New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-05
HOW TO ANSWER EUROPE.

The threatcDngs Of Europe over the present
-tata. Of our affairs are being loudly muttered
They are, a. yet, nothing more than re-urgngs
of pacific counsels upon the North; but, though
followed BY 40 tangible political acton, We
cannot help feeling that they are at least TAX
ing more definite popular shape. In substance
they haye not gaued-because in subsiance
they cannot gain TIL made the subject OF legls-
laiIye consideration; but they are pushed nearer
10 Us; We are made TO see tbew larger and
clearer. Why blind our eyes to them aud III
sst that IN framing and enforcing our pole!
we nave to cOnsult nothing out our own In-
clinntion' Why not honestly admit that, virtu-
ally Europe is admitted to seat in our
councils
Nothing has damaged our cause so much a.
this endless sell-deceptioD. For the last tity
years, We have been cOaxing ourselves lnto the
belief that We were not iawhng upon the
Dcspotism was not taking advantage OF our
crngIBg sycophancy to crush IA To- the dust;
that the crack of the whip would not be sue
ceeded by tue ring of the rifle. With one hand
sttution aud sworc that We were not com
promising away every spark OF principle, ol
manly quality, of republican liberty; that We
We were bold ia checking arrogance and ust
chant.priuces proving bcggary in honor, and
our political leaders retrogradHg to the sup
port OF barbarsm, We held out premium to
rebellion, we could not believe the maIignIty,
the power, the n,idiousness, the INSCRIPTIONS
perfidy, of our quondam compaIrlo,s VINO had
so ccyerly hidden the % mars'r" under the
friend. The Northern sun was setting and
heavy clouds drew around him but be dyed
their edges with brilliant seeming. and We
could hot think that their sulIen fury, though
omnously gathering, would queuch hi, last
beams aud wrap the whole land in gloom.
We are awaking now. For year and a
quarter, We have been plunged into horrid
nightmare. Threatened with every danger,
slaughter surely tracking u.s. slow torture grasp
ing us, hung over cliiIs, pushed toward purga-
torial fires property gone. blood wasted-we
could not manage to grasp the one word that
would wake Us. We have partly writhed through
that horror now; the word il bursting from
BUT Ups; EMANCIPATION viii arou.e Us 10 the
reality Of things, and give us clear perceptions
Of our modes OF escape. But We have got only
the first syllable yet. Strange that when every
for our safety is dependent on
,ur o"n action, urges us 10 shout the word
instantly, we should be suffering and stam-
ncrng over It Strange that We should still
lolay when our destiny will soon depend Oh
oreign arbitrament For it cannot be- STAYED
III much longer. When the real state of the
'a-c comes 10 be- Understood IN Europe-our
Weakness in the field. the Hardness OF our En-
istnents, our consequent inactivity aud pro-
raction OF the struggle the increasing assur
Ince Of the Rebels, it Is unreasonable to sup
nose that Powers which are interested in our
whose salvation may depend on
,ur national destruction, will hesitate To use So
EXCELLENT all opportunity. The English paper.
Ire teemng with articles whose purport Is be-
ng uttered more and more definitely; their
one is querulous, yet not 30 explicitly hostile
IS that OF the French journals. Between them
10Th we can see that. though there is no cause
or alarm as to immediate interference, there
s every reason TO arouse us to those tremend-
MS excrtions and bold measures which. and
which only, can save us from accepting Il
uture nodded by Europe. The London Morn
hat account, all the better learn q lesson from
/. Its summary of American matters is
Significant:
Il viii shortly becon, utterly impossible for nsutra