New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-11
. REAets..

Cox. Seymour, in his late Message, saw Ia
to assert unqualihedly that
''lgiso sta,esmansl'p can BOW bring this Wer 20 :
close 0ooL The terms sllcmny avowed ~ ne 0Nisei ol
Tie cont 81.
Coy. seymour does not state this as his IN
ference from facts known 20 all, but as ahso-
lately truc. We Immediately demanded the
production Of evidence; but none is given On
The contrary, we have negative proof that it is
either false or has 80 recently become true that
il YVES baseless when uttered. Let ~ adduce
it.
Tie Daily Mars, issued INCUR City, and ed
tied by a member Of the Union Congress, is
owned and directed by Mr.. Benjamin Wood,
whose thorough sympathy with the Rebels hes
never been disguised. il IS his boast that hC
never voted man nor dollar for the prosecu.
ton Of the War for the Union; while his col
umns have repeatedly borne testimony TO HI:
fidelity TO every dogma on which The Rebellion
| is based-the eternal fitness Of Slavery; the
! Right of Secession; No Coercion. &c. &c.
Tie Albany Ersaing Joaraa' does not more uni'
! 0rnr reflect the view and sentiments of Gov.
seward o, TIE Ai5ony 1rgas those Of Eraetus
Coruing, than does Tie Do,iy Ne'rs mirror those
/ OF Jciie. on Davis. During the whole period
of its existence, Tie Ncics, so lar as We have
observed. has never contained an original para
graph That Davis or Berrcgard could object to-
Inayel a. We remember, praising any Of our
Generals but cClelan--ceriainly no one who
Ieagerly fought and decidedly vanWshed tho
Rebels. The Washington report that one Of
our Civ journal had recently exacted a subsidy
from he Rebel chiefs or from their sympa!hizers
in Washington or Baltimore, if true at oil, must
OF corrc nave related q, The Ners
Now TIE Ne,es is Just as wcll posted with ~
card to what the Rebel chiefs arc willing to do
rs amy loyal Journal cen be- with regard to The
plans and purposes Of our own Government,
and is quite unlikely 70 misstate them. Yet It
is but q few days since, on publishing y rather
old letter from r. Butler King intimoiing that
the South might return TO the Union if she
could have ~ The guarantees she wanted for
eternal and universal Slavery, Tic Ners
pontedlv disscntcd from that intimation, im-
ll,lying that she would be satisfied wish nothing
less than independence. And, while rOnndly
conGennng our Government for not ALLOWING
Aleck Stephens TO come to Washington in bis
Confederate gunboat, The Neies 10 now arguing
that the South can make no orerturcs-thal
we OUCH 10 send commissioners TO Richmond
10 sue lor peace at thc Rebels hands. II asA.,
il the Editor OF The TRIBUNE is
not ashamed as Northcrner 20 admit That i1'
North il n1ng negotiation in thg hour OF rs military
supremacy could DC morally affected u Us prejudice -
me- sotn would be IL The invitation emanatcd nom iha
SOUTH Tor The stronger party 10 Irogose no8ol'ioI
magnlnmirY; for the weaker party. II IS the sisl
Voc knees and irresoluij0ns @e &c.
This il rather clever dodge, but ii won'i
answer For when we, one year ago, werC
anxioasly seeking some tangible evidence o.
Rebel inclination to a just and honorable peace
and when the Editor Of The NeiOs might have
communicated with JEFF. Davis at least once q
gcek--(wc DO not say, for We do not know
10 he did)--there was, even then, no NH
maiaa or specific terms OF any kind, proposed
on behalf Of the Rebels, though we had JUS
been repnlsed, with terrible slaughter, at Fred
ericksburg 10 tho East and at Vicksburg in th,
West. The point Of honor was not then II
the way; the Rebels might have proposed
terms without mourning prejudice" or in any
degree admitting that they were " the weaker
party" If they had had any terms to propose
hsn that they supposed would be acceptable Il
even tho Democrats Of the North, We SHOULD
have forthwith seen those terms blazofed in Tn
Daily Ners. But none were forthcoming il
their hour of prosperity, and we presume none
will be in their day Of adversely.
Had the Slave Power chosen to defeat Mr.
| Lineoln il could easilv have doue 80. Had i