New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-12

Il was nowhere received with more general
satisfaction than in Charleston. where the dis.
ruption of the Democracy had been effected,
and where Secession was forthwith inaugurated.
We recall these facts to reute the persistent as
sumption that Lincons election alarmed or eyas-
perated the South, or the political cnbal which
arrogates that title. They scherned for and engi.
neered that election, skillfully breaking down the
only serious impedinent, and exulting over it as
an achievement directly conducting to their cher
ished ends. " The election of Lincoln" raid
Robert Barnwell Rhett, sis not the cause of
Secession, but its opportunity" Aud everything
went forward in precise accordance with Gen.
JacksOn's prediction, in q private letter to
Southern friend, written just after the overthrow
of Notification. 1.-THE tariff" said he "was
he Slavery or Negro question"
Secession, then, was and is o revolt By the
Slayehodng interest, not against tho Republi.
can party-from whose sway, had they chosen
to remain Loyalty and peacefully in the Union,
they apprehended no peril or harm to their
"pecular institution but primarily against
the authority and perpetuity Of the Union,
willis its fundamental impulse is hatred and
distrust of democratic liberty. The Southern
arstocracy, surrounded by "Poor Whites"
who cannot read, but live in gross ignorance
and abject dependence and squalOr, have no
idea that ditch-diegers, plow-joggers, cobblers,
tinkers, blacksmiths and hod.carriers, are or
can be reading, observing, rejecting men,
qualified to exercise political power wisely and
benefcenty. They believe Slavery to be the
natural and is condition of those who live BY
manual labor they have inaugurated this Rebel
lion TO make Slavery the ayowed corner stone
of their National fabric and emancpate them
selves from the degrading necessity of affecting
to be Democrats. If they succeed, you will
Democratic ascendency in their empire, unless
they be Abolition triumphs and Free-Labor
ascendency.
What, then, ought to be- the attitude and
spirit of the Democratic party in the Free
States-supposing it were really Democratic
toward this monstrous Rebellion And what
is the bearing and disposition of the party
which calls itself Democratic and thereby &C.
cures the votes of the ignorant and the un.
lucky
The HOrid disingenuously says:
9TH. chufc, OF di.oy,ty ..n., The Democratic party al
in the permsI ent d,oluon OF Urioni H. hss all po
lics parties they ALA at Pgwer al. .ey s' than The
Repobiic.ns ~ be TeenOfeea BY tie Southern 'oteV
He must be poor logician who cannot
clear himself of any crime if you let him
frame the Indictment. If any ono ha, ever
said, or minated, TINT the Northern Demo.
Gratis desire "the permanent dissolution Of the
Union" he has talked very wildly. This par
tisan Democracy had Eighty Millions Of rea-
sons for loving the Union before the Slave
holders Rebellion, and they will almost GER
tainly be swelled 10 Two Hundred Millions BY
the time it is subducd. 1t is not at all in the
dark as to which party is likely to bc gro
enforced by the Southern VOTE" so long Ms
the Labor of tie South shall be owned by liz
Capital, and has an eye 10 tho main chance
which prccludes the possibility OF desiring per
50, q permanent dissolution Of the Union"
The error Of the party in the loyal States
calling itself Democratic is quite other than
that indicated by The World in ts arraign.
ment 40 adrotly framed that it can triumph
antly enter a plea Of Not Guilty. Let us state
it so plainly that the most subtle cannot eyade
nor the dullest fail to comprehend it:
4 gigantic and wanton Rebellion now defes
the National authority and mperils the Ma
tioual existence. Its leaders do not fight u |
Gust and replace those whom the people under
the Constitution have trusted with power, but
to divide and destroy the Nation. And the
preponderatng section of the Democratic party, |
misled by its managing politicians, purposes 10
save the Union by according substantial ira
umph to The Rebellion. Those politicians have
too long regarded the Union us "a concession
of material advantages by the South to the
North, to be compensated and retained by a
corresponding surrender of moral convictions
by the North TO the South. Frankly stated, |
the unwritten compact between the South and
the North, as practically interpreted by our
Democratic politicians ran thus: Wo viii
let you make cent pound on tins purchase,
transportation, and sale Of all the Cotton we
can raise, on condition that you will maintain
aud insst that it is beDignant and right in us
to pay our laborers in lashes on the back
rather than money in the hand" And thus
the North was to be brbed iuto perpetual
completely in the crimes aud expressions of
the Slave Power BY an allotment OF share
of the profits to our soabOard merchants aud
Democratic politicians And when the South
.arn La de-