New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-03
THE ANIuATING PURPOSE.


We trust the whole country viii deeply ponder
the proceedings of the recent Conservative "
meeting in our City. We ask that those proceed
ings be generally disseminated, and the question
pressed home upon every loyal Democratic heart
-" Can you longer associate with the authors
and supporters of such utterances without guilty
completely in your countrys ruin " see no"
heartily and unsparingly New-England and her
Puritanism were DETAINED through the lips OF
recreant son of her soil, while South Carolina and
her thirty years persistency in treason received
no whisper of rebuke. Note the unmeasured
denunciations of Auti-Slayery men as traitors
when there is not one Of them in the Rebel
ranks unless driven thither by merc1ess
conservation, and not man figures
in the civil or military service of the treason
low striking at the National heart who was
ever even callcd an Abohtionist. Dwell on the
velvet touch wherewith the well studied and
carefully drawn resolves of the meeting speak
of this gigantic SayehOdng Treason %
" irregular opposition to the National authori'
". Observe the impudent, back-hearted false
hood embodied in that same fourth resolve that
the Emancipation League proposes to exclude
from the Union all States which do not
abolish Slavery" See how many apologies
and excuses for the Rebellion were here brought
together and arrayed in the best i.ght-how
Wichlffe was applauded in his explicit, I'M
abashed declaration that Kentucky re-
manned neutral in the struggle until
the Rebels forced her into taking
sides by invading her soil and despol-
ing her people THAT neutrality was the
position Of the Union men Of Kentucky said
this eminent Conservative. At that time, 1t
was notorious that the DiSunionsts Of Ken
tucky were rot neutral, but were openly re-
cruiting for and rendering oil possible aid to
the Rebel cause. Where would the country
have now BEEN had all the loyal States stood
neutral for months just as Kentucky did
Think of the logic which did not scruple 10
assert, frat, that the great body of the Ken
tucky Shareholders are loyal; next, that the
bill before Congress coniiscatiug the slaves Of
the more conspicuous Rebels would - take the
,chole nero population within the seeded
States-witbn Kentucky, Missouri, Mar! land,
Delaware, and Tennessee turn them loose
upon society"
But ii We attempted to expose oil the mis-.
statements and peryerslons Of these "Con-
seryatvcs" of Slavery, We should al our
sheet. Scarcely a statement was made respect
ing the acts or opinions Of Anti-Slayery men
which was not an entire fasehood or a gross
peryersoD. The apologizins prtieuse that re-
cent Anti.SlaTcry acton y Ge-,ross mi at
the North has strengthened the Rebellion la
coniuted by the fact that the Rebellion was
more general aud formidable ten months ago,
prior to such legislation and action, than il Is
to-day. Kentucky assumed her position OF neu-
tralliy before this Congress had ever met; and
Missouri and Maryland were both CONFUSED
by Treason before one Of these Conservative"
pretexts iOr il had an eXstence.
Men no love the Union for Llberty's aud
Your chldren's sake, not as the chief bulwark
Of Slavery think OF these things