New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-20

Union than they have been, or now are.
". We think fund cOunsels in such crisis
calculated TO prove perilous, and probably dis
astrous. 1t is the duty of Government 80
wantonly, wickedly assailed by Rebellion as
ours has been to oppose force to force in u
defiant, dauntless spirit. 1t cannot afford to
temporizs with traitors nor with Seml.traltors.
II must not bride them to behave themselves,
nor make them fair promises in the hope of
disarming their causeess hostility. Represent
ing brave and hish.spirted people, it can az
ford to forfeit anything else better than It's own
selfrespcct, or their admirIng confidence. For
our Government even to seek, after war has
been made on it, to dispel the affected appre
tensions of armed TRAITORS that their cher
lshed privileges may be assalled by it, is to
invite insult aud encourage hopes of its own
downfall. The rush to arms Of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois is the true answer at ouce t. the
Rebel raids OF John Morgan and tho traitorous
sophistrles of Berlah Magofiin.
V. We complain that the Union cause has
suffered, aud is now suffering immensely, from
mistaken Difference to Rebel Slavery. Had
you. Sir, in your Inaugural Address, uDnis-
takably given notice that. IN case the Rebel
lion already commenced were persisted in, and
your efforts to preserve the Union and enforce
the laws should be resisted by armed force,
pon ,rouid recognize no ioyai person as rght-
;aHy h,H IN Harcry ty a hciioT, we believe
the Rebellion would therein have received a
staggering if not fatal blow. AT that moment,
according to the returns of the most recent
elections, tue Unionlsts were large majority
of the voters of the Slave States. But they
were composed in good part OF the aged, .he
feeble, the wealthy, the timld-the young, The
reckless, the aspiring, the adventurous, had
already been largely lurrd by the gamblers anu
negro traders, the politicians by trade aud tie
consprators by instinct, into the tolls OF
Treason. Had you then proclaimed that
Rebellion would strike the shackes from the
slaves of every traitor, the we ,thy and the
cautious would have been supplied with n
powerful iuducemeut to remain loyal. As 1t
was, every coward in the South soon became
a traitor from fear; for Loyalty was periious
Hence the boosted unanlmity of the South-a
unanimity based ON Rebel terrorism and the
fact that immunity and safety were found on
that side, danger and probable death on ours
Tie Rebels from the first have been eager TO
confscate, imprisoD, scourge aud kill: We have
fought wolves with tho devices of sheep. The
result is just what might have been expected.
Tens of thousands nre fighting III the Rebel
ranks to-day whose original bias and natural
eanings would have led them into ours.
vi. We complain that the Confscation Act
which you approved is habituaI'y diregsrded
by your Generals, aud that no word OF rebuke
for them from you has yet reached the public
ear. Fremont's Proclamation and Hunters
Order favoring Emancipation were promptly
unuulled by you; while IIalleck's No. 3, for.
bidding fugtives from Slavery to Rebels to
come within his lines-au order IA unmIltary
as inhuman, and which received the hearty ap-
probation of every traitOr IN America-~fh
scores of like tendency, have never provoked
even your remembrance. We complain that
The officers of your Armies have babiiusly re-
PEELED rather than invited the approach Of
slaves who would have gladly taken
the risks OF escaping from their Rebel
masters to our camps, bringing intolli-
gence often of inestimable value TO the
Union cause. We complain that those
who hare thus escaped 10 us, ayowiDg will
nqness to do for US whatever might be re-
CURED, have been brutalIy and madly repulsed,
and often surrendered t. be scourged, manned
and tortured by the ruffan traitors, who pre-
tend 10 own them. We complain that large
proportion Of our regular Army Officers, with
many Of the Volunteers, evince far more so-
citude to uphold Slavery III an to put down the
Rebellion And finally, we complain that you,
Mr. President, elected as a Republican, know.
ing well what an abonination Slavery is, and
how emphatically it is the core and essence OF
fere with these atrocities, and never give d.
rection to your Military subordinatss, which
does not appear to have been conceived in the
interest Of Slavery rather than of Freedom.
VII Let inc call your attention TO the recent
tragedy in New-Orleans, whereof the facts are
obtained entirely through Pro-Savery channels.
A considerable body of resolu!e, able-bodied
men, held in Slavery by two Rebel sugar
planters in defiance of the Confscation Act
which you have approved, loft plantations thirty
miles distant and made their way to the great
be in the undsputed possession of tho Union
forces. They made their way safely and quietly