New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-25
uruOCRATIC DIsUNION.

DEnOChA1AC
The venerable Alex. b. johnson, of Utica,
now the Nestor of the New York Democracy,
has lust issued in pamphlet form one of his oc-
casional pastorals, entitled "The Approaching
Presidential Elections: Respectfully Inscribed
to the Chicago Convention" AS Mr. johnson
argued few years since that the North was I'M
lust and ungcnerous in refusing TO acquiesce
and cooperate in extending the area of Slavery,
so he now argues that the Union as it was
cannot DO restored-that a Convention of the
States is q futility-and that there can be no
other issue Of our great struggle than the tn
umphant establishment of tho Shareholders
Confederacy. He thinks nothing can prevent
Mr.. Lincolns reelection; sbut large Demo-
cratic vote, polled distinctly for an anti-war,
anti Union, Peace. at-once platform, may con-
duoo to an early recognition of tho Confederacy.
Mr. johnson says:
"whe he fLnoo,nl Ia thus certain Of rejection,
large public for peaceful separation will he OF In
estimabe service This and the exhaustion OF the conn
try In men and money will convince him that war can
not restore the Union and his declaration 70 that effect
will establish its truth TO the satisfaction OF the people
aud nothing else can. His aphorism. that we can
not fight always will then receive Its realization. bs
practical shrewdness will see that peaceful separation
our best alternative and 1t will be consummated where
by we shall soon enjoy renewed commerce, greater
than ever before because tho South will become more
prosperous and richer than previously Labor both here
and there longer m0uOpozed for purposes OF destruc
ton. will resume its productive energies; unnersni
plenty will bring again universal content o both sections
and with content will grow again universal friendship
CONSUMPTION will longer alright us; ccnscrs oil The
press Will disappears taxgatherers gi granuap Ieiai
tba ,urnp
industry; snd though the map of our country
will DO abridged shall retain all the men and means
which made u.s. during the war the foremost nation OF
the eaThstrOngcr and moro prosperous than ever De-
fore for shall be. for the first time IN homogeneous
people Our conscienoes will be relieved. also from
completely with Slavery and It's sin will be transferred
TO ONLY tho guilty participants We shall awake IA from
troubled dream find the world large enough Tor two
confedoracies; and when the clergy OF both SECTIONS
shall again preach the blessed gospel Peace on earth
and good will toward men. the awakened ieehnss VI
all hearers may drop tear tho past and strive 10
| forgive and, If possible, forget
The fatal error OF suoh dreamers az MI.
johnson is their sublime contempt for facts.
Having first determined upon their conclusions,
they adapt their premises thereto. without be-
traying suspicion that they may possibly be
unsound and deceptive. Mr.. johnson has
made up bis mind that tho Rebellion ought 10
succeed-tlAt there ought TO be distinct Ma
ton on this continent based on Human Slavery
as its 'corner-stone.' To justify this conclusion,
he assumes that there is distinct, definite, easily
and thoroughly separabe region. known as " the
South, which is unanimously devoted TO Slav-
cry, and anxious that its public policy shall be
based on and directed toward extending. fortify-
ing and perpetuating Human Bondage; while ALL
other equally distinct'and definite region. known
as "the North, unanimously cherishcs directly
antagonistic policy. Now, if the facts were 80,
we should entirely concur in Mr. Johnson's de-
duction but they emphatically arc not. If all
who love and cherish Slavery could be set OIL
into separate nation. leaving tho remaining
United States utterly free from that inhuman,
blaspLemous hercsy, VIC should rejoice at the rid
dance, and ask nothing better than To let the
rival powers stand side by sido in peaceful and
friendly rivalry no long a. should DO needed to
demonstrate incontestably and forever the supo-
riority of Free OF of Slave society. But nothing
like this is attainable. We cannot 30 divide our
country as not 10 leave dcvoteos Of Slavery and
champions of Impartial Freedom in either por-
ton. There are West Virginia and East Ten
nessee, to say nothing Of Kentucky and Missou-
ri which plapt themselves directly arcoss the
track of Mr. Johnson's theory. and Stubbonly
refuse to be put aside. There is Louisiana, half
reclaimed 10 Free Labor, and unwilling to be
replunged into the abyss whence she has so
nearly escaped And here are Bishop Hopkins,
franklin Pierce, William u. Reed. Rodman NJ.
Price, c. l.. yauandigham, Daniel Marcy. Win.
Beach Lawrence, Wilbur +. Storey, Thomas
Ii. Seymour, and ever so many more,
who love their country much, but Slavery far
more, SO that their sympathies and their good
wishes are with the Rebels and against those
who are fighting for the Union. If, when JEFF.
Dayis's empire were established, they would all
go and live in it, that would present q tcmpta-
ton to favoring it, bu. they will do no such
thing. Let them succeed in getting the Con-
federacy recognized tomorrow, and they would
DC intriguing next day to induce their several
States one by one to sneak into it, making ey.
cry State Slave State and our whole country
all American Dahomey. Mr.. johnson means
well, but he discusses matters that he does not
fully and clearly comprehend.