New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-12

The Nnc- York Express, edited by Member
of Congress elect, saw fit on Saturday 10
charge the President of tho UniteG States with
so managing as 10 secure the defeat OF lnS
National forces by the Rebels; adding that ait
is our sincere impression that the present Ad-
miniaration Of our Government really desires
tho separation Of tie Union as much IS JtE.
Dariss Government does" Ii further charged
President Linccn with having "rejected aud
suppressed offers Of Peace, sent 10 him un-
officially from the South" in December last.
II these charges are well grounded, then the
President 10 traitor who ought TO be i'm
peacbed and ANONYMOUSLY expelled from office.
II they are utterly false and unfounded, whit
is James Brooksi Consider how fcarfully
such iuculpatipns Of the President. if credited
are calculated to pIralyze the energies and
arrest the Efforts Of patriots in defense of the
imperlled life of the Republic.
No Stouewall jackson, no park of Rebel
artillery, could do such deadly harm 20 the
Union cause MS would general belief in the
charges Of the Member from tho With I'M
peach.ng the integrity aud loyalty oil the Pres
ident Of The United States
We therefore, deemed il important TO meet
this accusation at every point-to prove it
false and malicious, not only by the absence Of
all testimony in its support, but by ndduciug n-
d,sputabe facts which prove its Truth Anpos-
sble. We showed tue utter fal,ity of the
NJ Old ..f
heads that President Lincoln and his supporter.
aid nothing, and ,copd do nothing to 1ispel
the fears Of Shareholders that their rights would
be imperiled by the rule of Republican Ad-
mnstration-showed that he and they expos.
tulated, discanned, entreatod-in short did all
that uprgh. men could do 20 avert Rebellion
and Civil War-thcn waited till the traitors
naugurated that War-and have ever since
welcome any osertures from tine Rebels that
gave promise of an early, honorable, and last
ing Peace. On every point, We fortified our
postions by citations that made them impreg.
nable aud proved the imputotions Of The E1.
press as false ~ they are disloyal. This careful
demonstration point by point, of the futility
of Mr.. BrOOks's charges he terms "a Wilder.
ness of Words" and disposes Of as follows:
That wdene.. ofword, "a THR 'TABUsH' In reply to
inpresson that the Adnuaion does not nosn Peace
and Restoration Of tho Union. bat eternal separation. bJ
hepubeAns In Congress aud tewh, were willing TO havs
National Convection to settle terms Of dfcute'-wsi
tst III slow operations CT Cow ntion TO rshod by n.
Legislatures Of tie states CT tie People Of tho States, must
south Carolina hsd seeded and tho Montgomery Gov
ernmen established have been oil 900 tate Tho Peace
Conges tie only possible prevention In lesson aud
that Pesco Congress the Aboiou's 40, only packed Tee
Senator Chandss letter tho necessity oil blood stng
in II tbey rejected all sorts VI posceabe uso
M Conge. Throughout. Critienden. Com
PROMISE Resolutions which would have arrested civil war;
Lot US once more dispose Of all this:
/. A National Convention was not proposed
by Republicans, but by the then loyal Union
Pro. Slavery State of Kentucky. She thought it
the true recourse for the settlement Of such
differences as had arisen among us; and the
- Peace" Democrats Of the West ayow a like
now. 1t was Pro-Slayery propo.
,ition, which President Lincoln and tho Ro-
in the Peace Congress and elsewhere
accepted to avert civil war and preserve the
Union. 1t was q concession, and great one,
% be made by party just entering upon
,ower 10 their stronger adyersarles, who had
,nly been beaten by their own divisions. We
ito 1t now to refute the Ccpperhead cIumny
hat President Lincoln and the Repub-
lcans refused to do anything to avert civil
var. They offered to do just what slavehold'