New-York daily tribune., 1863-10-28


not yet in bcing-all their efforts tended to
make Lincoln's rule that was to be rs base, as
trucking, as false to its responsibilities and IFS
oath. as BucEanan's, with their tacit approval,
already was. And 50 wei! did they play their
part that, when their proceeding, reached Wash
ington, the traitors still lingering in Congress
to clutch their last dollar Of pay. said exult
ingly to Republican Members, ~ you nndsr-
take 10 coerce Us 10 remain in he Union, you riR
hare more fghiiag thGn you can ahend to at the
North"
We have repeatedly charged that IIoratio
Seymour, when JEFF. DAvS's Confederate Con-
stiution reached this State, pronounced it supe-
rior to .ha; framed by Washington, Franklin,
and Madison, under which we now live, and
urged that New-YO should secede from the
old Union and join the Confederacy. His or
gans DO not deny this, because they dare not
Woodward, who has just been beaten for Gov
crnor OF Pennsylvania. at that time declared
that if the Union was TO be dissolved, he
wanted the dividing line run North Of his
State. But one OF Seymour's strikers, with
an eye to the main chance, said to
one he reckoned symplthizcr-" Why
not join the Confcderacyl Jeii. Davis will
only be President six years, and Seymour will
certainly be his successor" The expulsion OF
New England, with perhaps some " fanatical'
North Western States, and the reconstruction
of our country on the Confederate basis, with
Slavery for It's fundamental law. and tho CON
quest of Cuba Mexico and Central America as
the basis of unlimited Cotton ard Sugar.grow-
ing. was the fond dream Of the affiliated North
ern and Southern traitors. only defeated by
the majestic uprising of The North in support ol
President Lincoln's stern resolve that the laws
should be executed. and the Union of our
fathers preserved. Mind you that, at this time,
there was no Emancipation policy to serve
as pretext for dsloyalty. The Republicans
were doing their very utmost, consistently with
honor and good faith. to avert the bursting
storm by profiers and protes;a,lons of non-nter-
vention with Slavery in the States. Had the
South chosen 10 behave herself. all that the
Constitution guarantees her would have been full
filed TO the letter. That Slavery has since been
assailed is the direct consequence Of the Rebel
lion. Mr. Lincoln was most reluctant 10 send an
armed force into any state; but the Rebellion
left him no alternative He was anxious 10
leave Slavery intact but Slavery plurglng into
treason. compelled him to ehooas between
Emancipation'And Dlsun.on.
The People 40 no, forget the dark days OF
last July; when, in the very agony Of our greet
contest. Horatio Seymour came 10 this city nnd
delivered a most elaborate. art'ul oraoIn'
whereof the cnlirc DIM ana purpose We're viz
ulcnt attack upon tie Federal Admin.''rsi'on.
in such shape AID spirit as 20 Jg'-iy ihe ready
inference that Jed. .Nay.ss rule could not be
other than an improvement on Abraham LIN
coln's Lees cannon wcre laundering upon
the Union lines a, Gettysburg a. seymour IN
New.York and Frank Pierce al Concord opened
upon their nauk. Locs failure nt Getty
burg postponed the outbreak aud insured the
defeat of the Rebel demonstration in our
city; bu, though the momentum Of the blow
was weakened. IT. animus remained. Scymours
desperate efforts 10 bully the Government into
a surrender Of tho Dgnii aud the Hholo-nlo riots,
fires, and murders which deeply disgTaccd our
Cts. were but diverse means tending 70 one
commons nd The triumph Of JctI DAVIS Wa
their mutual ami obvious contamination. Tor
the miscIeanis who burnt The Orphan Ass lum
and their distinguishcd " friend" have a com
mon conception Of the Union ~ something 10
be purchased by boundless seryiliiy to the Slave
Power on the part Of the Free State, to h.
requited in profits on the carrying aud hsndling
of Cotton. OF any just, equal, manly, truth
ful Union, they seem incapable Of forming an
idea.
NEXT TCEsDAy. our State will declare that
the drail-re-isting rioters, housc-burncrs and
negro.k.llers of our City are OF are not true c1-
ponents Of The patriotism and loyalty Of her
peoplc She will declare that the gIofecrlcs
the eambling-dcus, the brolhcls, the dance
houses and "baoL slums" Of this city shall or
shall not select her rulers and give lA~ to her
frecmrn. Let none doubt that her verdict viii
prove her worthy stl 70 cmbosom the battle
field. Of Saratoga and Plat,sburgh, bra let cvcry
one work a- though IL deyolycd specially on
himself 10 give completeness aud cmpha-s to
the country triumph
LEGAL TENDER.