New-York daily tribune., 1864-04-11

promise line, with Slavery south OF 800 3V
lecazed to the Pacific, or take Civil War as
the alternative" Had the Longs and the
Woods and the Harrises then thrown their
weight into the scale of Convention of the
States, we could have had final adjustment Of
our differences by separation or otherwise, with
out convulsi0n OF bloodshed.
WHY did wo not have t1 Simply
because the Disunion consprators at the
South knew that they could not carry their
States with them if they gave time for assem-
bling q Convention and permitted free and
fair discussion Of all the matters in issue, and
because the Northern Democratic leaders con-
fidently expected that the Republicans would
be frightened into abjuring their principles by
flashing in their eyes tho drawn sword OF the
South. There would have been no War and no
Disunion if the Democratic leaders had united,
during the Winter ofI36O-l, in the demand for
q peaceful settlement of our troubles by such o
Convention as George Washington presided
over and Franklin, Hamilton. Madison, Roger
Sherman, Rufus King, &C., rendered illustrlous
by their wisdom and virtue.
| But the Southern Democrats would have no
Convention-no peaceful settlement of any
kind. They boosted, through Clingman, that
they were hanging 81 free debaters," 80 early as
December, 1860. They rushed South Carolina
ont of the Union at race-horse speed, from fear
that the North mouId back out Of her principles
and consent to extend Slavery in order to save
ttbe Union. They forced State after State to fol-
low ber, in fragrant defiance of the will OF Their
people, They began at once to seize forts, sub
treasures. custom-houses, mints, arsenals, rev.
enuc cutters, navy yards, and proceeded to cap
ture (through treachery) the chief military force
of the Union, perverting its arms and mater'ef
TO the uses of treason. They had thus seized
by force and violence millions worth of the
property of the Union, firing on the unarmed
steamboat sent to provision Fort Sumter, before
Mr.. Lincoln became President, and while the
Government was in tho hands Of the Demo
Gratis. Their principal thief, Floyd had filled
their arsenas with Federal arms expressly
that they might be used to destroy the
Union and its defenders, and was still steal
! ing cannon by wholesale when tho citi-
gems of Pittsburgh rose and stopped it,
And now the villains who plotted and engi-
neered this most treacherons and unproyoked
War on the Republic, with their Northern con-
iederates, cant about Peace, and represent the
loyal Statos and the Federal Government as
! having made war on the South! There never
was so impudent, so atrocOus falsehood.
We are at war because an arist0cratic cabal,
having its seat in the South, but largely coun-
tenanced and aided at tho North, conspired to
overthrow republican liberty in this country,
tcuorizing the South by violence, outrage, and
the mad-dog cry Of Abolition, parayzing the
Government through the reasonable pusil-
lanimity Of our late President and the outright
trcachery OF most Of his chief officeholders, and
because the Northern Democrats for months
conniyed at and nourished this gigantic treason,
not meaning to dissolve the Union, but conf
IDENTIFY expecting 10 debauch and disgrace their
Republican advcrsaries in our domestic poll
| ties That 8 why we are at-xar.
Mr.. Longs entire speech ignores the loyal
people Of the South, as Of no more account than
cattle. He talks as though the Unionsts of the
Slave States had no right to any consideration
whatever. He would acknowledge the iride-
pendencc of the South" but does not tell US
that he would surrender heroic East Tennessee
to fire and sword at the hands Of the vengeful
traitors, nor that he would give up loyal West
Virginia to her deadly foes; nor that he would
let reclaimed Arkansas, Louisiana, and the
loyal thousands of North Alabama and Northern
Mississippi go under the feet Of the traitors who
have already stained their soil with the blood Of
their bravest and best. SO base speech as
Long's-so full of perversion, fraud and wicked.
ness-had not been made in Congress before,
since Burnett and Breckinrdge fed to the trail
tors who owned them.
On Mr.. Colfax's motion, on Saturday, that
Mr.. Long be expelled from the House for hav-
ing-in palpable violation Of the oath sworn by
him on taking his seat-deliberately uttered
language calculated to encourage and aid the
Rebels now in arms avowedly TO dissolve the
Union, Messrs. BENZ. g. Harris of Maryland
and Fernando Wood Of this city expressed their
fullest concurrence in the sentiments of Mr..
Long; Mr.. Harris-amons much language of
kindred import-declaring that
"The South asked you 10 let them live in peace but
no. you said you would bring them into subsection.
That is not done yet. and God Ainii9hfy grant that
Kerer may be-! Ih0ps you piH nero sEtHsate me SOln
Mr.. Fernando Wood of this city (elected by
the cOnnivance Of Judge Barnard, with full
knovledge of bis yiews) EXPRESSED his entire