New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-10

other irb,, than citizen If Peunsylvsn to pilot
b.ns him and Thy should not Lee do the soma to Virginia
thus pilotog Mesdes nmyi IL inc bft.h 10 some
future wal were to arm our s'e s,, aSm,,.d ,,t tne
thew claimed as subjects we're subjects they som ed
away their case" =,
Here is the gist Of the whole matter: let us
hold fast to it:
The assumption vital to tho Rebel position
has nothing whatever to do with Slavery. The
right to kill black men captured in arms for
the Union is claimed not on the ground OF
their chattehood, but of the paramount ALE
gianee due to their States respectively. In other
words, the Rebel assumption upheld by The
World is precisely that of the CoPperhead
Union Colonel, who, asking soldier to what
regiment he belonged, and being answered,
a. The Sixth Virginia." rejoined-" Virginia 7
Why, you ought to be fighting on the other
side"
Now, the position we hold, and which our
Government must maintain or confess itself
usurper and wrong doer is this: The allegiance
and fdoliy due from each inhabitant to tie Cor
eminent Of tic United States is AT LEAST not
subordinate to any other. In other words; We
can't possibly afford to lot Virginia hang Vir-
ginian captured while fighting for the Union.
while we parole and exchange Virginians cap
tured while fighting against the Union. If we
surrender this point, We surrender all that is
in controversy.
Now, then, We assert as matter of fact
notorious and undeniabe-tbat our Govern
ment does parole and exchange citizens OF loyal
States captured in arms for the Rebellion. II
so treated Gen. Buckner, a conspicuous aud
forsworn traitor to loyal Kentucky, whose
confidence he had grossly betrayed, and whose
authorities would have been delighted to hang
him. 1t has so treated Gen. Pemberton, "a
PENNSYLVANIA" aud will 30 treat Gen. Gard
ner, a New-Yorker, when Gen. Banks shall
have bagged him. Gen. Kirby Smith is from
Connecticut, and will be treated Ike any other
prisoner of similar rank when his turn comes.
Those eminent New.York Democrats, Gustavus
W. Smith and Mansfield Lowell, who deserted
lucrative posts in our Ci:y's service to take
commissions in the Rebel army, are in no
other danger from capture than Longstreet or
Ewell. Kentuckians, Missourisns, Maryland
er., &C., in thousands have been captured and
exchanged BY US precisely like Georsans, Ma.
sippians, and Texans. And this inevitably; for
we hold, and must hold, the best Of them guilty
On rebellion and treason, which Is precisely the
case with the worst. We cannot afford TO sd.
mt that what is called the secession Of n State
at oil rela1es or qualities the obligations of
fidelity 70 the Federal Con,t,ution aud Union
on the part of her citizens.
The UorM concludes as follows.
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.orent, AID MASTERS al Tho sane Tine
Here we have again the offensive and sui
tidal assumption that She people Of Georgia owe
allegiance TO that State, but none TO the Union,
Is Russians owed allegiance to the government,
# their own country, but none to the Frcnch .
INVADER. Does any one doubt that Alexander
night have called on every serf 10 take up arms
or lis country against Napoleon, profering
lin freedom as the reward Of his patriotism.
md that the French must have treated those
who responded 10 the summons as public enc l
MES. entitled 10 all the immunites OF that con
litionl
Our true position is this; Our country, as.
Iailed and threatened with destruction by des. /
,erate, formidable treason, possesses tho in.
tlienable right of sell-delense, and 10 tins end
luminous her children 10 tho field, proiering
hem such inducements as she deems lit aud
ust. To one, she gives bounty and wages; to
mother, wages aud freedom. To question her
light to do this is to dispute her right to exist.
md 10 hold Rebels right 10 the body aud
zones of Unionist paramount to the Unions
light to that Unonist's services in her dire en-
remity is n monstrosity Of impudence to which
Treason itself should bo unequal.
But there is a far lower ground than this
hat will answer tho purpose. Gen. Lee has
vice Invaded the loyal States, and has re-
,ruted his army therein 10 the extent oil MS
men, it is stated. enlisted with
him last month in IlagerstOwn alone. To say |
hat he may do this in accordance with the
avs of war, but that our Generals may not
10 the like in Mississippi and Arkansas. Is to
say that the Rebels may fight us with both
hands but we must counter with ono tied be-
hind ns That is not hearty loyalty which
maintains 30 unjust discrimination in favor
Df treason.
The Rebels practically make no such distinc
ton between free and slave blacks IA The
Borid sots up in their behalf. Their cavalry