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New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03
A NEW DEVELOPMENT.

Tho electro psychologists OF The World have
made an effort and sprung a new experiment
upon their readers. We were too hasty in
attributlng to them courageous determine
ton to succeed in one object before attempt
ing another While the victims still struggle
against that course of treatment. which is
intended to prove them passive fools, they are
suddenly subjected to second process, show
ing them 20 be active knaves. Consistency,
we perceive is not essential to the theories
of the professors. 1t seems that the commu-
nifty whose abject ignomny can be demon
strated through bastss and bankruptcy, can
also be bamboozled, by other methods known
to tho {" science" into selfaccusations Of
satanic ferOcity. 1t must confess itself at once
the lion and the lamb; or to present the idea
of the professors more exactly, the hyena and
tho goose This 10 their duplicate scheme; and
We observe with edi6ca.ion that the ardor with
which they prosecute tho second branch bids
fair, if not interrupted. to take the shine away
from all their previous exertions
On Saturday last tho readers Of The World,
after having been we'll lectured in the usual
fashion. were oil at once directed to consider
themselves monsters. Before the shock Of SO
startling proposition could pass away they
were informed that they, and the balance Of the
people of the North, were encouraging their
Generals to deliberately organize the murder
of women and children" 10 this stunning
charge succeeded the no less emphatic one
that they were about to stimulate "savage
lust and massacre and rapine." To make con-
yiction sure among the weaker minds, they
were next run through a gauntlet Of historical
abuse. Some OF them were likeued to priests
of tho Aztecs drunk with blood.stained orgies
of the teocalli," the srudtion and profundity OF
which must have done good deal toward knock
ing away the lingering props of skepticsm.
Others were held up rs the exact moral coun.
tcrparts of "Charles the Bold. striding ankle
deep in the blood Of murdered men along the
uisles of the desecrated Cathedral of Dinant,
and calling out in fendsh see, Ha, by st.
George, good butchers are mine; good
butchery have We had this day." In addition
70 these pleasant images, they were also con.
fronted with those Of "the Sioux of the North.
West, reveling in the triumph of his hideOu'
craft" and strewing the fertile fields with
the cOrpses of outraged women and Of mangled
babes;" of "Carrere, counting severed heads
and broken hearts a. miser counts his gold. y
and others strung together in pungent profu.
sion, like onions on string. Aud when we
reflect upon tho immense scholarship of which
tho professors thus proved themselves masters.
we are more ready than over 70 admit their
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03
PEACE THROUGH WAR.

There are those who allege al Inconsistency
bet tween an earnest desire for Peace and the
advocacy Of q vigorous prosecution Of the War.
We are not of them. We wish pence were
possible without further hostilities, but it il
not. The preteHse Of the Rebels that they only
task to be let alone" is utterly false. They
ask impunity in trampling ont what remains oI
life in loyal East Tennessee; they ask that
West Virginia, which abhOrs them and wai
never under their sway. be given up to mill
tary execution at their hands, they ask tha,
Missouri in which they do not now fly flag,
be surrendered to their sway; they ask that
New-Mexico and Arizona, out of which they
have been driven by war; be given up to them
by peace; they ask that the numerous Unionists
of the South aud Southwest bo abandoned
to their tender mercies-part Of them to be
ensaved; others to be killed; all to be stripped 10
the skin by merciless confscation. Apart from
and beyond the mOmentous issue Of Union or
Disuuion, it 10 morally impossible that the
demands of the Rebel chiefs should be con-
ceded. We may be so beaten, routed, con-
quered, as to be forced to accept very hard
conditions; but while the Union armies hold
Norfolk, Winchester, Nashville, Memphis. Baton
Rouge. New.OreanS and menace at once
Charleston, Savannah, Vicksburg. Fredercks.
burg &C., nothing of the sort can be listened
to. Briefly, We are in the crisis OF great
war, and its issue must determine the destiny
Of our continent. Should the Shareholders Re
bellion triumph, it will mold to its fundamen-
tai conceptions, not part of the Old Union,
but the whole Of it. We shall have, as Dis.
raeli Justly foreshadOws, can America Of ar.
mles-an America Of diplomacy-an America Of
rival States aud Of maneuvering Cabinets-an
America OF frequent turbulence, and probably
OF frequent war" And We may fairly add
that it will be an America wherein half tho
earnings Of Labor must find their way some.
how into. the clutches Of the tax-gatherer.
Such is the future TO avert which tho loyal
millions of our countrymcn are now strugplipg.
Ours is inevitably great war-one that ta,es
the energies, the resources, and tho patriotism
of our people-but it ought not to be q long
one. Miscalcuations and bunders Of many
kinds, but especially the grand mistake Of con.
...SS t4s s9a!so, n. direction Of 0T 9g~ss
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03
MIR, CONWAY.

