New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-16


and institutions their study, that for thirty years
the apostles Of the Propaganda were steadily
working to incorporate into tho political
and judicial structure Of The country The
principles which ultimately cropped out
in the Lecompton Constitution and Tie Dred
Scott decision--principles That made the rght
TO hold property in man superior to all otheF
rights, and which rights might be exercised
under Federal protection in every State oil The
Union. The conspirotors had marvellous sue
cess in propagating their a'rocious ideas during
the administrations of Van Buren,, Tyler, Polk,
Fillmore. Pierce and Buchanan. The defec-
ton of Wright, Benton, Dix, Rantoul, and their
compeers, in 1913, excited their apprehensions,
but they persevorcd, and were rewarded for
their ccnstancy by the ripe rascalitics that dis
craced the eras of 1850, 1854, and 1853, in the
shape OF the Fugitive Slave law, the Kansas out
RACES, and the Lccompton swindle. But, when
Douglaa, whom they had 10 implicitly trusted
and 80 long followed, tuned his back upon
them aud repudiated their cherished doctrines;
and, more especially. when Abraham Lincoln
assumed The Executive Chair, and the law-giver
passed from beneath che feet of their Ebony
Idol, they resorted to the dernier remedy which
they had always contemplated in such con-
tingency-a dissolution of the Union, and the
establishment of Sayeholding Empire III one
half the States Of the old Republic.
The present war; therefore, is only the natu-
rel and inevitable dorouemem Vi the plot which
these consp;r.tors hatched more than forty
years ago. when they resolved to bring Missouri
into the Union o. a Slave Slate
Now, whoever supposes that these Rebel
chiefs aye going to abandon their long-chcr'shed
schemes because they have met with reyerses IN
The field, or because their finances are d1,or-
dered or their trnde destroyed, or their agricul-
ture blasted, or their plantations rayeged, or
their towns demolished or their poor white
trash" swept away by the bosom Of war, or even
thei, black slaves scattered broadcast through
he land. is mistaken in the men with whom outr
Government is dealing. They have set Their
lives upon o cast, and they will stand The haz-
ard Of the die. They will fight on until they
arc sub,ugated by orr armies, or driven INTO
exile BIZ an Instruction Of their own deludcd fol-
lowers. The Message of Davis, though II dis
closes sad condition Of the Affairs Of the " Con-
fedcracy." military. monetary, political, and So
cia. gives no grounds for hope that the Rebel
lion il 10 terminate IN any other mode than that
We have mentioned. Force, force, force l. alone
ADEQUATE % the ork OF oycrthrowing The chiefs
in this diabolical conspiracy. II may be the
power Of Federal armies. |, may be domestic
violence. l. Is likely to be combination Of
both.
But Willie the Meeago declares that the only
hope OF the conspirators lies N "the ylgor o
th,ir resistance" W, il discloses such apaucily
of means FOR perpo;uating hat resistance, that
tho end co, not De- far Of. Maligity AID men
dacity viii not furnish men 10 I'll up wasting
armies, nor money TO replenish I'll empty
treasury. Even the courage inspired by dec
peraton cannot-long contend against prepon-
/ deratng numbers. Nor can iudomitablo pride
and tirolcss pcriztency always bear up against
the frowus ~ fortune and the DEGREES of fate.
Having abandoned political ohicane, through
which they had 20 constantly won. and taken
no the sword In one Of the wort OF causes, 30 +
written IN the Divine economy that The con pr
ators shlll perish by The weapon hrJ haYo in