New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-31


clear understanding that the result is to bind
all concerned. The Democracy ought to have
learned this truth from their Charleston gather
inc. TO which the present Rebels came with
Deliberate intent MT to be satisfied, but to find
or make a pretest for breaking up the Con-
vention and tbe partg. To attend and claim
voice in n Convention predetermined not to
abide its decisions, is at once an insult to and
fraud upon your compatriots Better never
vote than to hold an election Oh oon'en'Io"
which is to be repudated u'les' local H.
terest represented therein is acc,tdeo WHIT
ever it may choose to demand
". As yet the Rebels have made no demon
stration toward Peace-haye eynced 10 desire
for Peace unless on the basis of Disunion. DIT
Brookss proposal if backed by the State Vi
New.Jersey, will be hailed by them a. sur
render on the part of the loyal States-as
proclamation that we are tired of the War
and eager to close it on any terms. We might
better acknowledge their independence at once.
V. The President cannot declare an arm
istice" That is bargain, and it takes two
to make it, The Rebel States chose to inau-
gurate Civil War. They seized by force and
treachery the arms, munitions, forts, arsenals
armories, navy-yards custom-houSos, sub
treasures. &C., which belonged to the whole
United States. They captured and paroled the
principal army of the Union. They threatened
to seize the Federal Metropolis, and were
only prevented by superior force. If they want
an armistce, let them propose it. They COM
PEELED us to fight. When they have had fighting
enough, they will be good enough to let us
know it.
vi. Not to speak of other States, there are
two subsisting State Governments in Virginia
-one of them devoted to the Union; the
other reeking all over with treason. Before
consenting to the e,ding of Peace Commls-
sioners to Virginia, we should want to know
,rhich of these Virginias-the loyal or the
traitorous-is to BE- thus bonored and en-
treated.
! A Southern ex-M. c., of approved /" Democ-
racy" in other days. has written to Mr. JONI
Van Buren,, suggesting n basis of Peace, ana
Mr.. V. g.. has given his letter to the public,
suppressing BY request the name and resi-
deuce of tie writer. The glst Of bis project
10 as follows:
/. Present reunion upon compact that, al
ans time after 1869 or 1873. erery State shall
be at Liberty 10 sceede at pleasure.
.. In the mean time, all sort, of conciliatory
measures to be adopted. TO remove all just
grounds of complaint on the part Of the
South
Nobody but shareholders are ever pre- iumcd
~ need conciliating-c compromise,
concession, peace measures, Nc, &c, always
meaning some fresh sacrifice of principle aud
honor at the shrins Of the Unsuitable Slave
Power.
3. Tie Public Debts, North and South, 20
be left to future adjustment.
TIN. ia act pretty steep. To concedc the
Right Of Secession, is simply to say 10 the
Slave Power, Rattle the chain TINT links
you 10 the Union. aud you may hencciorth .
eJiort any concession You choose to demand
II is TO give the country over to everlasting
weakness. distraction. chaos.
We can assure all dreamers and schcmers
that, Whatever may be conceded for Peace sake,
the Right of Secession never will be. On the
contrary. any change made IN the Constitution
touching This point viii be made III exactly
the opposite direction. To suppose that a
country will not merely consent to its own dis
membcrmcnt, but Will make such dissolution
at the pleasure OF any section a portion of rs
fundamental law, is TO presume an extraordinary
prediction for National suicide aud chaos
come again.
This country has paid, in one way and an.
other, more than Two Hundred Millions of
Dollars for the acquisition of territory. She
was but Yesterday contemplating the additional
purchase of Cuba at cost of One Hundred 10
one Hundred and Fifty Millions more. To
affirm the right of territories So purchased to
eope at pleasure is to confess that we have
paid our money for nothing.
Then look at the reason Of the Gaze: We
bought Louisiana because the West roaid hqce,
no matter at what cost, free egress to the sen
through the Mississippi. And now it is graycy
proposed to surrender to Louisiana the power
to shut the Ml'sissippi against tho West at
her pleasure This will never be conceded
Ncw-York by her secession alone, would
cut the Union in two, in spite Of all the other
States: 50 could Pennsylvania and Delaware
together; so could Virginia and Ohio. What
terrible power TO coniide to the few for
coercng and expressing the many! 1t IL just
impossible that the Great West should ever