The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-12-23
Northern and southern Fanatleisn,.

From the proceedings OF the Legislature OF Geor-
gia, now in session, we learn that bill was re-
Gently introduced, levying tax of fifty per cent on
all articles of manufacture coming from free
State The same bill provides, that II any mer-
chant fails to return such articles TO the receiver OF
taxes, he shall forfeit double their value Another
section provides, that it shall be the duty of the
Judges of the Supreme Court TO administer an oath
to the attorneys, that they will not prosecute
suit against resident Of that State IN favor of
non.saveholder, until the non-slaveholdlng State
of which the plaintiff in such may be resi-
dent, shall deliver up all fugitive slaves that may
be within its limits; and on their refusal to take
such OATH, they shall be stricken off the rolls of
That court, and prohibited from practising their
profession, or be imprisoned in the pententary for
two years.
We cannot believe that the party who iatro-
duced such bill as this was IN earnest Ifhe was
in earnest, he evinced deplorabe want of know
ledge of the constitution of the United States. It
is expressly provided for in that sacred instrument,
that no State shall have the power Of levying du-
ties or imposts the productions Of nbther State
This is one of the causes of the prosperity of the
republic. There has always been perfect system
of reciprocity or free trade between the States; and
the result is that our domestic or internal trade,
not only rivals, but far exceeds our foreign trade.
Such bill, therefore, if ii passes the Legislature
of that State, will be utterly null and void and the
Supreme Court of the United States would decide
80, as soon it was brought to It's notice
In regular way. If, on the other hand, the
party who introduced it, intended 1t only as
Joke, he Is highly culpable. 1t is this evidence OF
beng lrrltated, which has been exhibited by the
South for some years past, that has given TO the
ultra anti-savery iactionlsts and disorganzers OF
the North all their importance. Ii our Southern
friends had made II point not TO notice their
rawlings, and 10 pay attention TO their noisy and
reasonable vaporngs, they Che Northern fanatcs)
would have long since sunk into the same insight
fcance in the South with which they are looked
upon in the Northern States. We, in the State Of
New York, are accustomed to hear those fellows
rave and rant about slavery the Southern States;
about dssolying the Union, and tearing the con-
stitution into fragments but we look upon them
in the same light as do the unacs in the insane
asylum-at whom, when they make witty re-
mark, we are forced TO laugh but whose actions
and sentiments in general excite only sympathy
and compassion.
What better evidence of the insiguifcance of
those violent men is needed than the fact that the
abolition society, Of which Lloyd Garrison, Wen
dell Phillips, and lew more choice spirits of the
same class and gender, are the leaders, received,
according to their own report, not quite ten thou
sand dollars during the last year. Now, we sub
nit 10 the South the estimation in which these ia
natics are held in me North, when all they could
raise, by most extraordinary cyertloas Tor a whole
year, was only ten thousand dollars. We rather
think this 10 above the mark, but we will say ten
thousand. The fact II, that it is the SOutherners
themselves who have brought those fellows into
impertance--not in the North, but in the South
ard among themselves. Let the South, therefore,
take no notice Of them; and above ell things, let
them not, by such proceedings as those we have
referred TO in the Georgia Legislature, trlhs with
these feowc-if the mover OF the bill was triiIing-
or show their senslblity to such attacks-if he was
in eamesi--n such way Ia either case, 1t Is
attaching too much importance to those Northern
fanatics. IL would seem as if this cannot be I'M
pressed on the people Of the Southern States.
They will, IT would appear, insist upon identifying
the whole Nerth with the Lloyd Garisons aud the
Wendell Phillipses. Well, it can't be helped. Ii
they are determined upon fighting shadow, 1t is
their own fault