New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-06
BURNSIDE-THE PREsIDENT-T1E
TRUE COURSE.


and loyal citizens share the relief and satisfac-
ton we feel in view of the Presidents course
in revoking the order Of Gen. Burnside, which
directs the suppression OF the issues Of 1h.
Chicago Times. And we further trust that the
jealous and impulsIye minority who would have
had Gen. Burnside's order sustained will, on
calm reflection, realize and admit that the
PRECEDENT has taken the wiser and safer course.
We cannot, indeed, harmonic the decision
OF the Executive in this case with his action
IN regard to Nalandigham. Journalists have
no special license to commit treason; and Val
andigham's sympathy with the Rebels was
neither more sudacous nor more mischievOus
than that Of The Times yet 1t is better to be-
Inconsistency right than consistently wrong
better TO be right to-day though wrong yc.ter-
day than wrong both days alike. Aud the
Presidents action in The Times case will doubt
less put stop 10 " fantastic tricks" OF the latest
Military pattern, and enable Gen. Burnside 10
devote some attention TO the armed Rebels in
his front az well as 10 those unarmed ones
who subject him TO Z" a fire in the rear" We
beg leave TO assure him that one severe chas.
tisement inflicted on the former will do more
than a hundred arrests and suppressions to
silence the latter OF render their sedition
harmless.
We have not doubted for many months that
the great body Of the leaders and managers
Of the Democratic party have thoroughly re-
solved that the War for the Union shall fail,
provided they can bring this calamity upon the
country without directly and papably fixing
the responsibility of the failure upon them
selves. No discerning man who will take up
ard read the successive speeches Of HOratio
Seymour, for example, beginning with that in
Tweddle Hall, Feb. lst 1861, wherein be in
sisted that coercion" must inevitably fail
that the States then threatening Rebellion
could not possibly be kept in the Union should
they resolve TO 60 Out-tbrough that OF 1.-THE
night before election, 1861, to those Of las!
Autumn wherein be tainted the Republicans
with the i'll success of the Union cause, and
then through bis Message ~ his recent letters
! in behalf Of T.. II. Seymour and Valland CHAM,
can fail TO realize that his heart was never for
one moment in the War for the Union. but
confidently predicted it would. And he is q
fair average sample Of his class. What does
the Democratic dedication Of Mcclellan mem
but that General who would drag the War
out at the largest coat to the least possible
purpose, 80 as TO force the Government to sue.
cumb to the Rebels and buy peace of them,
is the man after their hearth Who dOes
not know that the decision recently rendered
by three Democratic judges in our city, nuliy-
ing the Legal Tender provision of the Treasury
Loan Act, is just as truly blow struck for
jeff Davis % any ever delivered by Stonewall
Jackson1 Is anything to be gained by shutting
our eyes to such factsi
Now, then, so far from REFRESHING the dem.
constructions of the more frank and fearless
Copperheads, like Vallandgham, I. IL. Sey-
mour, the Woods, &C., We think the Admins
tratiOn and its friends should give them the
longest possible rope. 1t 10 true that they may
paralyze the Government and destroy the
country; but the danger from this quarter Is
far less than from the darker Vaccinations and
slyer maneuvers Of the CRATER politicians from
whose tolls they have broken loose. II the
People Of this country have not sufficient pa
triotsm and virtue to rally around and save
the Republic, 1t must 60 down. Lies and var.
nish will never save it: truth and courage may.
If tho Democratic party secs fit to follow
Wood and Vallandigham, the Union 10 past
surgery: and the responsibility Of it. over.
throw viii clearly rest where 1t belongs-on