New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-22

of adjusting such strifes as that now convul@ng
this country otherwise than through the cotton
of the constituted or recognized authorities on
either side. And we hold the chief obstacle to
tho pacification Of our country to be the abject
submission of the Southern Whites to tho sway
Of Jefferson Davis and his cOnfederates in the
wicked, wanton, causclesS Inauguration OF this
atrocious war. Let those Whites evince dis
position to treat with US otherwise than through
Davis g. Co. and we warrant its prompt recip-
rocation.
The Inidlgeneer proceeds to cay that
"As there were many who. at tho beginning Of tho
agitation avowed their Willingness 70 reier an
Questions at issue between the North and the SCUM
10 the arbitration OF National Convention so at every
stage Of the which has followed 1t has been suppoS-
ed that whatever might be lite results National Con
yention would be called TO lodjus our organic polcy
with reference 20 the altered relations LETT by the war
And regard be had 10 the subject mttcr OF the dissen
sions out Of which the war grew II wop'd soem that
they could In substance and m FORM BE- most properly
nsyed bv free conference Of the States composing tho
Union The foundations IL the Union were laid by such
Convention. and it is the only body which Is compe
tent readus the bases Of that Union. portion oil
the people In the States have sought to su6ye these
bases by violence and violence Oh the one side has De
gotten violence the other. until in the confusion Of
the horrd fray II would seem tar we ns,e iorso'''n
every other umpirsgo bat that of the sword
We assent to the above, but feel constrained
to add that The Inteiigeaesr unfairly withholds
from its readers a knowledge of the fact that not
only did The TRIBUNE but President Lincoln,
and the entire Republican party. through III
Representatives in tho "Pea0e Conference anc
otherwise, propose TO submit "all questions al
Issue between the North and the South 10 The
arbitrament Of National Convention" in thu
Spring of 1861, before one drop of blood had
been split or dollars worth of property de
stroyed in this most needless war. But not only
did the Secessionists repel any such arbitrament
but tie Uaionists also Of The fnteiligeneer's typ'
rallied all their forces to vote IL down--eyel
Kentucky, which had originally proposed thii
resort, now voting solid against it. Had sinai
fraction of the democrats" and "Conserva
tives" been then willing TO call and abide by thu
action of National Convention, wherein they
were morally certain to have u large majority
we shoud have had one; but al our oyerturei
in that direction were repealed and rejected
Had The InteUigenc,r then thrown It's influence
into the Convention scale, we think 1t NIGH
have prevailed. But that journal, with its fellow
Conservatives" had one only alternative FOL
Civil War-and that was farther shasement o
the North Of the footstool of the Slave Power
through its consent to and completely in an ex
tension Of Slave Territory. The one only re-
quiremcnt which the North could neither in
honor nor in conscience submit 20 was presented
TO US as the sole alternative for disunion and
wholesale carnage. Thank God that the North
though loving Peace and loathing War--did
not quail before that terrible option