We print on another page card from the
Hon. MARTIN +. CONWAY ofKansss. defend.
ing himself from mputations which we have
not made. we stated in noting that he was
the only Republican who voted against the
National Militia bill, that be had separated
from bis Republican brethren, and been EN-.
phatically denounced therefor by the Republi-
can Legislature Of his State. We do not see
that Mr. Conway even attempts to coutrovert
these assertions. He argues, indeed. that he
has kept due on in the Republican track,
while the rest of the party or Of it's Reprcsen.
tatives in Congress, have wandered away from
it. That may or may not be- but it is not a
point in controversy between US and Mr.. &.
We have not intended 10 judge between hinl
and the great body of the party with regard
to the prosecution and tendency Of the War.
Let every one examine and judge for himself.
Mr.. Conway seems TO think We have imputed
to bim a grave oiIense iahatng that he stood
opposed on most War questions TO the great
mass of lis party. That vas not our inten-
ton. We often differ with most Of our poti.
cal friends. aud frankly nyow that difference;
but they are nowise responsible for our views,
nor we for theirs. At the birth of Secession,
we wished to try in good faith the experiment
of proiTering TO every dsafected State the
fullest liberty 10 leave the Union if a majority
of her own people, after hearing argument and
taking time for study and deliberation, should
decide to do so. Wo still think that proifer
might wisely have been made; yet it is none
the less true that the great mass of tho Re.
publcsns, and of all parties 10 tho Free
States, decidedly condemned it. Would wo bo
justified, then, in taking ofTcnse at an intima.
tion that our views on that point were not
those Of the Republican party' Certainly not.
Mr.. Conway defines his own position in our
columns to-day. We have no wish to contro-
vert it. All we have to say ia that his views
Of National affairs differ widely from ours, and
(if posSible) more widely from those Of the
great mass Of the Republicans. And there we
stOp.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

to open shame. To tonder him municipal honors,
would place this loyal city in false position. ano
could not fail am convinced, to shook the pstrio'it
sentiments of vast majority of its people. in''ea'
of censurng the Government for its conduc' In Tue
case of Fitz John Porter, think we should awa''
i, our highest praise and ask it to mete out the same
eyeu.baudsd Justice 70 ell officers guilty OF ike
offenses.'
In the Board of Counoilmen yesterday, the TaS
Levy for tho present year was referred TO the FL
nance Committee The Harlem Railroad Company
was directed to remove all the rails, switches, &C..
laid down by them in the city without the sanction
of the Common Council. The Board concurred 10
purchase new steam fre-engine for Engine Com
pany No. 13, at the sum of $500.
The Board Of Aldermen yesterday made up the
Tax Levy for 1863, after session Of hours. Inc
amount figures up $6,307, ,SlS. The Counclmeh III
their action thereon will probably add few 'hou-
sand more to the budget. A veto message came In
from the Mayor, concerning the Fi,z John Porter
resolution, but no action was taken thereon.
"A bill is regularly reported from the Committee
on Cities of the State Assembly to pay the members
Of the New-York Common Council for the present
year $lO2 500 by way of salary. This is =, 500
year, or about so week for each Of them. Those
who cannot Sign their names to the receipts will be
graciously permitted to make their marks.
The President has called special session Of the
Senate to meet at noon the 4th inst. The priDcl
pal busoess will be the consideration Of military
nominations.
Some important amendments to the Tariff will
be reported TO the House to-day. They will be
found among our special Washington dispatches.
The steamship Kedar, from Liverpool Feb. 10
arrived here yesterday, with ono day later news
Her political news is Of no importance.
The Supervisors yesterday passed the County
tax levy over the Mayors veto.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

