New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-10

and our heroes 80 bravcly died will be
met at every turn, every twinge of pain
from bullet unsxtracted, an arm or leg un-
skillfuHy amputatcd, giving it additional point
and emphasis. Wrong.headed rs Mr. V. H.,
he cannot fail TO see that reconstruction
after the triumphant establishment and rccog-
milton of the Southern Confederacy is but tho
remotest, faintcst possibility. At the very best,
it could only be attained by q surrender OF
every dstinctvely Northern conviction, sacri-
fec Of every characterstically Northern inter-
est, and Oh establishment Of Slavery and all its
incidents and belongings ito morality and its
policy. as no longer peculiar to the South but
as characteristic Of the whole country-as a
part of our National life. And this, though
regarded with compacency by Sir. Vallandig'
ham and his school. will be resisted with an
energy and resolution Of which they seem to
have no adequate conception.
Had the two sections separated peacefully
and by consent--had National Convention
been called in 1861, aud had that Convention
given its sanction to tho withdrawal from the
Union of such States rs should deliberately
aud fairly vote to do so-nO debt. no wounds,
no bereave ments no devastatiOns, embittsriDg
the separations reconstruction would have
been scarcely diflicult-surely not impossible.
But the architects of National ruin, who had for
so many years been Mr.. VS. most trusted
political confederates, understood this as well
as we do. They meant to do their work 70
thoroughly as to defy every exertion to undo
it, Hence the seizure of tho Federal MINIS,
sub. Trcasuries, CustOm-HOuses, ArmOries,
Arsenals, Navy.Yards, Forts. &C.. tho cap.
ture Of the main Union army in Texas, the
bombardment Of Sumter before a shot had
been fired ON behalf of the Union. Their
rckety fabric needed the cement Of human
blood, aud they did not scruple to apply to 1t.
which the heaviest projecties viii be required
to overcome.
No. the only reconstruction which 10
possible under Mr.. Vallandighams programme
must be based on all adoption of the Mont
gcmery Constitution by State after State of
what remains to us after his kind Of Peace.
and a gradual, pieceDeal sneakIng OF the
Union in at the back door of the Southern
Coniekracy. Whether the Shareholders, by
dnt of holding their noses little" would
be induced to receive US, Is very doubtful;
that they would not admit tho Ncw-EBgland
States on my terms ia an open secret. We
presume the commercial Jealousy Of New-Or-
leans, Charleston, Norfolk, &c., would insist
ON tho exclusion of New-York. But the North.
West, being thoroughly nodded to the ideas OF
her Vallandghsms and Mahonys, and ready
to make Slavery her fundamental law. would
probably be compassionately taken IN, thus re-
covering the privilege Of using the lover Mis-
sissppi until the cotton-growers should be pro-
voked by some novel CLEAN Of Independence to
sccede from her again. Such 10 the entertain
nent to which her baseness and her cowsrdics
ara invited. North Eastern servility to the
traitorous Slave Power il b. be- it's own reward.
but when Mr.. Vsllandia CHAM t-lh. ID
Peace he has no right h ignore the obstacles
which even his complaisapce does not over
come. Suppose we give up the heroic Union
lists now doiying the Rebellion in Eastern Ten
nessee, in the mountain districts Of North
Carolina and Georgia, in Western Texas, aud
elsewhere throughout the preponderautly Rebel
region, what does be propose with regard to
West Virginia, Kentucky, aud Missouri All
these, with Now-MeIlco and Arizona. ure
claimed by the Rebel chiefs az integral por.
tions OF their Coniedoracy, aud they stand
pledged to maintain them to the last extremity.
Does Peace Of the CopperLead variety involve
the surrender of these And if not might
we not as well fight on Tor the whole Union
"a for these fragments of it
Such speeches as Mr. Vaandigham's, such
meetings as those Of the Young Mems Demo
cratic Association, have ono angle result
that of encouraging the Rebels to perseycrc in
their rcdbandcd, deSolatlDg treason. Have
they not already had aid and comfort
enough