New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-04-13

US "be on your guard II We continue to OK.
press such opinions Now. if he means that we
should take care that our country receive no
detriment from our cOunsels. we can assure him
that we have scarcely thought of aught else for
the last four long, solemn years. From the hour
wherein our struggle for National existence be-
came inevitable, we have had but one pur-
pose, one auxiety-that she be brought
safely through her great and bloody
peril. Others may have had their eye on jobs
on Offices, on profits, on personal advantages OF
all sorts We have submitted in silence to un.
just and baselcss reproach when the salvation
of the Republic seemed to require that sacrifice.
A great many have doubtless been far wiser and
more efficient in their support Of the National
cause but in unselfsh devotion to it, in readi-
ness to suffer for it, we yield to none. Yet
there are those who seem TO fancy that we may
be turned aside from the course we deem vital
to the Nations weil-being by menaces Of per-
sonal damage and odium .......--.
We are just emerging from one of the
grandeSt and most momentous struggles IN
human history. In this struggle, we have indi-
vidually done we'll or i'll, as the case may be;
but there is no time yet to discriminate ana
label us as patriots or otherwise. Suffice II LOT
the present that orr country comes forth tri'
umphant from the furnace wherein she has been
fearfully tried and tested. Her integrity Is
preserved and vindicated, in defiance of the most
gigantic and formidable Rebellion which the
world has ever known. Her place among the
nations of the earth will henceforth BIO higher
and prouder than ever before. The power Of
her domestic foes is utterly broken; the eager
hopes of her foreign revilers thoroughly blasted.
Never were sanguiue expectations more signally
COMPOUNDED than are those Of the partisans OF
Disuhion, American or European. And, best
of ALL that dreadful institution" which has
been our abiding scourge and shame
which was the great stumbing-block to
republican progress in the Old World and to
our National growth and enlightenment, is in
the last agonies of dissolution. It's attempt to
ruin the Great Republic has resulted in its own
destruction. Haman hangs Oh the gallows he
had erected for Mordeca and the whole civil
lied world exults at the spectacle. Onrtriumph
is comple;o-it only remains that We take care
no. TO suly it by virtually degrading a grea,
conflict Of ideas and principles into a paltry
matter of detected felony and legal rctribntion.
The Ner. York Tmes, doing injustice to It's
own sagacity ina characteristic attempt to sail
between wind and water, says, Let us hang
JeG Davis and spare the rest II seems to Us
we'll to catch q lprit before you decide to hang
him; but we do no. concur in the advice. Da-
Wis did not devise nor ins,igate the Rebellion; on
the contrary, he was one Of tho lates, aud most
reluctant vi the noiables Of the Cotton States
to renouncc deinitively the Union. His prom
nencc Is purely Official and representative; the
only reason for hanging him is that you therein
condemn and stigmatizc more persons than In
hanging any one else. There Is not an e1-rebei
in tho world, no matter how pentent, who will
not have unpleasant sensations about the neck
on the day whefi'the Confederate President Is
to be hung And to wha. good endt
We insist that tLis matter must not be re-
garded in any narrow aspect. We arc most
anxious 10 secure the assent OF the South tol
Emancipation: not that assent which the con-
demned gives to being hung when no shakes
hands with the jailer and thanks him for past
acts Of Kindness but that hearty assent which
can only be won by magDanimity. Perhaps the
Rebels as body would have given. even one
year ago, as large and as hearty vote for hang
ing the writer OF this article az any other mani
living: hence it more especially seems to him
important to prove that the Civilization based
on Free Labor is Of n higher and humancr type |
than that based on Slavery. We cannot realize
that the qualification TO enure to our sanguinary |
friends from the hanging of any one man or
fifty men should be allowed to outweigh this
consideration.
OUR PUBLIC CHARITIES.
Crimc and Misery make heavy drafts on the I