"A dispatch from Halifax states that on the l2tf
Of February in lat. 2io long, 65o, tho Rebel pirate
Florida captured and burned the ship Jacob Bell
bound from China for New-York. The Jacob Bel
had 1000 chests of tea on board. Her passengers
and Grew were transferred to a Danish vessel, and
arrived at St. Thomas she 10Th. The United
States steamer Alabama left st. Thomas on the 10th,
In search of the Florida. The steamer Columbia ran
the blockade at Wilmington, N. c., and arrived at
St. George with a cargo of cotton and tobacco.
"A Union Club has just been formed in Boston,
Edward Everett presiding. They have bought the
Abbott Lawrence mansion, at cost OF S5O, 700, for
their headquarters. The object of the organization
IL the unwsvering support of the Government in
putting down the rebellion.
Admiral Porter reports the capture by the Rebels
Of the gunboat Indianola He says bis Instructions
were disobeyed, and hence the disaster.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

chances of turning tho brains Of their sebls,
victims. In electro psychology schOlarshiD
goes . great way. .sfo.tA
As lockers on, we shall be equally amuscd
whether they succeed in befooling harmless
few. or whether they fail entirely. The audi.
ences at the regular old.fashioned exhibition,
always laughed as loudly at tho di..
com6ture of the operators as at the qus,,
freaks Of the subjects. When a subject Va.
ungovernably stubborn, the fun was most fun.
Gus. The operator would shout, fling up biz
arms, and pile PeliOn upon Ossa of argument
to reduce the fractions intellect to submission.
Sometimes he triumphed, sometimes not; but
the audience always went into commissions Of
glee over the spectacle. The same effect i
produced by the last loud comic scream of Th
WorM professors, the object of which is h
clinch the previous propositions BY the "
pecially appalling ono that the Northern people
are at the point of surrenderiug tender 10.
fancy and helpless age and the appealing love.
illness of woman to q carnival of maddsneA
ignorance and loosened lust Of blood" Not
being ourselves electro psychologists we cannot
Judge, as experts, of the probable effects of al
this; but on general principles we are inclined
to think the experiment is little too bold.
With every Difference to The Worlds ovor.
whelming erudition, and to its unlimited com.
mand of persuasive figures Of speech. we are
afraid it has overstepped the limits of electro
possibility. The audiences are
10 laugh at it.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03


the great truths which underlie our political
fabric, no hostility to the monstrous errors
and evils which have eliminated in the Slave.
holders Rebellion, have thus for prevented Oui
decisive success. No stream can rise higher
than its fountain; and General or Commodore
who does not heartily wish the Rebellion over.
thrown will accomplish very little against it,
though be had the genius of Napoleon or
Nelson The simple fact that not one Of our
successive Generals.in Chief-ScOtt, Mcclellan
or Halleck-has ever yet publicly expressed
his adherence of the Rebellion US a Aagrant
crime against Liberty, Humanity. and Civiiza.
tion-(as President Lincoln 30 truly characterzes
it in his reply to the letter of the Working
Men of Manchester)- explains our past re-
verses. To succeed in war. it is requisite that
your leaders be terribly in earnest and pro-
foundly impressed with the essential righteous.
moss of the cause they uphold. An army falls
like thunderbOlt on its enemies only when
welded by one who feels that he is an instru-
ment of Divine justice for the redress of enor-
nous wrong. 1t was not England, but Puritan
ism and Cromwell that dethroned and behoaded
Charles i.
The passage of the National Militia and FL
nance bills have placed the means Of overcom-
ing the Rebellion fairly within the reach of the
President and his Cabinet. What is still need
ed is that those means be promptly made avail.
able, skillfully welded, and vigorously applied.
The Rebellion could have been crushed far
more easily in 1861 than in 1862: it can be
discounted with less effort and at less cost in
1863 than in 1864. And all the pompous gas.
conade about "dying in the last ditch" &c,
is sheer nonsense, as is the cOunter-cry that
We will "neyer give up the Union" If we
get well whipped in few great BATTLES We
shall hare to give it up; and if the Rebels are
handsomely Aogged in Virginia and on the
Mississippi, they will find their last ditch"
good deal handler than they have supposed it.
All their gas about taking to the swamps, the
mountains, and maintaining a guerrilla contest
for years should their regular armies be rout-
ed ignores the vital fact that they are sighting for
Slavery, and that six months of guerrilla war
fare would put an end to this SO the talk on
our side Of making this ten years war if ne
cessary, fighting to the last man, &C.. over
looks such vital facts as the enormously increased
expensveness Of modern warfare, the rapid
waste and destruction of steamboats,, railway
machinery and rolling stock. in such struggle
as ours, the multiplication Of privateers aud the
impatiencs Of Foreign Powers, in view of the
arrangement Of their industry and the famish-
ing dscontent Of their laborers. Better call out
One Million Men at once than allow this War
to run into another year. We trust that the
next Fourth of July will enable US to see
clearly to the end Of il.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03
THE TIMES ON OFFICIAL DIS.
PATCHES.

