New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-06


through those mistakes so potcrt that resistance
is vain' Must we submit TO deIcat. not through
the inherent strength Of our opponents, but IN
succumbing to the weakness which We our
selves have generated and nuuurcdi L. there
no hope left for US
Not so. Our cause to-day is stronger than ever
before. Letus understand and acknowledge that
this apprehension OF the future had It's origin IN
our unmanly fears, and not in the actual condi-
ton of affairs. The Administration TO day Is
precisely what it was, and what VIC knew 1t was,
siS months-a yoar-two ycari-agc. II 10 not
that il has developed any new characteristics,
but that we, through impatience and tho eyre
g;ous folly Of eItfayagont expectations, have
been called upon TO meet new disappointmonts.
We have met them every year-evcry SIX
the war begun; We have met
them and overcome them braydy, with, at the
end Of each period, new triumphs TO encourage
and strengthen us. Shall We give up in despair
when so near the end 7 We might. indeed, have
a better Administration; We might have one, Oh
the other hand, Il thousand tines worse. We
shall have worse before We hare better.
But it is too lalo now to tlko new de-
pGrime. We must accept the situation with
All lis difficulties. If the Administration
wants yigor give it yigor, if itwants earnest
ness, give it carnesiness; if i wants under
standing, give it understanding. Infuse
it with peoples viii; inygorats it with o pco-
pies courage; reinforce it with peoples conf
dence; oyerwhelm it with peoples determine
ton that Treason and Slavery shall never pre-
val against them, but that both shall DO tram
pied under their feet. But mvcr desert it.
Never let its Shortcomings, its weaknesses, It's
short-sightcdnoss, and its delays, defeat us. God
knows it might have done better God alone
knows how much worse it might have done We
know, at least, that with it we have come well
nigh to the overthrow Of the Rebellion; weknow
that, with aliltle more patience, ltilemore en-
ergy, little more courage, We shall soon come
10 its utter overthrow. The end isnear; the good
and the true end is certain if wo are faithful TO
choice is no longer ours. whether We Will throw
them aside aud Try new oncs. We must do this
work with such az we have or not 10 il at all.
five throw them aside and abandon the work
to other hands, where are wei Alas who
does not know The best that can he,ali n in
a Copperhead triumph is Decentralization
first between the North and the South, to meet
thereafter, as hes, We may, the question Of new
boundaries, to be settled by new wars. the East
and the West, tie Pacific aud the Atlantic coast
auayed against each other. o., if Union shall
be maintained, II will bc q Union that shall
mean only annexation; the North ticd-ted
holding Couioderacy, the appendage to an oil
garchy Of Shareholders; Slavery made legal all
over the North aud West, both States and Ter
ntorics; the assumption OF the Confederate debt
National Debt TO be liquidalcd solely by
Northern taxation; the right OF suifaEn depiod
~ Northern lah..-iur mon, rstruHiun of roprc-
.eniatiOn 70 the owners OF slaves;-in short, any
hing that JEFF DAVIS and his fcllow-couspi.a-
tor, may choose to demand a. tho price % ON
,ubm. ..or. "a tie terms on which they viii
pgree to grant uspoace and pardon. They may
have us on thcir own terms; for there arc none
so eyaciing, none 30 degrading, mono 80 base,
ina, their Northern allies viii not grant On
promise Of being admitted to be fed once more
Oh the crumbs that fall from their masters
table.
Choose YET For our part, We have chosen.
Better perpetual dinner Of herbs than the
stalled OK in such company-thOugh, for that
matter but little Of the stalled OK would fall %
tho share Of those who believed in fighting foi
the Union. Ilencciorih. we 1y the banner Of
4 DRAHAM LINCOLN for the next Presidency,
choosing that far rather than The D.sunion and
a quarter Of a century Of war;. or tho Union aud
political seIyitude which our opponents would
give us. Let the country shake oil its apathy;
let it realize what is the price Of deleat-a price
neither we nor the world can afford; let it be
how near we are 10 the end Of the
Rebellion, and that 10 choice is left Us now but
'N' i''''l "i''V"' l"' ''"""' ""-u'' "" '""' VIZ"
hat We can and must finish II. We grant, from
our own convictions, much that can be said in
criticism Of the present Administration; ior the
sake Of argument, we viii grant anything tina,
any honest and loyal man ansay. And then this
is our rejonGer-Mr. Lincoln has done seven.
eighfhs OF the work after his fashion,; there must
be yigor aud virtue enough left in him to do the
other fraction. Tho work is in his hands, If il
passes out Of them, it viii be- as there are no