New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-12
ME DIATEON.


naming in controversy.
|. There has been hanging over us, amos
from the outset of our great struggle.
menace of Foreign Intervention, and that il
an unfriendly spirit. We say unfrendly
because the Ministers and the journals of tn,
Great Powers from which it was expected
have so acted and spoken rs to eyincc gen
eral sympathy with the SlavehOlding Rebels
The great industrial and commercial interest
Of Western Europe, suffering severely from thu
existence aud the gigantic, ever-ircreasint
dimensions Of our Civil War, have beer
naturally and reasonably anxious that this Wal
should come TO an end-tbat some limit should
be fixed or found to its duration. And, as
the Rebels have steadfastly courted Foreign
Intervcntion-hsve ostentatiOusly appealed to
the Judgment and the interest OF Europe for
an early termination of our desolatDg contest,
while our side has as resolutely repealed such
intervention-it is not to be disguised that the
Rebels have had us nj a disadvantage and
have made progress in Old World good opinion.
And in an age wherein moral as well as
material forces are effective in every such con
test. this advantage could not fail to tell.
H. We are either about to cut the Conled-
eracy in two and seriously cripple it by our
pending Military and Naval operations, or We
are on the eve Of another deplorable failure.
If we succeed, we give the Rebels staggering
blow, and bring their Confederacy to the brink
a nut Il. fail a..
campaign now in progress prove as abortiye as
that of last Summer-European Intervention
thereupon is as certain, il not 80 pleasant, as
roses in June. And it is likely to be con-
certed, imposing, determined movement, that
cannot be effectively parted by frown. a
shrug, or a sneer. Europe will say to us in
effect" You are damaging our Industry, i'm
pedng our Commerce. starving our Labor,
without apparent result or probable end. Is il
rot possible TO effect reconciliation without
further bloodshed With the sncerest good
will to both parties, We tender our best efforts
to that end. Why should they not be mutually
accepted :" Very different responses may be
made to this question: We haze suggested one
weighed and considered.
III. Tie Times talks too triyially when il
speaks of our interpreting q new condition. that
any proposal Of arbitration before being ne
cepted By US. must be "aceeded 10 B. the
Rebels" Without such assent, there could be
no arbitration at all. What We urged was
that the intervening Powers must first procure
the assent Of the Confederate leaders 70 their
project before they could reasonably prcss IT
on the attention Of our Government TIE Times
argues that the Confederates' asseat would
create strong probability that we ought to
decline. Such logic, if good at all, proves that
no war should ever end except in the complete
subjugatiOn and destruction of one party or
the other.
". Tie Times treats the whole matter with
a carelessncss-we had nearly written ilippancy
that justiiles the hope that, when 1t shall
have reflected more, it will say considerably
less. Here is O sample Of it's loose rhetoric:
The TRIBUNE to think the, mediation wouldbe
simply the organization Of debating society Even II II
were nothing more should deem utterly useless. Butt.
il good deal uoe Mediation by any foreign Government,
involves only the hearing Arguments but the decion o.
The poia, a. issHe."
"Mediatioa" involves no such thing; arti-
trotion does. Mediation" does. not imply the
assent Of either bclligerent; arbitration III
talking OF u requirement Of the assent OF the
Coniederacy 10 arbitration as a new condition.
Tile WORTH puts in its sagacous oar, after
the following fashion:
1.-THE ocs organs Of the Confederate Government. repu
da,e the idea Of eitement except upon the bash Of sep
aIaon and appeal to The sword the only aIbi,es.
Can We DO otherwise ~
No, most astute of Seymourte loyalists aud
there is just where we shsll have the Rebels
at enormous disadvantage. Europe intervenes;
asks our Government If peace is not attalnable
through its good ofices-suegests the reference
OF our differences to some impartial and mutually
friendly trIbunal-and is very properly apprlsed
that, upon due notice that The Rebels have as.
scented to it, the proposal will receive our most
respectful consideration. lIereupon, the Con.
federate chiefs are sounded and make answer
that they will consent to no settlement, 10 ar.
/ bitrament except upon the basis of separa-
ton" That answer, in connection with our
own will have fairly entitled Va to the future
good will not only Of the intervening Powers,
but Of all the vast interests which whether in our
own country or elsewhere, are signing for the
return pi peace with its prosperity and security.
This vii! be of more value to us in the prose
cution of the contest than any victory yet
achieved by our armies, and will 60 far to put
the Rebels where they deserve 10 be--out OF
4ho MIA &c anr aumnnihies hn1 thnse Of hahn.