New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-12-20
SLAVERY GIVEN OVERTIME con-
sTITUTIONAL AMENDmENT.

Washington, the gist of most important leader
from Tie Richmond Enquirer Of last Friday,
calling Oh the Confederate authorities to abolish
Slavery and attempt to save the Rebellion by
filing mp the ranks Of its armies with negroes.
" Gen. Lee asks that this experiment be made
saws Tie Enquirer; and paragraph not con-
tanned in our dispatch states that this request
had been made in letter to tie Hon. w. forcher
Miles Of s. c., Chairman Of the House Military
Committee. Ii is therefore clear tina! the Rebel
Gcncralissimo not only perceives but admits that
the Shareholders Rebellion is playe out-tha',
unless it can be propped up by negro bayoncts'
and thus made matter Of miSccgcnation. It's
collapse and downfall are imminent
Simultaneously with the appearance OF this
sign of woe" from Richmond, the Copper
head oracle in our City gives formal warning
ihat Slavery is ovcrboard-that It's Northern
scryitors in the past must now stand from I'M
der, or be buried beneath its ruins. In leader
exhorting it, disciples to devote their attention
and their efforts TO matters of Finance, The
Uodd says:
lone -cason why the thoughts OF the party should be
turned into this channel Is that il involves que lions
which cannot grow obsolete with tie lapse o tmt'
while some Of the sues in tho late elcCtiph may De
fore another Presidential Election tie Abolition qn'S
tion, for example r'. Probatiy ., IN sEe $40. H ~
idres r rot Gpiy. AZ the problem ddrdnees on0'd as
predeemiacd sOLgiiop. sha see public opinion more
and disposed 10 ac7Hissoe IA IL: Ed've w"deH'y
Of errrfs Before the expiration OF itH new lease ui
power the Republican pnity viii have secured c"i.St
GtOnc amendment for the ouiIc eItrp',oD oi SaIcy
in tic United SUITES II the So1th should meanwhile
gain independence. Slavery can be- NO longer ones
ton OF Federal politics bu Il We disarm southern re
siSiauce the auti-Slayery amendment VIII have been
pm, in force and have dorc its work before The Demo
cratc party be in power Nay should r parry b'Sa
is.L ftO q dtad o0rP0'
Unless the Democratic party Is blind enough Ia run
the hazard of disiuiegraon IL must distinguish between
question virtually serlsa and questions lat sun rrsn
O.. IL must far keep pace with events ss to hcert
tle.r logic Public opinion has efficiency without
political combination; but for masses large enough t.
foir q majority act IN concert. thought mast b. eit
free on III Questions those which rdnk Hs iyiBf.
vital issues The number who oppose the Addition OF
Sayeiy (now @ minority i' not likely 10 GRIN terra, Dot
groN lass with the progress OF time. Every Demo
Graf can OF course hold whatever opinion he chooses
on that subject. such opinions are 10 LONGER "f me
ttst polite congo, tenco lndVldual I'cI-ocfnls
" tLnk what tlry pleas; hut the subject must DC
dsa .sci From the rnc OF topics on which me- party i
expected e. lave distinctive views. ILoIe l. 10 con
c,ythr position thN slavery question on rlica ne
D,horra,.r priv can p.cn. f's and bscot majority.
It's ctdcrt. md aofs as well as H. fcstoct
for Constitution as 4 s;nds forbid II I" become a.
Abolition psgty; thu progress OF events and the ten
dor~r Il public opinion - wen RS the Constuto on ~
tt Iil iifJ which II Is ccTias "a be 0rchd d. yOtd
to c,asrH dse 10 Tic Jo,fnes cf moribaad iasiHHoa.'
Whatever may hc said OF the morality or
chiyalry of the above extract its saGacity is
undenable. Slavery is in The article Of death;
il would he rather u good joke if the Rebels
should get rid of il before We DO; but they are
very likely to do it. And, once fairly coiiincd,
it viii have smaller and drycr-cycd following
of mourners than my illustrious criminal
who has preceded il on the way to :" the house
appointed for all the living" Thousands shall
| lovly presume that the South is q unit III ianat
zeal devotion to its giant curse; when. to say
nothing of The negroes, there never was time
when very large proportion of the Southern
Whites, including their w;'est and best, did not
feel and know that Slavery was their banc aud
curse But the Shareholders held the reins of
power; they could and did emothcr expression
ibutnot thought; so the car of Juggernaut rolled
on, over PROSTATE, crushed, inwardly shudder-
ling while yolurly adoring mulGtudes. Slavery
once admitted to be dead, the secrets Of that
giant prison-nouge viii be revealed, and thou-
sand. will learn thar those whom they have re-
lealdcd rs id0laicr, Of tie Southern Moloch,
were at heart is deadly foes all elong.
Nosanc person ever can have believed Slavery
in accord with the Golden Rule, but mi! lions have
fanced it personally advantageous. Some de-
rived pecunary profit from their relation to
it; Others deemed ii the ladder whereOn they
climbcd TO social cmuencc. II was on TINS
ground that the Southern women became more
fanatical in their devotion % it than their hus-
bands aud brothers; women being, as class.
more aristocratic-that is, placing ahighorvalue
on social distinctioD-than men. 1t il quiie
probable tia, the 5inccrcst and most persistent
conte-untfs of Emancipation VIII he found. among
the white half-si.tcrs of those whom IL make
free Bui, Slavery once dead, the great bulk ci
our native-bon dougbiaCcs viii protest that
they neyer believed in nor favored ii--tbar thcy
only stood mp for The Union aud The Cons;iu-
ton. And, 50 that we have Freedom, Union
and Peace, we shall not be- inclined 10 controyeh
their assertions on point which viii have b.
come wholly inunucriaL