New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-12

whole American PeOpio-iay 00Wn your or""
and return TO obedience to the Constitution
and laws: then, if you still think you have
grievances to redress, Congress will consider
them; and, if their redress is not within tho
power of that body, o National Convention
may be called. We are prepared to yield
anything to argument and Recommending to
violence and bloodshed. In q Government by
the People, Rebellion is Of all crimes most
wanton and faeitious."
Democratic loyalty, on the other hand, has
ten words Of reproach and vitnperation for the
Federal authorities honestly and earnestly
striving TO suppress the Rebellion to one for
the traitors in arms to uphold it. 1t magnifies
every venial error Of those authorities into o
fragrant crime: it treats every vigorous OK
excise of power as usurpation it makes no
Recount OF the inevitable and immense differ.
ence between u state Of peace and one OF
war: it has % word of rebuke for the sewers
of sedition and the lOud.mouthed champions of
treason in tho loyal States but is Mortified ut
he thought of their being imprisoned for
afrording papable aid and comfort to the
would.be destroyers of our country: it
vaunts its devotion to the Constitution, while
earning the pluudti of those who have repu'
dated it' authority and are lighting to sup
plant it by that framed ut Montgomery: it
acts in fine, so that when it holds. what it
styles Var Meeting, its eulogists over the
sea at once hail that gathering as the initia.
ton Of Northern movement for Peace based
on submission to the Southern demand for Dis
union. In short, if Northern Democratic 10y
atty of the Copperhsad variety is not in active
sympathy with Southern treason, then all its
outward manifestations are delusiye.
The defeat Of the Republic in her fearful strug.
gle with this gigantic Rebellion would be sore
disaster, not 10 our country alone, but to man.
kind. 1t would be triumph Of the Conserva-
tiyes and Reactionists, the despotisms and
hierarchies, over the champions of Liberty and
Progress throughout the Old World. II would
put back by more than fifteen degrees the
shadow on the dial Of Humanity. But the worst
form of discontinue does not inhere in tho LOSE
Of battles. nor even in the retrenchment OF boup-
daries. Let bat the spirit OF republicanIsm
remnin-its devotion to Liberty-ts shatred
of Oppres.iou-its sympathy with the abused and
down.trodden-nnd oil else may bc speedily re-
gained. But let the Rebellion triumph by bring
ing the Republic to its knees before it-by i'm
bung our people with its own spirit and mold
ing them to it, fundamental ideas-by trans
ferring tie capital and its sway from Richmond
TO Wa,hington-and the bright morning Of
Freedom on this continent, which has been
hailed with rapture by the sage' and heroes Of
all climes, will have been suddenly shrouded in
baleful aud enduring eclipse. Agcin't that
most calamitous Of oil possible results, the true
loyalty Of the country is struggling with high
hear. aud undaunted mien; but it derives no
aid, no cheer from tie Copperhtad species OF
Democratic loyalty. And II the Republic be
doomed to succTinb to her malignant foes, her
downfall will be more truly attributable to
this spurious and heartless loyalty than To open,
rcd.hnnded treason.