New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-13

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signs against the foundations Of the Republic.
The insurgents expect the serpent to DO scotched;
their only desperate prayer is that 1t may not DO
killed. Yet read the debates In Congress and
YOU will find men who would b hurt If you
doubted either their loyalty or their sanity. who
seem to be exercising the utmost OF their ingenu'
ity to see just how far they can 60 in defending
the ancient privileges and immunities OF the
Rebel States without being brought into rela'
tons moro intimate than pleasant with
the PROFESSIONALISM. They talk q Ian.
guage which is obsolete. They promulgate
theories which arc exploded. They are called
by some unhappy fatality to lcgislate in the
midst of bloody and fiery revolution. and
they chatter and propose, and, if left to them
selves, they would dispose exactly ms five were
basking in the summer smiles Of Peace. under
the shadow of softly whispering olive.branches
Salisbury, and other conscript fathers of like
kidney, make speeches which would not have
been thought particularly absurd ten years ago,
but which now are about as rational and peril
nent as the mutterings or the screams OF SICK
man. Compromises, halfway measures, soft
severity, amiable frmness, pleasingpuniShment,
seductive overtures, the gloved hand, adherence
10 precedents, trembling care and mole-cycd
caution, the forbearance which wins the lcnien-
cy which paciies-it is by these that the Sauls-
| burys would attain peace and restore the Union.
We do honestly believe that tho world never
witnessed such folly before. We know that II
my man Of business pursued such 0 course
in his private transactions, he would soon march
amid the jecrs and pity Of his neighbors into
the courts of insolvency. 1t was at the first
step that we should have hestated. When the
Rebellion burst upon US, we should have furled
our flag, locked our arsenals, spiked our cannon
and scuttled our ships. 1t would have been
only the part Of tho commonest wisdom to have
shrunk, with white faces and trembling limbs,
from engaging in actual war, unless we were
ready for all that war necesstates, and, among
many other things, for the death Of Slavery.
And Slavery being dead. or with only the'sck-
ching vitality of decay, il is the acme Of rod
tape stupidity to make soft-voiced protest
against considering It just as it il. II gentle
men mean what they say when they tell US that
tho Rebellion has killed Slavery, why, in the
namo Of consistency and common sense, do they
seek to prevent us from burying the corpsei If
YOU have emancipated tho husbands, why not
the wives and childrenl
No: Slavery has received wound which
seems TO be mortal, but there is liie enough in
it yet TO keep empty heads scheming for its
rcsuscitation, and sounding tongues busy in it,
behalf 1t is this, we honestly believe, which
in part prolongs the war. There is still hope
| for the bruised and battered Rebellion while it
has dear friends, sympathizing supporters and
masked advocates. in Congress. Truly, Mr..
Davis has us at slight disadvantage. When
traitor Senators and Representatives fled from
Washington with their hearts full Of gall,
their heads full Of mischief, and their pockets
full Of the public money, they left behind them
mediators and advocates spies in our
camp-the agents of "the institution THE
attorneys Of treason, prepared always to plead
its cause under the forms Of loyalty. Mr.. Da-
yis is watching his agents, and so are the long
suffering American people!
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