New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-19

stract aistasteful thing ID them IN congress
sons legislation they Immediately threaten to divide
the Union: this with them q set down to patrotisni
but LET Northern man suffering under evils tha' ne
has been educated from bis youth up to oppose 81 con-
trsry 70 good government and morals hnIthat Ta'leE
Than endure further entertainments, he would submit
20 a dissolution Of the Union and thera goes -
cry of horror, and the unlo-tuna.e victim is
morally pursued unto death.
There is a tradition Of . sec-s. Convention olre
held az Hartford by certain citizens u Aew-tn5.al1
Tie real object Of the assembly las le7e- been cear!
dyuced but this fac; has been made the bugbea- By
the South and the term Hartford COlyenticas:,
has been the SYNONYM OF traitor, aud the people OF
the North have blindy joined in tie cry, and hunted
down tie Hartford Conveat.onists. Now annually
for the last quarter Of 4 century meetings have
been held in the South to discuss not the value OF
the Uxon, but how the already pronounced
worthless bond should De cas-; aside There are
speeches uttered, and resolutions passed., which, tor
open and highhanded treason, would MAKE tae
most wildly imagined horrors OF the Hartford Col7en-
onists sink into obscuri;y sc: he members Of these
cabas 20 unscathed receive T.ol Federal Offices ami
are patriots because treason IL the >or.a is inter-
preted as triumph of tie Union ani The Cons.i-
tuition.
But recently Convention was held a: Nashville
it was called as rally Of tie slave ststes, and
was avowed to meet to prepare T.. Dissolution. Ms
sissppi and South Carolina egcisiy isc.lrsi their
sympathy with the object, sai every southwestern
slave State had sympathetic representatives,. The
conclusion of the Convention was that D.suniol was
good thing necessary thing and n the minds Of
tie controllers ofpubc opinion south hsd already
taken place but that its proclamation anu consequent
acts must be deferred 10 a future time. le: no
Northern paper has pursued with denunciltOn the
Nashville Conyenticnsts most Of its ,ctye members
are now honored servants ofthe Federal Government
and its sympathizers are foremost in their deEgncia
tons Of the few Northern men HAo have he courage
and intellect 10 maintain their individually
What is the cause Of this ingenious distinction
against the men of the North Is reaitreason mono
poly OF the South Look for moment a. some
of the most loIorcd men Of the present Admin
istration. There is De Bow Of ,he Census Depart
mont, the Abby Folsom Of the south who has for
years poured cut Lis insane ms.elction5 upon the
Union in all sorts of speeches and writings thar pos
SEES all the maleyOlence and bitterness of the Widest
northern fanatic" but possess nothing ese he is
elevated to tie responsible Office he holds with
out murmur against his DisulOn sentiments. his
treason-encOuraging publications; he Is Southern
man, and with him treason Loyalty 70 the Ulonand'
the Constitution Soule is Minister 70 Spain but while
the Compromise measures were before Congress, aai
after they had matured into laws, SOIe as United
States Senator went through the south, applying the
ncendiary torch OF Dsunion wiki a zeal tia. sinks
the most vehement abolitioaiots Of tie North into
obscurity He denounced the free STATES their peo-
pie and their institutions with violence that seemed
TO partakc of insanity he glOated over the, to him,
immediate prospect OF the formation OF Southern
Republic" and for no other reason than because It
was a good thing in Itself Yet this active Official
traitor escapes al and is hOnOred with what
is to tie people Of the North the most importont
diplomatic appointment in the git Of the Government.
Jeferson Davis is Secretary of War. So rank IN
deed is his avOwed hatred 10 the Union that he re-
signed his seat in the United states Senate prepare
tory to appearing as of the leaders in the forma
ton of Mr.. Calhoun's Southern Republic In a
speech at Natchez, Miss. he spoke the contemplated
Disunion, and, with all the xpanatory eloqUence ne
is master of, melted rebellion against the Federal
authorities Over his own signature he declared him
self in favor of EARNED resistance and Instruction
rather than slayish submission 10 the Federal laws
(the Compromise measures, and suggested tie estab-
lshment in the South OF manufactures II arms ami
ammunition, as the most efficient preparation for the
final Neutrality-suspicious.. Col. Davis cognseiei
with Gen. Qutman and indorsei that gentleman Sc
cession message and sympat.ized with QutmSn's con
ederates in their refusal to raise the stars and stripes
over the State Capitol Of Mississippi.
Soult finds bis home in France, and coali apply ne
knife to the throat OF his adopted country wthoutcom
hitting matricide but Davis is natiycborn educated
at the expense of the nation hero OF Buena Vista,
and yet, while suffering tom the unheaei wounds OBJ
tanned in that bloody but glorious field he organ
zing treason in the State OF Mississippi anl COUNSEL
ing armed resistance to the Federal Government.
There cannot be any lore for the Union in his compO-
sition for the struggle OF the brave who fell at
Angosura and in his sight, in defense OF the
and stripes could endesr that ensg n to his memory
and sancify its mission his heart-a moral degrade
ton that finds parallel history. And yet the hire
ling presses of Washington and the slaves Of party
ywhere raise their voices gainst the people OF Bos
ton because they felt deep, soulstrcken horror at
the scenes enacted among them in the capture OF
Burns, while they have not word OF condemnation for
the men of the South who love Disunon because of
itself and only using the strong Of the North
to foIiily their position by sezing Nebraska, Cuba
and Mexico, and are then to leave the Free States
this hope to be whisted down the wind the objects
of their and the easy duPes OF their the
mistaken victims of a false sacrifice for temporary
peace.