New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-21
CT. W. I'm THE PILL0BY.

The affection Of liar for his lie-the tenacity
wherewth he clings to it and fondes it, IN spite Oh
exposure, and reprobation, and loathng-has seldom
haen mora strkfngly eyinced than in the following
extract from yesterdays Times:
"This affected zeal favor OF Southern Unonists BY IH
TRIBUNE now strangely with its openly expressed
contempt for them in 1860 Then Union memher Oh d
to Keep their States Of Rebellion with little help NON
the North they would have But Il n.sted no
Uqon sentiment ehhins IN he South II was iSr dIiy
ing them all out. Indeed It invited them 70 go OUT den!nS
the right in The Government to prevent secesslou
1t is certainly true that, judging the South by
what we knew of her public men, we did not, in 1860,
believe that she could most surely be kept conentedy
in the Union by threatening to whip her II she.at-
tempted to 60 out. We preferred to intruSt the
maintenance of the Union to Southern ballots, fairly
enlightened rather than to Northern bayonets. IL III
this estimate of her character and her spirit we dd tne
South injustice, we ask her pardon.
But that We "insisted" in 1860, that there was
ono Union sentiment worth cherishing in the South"
ia alsehood so monstrous, glaringy at war with
the record, that we marvel at the audacity of its
brazen fabricator For more than five years. we have
been steadfastly contending that the South was Jug
sled, buled, lied out of the Union, against the
wishes of majority even of her Whites. Our proofs
will be found summed up in The American Conflict,
IVol l., p. 1881 showing that less than one-thrd
Of the White population of the then Slave States de-
berately chose to plunge into tho abyss of Secession
Barely screen States with afree population of 2,6569i5,
had voted to sccedc prior to he Inauguration OF civil
war by the bombardment Of Fort Sumter, while eight
Slave States counting with the Federal DISTRICT
free population of 900 had utterly and emphat
cally refused TO do So OF the seven seeded States
Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, having more than
half the entire population, were claimed to have given
Union maiorties in tho choice Of delegates to the con-
yentions which decreed Secesson and it is very GER
tain that the consprators were careful not to submit
their work to popular vote for ratification or reec-
ton But, apart from these, the majority against
Secession prior to the outbreak of the war; was over
whelming This was proved by the single fact oil
South Cardinals choosing to secede alone and uncoh'
dtionaly, resisting every enteaty that she wait Tor
" cooperation" She ,couid have waited-as Massa-
ohusetts waited for her sister colonies in l75-had
she supposed them inclined to go out with her. Had
Massachusetts sngly declared her independence, IN
defiance of kindred entreates, the world would have
said She knoS her sister colonies to be adverse TO
pushing this quarrel to extremties' And this may be
lust as truly said Of South Carolina in 1850.
We for the Union in 1860 as we are for the
Union now, on the Je1ersonian basis OF 1.-THE con-
sent of the governed" We maintained then, as we
maintain now that majority at the South, as well as
AZ the North appreciate its benefccnce and desire its
maintenance. All that was needed 10 uphold it then,
all that is needed now is free discussion, and a fair
unconstraincd vote of the entire free population of
the South II is TIE denial of political rights to -Four
Millions Of loyal Southerners that constitutes the
only remaining peril to the UniOni and that we
struggle and hope to SEQ removed at the earliest day
With Impartial Suffrage there would be no power in
dsloyalty, North or South no moro work for Freed
mems Bureau, and no need of troops to uphold the
authority Of the Republic on any part of her area,
save against Indian sayages We are paying heavy
price annually for the crime of putting -Four Millions
of loyal Southerners under the feet of implaoable
enemies of the fundamental basis Of republican inst
tutiOns.
For sixty years. the policy Of estopping Secession
by immoral concessions TO unrepublican ideas and in.
terests was tried to the utmost The assumption that
the Union is a boon conferred by the South on the
North, to be counterposed by prostratonS and genu
exions, is at the bottom of all woes. Let us be
done with it now and forever. Give us Impartial
Suffrage. and the vely misused word sectional
will fall into disuse injustice and oppression will cease
to.be dstincyely "Southern;" righteousness and hui
mainly will no longer be accounted fanaticism;"
and Peace and Union will abide with us evermore.