New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-01-26
about 70 sail for this city. The arrest was made
BY Gen. Shsridsn's Chief of Scouts.


Let no man doubt that this country is steadily
marching on 10 q uniform and abiding realisa-
ton of the grand ideal of Republic-to con-
dition wherein the Law shall know no man as
under disabilities, save as punishment OF his
own msdeeds-no White, no Black, no priv.
LEGGED or unprivileged; but all as entitled TO q
recognition of their Equal Rights and to the
protection of Equal Laws. There may and
will be hesitation, and resistance; mulishness
and sel6shness; and at times the shadow may
seem to reeede on the dial Of Progress; but
the end ia nevertheless secure. Slavery, our
upas, being dead beyond resurrection, we must
not expect the air to be at once purified Of its
e1halatons; but purified it certainly will be-
The benignant Providence that has so wonder
fully borne us through the trials and perils oil
the last five years, will not desert us after all
the rocks that once beset our course are safely
and happily passed.
So believing, we have had no plan, no
scheme. no device, for surmounting the difficult
ties that still environ Us. We have made no
specific suggestions to any Of those in author
ity at Washington, except that they should
endeavor to act in harmony, respecting each
others rightful powers and doing justice to
each others motives. Even the proposition re-
ported from the Joint Committee received no
word of commentator from this quarter until
it had been so reported, and it did not accord
with our predictions. Being SO re-
ported, we heartily accepted it; and we
still believe it the only proposition far
Their to amend the Federal Constitution
in the interest of Impartial Freedom which
has a reasonable prospect Of success. And.
even if it should be rejected, we can 60 to the
country on it in joyous confidence. 1t is essen
tally and impregnably just; and it is Of such o
nature that tho shrewd and the simple must
alike apprehend its fairness and feel its force.
And it is morally certain, if adopted, to lead
gently but surely to practical and universal
recognition Of the fruitful truths of Human
Brotherhood and Equal Rights.
But We do not urge Congress to adopt this,
nor anything else. What we do urge is that
the majority should eschew wranglng, and not
attempt to amend the Constitution ON any point
unless they can do so with very general ana
hearty unanimity. Better make the most Of
whatever power already exists in behalf Of I'M
partial Laws, and there rest in hope, than press
on through weakening discord to discontinue
that must destroy all present ability to do good,
by throwing the country into the hands of those
who would gladly undo all that has been SO
nobly, benignly achieved.
Remember that Time is now on the side of
Right. Slavery being dead, there is no logical
justification for persistence in any of its accesso-
RES Every hour of calm tends to melioration,
as we see in the action even Of ex-Rebel Legis-
latures. Let us have faith, therefore, and
while we use all the power confded to US In
the interest of Universal Justice-trust that the
great end will be attained even though we
should not be enabled at once to achieve it,.