New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-15
TIE SOUTH,

IB8 sDlTH.'
We are sometimes accused OF cheri.hing unfounded
prejudice or nsteaiing hostility toward the South,
Wien nothing can be further from our intention Let
Us be fairly understood.
We quarrel with no man because he lives 10 DIFF
ferent section or has been educated with different
IDEAS from ours Perceiyiug much that is unjust OPP
nressiye irrational in the social institutions ard Gsages
of the Free States we look with Pharisaic scorn
on those still ruder primitive. more peracious,
of the Slave & ates The right We claim and exercise
OF freel, csnyassiDg whatever 10 deserving
OF reprebepsiOn i'll other sections, parallel by con
cedipg and inviting equal freedom of co nment and
criticism tn regard TO whatever is peculiar TO the
North If Southern philsnthropists can show US how
70 din inish igr ORANGE Indebtedness dleness intern
perapce ptupe1fm and crime right around us, or
even suppose they can beg them TO let no fastld
ouspe.s. no scruple deter them from the attempt
We are conscious Of our mperiectiOns We would
daddy ameId them; should be ashamed only of
seeking to conceal and perpetuate them Let the
South send here her statesmen. phlanthr0piss. mis-
SOL ares reform they shall be hearl respectfully,
and or al events be shielded from mob Outrage s1d
violence We assert no right tb4t we are not willing
TO concede and clam no privilege that DO not
cheerful! accord.
We see no reason for mutual hatred or distrust in
tie fact dat some of live below the slave line and
others above it. True, We believe that the tendency
of the Slayebolong system is to make those trained
under and mentally conormed TO 1t, oTer6earug impe-
rious. and regardless of the rights OF others We be
eye the habit of living easily and comfortably on the
fruits of uDrecOmpensed labor is uDfssOrable
pulous sense justice and 10 spirit Of active benevO
ence We think the SayeAoldng y stem unfaVorable
to the development of mOraists Ike Dymond phi
lanthrOpsts Ike Howard. let We know that there
are Just earnest conscientious beuefcent, noble men
and women in the South as well as in the North, and
we should regret that we had contributed to ALLEVIATE
them
The South with which we are at variance is quite
other than the whole body of Southern people IL is
email knot of active political nCrguers, whom the in
dolence or tuidty of the great of their fellow
citizens permits 10 speak great swelling words of vanity
and mischief in the name of their section They are
the South only by suilerance, and because their
fellow citizens allow them to WELD power TO which
they have DO legitimate title If the whole people Of
the Slave States had been visited last November in
their feds and EelDgs ard each voter casually asked
whether he desired and recommended an attempt to
repeal tie Missouri Restriction are satisfied that
not one-iourth of them would have urged or advised
the movement But Northern Oficese makes
the proposition the score or two of Pro Slavery IA
Datics hail il with reclamation every oiice-seeker,
even tinorous person. who has fixed purpose but
rer7ousy afraid of being suspected and obnoxious,
rushes in to be among the foremost in prostrating
himself before Molochs image; so there is got up a
hnll
il favor of whatever measure of aggression and repu
daiOn the most reckless and ultra Slavery propagand
lists see fit to propose or adopt Thus terrorism is
established mdign and perilous, which only in New
Orleans Louisville and It. Louis does the Southern
press appear bold enough firm enough to resist And
vet whoever has travelled through the Southern States
during tie past winter does surely know that there is
20 such beartiness uch unanmity, 10 favor of the
/ Nebraska Iiquiy as superficial appearances would
/ Indicate.
/ For the men whether from the South the North
who are pressing that atrOcy upon Congress, we have
10 feeling but one of resentment aud defiance. We
ask no favor and expect no mercy at their hands II
they should succeed in passing their bill, shall APP
peal at once TO the Country for the reestabshment OF
tie Missouri Restrictions We shall DO what we can to-
ward filing Nebraska AID Kansas with settlers who
/ will preserve them from Bondage; and We shall re.
member the cob'rivers and abettors of the Douglas
bill until they bring forth works meet for repentance
But for those Southern men who have acted with good
faith toward tie Free States during the Nebraska
ttruggle-for Senators BELL and HOUsTOY, for Messrs
BENTON, Hunt, CULLOM and their cOmpatriOts-wG
know no feeling is cherished at the North but that o.
high appreciation and iervent gratitude. We rejoice
70 perceive that the latest Southern utterances The
si0e Of good faith the most Outspoken and defiant
the least apologize, the most pointed square and
manly. Thus tie speeches Of Messrs HUNT and CUL
LON in tie House compare fayorably with those o
Messrs BELL and EOUsTOY in the Senate-a dIiler
eDce attributable, We presume, rather 10 their time
utersnce respectively than 20 any radical diversity IL
tie speakers convicEOus. We trust these later snC
clearer expressions OF Southern sentiment adverse Il
the meotated wrOng the prelude TO a new era il
our international affairs, when the questions whcl
from time TO time bring the North into collision Will
the South shall be discussed between them with en-
tire frsnkIess yet with the truest kindness and amy
Misapprehensons are born Of silence but let re
solve 10 speak snd hear face TO face, and one mail
source OF mutual irritation ard disrust viii have bee
finally ob7iated.