New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-17

slave that, by making his way to Union post
he will gain bis freedom, is not merely the
quickest and surcst but the humanest way to
end the war. We believe that the Rebels
thenceforth will have oil they can do to fight
tho Unionists without watching their slaves,
or to keep their slaves without fighting the
Unionsts, and that they must speedily succumb
to this double pressure Now hear Seymour
state our positions:
1.-THE scheme for an immediate emancipation and general
srmng the throughout the South proposal for the
bu,chey Of and children for Of lust and rapne
of and murder unparalleled In the history OF the world
The horrors of the French Revolution would become tame In
cornparison IT. effect would be confined 10 the walls OF
cities but there would be widespread scene OF horror over
eIpan,c of great States involving alike the loyal and
,editious Such nagnity and cowardce would invoke the
interference OF civilized Europe History tells Of the fires
kpd-d in the Of religion Of atrocities committed under
booieT than the world has yet shall be enscted In tho
name Of philanthropy"
Does the man who thus calumniatcs the
larger portion of the Unionists really mean to
have the traitors overthrown If jeff. Davis
should undertake to stir his dupes to frenzy by
disappearing and eliminating the Unonlsts,
could he do better than to quote the language
Of Horatio Seymour
But to the point. We who believe our Gov
ernment ought to strike the Rebellion through
Slavery, are apt to regard tie policy of the
Executive as timid and hcsitatng, and what
we think, we say. Seymour quotes this, not
that he agrees with it, Tor he ia mt the oppo-
site POLE but as unimpeachable Republican tes-
D Da,,,Ilto,, fIhn H.,
publican journals that favor a temporizing poll
/ icy retort upon u.s. and tiGi elso is fish to the
net Of our would-bc Governor. But this ia not
enough. Th, UorA,-a bankrupt concern
which for moro than year has been as con-
stantly in the market as any spawned wind
broken horse, with q certainty that two would
bc sold whenever any one bought it-has re-
Gently been knocked down to certain Demo.
cratic wre.workcrs in our City. We give
them joy But Seymour, knowing better, pre-
tends that it is a Republican jouInal, (Which 1t
did not pretend to be, even before the sale
and thus quotes it against the party it can
readily abuse, but could never beiray:
" Ihf Nsc York Uv4eEcilm' u an fgoHgof rcHorisj
nh v,h di,nay sni uu,peaisbe shane ,hA, We, who
hsTe supp0ei The Adm uisiroon rom . Dernf o,fefVr
st. thusr o. y. gpwef u arrest Their. l. 10 such itus
sf l1g ,,isnuauag u, conduct 80 ii. particular
I,tfy rrncpe o. American Ntry every regard iof thc
~,efv .sftn,rt Of tse~ every Impulse OF u 81.
hood nit Tie man wAo think, a. al 70 llso-
ufr staggered tiat tes- ilnss c;n Lc They seem se
.or- tidoou' dream One con am,r ia-cy ia, nep1i'
orcs imfs iad ct acc'ss INTO tie counc Of he Govefu-
aad 10y device. irosh non 'he M hid diverted u.
ibeiy'"
Surely. this trick would disgrace u thiefs
pettifogger. Does it become wouId-be Gov
crnor
Yet once more:
There are harpies around our Government,
as We presume around most Governments, who
seek TO enrich Themselves out of the lavish and
sudden ou,lays which n gigantic war necessa-
rly demands. They are of course of all par
ties aud of none, and will profess anything to
improve their chance for plumber. The natural
presumption IL that, under Republican Ad-
mlni.traton, most OF them would call them
selves Republicans; but this case Is peculiar
The Secretary Of War was all bis nOnotiicial
life Democrat; So was the late and is
the present General-iu.Chief Of the Army; and
we never heard the Commissary General,
Quarsermaster-Genoral, or Chief OF the Ord
nance Bureau classed as Republicans; yet
nearly all the biz contracts are made by Il csc
functonares. The most scandaous attempt to
deiraud the Government IN connection with
army supplies, 40 far ne we have heard, was
that Of II. y. Sedgwick, late Democratic Post
master at Syracuse, which was defeated;
while the testimony TO shameful jobbing-
wholly b. Democrats-in tho outfit of the
Butler Expedition that resulted in the
capture of New-Orleans, ia very direct
aud punsent. We believe the Heads of De-
partments have faithfully labored to correct
these abuses, and that they are now nearly
eradicated That those who seek jobs and prof
its should s.renuously oppose the Border-State
policy which the Government has thus far pur-
sued and which Mr.. Seymour heartily approves,
is Of course nconceiyablc. II, for instance,
Gerrit Smith, or Wendell Phillips, or Charles
Sumner, or John A. Andrew, or Horace Gree
ley was bent on getting rich by LAY jobs and
Government contracts, he would be- very likely
10 proclaim his conviction that the Admlnlstra-
ton wns pursuing fatal, suicidal policy; be-
would be certain TO chime in with Seymour in
euogizing that policy aud denouucng its oppo-
Dcnts as madmen or knavcs. Now Zee how
Seymour deals with this matter:
Once nog. then. Republican fcow-oltiz-ns I'm this
day Of humiliation and dgacc. lnplore you,
respectfully In the hour of your political triumph
.rn lgy.stons. Nc 10 with frpr0lch-,
but ih -ntrcae FOLLOW the pathways marked by tho
Constitution, and shil be- eatrcttri ou Ie1lou.
poson On m. other hand " you will still Doe governed by
those Who brought u. into our present condition. will
sarn too late that there yet deeper deIths OF degradation
before aud greater ni-n-s 20 be- borne than those which
Cypress Nay the President Of the United
States appeals ALL In his communication with tie val
of the border States. when hs,ayi he prensd
late his dHfy h oah y or.o,, aud ne Cons1fon Of ne
LII L. IL.