New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-04

contest between Wing and Tory, or the still
more bloOdthirsty views with which the Slave
holders Rebellion has shocked the world. Yet
time, the great pacifcator. has obliterated all
the bitter feeling which these half.forgotten
contests engendered. With the death of the
generations that shared in them, it passed
away; and the little of it that still survives
exists only in the handful of veterans who yet
lag superfuOhs on the stage of life.
Thus the thick coming future must be con.
jectured from the clearly defined past. As all
rebellions come to an end, SO will tho present
one. The nation will be no more likely to
tolerate its blOodstained instigators within its
bosom than our fathers tolerated the masses of
the less guilty Tories. Though this Govern
ment has never executed a man for treason.
yet it will seem to many that the gallOws
should now come actively into use. Flight or
the halter seems now the only alternative for
leading traitors whose hands are dripping with
loyal blood. The former will expatriate thou.
ssnds-may heaven grant us that speedy one
be witnessed. That secured, the national hOri.
ION will be comparatively clear, and amnesty
for the masses will develop the germs Of a
pacifcation. But it must be evident that time
alone can make it complete and permanent
Our habits as people, we know, will 60 far
to hasten in the new millennium. Commerce
and trade the modern humanzers, will rap
idly reopen every channel now DISTRACTED.
Collision of the scales and yardstick will abrade
multitude of asperities, for with too many of
slipped. The nations of Europe which, four
years ago, were waging war against each
other, have all recovered their commercial
equilibrium. Southern destitution of a thou
sand comforts and necessities will compel a
grateful recognition Of Northern abundance.
A vast railroad system, telegraphs, and steam
ers, created for the promotion of intercourse
between the sections, will be actively engaged
in facilitating that intercourse. The arrogance
of Southern temper will DO modified under the
subdung knowledge that its chvalry has been
soundly whipped by Northern mudsills. Opin-
ion, both printed and spoken, will be freer-
for Northern colonization will pour in with
schools and plows, educating hitherto be-
nighted people, and redeeming an almost ruined
agriculture by placing the manufacturer side
by side with the producer. This intercourse
will rapidly teach tie South how grossly her
baniahed demagogues have deceived her as to
the design and purpose Of the North; and,
though humbled by subjugation, she will dis
cover that her prosperity is becoming greater
than ever.
But it is idle TO presume that the griefs, the
passions, the fierce animosties, engendered by
this awful contest, will die out while this gen.
Grafton lives. Too many bravo mon have per-
ished, too many homes have been made desc
late, too many families have been broken up
and becgared for that. Men whom it has i'm
poyerished will live and die poor, remembering
constantly the causes of their poverty. Wild
ows will weep over husbands, children over
fathers slain in battle. No catalogue of griefs
and horrors could be longer or blacker. These
things must be identical with those which
closed up the Revolution, only ten times mag
ni6ed. In those Southern States where loyal
men nave DecH OutTdgeu Ny tHoh hc'sn""A''
the latter will doubtless be exterminated or
driven of by those whom they have perse.
cuted. Blood for blood will be- tho rule with
them. Here, in the North, every local traitor
will be marked Good men will shun him,
honest men refuse to trust him, society VIII
keep him at arms length. His generation viii
never cease 10 remember that he was traitor.
The status Of these is defined already. Thus
history reproduces itself, and We are living
witnesses of the instructive truth.
But underlying and overshadowing these gen.
eral facts, there remains the great question OF
American Slavery. in all former contests, both
foreign and domestic, Slavery was passive or
incidental. In this, it is coniessedly supreme,
the sole animating cause Of rebellion, giving 1t
impulse at the beginning and vitality during It's
progress. Had il been struck down at the out
set. the rebellion would have been brief and Tar
less sanguinary. Were it stricken down even
now. the latter would crumble into pieces.
There has been 10 pacfcaton during sixty
wears of its aggressive existence-there can be
none 80 long as it may be continued. IL has
the nation by the throat, and the nation must
lave the courage to shake it off and destroy 1t.
We have shown how other rebelliOns have
ended, but il IL only by universal emancipation