New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-30

which are still necessary TO tnem. Marylhuu'
for example, is predominantly Union State.
No Rebel flag floats on its soil. A large MAJOR
ity Of its peoyle are Unonists. Its slaveholding
aristocracy. however-tbe great body oil It's
low.country planters and the Baltimore mer'
chants who buy and sell for them-are bitterly,
implacably Secession. The State has thus
furnished more men and more means to the
Rebel cause than to that of tie Union. For
jeff. TO propose any terms of peace that would
not be secuted by the impartial as bypocrihca'
and insulting would advertise his Mar! land
disciples that they are to be left out IN the
cold. He cannot afford to do it.
so with West Virginia. AS Mascoe Garrett
wrote TO South Carolina Prescott In 1917, mere
is population of hundreds Of thousands w''n
scarcely anv slaves. who could not be coaxed
nor driven into disuniOn. Poor, Ignorant ana
ms!ed as they may have been, they yet love
their country and her flag with an invluc'bie
affection. They Lave never been ana VIII nov
be Secess;onists, because they are not slave
holders. Their delegates in Convention utterly
refused to be bullied by the ncgro-traders oil
Richmond into signing, or even submitting 10
the act of Secession. No Rebel force has np-
peared among them that IVES not sPeedI!
beaten back or dsspated. They are as stead
Easily in the Union as Vermont or Minnesota.
Now, If it were possible for the Republic 10
consent to be divided aud fatally crippled, II
seems utterly impossible that ii should consent
70 the surrender Of West Virginia. To say
nothing Of the basencss of bctraying her people
into the ha Ids of their deadly and reyeDgeiul
foes, the position siernly iorbds It, west
Virginia is interposed between Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania in such manner that It's
surrender would cut the loyal States nearly IN
two. But ninety miles intervene betwiN II
and Lake Erie. a hostile force at Wheeling
could speedily cut the communications Of the
East with the West, exposing either section
10 tie full force OF the foe. To surrender
West Virginia would he to doom the Republic
to subdivision, impotence, and chrome ararch!.
Yet Davis, despot as he is, dare not tell Ola
Virginia that he is prepared to conccde so
much of her soil as lies West of the AUeghanes
for the sake of peace. That State, IN casting
in her lot with the Disuuionlsts, sacrificed her
self to the purchasers of her negro-crop. They
" coerced" her to manifest perdition by enact
ing that no slaves should be brought into their
Confederacy from any State that adhered 10
the Union. Ia that Coniedcracy she can never
be 20 fayorably, so egibly situated as she for
eighty wears had been in the Union. She can
never govern the Confederacy nor supply 1t
with a series of Presidents, as she long did the
Union. Rebellion has cost her frigbtiully, and
il destined 10 cost her much more She cannot
endure the knowledge that lis triumph is vel
TO cost her onethird Of her cherished amplitude
OF area. To open negotiations for peace would
soon disclose necessity that would grievously
disanect her and weaken the Disunion cause.
We might speak also OF Tennessee, OF Ken
tucky, of Missouri but il ia needless. The
Rebel chiefs cannot afford even 70 seem anxious
for peace until they shall have been ihorougbly
triumphant or thoroughly beaten. Il we were
willing to submit 10 DisnnOn peace, on such
terms as an impartial third party should pre-
scribe, they would not and cannot AFFORD to
entertain the proposition. For the present,
War is stern but neXorabe necessity.