New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-17

ton viii the Abolition policy and put Gen banks
the he'd Of the War Department and restore Cen Die
Gle Ian to Ms position GruerainCnief Banks has M
doubtsdy the De admnistave CAPACITY OF any maI 10 .ne
Republican party aud Mcclellan the abe't 0enetn " .ne
army All the Democrat. ak ia that the Abolition scheme
shall be discarded aud III. direction o. the war paoea IN te
capable hsnt What does THh ThBuss say TO tbs
propossiF
TO all which, thus responds THE TRIBUNE:
/. 1t is o lie-a deliberate, wicked, audaciOus
lie--that "the public sentiment of the North
in support of the War was unbroken until the
contest was perverted into an Abolition cru.
sade." Vallandisham. Ben. Wood, and others
in Congress-Thomas III. Seymour, Isaac
Tolcey aud their followers in Connecticut
William b. Reed Francis w. Hughes, Charles
Ingersoll, Pierce Butler, etc, in nSylvania-
Senator Wall, c. c. Burr, etc, in New
Jersey-wlth d. A. Mahony. Augustus Caesar
Dodge, etc, in Iowa. and large portion Of
the Democrats aud other Conservatives in
every Free STATE, were bitterly hostile TO the
War for the Union in its early stages, while
Mcclellan, Patterson, and Halleck, at the head
of our armies were issuing PrO.Slayery Orders
and Proclamatons. and the President was sus-
flaming these and annulliDg the Emancipating
Orders of Fremont Hunter, etc. In the first
six months of the Var, while Slavery had its
own way in our councils and our camps,
Democratic newspapers were Suppressed In
Westchester, Pa, Bridgeport, Com, Hayer-
hill, Mass, and Concord, N. H., and we pre-
sumo several other places beside this city, be-
cause of their unqualified manifestations
Of sympathy with the Rebel Shareholders
and hostility to the War for the Union
In this city alone. The Daily Ners, Journal
Of Commerce, Day Book and Frseman's Journal
-four conspicuous Democratic journals, three
Of them issued daiy--were either suppressed
outright or refused admission to tho mails be.
cause Of their violent disloyalty-all ttis, mind
you, in the first six months Of the War. The
Democrats Of this State, of Ohio, and others,
in the support Of Union War tickets headed by
Democrats, choosing overwhelming dceht
rather than the appearance Of uniting in sup.
port of the Government and the War, though
the Administration was then doing its utmost
to conserve Slavery. And there is not the
doing their utmost to cripple tie Administra-
ton and the War before they assumed an Anti
Slavery aspect, would DOW be converted TO
t4eir support by return to the Border-siate
platform.
H. The Emancipation policy is no failure.
II IT had done no mOre for US than TO secure
tie active and jealous adhesion of the
European masses to the National cause, it
would have been wisely adopted. The British
aristocracy very generally desire our defeat;
but the COMMON people are so unanimously,
heartily with US. that the Government will
hardly venture to show its teeth. Everywhere
abroad Emancipation is a word of fear to the
Secessionsts. whose sympathizers are voted
down even in Liverpool, and dare not try to
hold q public meeting anywhere else. Were
popular sssemblages allowed in France, we
should soon have the masses in that country
with us Us openly, efficiently. as those of Great
Britain already are.
But this policy helps us also at home. The
necessity Of running OF al their slaves as our
armies advance Is great embarrassment and
weakness to the RcbelJ. They can no longer
employ those slaves, as they formerly did, in
constructing forts aud held-works ~ front OF
our forces, since experience proves that they
viii escape TO our Iileo whenever they cnn.
We have acquired by toe Emancipation policy
tue active good will Of -Four Millions Of South.
eru people VINO bring Us information and aid
Il L., f,
fight for liz ss may be required, provided onIy
wo viii treat them like human beings Ana
il We don't and won't we shall fail in this
War, because We shall deserve TO ial.
III. As to amnesty to the Rebels, We are
and ever have been in favor OF 1t. We would
treat them ar delQded brethren in case they
were to lay down their arms tO'mOrrow. But
"a standing offer OF amnesty whenever they
will submit to the ConslltutlOD,' is quite 100
lnuch II would be saying Hold out 80 long
rs you can: you shall have as good terms If
you give up after lighting to the last
ditch as though you had gwen up year
earlier" But If tLey viii give way now, we
trust they will receive The most favorable
terms.
~. Az to changes in the Cabinet by the
substitution Of the ablest and fittest men in the
country for such members as fall below that
STANDARD, we do aud have long openly favored
theui. We do not here indicate who shall 20
and who stayi but We think there should DO
extensive changes. aud that they cannot be
made too sOon
V. Az to restoring Cen. Mcclellan to the
chief command OF our armies WA u;u t.k.