New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-23
TIRE CONTRACTION or srrEss,on

TIRE tbNIAtsiVN w SFs E~SAVt'
We are beginning TO feel the effects OF wOfal
example. The diabcical spirit OF Rebellion
not only encounters us in the field, but 1t has
entered our legislative chambers and under the
malign promptings of the Democratic party,
bent upon rule or ruin, it is tamperDg with
the popular loyalty. One year ago, men only
mnrmured treason; but success has opened
their mouths, aud filled their hearts with
nbomnable political devices. We are beginning
10 see that about the worst battle lost to the
Union cause thus Ear, is that of the New-}ork
State Election. Nobody believes Hora'io Sey.
mour 10 be friendly to the Administration or
to feel any honest sympathy gith its embar'
ra.sments-yet he is elected Governor. The
mob in Albany has given us a bitter forotaste of
possible anarchy. From the West, we hear OF
schemes designed by the desperate and dlsa;
fected- spiracies tending 10 fresh ruptures
and tho final overthrow Of the Republic.
Wicked men, even at the North are beginning
openly and shamelessy to daily with diHnion.
aud propose, since disocotion has come
into fashion, to multiply the irag-
ments oil our institutions. NJ this Is
terrible We can better afford e. lose fly
fights than thus to weaken the morality Of our
cause. We can better afford to. submit to IN.
yasion, than thus to make d'sintcgratiO0
familiar to our constituencies. We can better
afford to let the SlaychOlding soldiers biyouac
in the Capitol, than to be betrayed into hege-
tiations which are lu OF danger, or 10 daily
with compromises which, with their adoption,
must prccipitate us into unmltlgated anarchy.
Already, we begin to hear Of Western Con
ioderacies, q New-England Couiederarcs, of
Middle States transmogriiied INTO Middle Con-
federacics Already, We have hints Of new and
tempting combinations, aiming al safe and
convenient boundaries aud the monopoly of in-
ternai navigation. Already, Che coming Con
gress casts its dark shadow before: aud. busy
as the Devil always has been in Washington,
time is coming when he will redOuble his
activity in that uneasy seat Of az endangered
Government. Hitherto, the restoration OF the
Union ha, been, with the mass of tbs people,
a matter of sentiment but time is at hand
which will no, be in the least poetlca, and
when VIC must confront public danger hard
ened into the most vulgar concrete.
Gentlemen who desire TO be elected IA Con
gres, no, as Patriots, hut simply aud markedly
rs anti Republicans, or autl-GWcrnmcnt men,
cannot be- supposed 10 care much for the per
pctuity of our institutions. They expect Ia
Gtten upon or national troubles. They are
ahouls WHO viii care little how cold the corpse
may be, #, sooner or later, they may fairly
yet their teeth into ii. They live, plot. plan,
spout. intrigue, bar.ain and scheme, solely for
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT. . Their loyalty is
limited by their own lives, and no thought OF
the veal or wo of posterity cutters toto then
calculations. IT. with the recognition "t tho
Conerderary. these moral traitors could bo
ba,dshed, and with them their who,o brood 0i
yenal yoters-jf we could send them To rest
IN tho Llack hosoms Of their Confederate
riends-d the honor. worth, religion intalli'
gcnce and wealth Of the North could hne bat
II fair clnncc u exercising their legitimate
Influence We might consider with greater
GOODNESS the success ot the southern TREASON.
But these rren, after the accomplished dismem.
LcSmcnl, wovld rcman-would still BIO with M
though not of us--would be then, RS they M,
now, and az they always have been, the ready
agen!s OF Slavery ard tbs paid pnups of tn
slaycholdmg Interest. Establish State amor
tho basis OF Mau.Ownisg upoa THIS continent
and the minds OF Wosd, Brooks Seymour an
all that genus viii gJayitate toward it wit
al! the force OF bad nature. Given thes
men in power. and the Northern Republi
would be the boaght ii not tue born tbrall
the Davis dynasty, ready in Cabinet a0d Cor
gress to do its dirty and demoniac work--rcad
to Catch is gagpwWs-rcal, " WINK at II