New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-18
WHAT LOYALTY REQUIRES.

Our Country 10 now tue arena Oh D torrloie,
desolating Civil War, which threatens it with
dissolution.
That War is the fruit Of conspiracy OF
thirty years standing, which first made hostil-
ity to, Protective Duties its prete1t, but has
since {as Gen. Jackson then predicted) found
its ament in "the Negro or Slavery question. "
Hate of Negroes and devotion to Slavery as the
the only true and solid base of the social fabric
are the avowed corner-stones Of the Southern
Rebellion, while loathing Of republican liberty
and q longing for martial, aristocratic en-
pre, are its profounder impulses.
If the Rebellion triumphs, the Republic falls.
Divided, humbled, loaded with debt, it's largest
and most fertile natural division cut OIL from
direct access to the ocean, with length out
of all proportion to its breadth, with its finances
disordered by thousand leagues OF smuggling
frontier. and its INSTRUMENTATION liable to
be interrupted during the first week OF HOSTILE
ties with its immediate and Jealous rival, the
Union must at once renounce Its place among
the Great Powers, and not expect nor attempt
for at least generation to regain 1t.
The Rebels profess to want Peace, but only
such Peace as would disgrace as well as rum
us. They pretend to only wish TO be "let
alone;" but they practically explain this to
mean-" Give up to us, not only oil that ever
seemed to adhere to US, but Missouri, Kentucky,
East Tennessee, and West Virginia also, which
never did; let us plumber and butcher oil their
Cnonists, as we have already done those OF
tho eleven States below them, and then there
will be peace" Submission TO any terms they
have ever proposed or suggested is utterly out
of the question.
There is no question on our side of accept
ing this or that compromise, or making such
or such concessions. The Rebels spurn all
compromises, and want no concessions. They
will have nothing short Of DisuniOn, with the
compulsory subsection to their cruel sway OF
millions of loyal Unionsts who utterly abhor
them. lie Who now talks Of stopping the
War by concessions and compromises is de-
ceiyer aud public enemy.
We most an1iously desire Peace. Few, if
apy. of those who call themselves Peace men
are half SO anxious for i. as we are Our
only indispensable requirements are that il
leave us Liberty and our Country. Are these
too much
But Peace is not to be achieved by break.
ing down the power of our Government to
resist the assaults of Armed Treason. On the
contrary, that is the way to protracted War
and National ensavement. They who threaten
to resist the Enrichment and Draft of our
National Militia in effect threaten TO surrender
the Nation to its enemies and thus perpetuate
the War.
"But don't like the way the War has
been conducted"
Nor do we. 1t has been lame, sloucby, nerve
ess, on the side of the Union. The traitors
have been permitted to hang White and en-.
slave or shoot Black Unionists whom they
from time TO time have captured, without re.
taation-almost without remonstrance. The
Incidence and lack OF purpose which charac-
terized the first few months Of the struggle on
our side were thoroughly disgracefu. The
fighting of the battle of Bull Run with one-thrd
Of the men We that moment had on the waters
of the Potomac against all that the Rebels
could rake and scrape, evinced the grossest
E incapacity, if not treason, in whOmsoever dl.
@ rected it. Intrusting the command of armies,
y attachments or posts, to officers whose hearts
/ are more with the Rebels than the Unionists-
whose hight Of ambition plainly is to tire on,
/ and Dragon the loyal into a shameful
compromise with the Rebes-who car
, make speeches from State to State an
city to city without once saying in substance
-"Americans stand by your Government
Rally to the flag Of your country Help YOU
brethren already in the field TO put down thi'
accursed Rebellion us utterly inexcusable
If you come to grumbling at the slack way il
which the Union War has been prosecuted
we can beat you and give you odds. Bu
grumbling, though well in its place, is no
sufficient. We have a Country to save, O
Rebellion to crush, a struggle to finish; and tht
only way to Peace lies through energetic
War. We wish it were otherwise, but it i
as it is. Unless we are willing to let Treason
take its pick Of our States, and kick the
residue aside as unworthy to be admitted into
its pirate COntedcracy, we must fight on. AND
the more promptly and resoutey we go ill.,
the sooner and safer we shall get through.
Men and brethren think of these things
The Rebels are penniless, desperate, iamish
ing. They are kept alive by hopes based on
Foreign Intervention and COpperhead sedltion.
They are tod that the Free States are on the
point Of upsetting the UniuFs Government, and
they are buoyed up by that illusion. Every