New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-19

the little knavery Of o low, trlckster' wh'cn any
ons who reads with open eyes and on unclouded
brain may detect
Wa utterly disclaim the incubation or main
tenance of any original view on this subject
Wa follow in the footsteps Of our Revolutionary
ancestors. We mean to bold precisely the doc
trina Of Jefferson aud the Declaration OF lnde'
pendence-neither less nor moro. And we in'
sist that the shareholders Rebellion stands con-
demncd by that doctrine. 1t was not tho work
of a majority Of the Southern People. but the
product of arstocratc ambition, secret con-
spiracies. and factous intrigue, and was dis
tinctly condemned by the People Of the South
in tho Convention elections of tho Winter OF
lS60-6l. Leaving out Of account the Blacks
who yet have right " be considered
when the question is ono of repudiating
existing institutions aud going back to
first principles)-a majority of the legal
voters of the South did not sustain the
Disunion movement. That movement never
originated with nor was prompted by the
masses In full view of the fact Of Mr.. Lin
coins election, and in defiance of all tho un.
contradicted lies that had been told them from
the stump, in the newspapers and ut every
crOss.r road tavern, for the last five or six
years, the Southern People voted not to secedc
from the Union. And that vote was only
overborno by plunging the country into tho
bloody abyss of Civil War, 80 as to drown
every appeal for Peace and Union by fierce
cries of "Too late The die is cast DO
you strike with the South for independence or
20 with the North for coerclonl Are you for
your home and kindred, or for their enemies
and for subjugation and Abolition !" That
issue we strove to avoid-not wisely. perhaps,
for ourselves, but faithfully for our whole
country.
| 1t is quite likely that wo wore mistaken in
intmatiug that the Cotton States of them.
selves possess the elements Of independent
National existence; and we certainly never
meant to ignore or deny the claim OF the
Great Northwest to have Il voice in any
political arrangement affecting the right freely
and certainly to navigate their great natural
outlet to the ocean. The.e a'e questions OF
deiail-of great importance, certainly but not
affecting the vital principle affirmed BY Jeiier-
son. If that is wrOng--lt II IA crime per Sc
to seek the severance Of EXISTING political ties
! ii tho birth of new Nation rnust always
and inevitably be sttended by carnagc snd
counagration--then va have been msled by
great names aud gloroHs associations into Il
very grave error. Bat, firmly believing that
the time will come when ~nat is now British
America will form part OF Amerioan Amer
lea, aud believing that. whenever the great
mass of the People more directly Interested
shall peacefully inoGcnsnsly. auihorisatively
Indicate their desire for this change, 1t will
have become their right to ask Tor 1t and the
duty of Great Britain ~ concede i've can
not affirm one rule for ourselves and an
opposite Onc for our neighbors-one rule to
Justify the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of eur country, and
another to prevent sVbtrnHons theTeirom.
We mean to uphold one that works both ways.
but you admit that minority Of the
Southern People are nor hostile To the Union /
No. we do not-for We count -Four Millions
more Of Southern People than our critics seem
to; though if they were. We should not deem
that is,t conclusive. The capture OF our Army
in Texas, the bombardment Of Sumter, de-
ranged all the elements Of peaceful adjust
msut. We arc now at war; aud Uniohists
haze for the last two years been slaughtered
throughout the South as if TIE, were mad
dogs, While every monstrous lic to tho prrJu-
dice of the Union has circulated freely and
without contradiction. UniOnsr, at the south
has been crushed out, hunted ont, lied out, or
frightened into nbject silence. We know right
well that 10 vote has been or could b. taken
in most purts Of the South since the taking Of
Font Sumter which has tho lest validity or
Significance 20 far ~ tho Union Is Affected
thereby There will come time when the
Unonism Of tho South can speak>ou,; and then
VII be heard tales of persecution aud
savage hatchery Calculated to chill tho blood
with horror. TIL then, votes in the South al
fecting the Union are Of no account.
The Union illustrates lis OWE view of the
matter Us follows:
| "a much FOUNDER prineip. than Mr. GrsoA7's aud
strictly aud osbe % the rfo..ht rVsnfc oil a
aus this couy laid down by the ieprss"ntAiive. OF
the Great Powers 1881 they deinsrAne the
HoAndo.Be.ic question: Each nation hss -. Ia'te"i'I
rigA.; but ErKors has ts rights conerted by social
Oder la pursussec Of t principle they set d that in
peuant qresouPo,ipohng particular rshia Of eaeh
nation and subofdnsng th-n TO tho genera good oil ha
Thin Is sepete with nisres, 10 the intelligent Amer
lean reacs The Treaty OF sirnna hid constitute" the hils
dom Of tho Netberlnnds OF which Belgium 10 med past
hal formed most ia ottu part O. no Iupc La"
! OF Europe Bu, In 1890 the Began. Ieyolied Tue Five
GREAT Powers took the matter had IN virtue Of the
which the Socal Older 81 Europe couiot