New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-14


or 20 ont of it sIose. We all remomber the Border
State Proposition upon tue adoption Of which, oy
Congress Rebellion. from the Mississippi to the
Atlantic. would have been bounded by the southern
lines Of Tennessee and North Carolina. with
modification which tho Border State representatives
offered TO Hccept, We advocated that compromvse'
And for this. also, We were severely denounced.
In tho "Peace Congress-" where the Legislature
honored us with sea, which we resigned in favor
of distinguished citizen, tho BorderState Propo'
,aion" was again rejected, and consequently Two
States. majority Of whose citizens yesfned TO re-
main in the Union, we're Lost. With North Carolina
and Tennessee in the Union Virginia could not have
gone out Of it. We Should therefore, instead OF
sacrificing hundreds of thousands Of lives and bund
rsds of millions Of treasure in North Carolina, Vr'
Rinia, Tennessee, aud Kentucky. have reserved
those troops and that treasure to crush out Rebellion
in the Cotton States.
The Rebellion--as wantOn and wicked a. any that
stains the pages Of hstory-tbus embracing more
States than was necessary-has been nearly two
years in progress, with what Of success and
with what promise Of q termination we can Judge,
one as well another. Its lessons teach us that II
requires all the strength OF a united North 70 pro-
serve the Union and uphold the Government. we
had at the commencement OF the war, united
North. The elimination Of treason, 10 its attack on
Fort Sumter, minded blaze Of Indignant patriotism
over tho whole Moth, East, and West. All merely
partisan feeling WAS merged in higher and nober
impulses All good and true men, ia imitation Of
their ancestors at Concord aud Lexington, in l776,
rushed to arms, OF contributed money. Then we
were, in the language Of Mr.. Jefferson, all Rcpub-
licans-alI Federalists," or in other language all
Repubcuns--all Democrats" For the first year
the war had, with few exceptions, the hearty cup.
port of both and all political parties. 1t was prose-
cuted earnestly, but with indifferent success-with
more heart THAI bead-more zeal than knowledge.
We had gallant troops commanded by incapable
Generals, made so, probably, by newspaper and
other interference. At any rate tho illsucceso OF
our armies caused popular inpationce Of which those
whose ultra AnlSayery views enabled the Secession
leaders to mass the sentiment Of the Cotton States,
awaited themselves to impart an Abolition character
to the war.
The evidence before us-in the rivers Of blood shed
and the millions OF treasure expeuded-that the pres
ervation Of our Union aud Government; demand the
best and united energies and efforts Of the whole
people, 10 valueless. What all united have 10 fur
failed to accomplish, tho abolition chief, and journals
insist upon undertaking as a party. They demand
that the war sLa be prosecuted under their auspices
and for their purposes. Meme opinions on the Slavery
question must be heightened shortened, in accord
ance with Procustesn example.
The,e impraelicable, one-ldea lecturers and jour.
palists aided by the unfortunate " On TO Richmond"
military disasters, have already Withdrawn New
York, New-Jersey, ONO, Indiana and Illinois from
the political support Of the Administration. Too
many Of the Democratic leaders in these states--
especially in Ohio aud Indana-are Of the yallan.
dig Cham school This false, di loyal man, with shame
be il confessed. found sympathiring friends to well
come and feast him at Secession hotel in the City Of
New.York Sliil the masses Of the Democracy. and
most Of their prominent men, IRE truly devoted 10 the
Union and remain willing to contribute their money
and peril their lives TO sustain the Government But
in this there 10 no Eerit, unless they adopt the Ans,
Slavery Platform, and acceptthe dogmas Of THg NV
YoRK TRIBUNE.
win those of our old Wing friends now so i'm
patient WITH and differing 80 widely from us, turn
their minds few years backward and remember
what they hen thought Of nboltioni and what its
course snd action wasl Was il not usrrow, per-
verse and miscbeyon,i Did il not exert vicious
aud nalign political influence Did not for twenty
years a, oar elections, State and National play
into the bands Of Pro-slavery Democ.ats1 While
we were laboring for the right, doing all we could
for the Union aud the country, were We not en-
baIrasred and thwartcd by this factous, imprsctc.
able Third Partyi" Who were its leaders them
Messrs. Garrison, Phillips srmner, Gerrit Smith,
etc. etc. Did trust to their Judgment, or follow
their lead or vote with them tbenl Are no, the
same men, with Mr.. Greeley, fully developed, as u
disciple, the abolition leaders now Have Mey
grown wiser, or is Your own intellect dwarfed, or
has your common seuse collapsed If the North re-
eced abolition as merely political test, will it be
accepted when the lives of our sons aud brothers
and the preservation Of the country arc involved
II we refused 10 follow "one-idea men" when il
cos, us only votes shall commit all that is sacred
aud precious to their leadership
We ask these questions now in view Of the con-
certed elcrt to BARROW this mighty struggle for
national existence down 10 IN abolition crusade.
We AK them, in the hope Of arrestng popular
delason, which j, drawing tens Of thousands Of
patriotic, devoted men into vortex which bodies
inevitable ruin and destruction TO themselves aud
their country. We ask then, az this moment, in
view of the studied attempt to classify all who do
no, work up TO their standard, as enemies And,
finally, we ask earnestly whether the experience
Of the first year and half Of war, with all parties
heartily engaged in it, jusiics the hope that tho
Rebellion can DO crushed and tho Union preserved
with T. united South aud a divided North
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XyXvEgth CONGEEsS-Third Session.