New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-14
s.UrauURY,s SENTIMENTS.

according to AIbertus Magnus, "it teaches US
to consider the causation of causes, in the
causes of things." We suspect that Mr.. Sens
tor Salisbury must devote his leisure hours to
occult learning; for last Thursday bis givngs
out were extremely weigbty asd Oracnar; and,
if he could but have kept bis temper, which
We are sorry to say he lost in the most unphllo-
sophical manner, his utteranees would have
been prodigously solemn. Every gentleman, 10
this free and enlightened country, is at liberty
to reason badly, should he chauce to have q
propensity for bad reasoning; bat when Sen.
ator comes back from the Christmas holidays
in condition of complete obfuscatiopr We are
apt to think that the wassail-bow! has been too
much for his everyday inteleotuas. In des.
canting upon the I" causes of things" Mr.. SauIs-
bury thus enlightened the universe: 1.-The raid OF
John Brown, the Liberty Bills, or the election OF
Abraham Lincoo, we're not the causes OF this
war, but the assertion Of the right to abolish
Slavery, and the evidence of such purpose"
As q specimen of assertion, perfectly naked
ard therefore unusually cool, We do not be-.
lieye that this can be excelled. 10 is, indeed.
curious. This Union-SeDatOr Salisbury, who
isn't a Rebel who has MT been sworn into
the Confederacy, who still abides. after GER
tain fashion, and in profession ct least, by tho
Constitution, feels it to be his duty to so
housing abont for plausible palliaiion Of
public crime, and discovers nothing for bis pur.
pose better than what we are Obliged to brand
as o bit of outrageous fasehood. Why, this
Senator is deeper in the secrets OF Rebellion
than the Rebels themselves He knows better
than they do why they boted, and why they
are fgbtiog aud bleeding and dying. For if
ever men gave clear reason for pursuing
uarticl,lar course, the Seceders have assigned
" the election of Abraham Lincoln o. al all
sufficient defense of their folly and sin. They
waited for the result of the Presidential can.
vass, and because it was not to their mind,
they betook themselves to the heroic remedy o!
treason. 1t is not pretended-no man in bis
senses will pretend--that, if Breckenridge had
been elected, even South Carolina would have
refused to acquiesce The truth il, that Mr..
Senator salisbury does not see, in his yolan.
teer defense of the Rebels, that in ingeaioasly
making out case for them, he proves too
much either for their patriotism, or TREK hon.
es'y or their sincerity. IG Is cruel to take
John Brown out of their mouths. Il is IN.
friendly to deprive them of their pet grievance
the Liberty Bills. 1t is ungenerous 20 deny
that the election Of Lincoln generated Seces-
sion. Take away these causes. and Why tho
Rebellion at all 7 Salisbury says it was " DC.
cause of the assertion of the right to abolish
Slavery" Salisbury may say SO, but the Sc.
ceders do MT say So and never have snid so.
The right TO abolish Slavery who has ever
claimed it, and whenl aud where 1t VIII
not do to bring one mere guess 20 bolster up
another mere guess, for gucsses are no; es!-
dencc in Courts Of Justice, nor should ar.
Salisbury offer them rs such in the Senate VI
the United States. No newspaper that sup.
ported Mr. Lincoln--no public man who can
sassed for him--nO Republican, who aS = he
publican, voted for him, expressed the east
Intention Of abolishiDg Slavery IA legally estab.
lshed. You may search files sou may hunt up
speeches, you may uDcarth long buried elec.
uoneerng documents but you cannot fad ia
there nor in the ,tcial resolutions AID ad-
sion of any unconstitutional desire or intention
you cannot fnl it, for tie simple reason that
il is MT there There were, indeed few I'M
mediate and Unconditional AbotionissS at the
North. but "a every intelligent SecedeP knows,
they were not Republicans, aud .hey dldn
vote for Abraham Lincoln for the all.suiliclent
reason tina. they never voted at all As a mere
matter of fact, We believe that c the Seeding
! States Lad quietly acquescsd IN Mr.. Lineons
election, they would have Unnecessarily strength.
ened their fayorite Institution 1t is now ODly
in peril because their outrageous conduct has
driven tie President to DO what, when lie as
sumed office, he bad no intention Of dong
at all.
We suppose that we understand the reasoa
of Senator Salisbury diatrlss. Now tina Is
is necessary to hunt up amIunitiou agri0s.
the Administration, it 10 foGDd conyenlcll 70
say that Slavery muss not 10 interiered aith,
because the Rebels are IN arms to 7 event
such interference, Ind tho result Of it r.ast 10
hoyelessness of Cancellation. The ProclsGation,
Salisbury tells Us, is "brutum fulme1 it -
nothing and will amount to noth.ns-it b
r ludicrously inefficient and sbsurdly impOtent-
| and yet--for here Salisbury HOSTS himself over
to the other horn Of his dilemr1n--and ysAI
A this "brusum GalMen," this lu.licrous, maf'
Y cient, absurd and mpoteut thing is to have ,he
) most extraordinary cflccts--is 81 intensity The
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