New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-25
FIR. VAN BURRN's CAvEAT.

! Mr.. John Van Buren, made a mainly sensible
aud patriotic speech ut the Corporation dinner
on Monday evening. whereof the spirit and
drift will not be at all acceptable to the Copper
heads, East or West. lie claimed that he
supported Seymour for Governor in order to
secure "a more vigorous prosecution OF the
War tina, the War must ~ on--that the
loyal States should be a unit in support Of lis
prosecuton-thAt the North will eyince greater
endurance in the contest than the South, &c
II is on the whole a very good speech, and
will be read with no great satisfaction in Rich.
mond or Charleston. The following extract
exhibits some Of the best and all of the worst
portion of it:
"It 10 smnentl, de.sbe a. my Judgment, that th.ge
should be union in the nonssyeholdng aud loyal States
this Confodescyi and II there then this unqus
tionsby must be failure II all together and sgrae
so.eens this war keeping Of course SCENTS within tho
ilu,its ~ the Constitution iag
coed II DO no, choose to do that uuquesouably We
shall fail IL there anything ~ prevent from soinx and
prosecuting this wsT with vsor and with unioo some
tsGsn tell that the President ha, Issued proclaim.
lions that they do not Of He Issued them before she
election and GOV Seymour aud myself Travelled this State
declaring thai were Tor vigorous prosecution Of the
they are supid ss-e they tho south anu fh.t
they divided the North agree to another thing and
DeuiOc at 10 HAD aNit with that
s.res that bey osrsied the Republican party in every
,Ay-hodipg state OF this tonedsfacy aud gave The
ss ,s,, WI. he on . .eeeuht P.pn. G
MA Ohio iDdsn. became Democratic the result of them
aud not the 10 nnd fault with that The question
il. what th.y do a.i The President dec -rc. that
esHsn e,;oa he n S09d,s n the S,s.ss Ia rebellion are
corpus 10 suspended In the State 81 New York Well amt
There jude n The STATE o Ncwlofs that would asgee
violate the writ hab corpus that would dare
front impeachment ior Impeachment would be the necessary
consequence when the esas met II he 'nond refuse to
di.af.t ll4.. .l4 harm ll.Vxa
wise AZ the PRECEDENT were wise lie would back on,
them. lie il wise That Ia his misfortune. bu, he 1,
President ali the same. We to 60 with sLis war
Thee Hoshn. else 10 ba done, in ny humble Judguoat'
We propose to consider 70 much only of
this as relates to the Proclamatiops of Free.
DOM
al agree" says John, THAT they arc I'M
wise. l agree that they are stupid. agree
that they have united the South and that they
have divided the North"
Very well; we agree that Mr.. Van
Buren,, being o man OF eminent sbrcwlness
and not of profound sincerity has thrown this
tub to the Democratic whale without having
the least faith in 1t.
There are III the region to-day owning the
sway Of JEFF. Davis about Eight Millions OF
People. OF these, more than Three Millions
are negroes or muattoes, nearly all slaves.
That at least ninety nine hundredths Of them
abhor Slavery nnd desire its overthrow, Mr..
Van Buren, we'll knows. The Proclamntions OF
Freedom pledge the faith aud power of the
Union to help these negroes to their liberty if
they will help us restore the Union. That is
tho gst Of the Emancipation War policy. and
tho whole Of it. In other words. it supplies
moro than throo.ojghtha Of tho People now