New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-09
STAND Bv THE COUNTRY:

STAND Bv THE COUNTRY:
The darkest hours of the Republic are pass.
ING. and they were sent as the tombstone OF
patriotism. The sordd, schemng, selfish, mer.
cenary crew plot and fawn, intrigue and con-
spire for place, promotion, and pef as blindly
and greedy as ever; while the heroic and
true -souled ask how the country is to be served
and saved by retrenchment, sacrifice, and I'm.
calculating devotion. True men call upon Con-
gress TO tax right and left-to make every one
give half he has-yes, all-rather than let the
Nation 60 down: the mean.souled are trying to
have the taxes levied so that they shall sever
ally pay as little as may be. IT'S base
world and its baseness comes out in crisis
like the present; but so does its nobleness as
well. and it says, Make us oil poor if you
must, but save the country
Grumbling at such time is easy, and apt
10 be general. One rails at the Government
as insincere or ineiicient another pitches into
the Army; a third thinks the rank and file
very well, but the Generals good for nothing;
and so on. One grumbles at the increase OF
taxation; another at the ineifciency aud slow
ness OF Congress; and so on. A good many
protest that the Union cannot be restored I'M
less Slavery is abolished; quite as many are
positive that the Union is gone if It's prescrva-
ton is associated with Abolition. II is 10 this
latter point that we would make few sug-
gestioDs.
Our convictions that Slavery is tie animal.
iDg soul of this rebellion-th8t it will never
more allow US to have peace until its power "a
utterly overthrown-are well known. That
they are very earnest and have not been lightly
formed even our enemies will admit We
hate Slavery intensely, believing it unjust, In
human, pernicious to every good and the main
source Of our National pers aud wocs: we de
sire its overthrow quite apart from and Inde'
pendent OF our present complications. let
those who will make allowance for This, aud
frame their own convictions, in utter indie
pendence OF ours, on the essential facts iD'
yolyed.
We wish those at the head Of our National
affairs, whether acting in legislative or eI'
ecutiye, civil or military capscity, would all
see az we do, for We think the war might
thus be shortened to span, and triumphant
result rendered morally certain. We shall
from time to time, as We have hitherto done,
present facts and arguments in support Of our
convictions. But, even though The war should
be prosecuted on a different basis aud with
views widely different from ours, we shall still
most determinedly stand by our Country, and give
our best efforts to uphold the hands Of her
rulers. We do not see how the Union and
Slavery can both be upheld; but We are more
than willing TO be deemed sbort-siehicd and
not even the son of prophe! because oil the
saving the Union by some other means than
those which seem to us best adaptcd-Or, il
YOU please, alone adapted, to secure that end.
And whether our views shall be accepted or
rejected, we shall still stand by the Country.
We want a short war, and believe this may
be made one By proper policy and the most
determined energy. We would like TO see The
ieyies of the rebels challenged tO battle ut all poiut'
by the armed defenders Of the MON. We @onlC
much prefer to see the rebellion overthrown b,
a superabundance Of lead and iron than by i
deartl OF quinine and salt. Judging from then
conduct in the past, we apprehend that the
SlayeholdlGg Oligarchy would not hencei0rii
BIZ endurablc IN the councils OF the Republic
unless well whipped before being rcadmittcd
But, though our ideas OF the true mode o.
prosecuting this contest should BE- rejected OF
every point, We shall still stand by the Coun
try, aud triumph or fall with those who ralij
around the flag of the Union.
Is there not urgent need Of culiyatng ant
diGusng this spirit Ii it be true that even
officers of the regular Army declare that they
will resign if the war be prosecuted with Other
views and in a different spirit from their OWE
ia il not high time they were adlnonishcC
that the army is not the informing brair
but The ayenging arm OF the Republic
and that it should deport itself accordingly
But in crisis like this, We are all morally
bound to stand by the country and her flag
regardless of our personal views and part,
predictions. If the ship sinks. We must oil
90 down together. But it cannot, it will not,
if We NIL resolve, at whatever sacrifice OF indi-
yidual predictions, to rally around our consti