Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-07-10

The New York Tribune has adopted new tact
in nlamng the fanatca spirit Of the North, by con-
tras,ing Southern chivalry with Northern cowardce
rs the Tribune is pleased to term any acquescence
Mt the North in the execution Of the Fugitive Slave
Law. We quote the following:
The southern man. who sits by his liresde and reads
of the OF violence enacted In the BURNS anu
learns that the State House swarming with the hire
ngs Of the Federal Government that the United States
soldiers In time OF profound peace walked through the
city OF sovereign State armed with ball cartridges ana
at any ready shoot down its citizens Tor tue mo-
ment loses sight every sentiment than ndgnaon
that people OF any should be co~ardy as TO per
init such desecraon he feels at contempt for such
pusanmous conduct and ascribes it. in his temporary
seesteem the degrading influence OF Tree nsutuuons
He feels and knows that southern State would not sub
nit such humiliation, for with II would be yielded the
protection Of the minority against the majority in other
words the ability the South to hold in check the supe-
rior power Of the North"
No, no, Mr. Tribune it is for pursuing just the OPP
posite course you attribute to the Northern people in
the above paragraph, that Southern indignation and
contempt is excited 1t is because the State houses
Mt the North have to be filled with soldiers OF the re-
deral Government-that soldiers have to walk the
streets of Northern cities armed with ball cartridges
ready at any instant to shoot down rebeous ricouS
citizens in the enforcement of the laws ofthe United
States chat such indignation and contemptis aroused
at the South 1t is surely not for obedience to the
Constitution and laws of the country, in securing to
the South the rights constitutoualy guaranteed to
her that her citizens have any cause for holding then
Northern brethren in contempt IL they were at all
disposed to be actuated by such feelings it is pre-
cious seldom that they have the opportunity AZ
forded them. 1t much more frequently happens that
they have reason to complain Of the want of an cx~
hibition of spirit among Northern people to yield
obedience to the law The South will never eater
tain any contcmptupu feeling towards them for Nh"a
ing themselves orderly law abiding citizens II you'd
be subject Of generalization il they more
and would tend greatly to restore iraterna feeling
tween the two sections of the Union
But are hardly disposed 10 think that the pii'o-
sopher Of the Tribune be in earnest in the
trast he draws between the chvalry OF the South aud
the cowardice OF the North. The reasonable spiril
that is manifested for melting Northern Citizers
against obedience the laws of the Federal Governs
ment, by jeering them with acting cowardy in per-
hitting such dissertation the enforcement OF those
laws within the limits OF their States is reasonable
enough coming from the Tribune. That it really be-
leves however, what it says about Southern indgna.
ton at Northern cowardice is not to be expected 1t
is all done for effect, and considering the motives
which actuated it, and the source from whence il
comes, Southern men will not feel themselves much
complmented, ought Northern men to feel them
selves much slandercd