New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-14


Van Tassells, and thenceiorward il ceased to be
indigenous. No ships are rottingat our wharves
in idlcness--none drifting, filled with dead, to
shores where all are dumb The last man has
not been seen, moping fugitive in any of oui
streets. The banks, with our other moneyed
institutions, have not gone up; neither have the
railroads gone down. Winter sends no keener
SILVER through the rags which alone were to
clotho us. Famine has not shapened oul
features; neither have the sans culottes been
bawling through our streets the frgbtiul de-
mand of bread OF blood. The fleets which lie
at anchor in our harbor are the representatives
of foreign Governments who sympsthize with
Us. The hostile ones have not yet arrived
they are not even on the way to US. Sackcloth
is at discount; silks at o premium. Thanks
giving day comes oftener than aforetime; and as
to what Christmas has been, consult the CASH
books of the jewelers. the fancy stores, the book
sellers, and the candy men. We eat as heartily
and drink as copiously as ever. Dividends
were never more consolatory, coupons never so
abundant 1t is certain that we still live.
Men are chemically prophetic, but prophecy
is peculiar outpouring of the South. If the
seers Of the old dispensation were few, the stiff
necked generations of the day discovered that
they were at least TO be depended on. Not 30
with the soothsayers of the new dispensation.
Like their impudent predecessors of uncirnt
Oh loo M mo far IN IA.
completely one prediction may be proved a
sham. a fresh one succeeds it. Ignorant aud
oreduous. the masses adopt il and believe in IT,.
Over every village press there is presiding
prophet-every grogshop has its crowd Of such
the Rebel Congress is body Of prophets.
Yet a consciousness of its impotent charlatan-
ism never enters the Southern mind. What d
catalogue Of disclaimers We have already given
it will be longer at thei next review. 1t is
possible that, in the crowd Of great events which
have been jostling each other within three years
past, some honest minds may have forgotten
the predictions SO continuously put forth by the
braves of rebellion. 1t is possible that some
despite their overshadowing abSurdity, may
have been duped into believing them. They
we're numberless and ferocious. From the
foundation OF the Government, the South had
hcctored and triumphed. 1t was natural that
timid minds--not 10 speak Of corrupt ones
should cover before the new wrath of the old
bully, and believe that the threat would be en-
forced and the cloud Of predictions fulfilled.
A. We nov realize their absurdity, 80 may We
smile at the ignorance aud folly which alone
could have melted them. This city Wa TO be
ruined by ceaaing to be the isStf for the cotton
crop. The men who were growing rich by traf-
ticking in Southern bills, the equivalents Of cot
ton, sugar, rice end tobacco, were To be made
idle By the ces alton of Southern trade, aud
poverty was 10 follow. Our foundcries, our
mschine-shops, al our diversified manufactures.
were 70 be struck dead because that trade was
to cease. We had relied upon the South for a
market--it took everything, from sn anchor to
q goosc-yoke. Grass was TO grow In every
street, imports and exports were to cease, ships
were 10 rot inactive a, the wherYes, real estate
was 70 become drug, the entire community
was TO be made insolvent, ell banking capital
was TO disappear in the wreck, and furnishing
mobs were TO traverse the city demanding bread
as the condition Of ebstaning from blood. New
England was to share in this carnival OF ruin.
II should no longer grow rich by Cutting the
South with its manufactures. Cotton would
command all such from European centcrs, and
at lower prices. as Free Trade would hereafter
be Joint poteniate. The whole North WAS 10
be destroyed.
These are bat incidental figures -hetched by
slayeholding venom on The great tsbleau of
Rebellion. The havoc thus predicted was
looked for, prayed for, fought for with malig-
nant c,uliation. ii the Stakeholder desired
Independence, they longei even more for North
ern ruin. We must not only acknowledge them,
bat We mus, be beggared also. The wish being
paramount, il was easy TO prophecy in harmony
II not terrified by slGyeholdmr brsyado. We
might he made "a hesitate a mo prospect at
universal pauperiSin. But the delusim under
which rebellion thus became cra1cd, was appa-
rent 10 the North from the beginning. The re-
sui. wa Ia be- dependent nn single issuc-
would the North share in the dolnsion and be-
come equallya traitor ~ The Eepublic' Ii il
remained loyal, il was evident that Northern
manufactures could better sustain them5elye.,
deprived Of q Southern marhct, thnn could w.,
South without their producers. The SOuih
'ncered ~ the possibility of blockade,
hun The North knew that II wse coming. Her
people meyer contemplated the consequences 81
thar shutting out Ncw. England, and Of an,