New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-05
TRE UNION AFTER TIE WAR.

We hear il constantly asserted that, although
the organized Rebellion may be crushed. we
cannot expect u cordial and stable union OF
tue whole country to be- again established. II
is said that ranking and uDyiedLg hatred
OF the people of the North will renaiu in the
hearts of the great mass Of those OF the South,
which will eyince Itself in all possible ways,
and render it necessary for the Government 10
maintain forces among them adequate To hold
item in subjection; and that this will keep up
the evaporation, involve enormous expendi-
lures, entail vas, burdens on 'he neoplc, and
generate the wort speciee OF despo;sm.
We do not assent to these views and yaticina-
tons. and we invite attention 10 some consd-
era,ons which put q very different face on our
countrys prospect.
We take it for granted that the Rebellion
Will be crushed out without comprom'e or
condition, ard that it. in3fgators aud ring
leaders will be crushed out with il, being con-
signed 10 death by battle, disease, and e1ecu.
ton, or having vanished in scli-sOught exile.
It's inferior leaders, remaining cOnlessedly dis.
loyal, can of course take no open, active part
in National politics, either as candidates for
Office or as members OF National parties, aud
will be mainly, if not wholly stripped of pollt-
ical influence over the masses. New men, pro-
fessedly loyal at least, will become the leaders
and guides Of the people; aud as the path OF
political advancement viii lie olly in the direc.
ton of loyalty, it will be both the interest aud
the necessary policy Of all who pursue it to
oppose and break the influence Of all who en-
deayor to obstruct it, and to prevent the
masses from following in IT, However affected
Or lukewarm their loyelty may be at the outset
their arguments and efforts against their dis-
loJ al opponents will react upon themselves, and
soon transform and warm them into ardent
patriots.
The people, led on by them and their own
obvious Interests, will soon wheel round aud
prcscn decided front to all who would pre-
cipta,e them again into the abyss OF Rebellion
and misery, from the horrors of which they
will have 50 recently escaped and of which
they viii retain 20 vivid aud appalling renicuI.
5rance Deprived OF arm, and all the re-
sources and sinows Of war, and taught their
wcak1ess IN comparison with the North, they
will discern the utter hop,essncss of any at
Tempt at new Rebellion, and the absolute
necessity they are under of remaining III the
Union AID under its Government, and they
will soon decide 10 make the best of their con-
liliOn and to reap it, Advantages rather than
% rush into destruction. And, the greater the
proportion OF suppressed uniouists there Is
dispersed through the South. the more rapid
md complete will the reaction be- and tho less
reed will there be for forces t. be kept among
hem to prevent rebeious outbreaks
Other facts will combine TO hasten this result. .
aside from Slavery, and the interests and am
,itions it generates, there is not, never has
zen, and never can be, while the General
government remains unchanged, any valid rca-
on why the South should wish to secede from
he Union aud to set up a separate Govern
lent More real liberty than its white popu-
alton have always had, aDd when again loyal,
will have under the General Government, they
ever can have under any other whatever.