New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-04
GET US ALONE

AS the reinforced and reinylgorated armies
of the Republic are silently closing around the
remaining strODghOlds Of the Shareholders
Rebellion its organs renew and intensity the
prayer of TIE demoniacs whom the Savior was
about to exercise, "Let us alone !" They
only want 10 be I" let alOne'-that will stop
bloodshed and restore the whole continent TO
peace and happiness.
| What a pity they had not thought of this
before they robbed the arsenals, sub-treasurles,
mints &C., and captured the main army of
the Union under the Administration of Bu-
chanan When they bOmbarded Fort Sumter,
aud made their rush on Norfolk Nayy-Yard,
with its numerous ships-of-war and immense
military stores, captured Harper's Ferry,
butchered the Massachusetts men in the streets
of Baltimore, and placed Washington under
siege by stopping all communication with the
Free States through Maryland, sending the
Mayor and Young Christians of her chief city
to demand that no more Union troops be sent
across that State, they were not so anxious to
be let alone. Then their Secretary Of
that they would have Washington within
month; and the whole crowd secuted
the idea that the mercantile, mOney-lOyng
North could or would Withstand tie terrible
onset of Southern Chiyalry. They did not
L" let alone LOYAL, heroic East Tennessee, but,
having isolated her through the treacherous
neutrality Of Kentucky, they proceeded to
trample her under their feet, shooting aud
hanging her patriots Us though they were
sheep killing dogs. They did not =" let alone
Union. loving West Virginia, but rushed their
hordes upon her. fierce TO plunder subdae aud
kil. They never dreamed of letting alone ont
spoken or unsuspectod Unionists wherever they
could lay their hands on them. Thousands on
thousands hnye been murdered by them on sas-
picOn of not being traItors-some on no better
ground than their Northern birth and noa-
participation in the orgies OF Secession. Tho
Rebels have only wanted to be- =" let alone
since they have learned by sore experience that
they are oyermAiched in the struggle they 50
wantonly, wickedy lnauguratei.
How easily, If they really want TO be "lci
alone" they can secure that end by simply re-
turning to loyalty Had they adhered to the
Constitution aud Union, no Northern man
would have stood on their soil but such az
their own laws invited thither. The Federal
laws would have been enforced, the Federal
revenue collected, by officers chosen from
among themselves. The Republicans were
solemnly pledged to respect their STATE laws
and institutions; the President was especially
determined that hIs Marshals should catch and
return all their fugitive slaves. They were
sure of Congress after their own heart, and
Supreme Court that had immortalized itself
by the bred Scott decision. The word knelt
to them for Cotton and it's merchant princes
worshiped their idol in order TO sell them goods
they mean never to pay for. The auctioneer's
arm was weary with knocking down negroes
70 planters at twelve to fifteen hundred doars
Il head, and tie breeders OF The Border States
could not satisfy the eager demand. Such Was
the status which the South 'coud not "let
alone mark tie contrast.