The Times is more ingenious than ingeuuoua
We have not complained that it made no effort
to ascertain the truth or falseho0d of the steJ
of our correspondent. On that matter we fed
little concern. What we did complain of wM
its assumption that the denial which it received
from Washington OH quite another point con.
yicted us of error on o statement for which
we were not responsible, and in regard to
which it had made no inquiry. So it d
equally unfair in its criticism upon the term
anonymous" II applied rebuke Of ours
aimed at the writer's of anonymous and abu.
sive private letters to the writer Of public
communication whose name is known TO us,
and who is responsible for what be says but
merely follows q common custom In using Q
fictitious instead of his OWN signature.
But all this has nothing to do with the main
question under discussion. The first assertion
of The Times was that Secretary Of State
never sent abroad any dispatches that were
not first submitted to the President The ~
sertion was entirely uncalled for by anything
we had said, was intended to impute an igco'
ranc TO us which, if it existed at all, was not
ours but that of correspondent, which In
PEELED US, in sheer self.defense, to reply that
we believed it to be untrue, inasmuch as such
dispatches had been sent by the present head
of the State Department. The second assertion
of The Times was that no such dispatches had
been sent, except those "merely formal and
technical" In character; and what is meant by
those it explains. To which our reply is that
the dispatches we refer to are not Of that sort.
but that they involved the assertion Of
vital principles in the conduct Of tho
war" Thereupon The Times ngan shifts
its ground, and now asserts that il
denial refers to dispatches "prce''y
to speak the sentiments Of tho President" Thlh
we submit, is very different thing from W
dispatches at all, or no dispatches except those
" exclusively formal and technical" In tho
mean time we have the statement from Wash.
ington that certain Dispatch published by u
Yesterday morning. was first read to tho Pred
dent, according to the testimony Of eight
Senators, from the printed volume. 1t will not
be assumed, we presume, that this is no dis
patch at all; nor that it is exclusively formal
aud technical" Will the ground be taken that
il does not " assume to speak the sentiments d
the President" But'wero they not put forth
as expressing the sentiments Of the Government
this, as we take it. is the vital question at issue
If, however, the Senators speak truth our fr''
assertion is confirmed. We leave The 1im@
to settle the question of veracity it has raised,
or to get out of it as it best can by maintain
ing either ono of its three propositions.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03
TREASON IN INDIANA.

The Rebel Democracy in Indiana is doing
its best to precipitate an open conflict with
tho General Government. The Northwestern
Conspiracy, unmasked and defeated in Illinois,
still has hope of success in Indiana. Whom
the scheme for depriying Gov. Morton Of con-
troll over the State militia, by the establishment
of Military Board, was once rejected in
Democratic caucus it was supposed that the
Rebel managers had failed to get control OF
the party machinery. But they have renewed
the effort with better success, and the loyal
minority OF the Legislature has no other re-
source than to withdraw from the capitol and
leave it without quorum.
The bill in its present shape is worse than
before. 1t substantially gives tho control of
the militia into the hands Of justices of the
peace. We had private advices yesterday that
the Democrats were going on with the form
of q legislative session, and, quorum or no
quorum, would press the bill to its passnge.
The Republicans were equally determined not
to yield A Dispatch from Cincinnati repre-.
sents that the session is broken up and all
legislation at an end. If this be correct the
Republicans have carried their point, and in
Indiana, as in Illinois, their courage and de.
cision have saved the State to the Govern
ment
At the time when tho Democracy first re.
jected the Military Board scheme, they found
themselves obliged by outside pressure to pro-
coed cautiously. Tho Illinois failure. tho out
spe.eg loyalty Qf the srny, sld ths Ysat Of
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

