New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-23
ALI. AROUT TIE WAE.

The Union State Committee met here last
week, and dcSgnated, by a close vote, what
seems to me deplorably late day for our en-
suing State Convention. The Democratic State
Committee met next day at Albany, and desig-
mated a day two weeks earlier for their State
Convention. In commenting next morning on
these facts, added my inference that one mas
ter mind had controlled the action Of both Com
mittees, and that this mind was the same that
engineered the election OF Gov. Seymour in 1862.
| Mr.. Thurlow Weed takes this to himself, and.
! in long and bitter letter to TIE Times (hcre-
with prnted), denies not only that he fixed the
time for holding our State Convention, but that
he defeated, or even opposed, Gen. Wadsworth's
election as Governor in 1862 And he proceeds
to rake up and hurl at me much Of the
spent ammunition of five years angry political
and personal warfare.
Now, no person can he more conscious, than
am that the two individuals, r. W. and II. c.,
their loves and hates, attractions and antipa-
thics, are Of no public consequence. Were only
these in dispute, | should certainly refrain, as
have usually RETAINED, from noticing Mr.
Weeds elaborate attacks. But there are ques-
tons Of principle and points Of history involved
| in Mr.. Weeds datribe which seem to me Of
wider interest; and, now that the War is over
and its pressure on public attention and news
paper columns withdrawn, there is space for
their discussion and time for their consideration.
Let me, therefore, once for all, review the chief
accusations brought against me by Mr.. Weed;
and, that / may do so more lucidly, | will
respect the order Of time, rather than that
chosen by my assailant
!. Mr.. Lincoln had just been chosen Prcsi-
dent, Nov, 1860, when the long threatened
movement for Disunion was begun in South
Carolina, awaking responsive echoes in other
Slave States. The Government was yet, and
for four months must remain, in the trembling
hands Of James Buchanan, with Cobb, Floyd,
Jacob Thompson a Co. as his Cabinet adj
viscrs. 1t was clear that nothing would be
done by or could be done through these men
in the way Of resistance to the Secession con-
spiracy, wherein nearly all the Governors, State
officers, legislators, and other influential Demo-
Gratis, of the Slave States were already involved.
From the political South, but two voices were
heard one saying, eve will not watt
we want no compromise, no concession: we
will have nothing but Disunion;" the other
responding, 1--WE will give the North one more
chance to back square out of its resistance to
Slavery Extension, and, if she does not, We
TOO are for Dsunion." And the Democratic
presses and politicians of the Free States all
raised Their voices in concerted, clamorous de-
mand that we [Republicans] should back down,
and expressly consign forever to Slavery all
Federal territory, present and future, south
ward Of lat. go 3O'.
The alternatives presented to rs were these:
/. Peaceful Disunion; 9. Civil War: 3. A fresh
debauchery of the North through its extorted
assent to the Extension of Slavery. OF these
all experience proved the last the
most likely to be adopted. And this, in nv de.
litcrate judgment. was decidedly the worst. For