New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-04

sheriff. Against single TiHiahi VINO DuIH-
cades his doors and brandishes his az, he finds
deputy and q cane sufficient; but if that ruff
fan intrenches himself, calls fifty other ruff
fans to his aid, and shows a long line Of
cleaning gun-bnrrels over the crest of his
stockade, the sheriff, if he understands his
business, will be apt TO summon the militia TO
his aid. Mr.. Fernando Wood may help bis
brother "Peace" men to a pertinent If not
pleasant illustration of this truth.
And this reminds us that Fernando was
the master.sprit of this Convention, as he had
been its creator and nspirer. Very naturally.
bis speech embOdes the ideas of its Address
and Resolves in far more compact and read
able shape. Fernando would seem to be al
most as eager for Peace "a wo are; only he
thinks the Nation should sue for it, while we
devolse that obligation upon the Rebels. lie
considers the War horrible business. SO do
we. lie thinks its authors most culpable and
criminal. SO, most emphatically, do we. lie
badly wants the Union restored. There again,
we shake hands with him. The case is exact
ly as if be- while Mayor Of our City, had hap
pened in at Mulberry street while the Police
and the "Dead Rabbits " were having free
fight, and had jumped into the middle Of it,
crying: "IlOld, Policemen DIN I you ashamed
of yourselves-fghting and manning people In
this brutal fashion, Sneak out Of this forth
with, or II expose YOU to the indignation OF
II Ulat Inv
the peace and kicking up row in this Chris
tian city, within plain sight of hundred
steeplesl What are the clergy about that
they mt teach you the first rudiments oil
our holy religionl 7" &C., &c. The Police,
probably would MT see it; but that would be
exactly such harangue as be made three
or four times over last night az his "Peacc
Convention"
While the traitors, from the hour they
smashed the Democratic "mactiDs' at Charles
ton in April, 1860, to that in which they more
openly essaycd to smash the Union machine
year later by ordering the hombardmeut OF
Fort Sumter were visibly preparing the whole
sale carnage that has since desolated our coun-
try, they had not whisper OF rcbuhe from
Wood. When our Superintendent 81 Police
tried TO stop the Transmission from our city to
States then in open rebellion OF the arms
wherewith tie uvholdcrs OF the UaIon are now
being slaughtered, Wood meehy aPo.oslzcd TO
Georgia for his inability to do hor bidding IN
The premises If be- only bad power, he openly
and truly said, hc would send the arms along
forthwith, aud cause Superintendent Kennedy
To see s,ats. Never for one raoucIt. while
this drama OF blood was preparing, did he 'sy
TO It's contriyers. ''You must lCfbcar Wait
till We can restore the Democratic unity and
a.cend.ucy you have deliberately plotted 70
destroy and We will give you whatever you
can ash" on the contrary, bis c,gr.e through
out implied the legitimacy and P,oprieiy OF the
means whereby the Slave Power was scbcming
10 di,ide and dc,oIste the country. Now be
appears as the champion OF PcSce lie de-
picts and deprecaiss the caaml:ies OF War
He quotes Jefferson ia defense Of the slave
holders Rebellion, but TAKES care not TO quote
this axiom from his Inaugural:
Absolute ecqu.-,oepo. So ID. d.consof the majority
he
force tie v pfscipo and Immediate pAros' Of es''
Poi,.m'
Fernando persists in talking as though the
sherih, the policeman, is entirely to blame
when bio uuthority is de'ed aud bis process
resisted Peace Peace! - he cries, but
never once hints that the Rebels ought 10 stop
fighting tho Unionists, laying on the latter the
whole blame OF the continuance Of the war.
Here are his two fundamental propositions:
g" should e.u. bee,u,e ,Aould never h.v, been
commenced ioasmuch there cosTcvr military poser
in IN, Federal 0ovsrnreut tgaint sAe states "hch sio
mower OF eoorcon exists at ul 1t logo And n1t mitay
E.csuse there no neces'iiy for H. Al snietbie
adjustment Of the queon' in oputs could nave o'on and
car be still procured terms OF Aifnsa' and equality
We really cant SEQ how the absence Of
" coercive military power in the Federal Gov
" cr,ment as against the States was 70 have
prevented the capture through treachery OF the
main Union army in Teas before, or the
bombnrdment a Fort Sumter five weeks after
Mp Lincens Inauguration. And if n hostile
power-no matter what---sets TO lighting tbs
republic. what ran the republic do but fight
lack again Who can tell
But "there was no neccssity' iog lighting
The less excuse, then, for those who began It,
If "terms of fairness aud equality could
have precluded this struggle, why did the
DEMOCRATS never adopt those term, They
have been in power tbree-iourths OF the time
since Mr. Wood was born; they had the Fede-
raj Government entirely in their hands less
/ than four years ago. II tie Crittenden Com
promise wa the pauscea Tor our Ills, why did
they not pass ~ They cannot plead that it
WAS never suggested, for il was repeatedly
! L. I..nLnnan L., AZ IInullna md hN