New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-24
HEDGING.

There is a clever play" The City Wives
Confederacy' OF Sir John aubrugh-which, in
spite of it's wckedness, is still read for its wit,
aud the coarso comedy of which is concluded
by triad Of demireps. as follows:
Eippanta-Then alls peace again, but we
have been more lucky than wise.
Aramin,a-And suppose for us, Clar-
isss. we are to 90 on with our dears, ss we
used TO do.
Clarissa-Just in the same track"
SO 10 tho popular song Of "The Cork
Leg" we are told that long after the porty
proportions of the Rotterdam burgher were re-
duced to a skeleton,
"Ths leg tept on the same a. before"
Slavery is the leg of the Southern Rebellion;
and we are not surpassed to hear. therefore,
through Gen. Butler, of "Southern lnde'
pendence Association" which, when the Con-
federacy has gone to its diabolical father. Is
=" to labor for the reconstruction OF the Dem
ooratic party, or any other political organiza-
ton, by which the South can regain its politi'
cal ascendency;" nor should We be electrified
TO learn that the virtuous Mr.. Benjamin Wood
is on Honorary Member Of this sbrewd league.
"If we must 90 back" no doubt, argue thesc
precautions patriarcha. "let US see to it that
we 20 back with Slavery strengthened and
with our chattels still more strongly confirmed
10 us! The dear Democrats are doubtless still
our friends, and will help us to make this de-
tes,abe Union tolerable." We must admit
that this shows not only good pluck but COM
mon sense. Shareholders have found out just
this: that, Slavery preserved, they can at any
time Brighten the whole country-at any time
bankrupt the Federal Treasury-at any time
embarrass and distract the Free States-at
any time, by judicious wickedDess, regain lost
pround-at any time sustain themselves by the
might of swagger. They will BIO charmed il
we will but forgive them. They have no OBJ
lection 10 any number Of internal qnadrilles,
provided only We Of the North, with our soft
hearts aud our long purses, will but pay the
piper. THE Union" will st be good word
10 conjure withal, while we remain forgiying
and forgetful. Should Congress prove at any
time intractable or morbidy philanthropic, the
man-owners will again take up their muskets,
and shoot them a few thousands of Yankee
volunteers, which will afford a sweet opening
for another treaty and another kiss Of recon-
citation. More battles-more sieges-more
hair-breadth 'scapes-more waste Of wealth
and eve are to 60 on with our dears, as we
used 10 do--just in tho same track ~
! So, then, We are TO have truce, after all
and not peace. Rebellion is to be- like thu
yellow-feyer--it may come and it may not
come, but it will always DO well to be pre-.
pared for it. For our own part, after sucl
q pacication, we are not, We confess, sharp.
sighted enough to see how the slaveholding
interest can upon any occasion, pending any
interest fail TO have its own way. Voting il
Congress will be the emptlest Of farces. Honor
able Members for the Plantations will have littl,
need TO discuss the merits Of measures. TheiI
speeches may well be- brief, and somewhat
after this fashion /" Don't pass that Bill
We should think you had by this time {
siomachful of revolving We don't know
what Honorable Members for New. York OF
Massachusetts, would have to Ray TO this. They
might, indeed, in a passion retort : " Reyol
and be hanged"-but after the old emollien
arrangements, Honorable Members for tho Plan
talion would laugh at hangncn, us love laugh
at locksmiths. This We take il would be suili
Gent to nuttcr tho doves from the Free Staie
into an amiable tmdty. If not, Slavery, tn,
cause of unnumbered crimes and of oil ou
woes under the operation OF the three
fiths' clause of tho Constitution, by the ai,
of its rcsuscitatcd Democratic honchmen
would still vote always to sustain Slavery
and we should only escape civil wars b.
the modification Of submitting to th
old Dictatorship. Who is there VIII
can think Of return to this condition
without a qualm' If there be such man
we venture to assert that he is not ono who's
childrens bones are bleaching upon some South
ern bnttc-feld-not one whose fortune ha
been dissipated in desperate attempts TO rec
once Northern enterprise with Southern slug
gshness--not one who has felt in his heart tn
exceeding sreat villainy Of this war against tn
Uuion. For we believe that all persons OF ord