New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-04

You would reduce portion Of tie States dependencies
and deprive ii EN- OF the constitutional rg' Of iegnist
their domestic Institutions lem ior restoring the tni
you for mpaihng don't srgu. which iteofy Is ID
bet only make clear TIE POINT q difference 10
may say Of nne that have much respect for slavery
deny that ! have any respect for Slavery siy fe'
poet for the Constitution. however Is supreme "he"
ever and wherever Slavery stands IN the Of conquest
our srmies would spare it and care not ho"ses
may be impaired by the conflict whether anythnso' "
left when the war over but the night OF each s'e 'o'
with ju heretofore, when the war 10 over must Dc
served or you see it Is Teitoronn Those "hs wiz" "
are for CON ete re.torstion OF the old Union can ~
other sround leu who are for change msy De "ol'
lsn We and once breaking through constitutional resip
you may make ell the improvements you th'A "o''
action Is revolutionary, not constitu'ioiel ~. :;
Now we submit that there 10 nothihg ~
tbe no,iton. the character, or the antccedeh's'
of Alexander s. Dven which en'i'ies n'ii ~
address such language to and heap such charges
uron .Jsmes Dunn. No person who Knows
them both as we do will say that Mr.. Dunn ID
less intelligent, less candid, less honest, IMAM
the gentleman who happens for the hrsf' ano
we presume for the last time, to be his repre-
sentative in Congress. When, therefore, Mr.
Owen virtually charges Mr.. Dunn with urging
the prosecution of tins war with sinister mo-
lives and to unacknowledged ends, he trans-
cepds the sphere OF courteous and friendly dis
cusson and exposes himself 20 severe and
indignant rebuse.
We have no doubt that Mr. Dunn secs that
what Mr.. Diven pompously eulogizes az res
iteration is naked impossibility. Let as
suppose that the war were ended to-day On
some basis which would leave Slavery just
where this rebellion found it -and bring Mason
and Slidell, Toombs and Wgia jeff Davis
and Chestnut, Rust and Breckenridge, Hunter
and Benjamin, back into the Senate, and into
their normal relations Of cordially and fra
ternity with Bayard and Pearce, Bright, Thomson
of n. j., Rice, Wall, Biger and the Northern
Democracy. They would have nearly half the
Senate and about a third of the Electors from
the Slave States alone; does any one imagine
that they would not, aided by the pressure OF
war taxes and the partisan cninor sure 10 Dc
raised ,her,upoD, soon reacqure that ascchdeh'
cy which they in lrGO-out Of hatred to Doug
Ia, and eagerness for purely SlayehodDg
nfederacy-dclberatey threw away And
then do you not see that we who have honest
" and earnestly resisted and bailled their am-
bilious Vaccinations will be made to sup sor-
row Unpleasant neighbors as they are st
Richmond and Manassas we prefer to have
them there rather than IN power at Washing
ton with drilled partisan majority nj Their
back. Bat We can we'll understand why tins
prospect should have no ieuors for Mr..
Owen.
Mr.. Diyen informs Sir. Dunn that be
"can I hut know that a Law or decree coniis-
eating property j. imperative while that
{" property is in the hands Of M armed
enemy" We respond that h0: dePsHo' en-
hreiy on pkai sort Of ProF'Hg IS. II Mr-
Owen. Tor instance, ard three or four millions
like him, were held az property IN the heart 81
tie rebel Coniederacy. It might be true IN
certain sense that al act oi Congress conisoh.-
ing or lberating all thIs property would be-
- imperative IA be- says; hut Ia anolheF al"
very important ,enre IL would no, be. The
fact that Congress had pnssed such an at
could not be -motbered-it would be- procia me-
ed by The leading rebels IN order To animate
the owners OF this property to greater Efforts
IN their behalf; it would be- whispered, can
yassed, denounced, everywhere, and the prop
erty-being labofers IN every farm, or servants
i'm every considerable ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS be sure
10 gam knowledge Of It, and 10 diiiuso that
knowledge from mouth 10 ear until every piece
OF the property should have been speedily made
aware Of 1t. But the property has not merely
mouths (ampe) aud ears: II has legs also and
arms, and Il very strong disposition 10 use any
or all of them Tor the achievement Of Freedom.
John Brown, with fifteen white inca and i've
negroes, startled and appalled, Virginia more
than Gen. Mcclellan at the head OF one Hun
dred aud Fifty 1housand brave soldiers hei
set done, because Old John struck at the
heart of Slavery, while Mcclellan turns sing.
ers out OF his camps who sing against II.
We hope be VIII get TO Richmond Tor all that
tut we should feel great deal more confident
0f it if he would leave Slavery to its own de-
wees letting singers sing al they please ard
auditors listen or not a. may SUIT theW. And
ae tell Sir. Owen very manifest truth when
we BAY that there ID nothing the rebel chiefs 20
much dread IA an act OF Emancipation; hence
their yenomous hatred of Fremont aud Jim
Lane, and their comparative goodwill toward
Iialiech, Buell. and Mcclellan.
To capture aud then confscatc is Nj.
Owens policy. BIT capturing implies con-
-traini. force, violence toward the captured,
aud peril to The captors oil which are pre-
Guided or sci aside by an act al Emancipation on.
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