New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-23
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To THI President Oh the UNITED STAIN:
Sir: In days when tie public safety 10 imminen.ly
threatened and the fate of a nation may hang upon
single act, we owe frank speech, above all other
men, 10 him who is Highest iu authority. shall
speak to you as man TO man.
Harsh opinions have been formed Of you; even
honest men doubling the probi,y Of your Intentions.
do no, share thor doubts. believe you 10 be up
right, dngle.hesrted in your desire to rescue tie
country In the hour Of her utmott need without
afier-iboush Of the personal consequences TO youre
II, amid the multitude Of ocnteDdng council you
have hesitated and doubted, if, when great meas
ure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vas!
responsibility afraid to 90 forward lest you should 30
wrong, what wonder How few, sinoc the iounda-
ton of the world, have found themselves in posi.
ton environed with public peris 20 numerous, op-
pressed with responsibilities 20 high and solemn, AZ
yourself
No man ever escaped from snch-so reads tie les
son Of History-without bold hear. and y high
faith. Wisdom, prudence, foTethought, these are e.
sen,ial. But not second to thesc Ia that noble cour
age which adventures the Right, aud leaves the con-
sequences 10 God.
Men ever follow willingly a daring leader; mosi
willingly Of all, in great emergencies. Boldnens and
decision command, often even in evil, the retpec
and concurrence Of mankind How much more IL
good
There is a measure beeding courage 70 adopt and
enforce il, which believe TO be Of virtue suffice n
90 redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one
only ! know Of no other TO which we may ration
ally trust for relief from impending dangers without
aud within.
| The dangers which threaten US are two-fold:
First from the Confederate forces composed Of men
whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it ID
idle to deny. Secondly, from ourselves. compelled
to make use Of military power Of proportions 80
gigantic that no nation ever permitted tho existence
of ouch without more less risk to the people who
employed it. If wetLink lightly of this Inter dan
ger, we eight the teachings OF all pss time.
A. to the first: Have you not had your moments
Of doubt whether We to succeed at all whether
the Union, once 30 glorious, willever DO reunited =
whether peace, which We used to enjoy with ~
little gratitude as wo DO the sunlight OF the air we
breathe, will ever again settle down over our dis
tracted country
II have doubts of all this, it ID only because do
not know what your action will be. We have ut
disposal the Of certain success; but osn.
not tell whether while there IL vet time, YOU will de-
eide to employ them.
Our enemies. like the Grecisn hero have one yul-
nerabe point. You have not touched i yet What
should have been their element of weaknoss has been
suffered TO remain an element OF strength.
They have n.aIly million of able.bodied men Of
fit age for war Or for labor Holding tbeee roen in
bondage, and employing them to I'LL tho soil, they
are enabled 10 send TO tic battlefield almost their
entire white male admit pop nlaon yet pr serve their
,onmissariat sufficiently supplied.
1T has always been great wrong that these men
lnd their families should be held in bondnge. We
# the North have hitherto acqpiesced in IT, lest, in
he endeavor TO redress in violation Of the Cons,-
ution, greater evils might ensue.
But the time has come when ii ia constitutional TO
edress it. The Rebellion has made it 80. Property
n man, always morally unjust, has become nation.
lily dangerous. Property that endangss the safety
I nation ab0old not " suffered TO remain iQ The