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


it could not be put down under Pro'Slavery
policy. The Times (London) and all Its Eu'
ropean echoe, urged the madness, the mani
fest utility Of what they termed our attempt
10 " subugate the South n l5bl as Vehe'
nlently a. in the latter part Of 1862. Gov.
Seymours Twedde Hall speech. Feb. }, i7ol'
as positively and pauslbly affirmed the inYinci'
bility of the South az any later effort IN tha'
line has done. His deduction was-You must
couceds whatever the Slave Power shalt see
fit to exact, and thus save tho Union. our
foreign adversaries more consistently urge that
we shall give up the Union as for ever OK
ploded. They who. a year ago, were oeratine
US az undeserving OF sympathy because we ~"
not assal Slavery, now seek to arouse iurther
enmity to us because we do assaii It, we
cannot please our carpns any more thah our
fchtjup enemies: We must be guided by our
own Judgment and conscience, lighting tue
fight that has been thrust upon us as best We
may, leaving results to God
One thing is certain: Our European TRENDS
have all desired and hoped that We would TAKE
ground against that mother OF sedition' that
fruitful source of all our woes, Slavery. Victor
Hugo. Garibaldi, John Bright--every recog'
nized and honored leader of the party OF 1ro'
press-had impatienty anticipated tho Hroc-
lamation of Freedom, was perplexed ana
p,ined BY the long forbearance to issue lt--has
felt ever since that our cause is not only more
worthy of success but more likely to succeed
because Of It. These ore distant critics and
disnterested judges-.drawn to our side only
nv its identify with universal Liberty, Justice
and Humanity The policy of Emancipation
has won to our cause some valued trends
over the water-we do not hear that it has
lost us one.
OF course. all will now depend on the treat
ment of the Blacks of the South by our officers
aud soldiers. If these shall rcpel, insult and
abuse the poor victims of centuries OF opPres'
sion and degradation, the lies poured INTO their
ear by their chiyalrous masters Affirming our
purpose to kill them, sell them in Cuba, &c.,
&C.. will obtain more or less credence, aud
will prevent their doing anything IN our be-
half But treat them humanely and justly, ana
they will prove immensely serviceabe 10 us in
many WAYS, even though We should never arm
regiment OF them. For all orr scouting aud
gathering information of the cnemy's move
mcnts in the South West, we must look To them;
for the Poor Whites OF the cotton region
neither dare nor can travel stealthllg by night
through trackless forests and hostile settlements
a. they have been accustomed to do Were
they but 60 many horses, every ono would
readily see and recognize the Importance OF
winning them over to the side OF the Union.
1t is only our past subserviency to and com
pcity with the dark and guilty Slave Power
now threatening our National ruin that blinds
apy 10 the Justice aud Importance OF the polio!
OF Emancipation.
The Union Generals and soldiers can still
doom us 10 discontinue By repelling and
abusing the Blacks there is power nowhere
else ON earth to defeat Va. Only let the slaves
feel that our triumph is their liberation, ana
they become from that hour burden instead
Of a bulwark 10 the Rebellion. Hitherto, they
have done nearly as much to sustain II as the
Whites; let them realize that to work for their
masters is to work for Slavery and against
their own Liberty, and whatever work may
thenceioth be extracted from their sinews VIII
cost the Rebels all it is worth. They will need
to be watched and guarded, and overawed'
and hurried away from the neighborhood OF
our troops, with an occasional hanging or
burning Of a refractory one, to make The rest
good natured and docile, until the Rebellion
must collapse from the sheer impossibilty OF
at once keeping Four Millions OF negroes IN
subjection aud resisting the efforts OF Million
of soldiers for the Union. God speed the well
come day