We print in other columns report Of the
speech of Gov. Andrew johnson Of Tennessee,
and the resolutions adopted at the immense
War meeting held on Feb. 26 in the capital Of
Iudiaua. Gov. johnson defines his position in
support of the Administration in unequivocal
terms. 1t has been understood that it was
largely owing to his efforts that Tennessee was
excepted by the President from the Proclnma
tion of Emancipation. Be that as 1t may,
Gov johnson now declares that in view oi
the efforts making to divide the North the time
has arrived to strike decisive blow at Sav-
cry. for that institution, stronger than the
Government, must 90 down in order that the
Government may live. The resolutions adopted
pledge the State TO q cordial support of the
Administration in all its measures for the sup
preston of the Rebellion.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

We print on the second page Mayor OPP
dykes veto of the Fitz.John Porter resolu-
tons, which was sent yesterday to tho Alder
men, who neither heard it read nor took any
action on the subject. If the men who voted
for these resolutions have any sense OF shame,
they cannot but shrink from the Mayors
scathing exposure of their motives and spirit.
lie reviews, also, with cearness and point,
some of the most damaging testimony on which
Porter was cOhvicted--testimony which brands
him as guilty of cowardice, insubOrdination,
and disloyalty--decares bis approval of the
finding Of the Court Martial, and trusts that
the Aldermen when they adopted these resolu'
tions Of compliment to Porter and abuse OF
the Government could not have known the
character of his oienses aud the unanswerable
proof Of his guilt.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

rection. Galveston, Sabine Pass, tho I'm
checked ravages of the 1890" and the Oreto,
and now the loss Of our gunboats on tho mil.
Mississippi-if there be not treason as well as
cowardice and heedlessness at the bottom Of
this string Of shameful disasters, what can
account for them I Can this be the Navy that
once gloried in the achievements of Decatur,
q Porter and Perry7
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

Gen. FRANZ slGEL was in our Office ye''','
day. lie is looking well and hardy-~a..
more so than he did some Ave years ago wn0.
residing in our city. He feels hopoia' sO,a. s',.
the future, being satisfied that the sna o. s. sI
.ccur,sd Rebellion will BE- such as will deis''
the hearts of the lovers Of Frsedom
Humanity throughout the world.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

az the Proclamation of Emancipation, as Tas
TaIBuyv now uterprsts IT, confeis freedom only on s'
ecapng the Slave STATES and not rournils wh ns
'"' N'N''''' [World
Although the above question misrepre'enN
our statement whereon it is founded, and when
The Horld is careful not to copy, We can an
swer it by single word-MIssoURi. we ~
not deny the right of Missouri to reestaoI'n
and reinyigorate Slavery after the close ol 'a'
present strugge-what We affirm i'' thaI $40
will not desire to do so. Let the ProclamauOu
of Freedom and its aduncts be upheld by 'n'
American People, aud Missouri as loyal s'a''
will soon number her Slavery among the 'nns'
that are not and never should have been.
The Proclamation of Freedom, being uPao'"
and enforced as we would have It, viii Pus ~
end to Slavery wherever the Union banner "
yictoriously displayed; and the scourse, on0'
abated, never returns. A Christian country
quite as likely to return TO idolatry as d f'"
State to reestablish Slavery.
We certainly did not suppose it disputed '''.
tho laws OF each State govern the cond'''Vu v
the People of that State 90 long as she ioy'"
and peacefully fulflls her Federal ool's~'o''
When she resolves to crush madly from u0.
sphere" another law claims precedehco-''''
OF National integrity. or that OF Mh'''..
necessity" Maryland illustrates the 'o''n''
of these; Louisiana is rapidly quaiiiy'nS ''
self to illustrate the latter.
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

We print on another page the law for the
enrolment and calling out Of the National
Forces, as finally adopted. by the Senate's
concurrence, on Saturday night 1t now wants
only the sisnature of the President to be
periect
New-York daily tribune., 1863-03-03

az the Proclamation of Emancipation, as THS
TaIBuyv now nterprsts IT, confeis freedom only on s's
.eapng out Slave States and no, retaining why hs
tho Radicals considered IL Of such supreme mpotsaye