New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-10
UNITY AT THE NORTH.


The Troy Hhig asserts that tho North IL
divided because the Republicans have not
fought the Rebellion in the manner desired aud
proposed by their adversaries. The Repub-
licans, says The Wig,
were told thoir dividing the North They were
told that bile the North would stand solid tor swJg,
ne Unons prosecuted uparr tbs Consiitotion-i' 'u"
certainly d vide II tbs war wss converted INFO 90
tioua violent Abolition cruaads They were TOD n. non,
h.son Bis Ems patton Pfoe lamaiisn N, gro hesmen'
Bills, Summary su.Psnsiou of habe.' Corpa. ETC.
would Of neee. divide ,sof VINO; ai.n die
,,ovvnment were PERFECTLY aud enihasasticap hg osd
H. mi, csr.e journsl. and leader. hte THs TnisuSH
ruhed headons aud socoe"ded III carr nE then pyi
the old Americans, evstd nor
In Coincidence assent to the radical programme" &c. sc'
We will convince The Wing by the citation
Of undeniable facts that the above is utterly
mistaken--and unjust:
Before the Administration had done or said
anything Inconsistent with its adversaries' no.
lions, those .adversaries evinced implacablc
hostility to the War for the Union. Francis
W. Hughes, Chairman Of the Democratic State
Committee Of Pennsylvania, publicly proposed
that in case Of Secession, Pennsylvania should
20 with the South. Messrs. Vim. Il. Reed,
Pierce Butler. T.. B. Schnsbe, and other emf
nent Pennsylvania Democrats, evinced unInIs.
taxable sympathies with tho Rebel States in
their war upon the Union. The Democratic
Governors of Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri,
Oregon-all Union States--eviDced an open aud
ardent Partially for the Rebel cause. Thomas
III. Seymour, Democratic Ex-Governor OF Con
necticut, condemned the War in public letter.
7 IIorstio Seymour made speeches in the canvass
of 1862 eyincng anything but perfect and en-.
thusiastc devotion TO the Union cause. Among
our own neighbors, ia the casual intercourse
Of daily life, we were constantly meeting owl
dences Of Democratic sympathy with the
Rebels before any Of the measures to which
Tn, Wig excerpts had been even suggested
save, indeed, that Summary Arrests were
made in Mary land to preserve that State from
seeming adhesion to the Rebel cause, after the
! treaeherOus massacre and kindred performances
in Baltimore. Aud if it was not right TO ar
rest and imprison the George +. Kanes. S.
Teaklc Wnlses, &C., of Baltimore, then the
Union Government had 10 right to exist.
What The Wig virtually demands is that
those charged with the defense OF the Union
should conduct the struggle, not according to
their own convictions of proprety and efficiency,
but according to those OF their opponents.
We cannot deem this reasonable nor just.
The Wig proceeds to sny that
There can be no united Norh to make the destruction
OF Slavery Ia The Southern states the hr' offset OF The
the restoration Of tho Union secondary coptnsou
object"
The imputation here involved is false aud
caumnious. Neither President Lincoln, Nor q
majority in Congress, nor any considerable
proportion Of their supporters, ever did make
tho restoration Of tho Union secondary to any
other consideration. Mr. Lincoln's repeated
declarations on this subject are uniform, explicit,
and in perfect accordance with bis acts Though
Slavery was ever the basis and soul Of the
Rebellion, he never assailcd it till he became
convinced that he must do 30 in order to save
the Union. All this is notorious. and The
Wig dishouors itself in seeking TO pervert it..