New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-07-08
without the consent Of the Senate, OF tne ies"-
lar nrocedure of court-martial.
THE Dirty OF THE HOUR.


The recent State Convention at ChariotteS-
vile expressed the sincere and hearty desi,e Vi
very considerable proportion OF the "Ai'es
of Virginia, including many VINO were acti'e
Rebels, to cooperate with the RepuDhcah party
in restoring the blessings of peace ana frater-
nity to every portion of our country IL should
never be forgotten that, when virginia,
weeks after Mr.. LincOlns election, was
first polled on the demand OF the
Secessionists, very large majority of her
electors cast their votes on the side of the
Union. Not till after War had been formally
;pououroted nv the reduction of Fort Sumter
was it possible to wiring from a majority of her
Convention a vote for Secession. Many, even
of her State Rights Democracy, stood
out against it; while her Wings, faith
full to the traditions of George Washington,
Patrick Henry, John Marshall, James Madison,
and Henry Clay, were nearly unit IN their
devotion 70 the Union. The clash of arms
drowned for season the war-cries OF party;
but neither the Wings, nor the Jackson-Van
Buren, Democrats of the South, ever heartily
fraternized with the disciples of Calhoun who
succeeded in rolling over them the Juggernaut
car of Secession. An inundation while at its
hight, submerges all old landmarks, which, as
| it subsidies more and more distinctly reappear'
| Even of the old NulifeTs, many are ready
| to say "What is the use of seeking to galvanze
"into life a dead issueq We honestly believed
ain State Sovereignty as we believed In Slav-
gerry; we believed it our right to secede from
"the Union, and that our safety dictated that
"resort: but we staked that right on
| n - q, tho rnpI H.
"stractly, we may still believe as we for
"mery did, but we do not purpose to
"spend the rest of our days in cOntending that
ga dead horse ought to be live one. We
fought for Secession and lost: we propose
"to be henceforth loyal citizens of an indivis-
"ble Union. VIII the victors allow itT
The paramount authority of the Nation Is an
| established fact. Secession is now but the
shadow of a marrowless skeleton. Slavery is
as dead in the Carolinas as III New-Jersey,
while the readiness to make the Equal Rights
| of All Men the basis of our new political edl-
| flee is decidedly stronger in the former than IN
1 the latter. We shall have more difficulty in
gaining the Right of Suffrage for the Blacks
of PENNSYLVANIA and Indiana than for those OF
| Alabama and Florida.
| TO seize the golden moment and improve 1t to
the utmost2 Shall the advances made to us
| by such men as Gov. Brown of Georgia. and
| Gen. Longstreet, and JEFF. Thompson, and ever
so many others, be rudely repealed We can
tell them, if we will, that they are Rebels, who
ought to be hung and their property coniis-
I Gated but can power thus used be retained
and should it be2 Those questions will receive
practical answers.
Hours are precious. The present session OF
| Congress will hardly out-last next week. We
entreat those who feel that the work of rcstora-
ton should be stimulated and fastened, to draw
together agree on their course, and go forward
boldly therein. Let the whole people see and
feel that, if this broad land be not speedily re-
stored to fraternal concord, it will not he the
fault of the Republicans nor of their Rcprcsen-
| totiVcs i'm Congress.