New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-23

revival of the African Slave rsde-ready "a
jOin an alliance against the moral sepsa ~
fcankind-ready to promote the Secession If
the West from the East-ready Tor war upon
Now Hngand- TO make our poor shrdow
OF Government in Washington as much TIA
tool of the Southern Coniederacy as ever tbs
Cabinet of Charles III. was the tool Of m,
French monarch Political chalTerers, 10 gs
sacred name of Democracy, would sell them.
selves first and next their neighbOrs. Tbcrs
could be for us no permanence, 10 prosperity.
no private happiness, aud no public greatDes
1t may be said that We exaggerate this dan.
ger. We DO not thinE 80. For the political
power Of che Confederscy would be in tho
hands Of few men, who have been educated
to drtcst the Union, and who would be i'll sat-
islied with that partial success which eft even
q respectable fragment of the old Republic yet
entire Once fairly separated, they would be-
Gin to feel wants, the existence Of which they
do not now admit, and they would DO only too
re adv to avail themselves of those commercial
abilities which they have heretofore affected 10
despse. The great serpent Of Slavery would
reverse its trail. and look with longing eyes
toward North left at its mercy by tho dis.
sensions and the disafectiOn OF Its own chill
drep. Our social freedom would be perpetual
aggravaton of the bad temper and Jealousy
which are the nsepsrable adjuncts OF slave
holding. If we were prosperous. our prosper.
Il, would be IA continual rebuke of that sia
which has been called "the SUN of all villan-
les;' and if We were hOpeIessy weakened
by the Acknowledgement, our cities and our
farms would be the cheap prey Of every mad
partisan who chose to promote raid. Nor
should we be without hatred of Slavery. IN
tensiled By the woes of which it had been the
fruitful mother, and any effort to check or to
silence the expression Of that sentiment would
but complicate the public dilemma. We should
still have Pro.Savery Governors, Pro-Savery
Senators, Pro.Slavery Presidents, and Pro-
Slavery Representatives; and the very exist.
ence of determined and uncompromisng 0p-
position would drive them into dlsgraceful
diplomacies and ntrigues, not to be thought OK
without horror, If we speak sharply, We beg
the reader to believe that We speak sincerely.
We have not nor will we pretend to have,
any confidence in the public virtue OF thas
hungry pIace-hrnter, who pirates of the wrongs
of tho South and OF the sius OF the NORTH
who has fine words for the Richmond regime
oud foul words for his Own constitutional
rulers-who would restore the uulon By muz-
cling discussion and BY declaration Of the
sanctiy Of Iuy oluntary Servitude, with all the sol
emnities of an act of public iaith-who feels it to
be duty TO apologize for lis own loyalty and
for the treason OF the public enemy-who 10
half this sud half that and not wholly, body,
soul, aud spirit, the honest aud unquestiOning
deyotee of the Constitution and the Laws--who
wastes that indignation upon the foes of Slay-
cry which he should naturally bestow upon its
frends-who is as utterly without pity for the
poor and deGensecss as he is ignorant of that
simple law of labor which makes the prosperity
Of the employer dependent upon his Justice
who IT, IN short, creature of shams and OF
subterfnges, and participates in public affairs
without one ennObng sentiment or one beneV.
client aspiration. Why should this poor hybrid.
half monarchist and half democrat, pretend to
auy reverence for human rights, or be at all
coy about selling others, since be is so ready
10 sell himself, Let us see 10 il that the tri-
umph of the Secessonists does not cpea foe
him market.