New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-14
that "the AbOlitionists," 1.-THE

comprphcndcd that 1.-THE AbOtlOnists, ue
nicper-,hicyes," were to be its objects and We
tins. II did not require much capacity to draw
tho inference that if the masters were gong TO
fight the Abolitionists, the discontinue o. thosc
masters might open the doors Of their prison.
house to the slaves.
Yet all these classes together made up one
compact whole, whereof the slaycholdlng caste
and its intellectual scrviiors had complete mas
terry and control. What matters it that nan
the crew and third of the passengers ol n
great steamship speeding from New-fork TO
Aspinwall would like to stop by the way at iia-
yana. if the owner, the captain the mate, plot
ard engineers, are united in the determination
that she shall call only at Key West'
The disintegation of this formidable array Is
the primary and vital condition OF the over
throw of its leaders and their schemes. Lett
compact and brstling at all points with bayo-
nets pointing ou,ward-a political hedgehog-it
might defy ;he world in arms. Dsorganlzcd
and disaYanged, it becomes assallablc and I'M
potent.
We know that this view of the case was pre-
scntcd to and considered in advance by the To-
mentors of the Rebellion. "What if the Fed
cra Government should proclaim Emancpa-
ton z" they Were repeatedly asked. 1--WE have
friends in the North who will never permit IT,
was their confident answer
But Gen. Fremont first, Congress next and
President Lincoln aiterward-each improving
on what had gone bciore-spokc the decisive
words which gave freedom to the slaves oi
Rebels. Thcnccforward, the Rebellion was
doomed. The Union cause has now ardent
wcll-wshers on every plantation, IN every
slaye.hut in America And fifty thousand OF
them are already praying for il with Springfield
muske,s and saber bayoneis, while fifty thou
sand more serve the Union as teamster',
pioneers, brdge-builder' scouts, DC. And "thc
CRY is still, They Gomez
But the Poor Whites" have in good part
been thus far retained in the service OF the
Rebellion by unspeakably gigantic lying They
have been told that our soldiers were ordered 10
give no quarter-that our prisoners were sys-
tematically starved and frozen to death-that
they were to be eItermina,cd if the Unonisis
prevailed their families driven out to freeze,
and all their property coniiscated by ana
divided among the inhuman yictors. Many
have been driven into the Rebel ranks, while
tens Of thousands are still kept there, by these
calumnies. JEFF. Davis's recent Message gives
them all the coun,cnance and backing that that
eminen, villain dare, with the worlds scorn in
VIVID prospect, set forth. Bragg's General
Order before his recent defeat in front of Chat
,anoogs tried hard-that is. lied hard-to make
bis soldiers believe that, if captured, no mercy
would be shown them.
Now, President Lincoln's new Proclamation
Of Amnesty b'sects inc ,vusn Aire'i-oooen'
a nes Missis,ippi right through the yitals Of the
Rebellion. A. the slaves were supplied. at the
opening of I5GJ. with sufficient and palpable
reason for wishing their Rebel masters defeated,
% the L" Poor Whites, and all the non-saye-
holding population of the Rebel States, are now
assured that their interest their safety, their
happiness, impcratiycly demand the immediate
restoration OF National unity and peace. Hence
tn Importance. tho timclincss, aud the morally
certain efficiency. of that grand measure OF con.
ciliat on. which folatcs the Shareholders aud
their parasites a. the only caste Interested in up
holding the Rebellion.