New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-22

save the Union if yOu assail Slavery. thereby
inevitably alternating the Border State, ?"
But when the Border States came to speak
for themselves. they emphatically rcbuked this
cool assumption. Maryland gave in III large
majority for the Unconditional Union ticket,
electing by the heaviest vote she ever gave TO
any man, Governor who has consistently
eyinced q controlling anxiety to save the Union,
but no particular soctude for de preservation
of Slavery. he gave an early and firm support
to the Presidents plan Of Compensated Eman-
cipation, which, had the then Representatives
Of MARYLAND and the other States seen ut to
support it, would have struck more damaging
and conclusive blow to the Rebellion than any
Union victory yet achieved. Some OF those
escntatiyes-including John :. Phelps OF
Missouri, John W. Menzies Of Kentucky, and
c. l.. L. Lcary of Maryland-wili he out Of the
next Congress, when they would have been IN
IL had they sustained the Presidents recom-
incubation. They meant TO be on the siroag
side; but they failed TO comprehend the rapid
march of Opinion and were lc. behind by lis
rc,istloss progress.
West Virginia spu.ned the traitor and their
rebellion. as Muscoe X. II. Garnet, Rebel
Con glessman from near Richmond, privately
wrote Prescott OF :. C.. that she would, ten
years before And whyi "She has Two Humid
red and Fifty Thousand inhabitants, Of whom
but mere fraction are slaves: how can she be
expected to plunge into Pro-slayery Rebel
lion p" was in substance Gamctt's summing up
of her case And the result has demonstrated
his sagacity and clear appreciation Of the vital
point involved West Virginia, east oil by the
mad plunge of old Virginia into treason. has
peacefully and naturally constituted herself a
LOYAL Free State a. detcrminedly hostile 10 the
anima,ing soul of the Rebellion as to its insight
ly carcass.
Missouri began the struggle with Pro-slayery
rulers, Pro-sayery traditions, Shareholders
everywhere regarded as ker leaders of opinion
and directors OF parties and Pro-slayeTy
Press. Her rulers and leaders naturally bios
somed into Rebels, and the masses refused to
follow them. A Military force organized by her
political chiefs in aid of the Rebellion, was sur
prsed and routed by one quietly raised by her
loyal commoners. Army after army has since
been raised on either side; many conflicts have
redeemed her so.l with lEaternal blood; while
the morc savage and dcsolatug raids OF count
less guerrillas who silently gather By night
perpctratc outrage and murder on an unsus-
.t..lf. .rtI bts IA.
sunk into tho earth, leaving no trace OF their
households, have desolaicd Whole Counties and
wasted thousands Of precious lives. Missouri
has hal a terrible experience OF the nature and
impulse Of the Rebellion; and that experience
has convinced a large majority Of her people
that Slavery must die. Thousands Of them cam
not read; they have little intercourse with
people outside Of their own borders; but they
sce that their Pro-slavcry nciehbors, whether
shareholders or not, are atonce traitors and assas-
sins. and that suiliccs them. VI ..s0ur amazed
and electrified the country la3 Fall, cleciing on
Auii.S,aycry Legislature and delegation to Con-
grcss and her Pro-Slaycry Convention and
State officers, chosen the year before, admit that
the People are against them By hastily rc-as-
sembling the delegates, and passing an oFdi-
nance Of prospective gradual Emancipation.
The Ordinance may be Il sham and a cheat, a.
the Radicals pronounce il; but the apprchcn-
sion that led is supporters 10 pass any Ordi-
nance Of Emancipation at all is very real aud
wcll-iounded. The People OF Missouri. are fixed
in their resolve 10 be speedily rid Of the soourge;
50 the deiunct politicians whom they have de-
serted, make haste to pass an ordinance which
preserves Slavery as long as possible under the
prcteuse Of aboishing il. For this measure,
shareholders have voted and olectioncercd who
would have lynched any man who dared propose
and advocate it three short years ago.
II Kentucky, the evidence Of progress are
less striking because her leading politicians and
Their journalistic orlce3 have confpired to sup
press it, Here as in Missouri, the stronghods
of Slavery and the stroughOlds OF Rebellion are
identical; and, while some great shareholders
are Unionists, there is not Il negrO-tTader III
either who is not an inyeteratc Rebel, and gen.
orally a fighting one. The devotces OF Slavery
are the master spirits Of Treason. The loyal
People note the coincidence-in fact, it's forced
upon their attention by every days events
and they silently resolve that Rebellion and its
main impulse shall die common DEATH In
Tennessee, Loyalty ard Liberty walk practi-
cally hand in hand, aud are making rapid head
way. In Kentucky, Slavery gags the Press,
packs tie State Conventions and Committees,
and insists on making both platforms and
running both tickets; but the People grow res-
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