New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-20

cannot be carried to California or New
Mexico. and that the North is as immovablo
as ever against the returning Of Fugltlve''
except under the most rigorous CONSTANTS
of the law. In neither the one case nor
the other is the aspect Of things at all sat
i.fact9ry to Southern men. And to say
that return like that accomplished IN the
case Of Sims helps the matter at all, IS
mere fetch 10 get out Of dilemma.
1.-THE South were in earnest in saying
they would attempt dissoluionif the North
would not return their Fugitive Slaves.
then they would attempt it now; they
would have attempted it long ago. For
the North does not aud will not return
them. They hide them and they send
them TO Canada. The South, AMI the
whole South, sees it and knows it. The
fact that creatures Of the Federal Govern
ment now and then nab and deliver a run
away furnishes the South an excellent pre-
text for protesting satisfaction, and for an
extrathreat, and threat Of what they could
have done if such creatures had not been
found.
We contemn utterly the whole gascon-
aiding and intimidating process. Yet we
are so used to it that it fails to provoke the
indignation it is naturally calculated to ex-
cire. Indeed our wrath is mainly felt
toward the chicken hearted crew who
cover beneath it. of whom the whimper-
ing apprehenders OF danger to the Union
arc the chief For those who play the
game Of intimidation We have IN fact
kind Of respect. 1t is manifestation OF
plu,kyimpudence not altogether contempt
ibr and we feel that tho game is played
because it is fancied that some Interior
good to Slavery may grow out Of It.
The upshot of the matter is that over
this whole vast and glorious country OF
ours. nobody talks of secession or dissola-
ton excepting at tho South; and there,
q real disunion movement cannot be got up.
And the reason why, is just this: When
all is said, the Southern people are Just as
sensible as other men. The Southern man
is not perfect fre-eater, ready to plunge
into blood end massacre at the very scent
of an alIront, as the old Bottles and tlmid
Hunker Unionists of the North imagine.
Neither is he, we freely confess, a canni-
bal. a man eater, a rObber and pirate, as
s.me of our more ardent mediterranean,
no Union Abolitionists, in their heat, de-
pict him. We detest sldreholding as much
as any man; but for Shareholders, as we
know them, as men and as gentlemen, we
have no such detestation. Excepting the
fanatics among them land the South and
North present Just about an equal number
on the question of Slavery,) they are a
reasonable ard reasoning people. And
we know them we'll enough to know that
thew will not bite their own noses oil to
spite their neighbors. They will thunder
end tighten, ard storm and threaten, and
talk big, and get very Indignant on the
surface, while at the bottom they are mod
crate, sensible, welldisposed specimens Of
humanity. At least, we know some Of the
most renowned of the Southern Chivalry
to be such. The conviction among mod
crate men and men Of sense at the South is
uniform that the Slave States would in no
way help their condition by going out Of
the Union, but quite the contrary; and
another still more potent consideration that
weighs heavily in the balance is that they
cannot get out if they would. The idea
that the perpetuation of the Union hinges
upon tripping up the heels Of an escaping
negro ard trundling him back to his bond
age whenever a slave-hunter says the
word, is really too ridiculous to be COM
mented upon. The Union is a fixed fact.
1t is a political and geographical neces-
sity. It is secured by the wants Of the
millions Of the Old World who have al
ready found it an asylum and hOme-by
the wants Of the millions who are follow
ing and to follow-by the unanimou, de-
mands of the Free States, and by every
consideration of love, duty and interest of
the whole people.
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