New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-15
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istence even here in this hard-hearted city OF
New-York of those whose daily walk and con-
yersaton illustrate the tenderest phases of hui
mainly, when we hear of gentlemen whose pa
cifc natures are so disturbed by the terrors Of
war that they propose to stop these civil con-
WILSON'S very much az q pedagogue would part
pair Of contending pupils "Ah Master
South, am ashamed of youi Put by those
naughty airs, my child, and play peacefully
with Master North Then you shall have as
many nggers as you please, with thousands
and thousands of square miles for them to cul-
tivate, to your immense pleasure and proit.
And then: Snow, Master North if find you
troubling poor Master South again, you shall
taste my birch1 Your conduct has been ex-
tremely reprehensible! your pocket-money, tops
and marbles are all confscated to the use OF
Master South, who has been good enough to
forgive your When shall we come to these
embraces, these penitent tears, this begging
pardon and this shaking hands Ask the
widows and orphans of the North Up to the
9th of last August the roll Of our killed.
wounded and missing mounted to nearly 90
600. and since that day it has been consider
ably extended. Money disspated is nothing to
this; nor, if our expenditures had been twice
as great, would they have been anything to
our notifications and miserable anxietes. VIII
some individual, of a placable turn OF mind, be
good enough to tell us what is to repay us for
all the dark days which have crawled b. us
since the fall Of Fort Sumter for the inter-
ruption of our commercial and agricultural pur-
suits for the complication of our foreign rela-
tons for the inevitable demoralizations of
WARRIOR that doubt of the Constitution g
strength which years Of its re-establshment
can hardly eradicatel
Nobody can desire peace more heartily than
we do, since all our feelings point to it's at
tainment; but neither interest nor ceiling can
blind us to the fact, now so bitterly strengthened
by cruel experience. that given the same con-
dtions in the future, the same results may be
anticipated. Suppose that matters were now
IN stain quo Suppose the Government of the
United States stood now as il did upon that
memorable day when mere handful of con-
spirators in Charleston were contemplating
but had not yet consummsted their treason 2
Suppose the a" Union " restored, with no change
in the nature Of the slayoholding interest-with
the aristocracy of the South still imperous and
discontentel-with fresh schemes Of terri.
iorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT forever agItaling South.
ern socie,y-with undying, nay ausleeping
iealou.es still coloring legisl,tion-with every
Presidential election influenced and cbaract, rzed
by the old agitatons-and what would "Union "
DO worth We want something better, as the
title OF our peace AID Of our liberties. than q
miserable misnomer. Two things. in tho noble
language of the President, We want" lnden-
nifty for the Past, aud Security for the Future ~
Ii will not do TO shut our eyes Ia the
plain moraliles Of events. IL will not do Ia
say for the shameful purposes OF a timorous
policy, that both parties 10 this quarrel are
wrong. The most helligerent nation, engaged
in the most purely offensive war, aud main
tanned by the penumbra of righteous cause,
i. always mounted in theory, at least, upon
it's injuries, and never wAging war by assduous
apologizing. Turenne said that general who
had never made mistake. had never made
war; but We do not remember the name of
any general who began q campaign by politely
informing the enemy that he considered himself
to be clearly in the wrong; although some Of
our officers have limited something like that in
tLeir saye-catching proclamations. But apart
from theories md assumptions, We believe in
common with the mass Of our ielow-citzeus, that
tho North il IN the rght-that il has suffered
injuries which might DO stated with technical
precision in bill OF indictment-that il it is
fighting it has been forced into fighting, and
that it has not taken one life, except under
the pressure of al imperious necessity. III il
be in the wrong-if this conflict could have
been avoided with honor-if the election of Mr.
Lincoln was, in very truth, violation OF the
Constitution justifying Secession, then no ma
ton ever abored under such weight of
guilty responsibility as ours. Let the people
consider it Are we in the wrong Then, if
50, 1t is not yet too late to withdraw our
forces from the field and to make honorable
amends. To do 80, indeed would be the first
duty M it would be the first impulse, of an
honorable nation betrayed BY passion into
dishonorable attack. What say the advocates
Of an emollient policy Have We 20 terribly
mistaken our dutyl Have NO 50 grie, ousy in
jured our dear Southern brethreal' God help
us, if We have
But il, on the other hand, the South be in
the wrong, by what name shall we stlgmatize
its crime against civilization How phall we
defend, or even palliate, this attack OF blind
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