New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-25


The war was entered upon with Tue ''". Cry,
Ma,atoin NE Tnion; sare ne e0""py. ijut in
proportion as the North Was defeat =, q. ns it el,
all the force md resistance q n. i.,S!e was in d.
South, its eyes were opeT H. tle North had 70.
provoked the war the North had not violated the
Constitution; II No,sh had threatened the South
neither IN liberty, nor lis privileges nor i's m
teres'' It lad never attributed to Itself the fish'
h ,opch Slavery, Il had recocd before 'ho n'ag"'-
,ndo Of the question; bu' the struggle once COM
meuced. j, asked itself what causes had bTousn'
ahout this frstricdal war which cost il 80 nnch
HOOD. 30 many tears, so many sacrliees. worn
answered everything, it was Slavery It was tha'
gum OF all viiiainies, rs the pious WESLEY )ns'iy
called IT, that had led Oh the South to ct}nln' me
Greatest of crimes 1t was for the interest q! it,
selfshness and ambition that the South had pitt
lessly destroyed the work of Washington and ihd
violent hands on the country.
The evil once recognized, IL sought tho remedy
Mr.. LINCOLN was the interpreter Of the national
wish when, to the maintenance Of the Union as the
end Of the war, he added the abolition of Slavery.
The two things hold togetber-so Ions as there is
slave on tho soil of free America, the Union win be
Only word. The nation viii always be on the eve
Of new explosion.
What signifies this word Union' Isit simply
the juxtaposition on the same territory OF men d.
vided In sentiments, ideas and interests Is on
the contrary, a community Of men With the same
faith and the same will To put the question is to
resolve il. Why does the inlabitant Of Maine or
Connecticut feel himself the fellowcountryman and
friend OF tho farmer on the shores Of Lake Superior
OF the Pacifci Because both have The same faith
and the same love, both know nothing but liberty.
But viii the laborous, economical Yankee, jealons
of common equality, ever live tremendously with
the planter who lives By domination, who despises
labor, and who knows no night but his strength and
passonl 1t is impossible. Between the demoe-
raey Of labor and the aristocacy Of iGleness, be-
tween fee community and u seryile community,
there is al abyss that nothing can fill up. The
ffst the only condition that the Union may be re
established in lasting manner. is that Slavery
shall disappear and that liberty sall give TO all the
Same interests the same duties, the same faith and
the same country.
! Such is the policy supported by Er. LINCOLN; IL
is tho only one that is reasonable because IL Ia the
Z N.~ 49,
commenced the struggle. For more than thirty
years, despite continual threats and dsquieude, II
bowed before the privileges Of the Sonth. Through
respect for the Constitution, IL endured everything.
But now that these privileges have brought forth
civil war, the North would be Insane If il did not
profit by lite very misfortune 70 uproo. and aHnili-
late Slavery and 70 destroy aris'ocray at the same
blow by the establishment Of liberty. Let no one
mistake the meaning of my wcrds-it is lot
the men ci the South that I Dcan, it is the
fatal institution that las blinded and de-
ssroycd them. I do not approve Of all the
measures that have been taken in the North;
blame confscstion which no longer belongs 10 our
time; do not ike TO hear Of transform. INTO
territories the sscres that ask to re...fn to the
Unan; have no tssto for vi'ience nor for equsl-
ity. Let men end property be treated with cons dera
ton, let interests be compounded let the prcdigal
child that returns TO the ps,ernai house be rec;vee
with open arms let all the Inisled be offered SIN
cere amnesty, nothing 90 better; RELIGION. nu-
manity, interest, properly understood. denand it;
but LEI there be no grace fer Slavery. lfyou do not
kill it, IL viii kinyo
| This policy, it viii be said, is that which tia
North hes sought TO follow; 1t has not succeeded.
The eesatry is exhausted by -four years of slaughter
and calamities IL Il further edvanoed than at ths
I beginning Of events
admit that this policy bas not succeeded on the
first day; but where, except on the stage, DO You
see injustice punshod in On hour, and virtue reoom-
pensed as soon as IL has suffered II is very dif-
ferent IN roll life. To oxtrpate rooted injustice
to expel privilege and violence from community
long efforts grieyous sacrifices are needed. 1t Ia
1.-The e1pisuon which God inHicts On those who
through weakness, have long oovenaRted with evil
no sometimes obsges children to suffer FOX The
crimes which theiz ancestors dti not stifc in the
infancy. .f.Ir
If tho North has not yet finished the war, ia 4
true that IL has not advanced 1T Have not Mary
land, Western Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky
Missouri, returned TO the Uaionf Is ii not mastc
of Louisiana, of Arkansas, and Of the of tn
Mississippi Is tho forosie entry Of tho hsTbor o
Mobile nothing, is the capture Of Atlanta nothing
is the army OF GRANT clinging to the TANKS o
I9z's army ard holding him iu,movable in Rich
mand nothng' Despite the courage of its soldiers
the energy and talent. Of its generate, the South
painting fer breath; it has no longer an army o
reserve, victory viii not save it, new campaign
may epd.t. All its hopes are destroyed. Itcountes
On the needs Of Europe, on tho sei6shness of manu-
features, on the jealousics OF England. To fnisl
| the work which it had begun, to rend tho countr.
asunder, 1t needed the assistance of foreign powers
/ kaeiea powers have failed it. King Cotton wss 4
bring ~ the feet Of the South neccssitous AM
interested Europe; King Cotton 10 to-day dethIonc'