper
critical, We might ask why these Representa-
tives allow Themselves to talk of the " restora'
ton of the Union" at all Do they consider
that by any constitutional theory the Union Is
abolished that South Carolina could abo-
ish it, that Jefferson Davis, BY any VII
lsiny, could destroy II in legal sense Be-
cause, before q thing can be restored,
if we know anything of language or Of
logic, it must first be lost. Ihe
truth is, that the Thrty-fve, in their eager.
ness to construct pretty series OF resolutions,
have done that which has been esteemed M
possible-they have fairly bitten of their own
noses. Right into the Jaws of solecism, as
we shall prove. tumbled the Thirty-hve. Ii
tho Union can DC restored then it il already
d,,trovsd; and if it be destroyed then the
right by the simplest public law, OF the
Washington Government. at war with the
Government late at Richmond, to couhscate
and to offer freedom 10 the Slaves, is ju't 40
clear a. the right to shoot soldiers In the
field, or TO lombard cities Nobody ever ques-
toned the right of a belligercnt in oil possible
WAYS TO harass public enemy. The emanci-
patton Of Slaves is well recognized opera
ton Of war The Thirty-fve, by their most
injudcious use of dangerous word, have put
the Rebel, quite outside the pale of even
I" conservative bencvolence. Whatever they
may be- some time hence, when restored to
sanity by the grnce OF gunpowdcr, they are
not now our " dear brethren" our " mis-
guided fellow citizens" our this, that and the
other, but simply, by the theory Of the Thirty
r ,kn,p ~ Ia
possible TO conquer, but quite impossible to in
lure. When the Union is ''restorea," II VIII
,hcn Be ti,ne enough ior this Three Dozen less
One, to talk Of the unconsttutionahty OF,
Emancipation. A Public Enemy has no rights
under the Constitution ct all.
But We haze ~ done with the ouelegged
logic Of the Thirty-fve Conservatives quite yet.
They fall into tie not uncommon error Of
sbly grouping Abolitionists' and L" Seces
sionists," ~ if thcse were one in purpose and
in policy. Substantially, this always means an
indirect compliment 10 traitors, which no man
OF sef-respect aud Of genuine loyalty would DO
guilty Of II is Of piece with that slayering
and anilc gsbblo which says in circular rigrna.
loic. WSli, INC h1oueu - w b4oAiNi tHN .''Ath
is TO blame, the shareholders are 10 blame, the
Ant-Slavery men are to blsme-let Us fix mat
ters ard 60 on as We did before" Now, as
it is q moral paradox to assert that he who
rebnkes a sin is responsible for the consequent
and deeper Aoundcrings of the sinner. 80 it is
a political paradox TO declare that the oppo-
nent Of q bad policy is to be holden for the
bad effects Of that policy. Because savehold-
ers have chosen TO commit that very outrage
upon the Constitution which cleRr-headed men
that the rebukers are as bad as the rebuked
Besides, it is not, as We have over and over
again pointed out, it is not the existence, but
the extension of Slavery, for which the Traitor
States ore contending; so that fear Of the
abolition Of Slavery had really nothing to do
with the war. IL it to be supposed that JEFF
ferson Davis is in the field because he believed
his negroes would be taken from him by the
Lincoln Administration He must be greener
than green, and his mind cruder than crude, who
thinks 20. Even tho miserable heads oil muddled
Secessonists did not mix up matters in that
way. What Davis and other gentlemen in tho
man owning business we're afraid Of was that
non extension might prove equivalent to non.
ezistenos--a matter with which the North had
nothing to do. Most nuisances disappear when
they are cribbed and confined; aud it was not
certainly our fault if tho " Institution did
require room end verge, which We would
not grant if we could, and could hardly grant
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