New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-25
Mr.. Grfolfy's Response.

Mr.. Greeiry's Response.
DEAR SIR: Although 1 did not anticipate
nor seek any reply to my former letter Unless
through yonr official acts, ! thank you for
having accorded one, since il enables me to say
EXPLICITLY that nothing was further from M
thought than to impeach in an! manner the
sincerity or the intensity of your devotion 10
the saving of the Union. | never doubtel, and
have no friend who doubts, That you desire,
before and above all else, 30 re.esta5lish tie
now de-ided authority aud yiudicae tho terri
.orial integrity Of the Republic. | Intended to
raise only this qucsilon-Do you prcpose 10 40
this Jy recognizing, DIGGING, and Enforcing tie
lars. or Jy igAoring Designating, ami IN cJ,G
d.fyiag Mem'
| stand upon the law OF tue land. The
humblest has 4 clear right 70 invoke IT. pro-
lection and support against escn the highest.
That lawn strict accordance With the ia.
of Nations, of Nature and Of God-deciarcs
thai every traitor now engaged IN the internal
work OF destroying our country has forfeited
thereby all ca!n or color al night lawfully e.
hold human beings IN Slavery. | ask OF you
clear aud pubic recognition that this law Is to
be- obeyed wherever tue National authority is
respected. | cite to YOU, instances wherein
men fleeing from bondage to traitors To the
protection of orr Tag have been assaulted,
wounded and murdered by soldiers of the
Union--uupunisncd and unrebuk"d by your
General COmmanding-t0 prove that II = your
duty 10 take acton IN the Irem.scs-ac,ou
that will cause the law 10 be proclaimed and
obeyed wherever your authority or that Of the
/ Union is recognized as paramount. The Rebel.
/ lion is strengthened, tie National cause is IN
perilcd, by every hours delay to strike Trca-
son this staggering blow.
B Wien Fremont proclaimed Freedom 10 the
slaves OF RebeIs, you constrained bun TO modify
h,s PROCLAMATION into rigid accordance with the
terms Of the existing law. II was your clear
rlq.t Ia do sc | now ask OF YOU con
formity to TIE pfincip. 80 siernly enforced
upon hin. | ash YOU to instruct your
Generals and Commodores fist DO loyni
persou-ceriainly none wiling to reude-
service TO the National causc-is hclceiorh 10
be regarded as the slave of any traitor Wblle
no rightml Government was ever before
a.sailed by so wantOn and wicked rebellion
US that Of the Shareholders against our National
life, am sure none ever before hrsIiat-d nj
so simple ard primary an act OF self-deicusc a.
to relieve those who would serve aud save It
from chattel servi,udc to those WHO are wading
,tl ln.I "a suhxert aud In. 4
Future generations viii with difficulty real, @
that there could have been hesitation on TIN
point Sixty years OF general mud bouUdlrss
subser iency to tho Slave Power DO not adc-
quately expiain it.
Mr. President, beseech you TO open your
eyes TO the fact that The deyoters Of Smery
everywhere--just as much IN Maryland as ~
Mississippi, in Washington as in Richmond
are to-day your enemies, ard the lnplacabll
foes Of every effort to Ieeslat!ish the MAJ Onal
authority by the discontinue Of its asgailans.
Thcir President is not Abraham Lincoln but
Jefferson Davis. You may draft them to serve
IN the war; but they will Only fight uad,r the
Rebel na2. There is not in Ncw-York to-day
/ Il man WHO rrhUy D'll'Yfs III SIhNfi}, ipF'' ~
ana desires It's perpeluatIon, who heartily d,1Grs
the crushing out Of the Rebellion lie wOnld
much rather save the Republic by buying mp
and peDsoning off It's assailants. HIS "Inion
as IL was" is Union OF which you wero not
/ President, and no one who tiuly wished Free
dom to Al ever could be.
II thcse arc truths, Mr.. President, tho
are surely of the grayost Importance. You
cannot safely approach the great and goc' ,
end you so ntenay mediate by shutting youl
eyes to them. Your deadly foe il not blinded
b. any mis-. in which your eyes may be enycl
coed. He walks straight to his goal, knowing
well bis weak point, and most unwlllingy be.
traying hs fear that you too may see and
take advantage of it. God grant that his np-
prehcnson may prove prophetic.
That you may not unseasonably perceive
these vital truths az they will shine forth oD
the pages of Hstory-that they may b. READ
by our children irradiated by tho glory of OH
National salvation, not rendered lurld b. the
blood.red glow Of National coDAagration and