New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-10
HAS HISTORY ANY RIGHTS {,

aged to spell it hor-ich, critic observed that
he lad made Just twelve misunderstanding out
the five right letters and putting in seven wrong
ones instead. The pro-Slayery, pro-Rebel com
mentators on our great struggle habitually mi
tate this functionarys mistake. Their logic is
well enough, were it not for the sublime au-
dacitv of their contempt for the most notorious,
momentous incontrovertible facts Thus Our
Own Correspondent of Tie Times O.ondon)
writing from this City on the 18th ult. OF the
surrender of Lee and the inevitable collapse OF
the Confedcraoy, says Of the yictors in this con-
test, that
Taking courage from the example Of the French,
o cs,obh unity az we'll rs union although the result
of unity is as likely in their in that Of any other
people 20 lc military dcspotism the North Deliberately
sacrificed it, rich Inheritance OF dominion over seIi III
order to purchase dominion over others IL was not so
much because Slavery was considered crime OF MS
take for not ten In lundred throughout tue Norm
New England Cxcepted-weIe Abolitioniss when inc
war beran Int because the institution Of Slavery was
local. and would not yield to Federal authority that
the peope ahAions TO become nation FOR the hrt time
in heiT history waged hOsitics against Their slave
holdn, bcihfen with such vgor aud pctinaclty Inc
trumr of the North is in fact triumph OF the heNo
lutoui. over the Conservatives. The war was var
against me ideas the principles ana tue pSvc ., 'e
colonial rebels who conquered American hdcpe
Wnshincton's republic was not GOOD enongh ior MI
Charles sumner Mr. Wendell Phillips. Mr Henry W ara
peecher and the Puritan churches In the same man
nor but from n different though concurrent reason
sWashington's republic not good enough Tor the
active prcsumpuous. ambitious. ana llilniotmen
suiraRcpublcan multitude VINO eauRhl l,sn ID
tions from the Disconnected Red Republicans and
Socialists of Germany and France as wei as from inc
anti glican Irish who swarmed into America AZ
every tide. ana continually sateheu ,ng nn - |"
North by their European notions Having no iaea
Of the stilution which the great fabric oi Amen
can liberty rested these immigrants gradually
accustomed the Northern mind TO receive VIII ih'or
and enooura cement the really un American IDEA OF
great and indivsibc nationality 10 extend over
the whole continent As there was BRUSH ma
ton. and French nation why should thers 10. p'
come the world 10y ts superior power ana gamer 10
ts bosom the halt the lame the blind the starving OF
All other countries and convert them into free citizens
Of country where every man has vote. where there
are kings and lords and whore the only tru" king i
the working man. who command what wages ne
pleases or buy farm for the mcIest tric II 20 us
posed To achieve this objeet-,o ceuiraze power so
M 20 make the Union feared abr0ad-the NORTH using
Slavery a. convenient crv, fought the battle Of hefo
luton against the South, and won II y
! Now, it must rather ANNE 1.-The anti
HAnglican Irish, who swarmed into America at
levery tide" to learn that hey found "Wash-
lington's republic not good enough for" them,
HUT insisted on revolutionizing and abolition
Iizing it. when il is here the very plainest OF
Itruths that not one in fifty of them voted for
Lincoln at either his first or his second election,
and when they have cyinced an Overwhelming
hostility to Abolition at all times and in every
conceivable manner. Why does not Dr. Mackay
charge the Irish with mitigating Nat Turner +
|insunection aud John Browns raid He might
have done so with truth and plausibiliiy AZ
least equal to those oyinccd above. We doubt
whether so many as one in a hundred Of our
Celtic Roman Catholic Irish voted for Lincoln
last November. while not one in twenty
of them have evinced a decided interest in the
triumph of the cause which Mr.. Lincoln en-
bodied. Unionists they are and have been;
!ccntralizatonists never; and 10 hint did they
ever give that "Washngton's republic was not
good enough for them" And il is further true
that at least scven-eighths of all our foreign
born voters opposed Mr.. Linco,n's election in
l560 and his reelection in 1864, and have been
|steadfasty hostile to all political action adverse
to the demands Of the Slave Power.
All this, however is subordinate and incl.
dental. The master error of this writer is his
assertion that 'thc triumph Of the North is, in
fact, triumph OF the Rcvolutionists over the
Conservatives" This assertion has Just that
slight varnsh OF plausibility which would have
covered the observation of an American Tory to|
a Revolutionary Wing in l776-s2 ~ always!
said that your specious resistance TO the Stampl
Act, the Boston Port bill, Nc., &c., were but
prctexts, vailne design to dismember the
British realm, and now The truth stands re-
vealcd." Charles II. of England mdeniably
lost his throne and his head in a struggle with
the Commons: but he who should assert that
the Commons made war on the Crown with
intent to subvert the monarchy and behead the
King which they finally accomplished would
make substantially the same Misrepresentation
with The Times correspondent.
The history Of our country SO far as il affects
or is affected by Slavery, is embodied in State
papers, acts, legislative debates, &c, &C., oil
whose authenticity and completeness there can
be no question. II anything can be e.tab-
lished by testimony, this truth is beyond cavl: !
The North overwhelmingly desired and roGd TO
remain at peaee uiM The South pnder he coasiitu-
ton Of Washington's reyubiie;" nhiie Tie south
insisted on traking mp that repnJiie, npdiaiinp
that Constitution, and founding on a n,r eoasti.
tuition, based on nac principles, ncc government,
~heuof J.6erson Darts ras made President.
(See Montgomery Constitution, and vicc.Presi- |