New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-12
do nothing Of the sort. Thcn what use Of
ambassadors to that city who have no muakets
on their shoulders -o
pRINCK JOHN.

Union was from tho first seen BY tho discern.
ine to DO in danger of wrock-the devotion OF
tho Northern Democracy to Slavory-now
looms up in stately proportions which mu't
arrest tho gaze of tho most heodloss. Tho
danger il now 90 imminent that few weeks
must decide the fato of tho Nation. If tho
movement of the Western Copperhesds for .
National Convention Of Louisville. expressly to
eosres tho National authorities into now pros
trstions and abasements before the Slave
Power, shall provo q success. tho result can-
not be other than DISASTROUS. For that move
ment 10 a. essentially revolutionary ~ tho
Slaveholders' Rebellion. and is impollsd BY q
strong and scarcely disguised sympathy for that
enterprise. The Copperheads are not DissniOn.
ists-that is. they do mt wish to part company
with tho South. though they would like to kick
New. En- gland out of tho eOnoern-but they can
conceive no other mode Of restoring the Union
than by crawling in at tho back door Of the
Southern Confederacy. Tho reconstruction +"
they seek 10 in effect conquest and absorption
of tho old Union by its Rebel antagonist.
" Catching . Tartar was q complete triumph
compared with the achievement thoy mediate
Now, the Union is to be saved by unfolding
and backing its constituted authorities or lost
BY depOsing and supplanting Thorn. We should
have had no war with JEFF Davis aud his
Congress if the Union Government had in all
things deferred to their will; and 20 with tho
--...1 r ou;.v;il. Convant;oo Rut Uhau tha
latter body assumes to say to the President
"You must do this, and undo that. and reverse
tho other, or your authority shall be resisted
in the States bordering on the Ohio - deter.
minedIy a. now in the Gulf and seabOnrd
Slave States" it inaugurates q revolution as
pronounced and exceptionable as that Of the
Davisites, and sure in time to be in open. os
il will from tho first DO in secret alliance with
| tho latter.
For some weeks, the demonstrations Of our
Northern ProSlsvery journals have been
scarcely less violent and menscing than those
Of their Western compesrs. Threats Of 70.
ssting arrests by fsrce and efforts to disafIoct
and disorgsnizs tho Union armies have been as
common in this City - in Indiana or Illinois
' Peace" has here been preached ~ insidiously
a., and hardly less boldly than. in the most
disloyal journals Of tho Northwest. The Phil
adelphia Evening JosrnaF' euogium on jeff.
Daviss late fendish Message has rarely been
surpassed in traitorous malignty BY Tie Chi
eoeo Times, The Cincinnati Enquirer. or The
indianapolis Sentinel. Letters affirming the
demon alzation and Wholesale descrton Of the
soldiers composing tho Army Of the Potomac
have been published a. glsefuly in The Albany
Argus as tboy could have been in The Detroit
Free Press. Everything sesmed tending fast
TO anarchy and the inauguration Of pro-
visional despotism. whereof the first move
would be ON armistice with and the next
probably q surrender to tho Rebel Confederacy.
The skies arc at length brishtening-we be-
love mainly because tho more sedatc and con
sdera.e Seymourite. bave been brought to real.
ize that all they have Of property or hope must
sink or swim with tar Federal Government. To
save tho Union yet ropudinte Or override its
rghtfnl authorities, is a demonstrated impossi-
bility. The Nation can be saved only through
its constitutional forms, its chosen rulers-these
being set aside, we drift helpless in no Wing
storm of anarchy, and chaos is come again.
Tho speech Of John Van Buren, on Tuesday
evening evidences tho now set OF the popular
current. 1t plainly disappointed and disconcert-
ed those by whom it had been evoked. Thus
The World ruefully spenks Of it:
John Van Buren' address s, evening viii take many
people both in aud q this Republican parry by surprise
Il will 10 that o 10 ior vsoou. prosecution Of ths
War until The psasu, leaders Of tie CoDde..es y hold
Union H. q repeatedly called j. b. traitor FOR hi. Cooper
Institute and Brooklyn Academy Music speeches pending
Of H. O. on the Queer tine. these. ss traitor Ct
yesterday i. tn. patriot Of to-day. aud ree ro'a"
The Express had more time for the choice OF
phrases that barely betray its chagriD. 1t says:
John vau Buren, seems 70 have gone l,tls over to
vigorous prosecud'n Of the Ws 'aee The Rebels 'oe' d"
hrnstes pyopo'irOn to stop and TAX"
The speech fully justlfes these earnings. Mr..
Van Buren, does not even hint at tho expul-
sion of New-Engand from the Union to pro-
ptiate tho Slaveholding Rebels, but tells them
plainly that the day when he was willing to
cay to them, in an anticipated contingency,
Hayward sisters, depart in peace" is over
that they must return to tho Union, or it will
be tho worse for them. There is the usual
quantum of buffoonery, and some gauzy CON-
mendation of tho military achievements Of
Mcclellan and Ftz John Porter-for the Prince
il nothing if not facetious-but his speech as
whole will not be enjoyed in high places OF
Richmond. The following il his fling at the
Proclamation Of Freedom, and is manifcstly
intended rather to soften than to intensity
Democratic hostility:
Now this Proclamation, therefore In my Judgment doc.