New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-12
NO CAUSE or ACTION.

NO CAUSE OF AtIlON.
Gen. Curtis, in one of bis late Kansas pro-
nunciamientos, positively announces to all con-
cerned that "there is not enough OF the negro
left to quarrel about" We beg leave to call
the attention Of all Copperhead colorphobsts TO
this cheering statement, and to ask them, if il
be true, why it should not moderate the rancor
Of their re2 The thesis upon which they have
layished 40 much rhetorical acerbity, viz:
" Whether the Black Man be equal to the White
Mann" does not very imperatiyely demand
manipulation and solution, If, with native po-
lteness, the Black Man has been so good as to
vanish into vacancy. This, upon his part,
would clearly be returning good for evil. For
q great many years he has been told that he was
a nuisance and q beast, and now we are in
formed that he has 30 TO speak, abated himself
We do not with that we could believe lido
his ayowed enemies Can they afford TO give
mp their stock-in-tradc, their pet-cry, the little
leayen which has leayened the whole lump Of
their canticles and cogitationsl What is a
Copperhead if he cannot rail at Blacks, quote
twisted and locked and distorted Scripture
against them, derive political theories from the
curvature OF their shins, aud regulate legisla-
ton by the angle Of their iaces'--if he cannot
accuse them of passion for Sitting Caucasian
wcasands If he cannot dilaie upon the demon
alizing effects, moral and physical, Of amalga-
nation How can the Copperhead quarrel if
he has not the negro to quarrel about And
how can the Copperhead live without quar-
relngl
For our own part we must FAY that we cannot
wholly agree with Gen. Curtis that there l.
not enough Of the negro left to quarrel about, "
for between earnest and honest and lucid
minded men, and the crazy and fanatical knight
erraut, Of sabteruge and compromise, there
must always be a positive and hopeless diod-
grecmert. 20 long as the hitter sigh for the status
qno, and will not understand or AZ least admit
that they understand, that the Rebellion has
return 10 the old policy, which 10 our dreadful
cost NO have found utterly lalacious, L. hap
PLY for our future, logical impossibility.. II
was much that the Rebellion made emncipa-
ton "a necessity in the minds Of the prudent and
agaciou-: but il wa- more, that Rebellion also
severed the Gordan puzzle of the Constitution.
and rendered the enfranch-ement OF the slave
a measure 10 which The most narrow-mlndcd
lawyer could find no objection in hi, books or
his brains But this Is view Of the ease from
which too many, otherwise patriotic, are yet
shrinking. Too many Northern men have been
50 cmnnely educated in poltroonery, some
times by certain puipits and sometimes by GER
tain presses that they are less capable than
children OF graphing with the problem Of the
hour, and cling in this day of enormous and in
eyitah'c changes, 10 obsolete formulas. and
shake, even while the sun OF truth Is rising
with nocturnal tlemors. We shall not think
that there il not enough of the negro lcft 20
quarrel about" until II are well rid OF our heh-
ihcuibh prcjudice-, and accep, the puzzle Of
races d, one which oaD only be- solved b. honor
and houe-'r
The Leaders Of IN, Rebellion might. IN the
consistency OF thcrpnrposes and their unHinch-
ing adherence to idsltul error, teach us les
-ol o. fidelity 10 Tine fixed truth. which mus,
inform every effort to accomplish a genuine
peace. There j. something magnificent in thc
auioc.ty scmi-ciyi.lcd o. 10 is. with which the
Rebel Sa,rLollcr dc!ng all religion and
morality, all philosophy and economy, cling
20 Slavery q, fhe modest OF social institutions to
be- accepted without any why, and defended to
the death withou. any wherefore. Why cannot
vr, uu-turrd ina noblcr doctrine and coutending
iu u iolIrr and hmsncr Eau sr. exhibit perliua-
cts equally inyulucrlhlr aud a filth equally
answering Are Tie dogmas Of civilization
worth no more than The brute dreams OF quasi
barbarian Can thc conservation Of q hideous /
error excite an enthusiasm which Truth i
uowrrl.-s Ia impart 10 her yotaricsl Then lef /
"a, pull down our churches, burn our colleges. /
drmm'lc our school-hou,es, break up our print /
ing pr, cs rcnouucc our religion and cultivate I
barbar 90 with love which it would be but
mocaery 10 bcttow upon the show, and dcn.
,.ons of an imaginary progress
lis very hard Tor us 10 believe The in,urgeut
when lie tells II. that he is in the !
field in support of Slavery. lie, God help him /
has no quAlms OF conscience and no dcicacy in |
publ hing his motives. lie admits TO the world
that Human Boudls, is the beginning, the mid
dl., and tie end OF ,hc whole controversy. lie
does not conceal nor attempt TO conceal that,
slavery out of the question, he would have
nothing left 10 fight Tor. We sag then that