New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-30
TnE FOuRTEI or 5ULE.


nifty. We ysibly approach the elimination of
our arduous struggle TO complete the revolution
which ihey 50 nobly began. Tho right Of every
innocent man TO himself-of the husband and
wife to each other--of The parents to their minor
chillren-which il the natural and solid base OF
TIE social edGce. and ought 10 have been estab-
Hshed with if not before the right of each com
muuity to a voice in the public councils whereby
It Is taxed and ruled, is now distinctly at issue,
with prospect, of favorable Jesuit.
The enemies Of our National Union assert
that the loyal States are fighting in opposition
TO the sacred GglA of SelfGoycmmeni. II is
not so. But for slavery is The most
palpable and nagrant denial Of this righi--there
would have been no war and no alienation.
The ,layeholiing castc-a decided minority,
even in the South--plunged into treason and
carnage simply and only because the Free
States refused 10 unite in extending The area OF
Human Bondage and ChattclhOod. They pre-
scented This ultiu0'um-" Either mite with u
lin establishing Slavery by positive law in oil
Federal territory south OF the parallel Of go 80
- which Henry Clay said 40 earthly power
would compel hin 20 do l--or we viii disrupt and
destroy the Jnion." We would not become their
acconplices in The crime of slavery Extension,
% they made ruthless war upon rs. Before
We had fired slot or mounted cannon, they
had seized Federal forts, arscnals. amores,
custom-hcuscs. ,gb.ticasuric.. &c. &c, by
Wholesale; had captured our principal armed
force through the trcochcry OF .s chief, Twigys;
had planted b8-iclies on the banks OF the Nj
sissippi end Distracted is navigation By firing
On lnarmod vessels as they passed; and they
finally inoucuutcd unequiyocal hostiities by
bombarling and reducing Fod Sumter, a
fortress constructed Is well IS garrisoIed
by the Union. Never wns a SIR more ha-
gantly, inelcu,ably initiated than By The
slayehoiding traitors in 1861
They now pretend 20 be battling for the
principle Of SclfGovcrnmcni, which is false.
They prosecuted, throttod. hunted down.
tortured and killed the ouispoken White Union
st, Of the South at tho outset Of their Rebellion,
making violent death the penalty OF active
dissent from thor scheme; scouting the sug-
eeston that the Blacks were entitled to any
voice in the premise. Their Self-Goyernmcnt
| is precisely Ike pack Of wolves voting on Che
propriety of eating mutton. and allowing the
sheep 10 voice in the PREMISE. If a vote were
to be taken Of the whole people Of the South
fcarfully blinded deceived. mi,led as many OF
them arc-and each were al liberty TO vote As
he thought best, thore would bc shown a strong
Union majority there to-day
The Rebellion hes great armies. because It
compels every White man within il, grasp, In.
> Gliding thousands Of rniopis;s, to fight for it.
1t has material resources, because it takes what.
ever 10 needs and can lay hands on. Ii has no
internal opposifics, because it tOlerates none.
TIE journal which should combat lis aims and
tendencies a. freely as tho Copperhead organ,
here oppose oac Government would he sup
pressed at once. Even in North Carolina,
where It's supporters ire minority even of the
Whites, The Roitieh S'oRdord, the old Demo.
cratic State organ. ire, had - Office demolished
Tor cautiously and tinndly opposing the rul,
and policy Of jeff. Davis. In no other Rebe
State would even the iaintest demur TO The Sc
cession programme be tolerated. Despotisu
md delusion reign mehallenged.
Yet it is false that the Rebels are fighting fol
ef.GOyernment, even by Whites. Missouri
at their call held Convention and resolved
! through II to remain in The Union: vet the
Slave Power at once commenced civil War IL
take il out. Kentucky uniformly and over
I whelmingly voted for the Union vet the Reb-
els invaded and attempted 10 subugate her be-
fore she had struck "a blow on the side OF the
Republic East Tennessee, overwhelmingly de-
voted TO the Union, was trampled under the
bloody feet Of Treason months before the Fed
cral flag vas anrolled in sight Of her secluded
mountain homes. West Virginia, conicssedly,
almost unanimously Union, was invaded by a
Rebel army before d Union regiment had been
encamped on her SOIL and before the Union had
anywhere assaulted the mastering, advancing
cohorts of Treason. To-day, fully aware that
She is overwhelmingly Unisn, the Confederate
authorities stand pledged 10 their Virginia never
to make a peace that does not cary old Virginia
back to the Ohio, making Wheeling and Par
kersburg citadels of the Slave Power II is
false, most false, therefore, that the Rebels are
fighting for the right Of Self.Goyernment;' and
fifty British Ministers and noble lords may re-
iteratc it without making it one whit truer.
| Let, then, the National Anniversary just at
hand he improved 10 quicken and brighten the