New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-11
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and the other ohghfcnCai ctstco "cio VI mo w"
slant habit Of exercising in the affairs of their dem
ocraic nechbors
This fact of history Is full Of instruction for u.s.
Already in the fourteen Southern States OF this
Union. while we have been shouting ignorant and
needless hosannas TO the permanency of our repub-
Ucan institutions, Repubhcanism, by secret and
rapid process, has been rapidly overthrown; and
though republican forms are still observed as they
were during the first hundred years or so OF the
Roman empire, the political administration oil
those States has fallen into the hands of secret,
irresponsible, self-constituted oligarchy, who have
not only established censorship of the press and
asuperyisor.hip of booksellers shops, but who IN
der,ake 70 dictate the STYLE and substance of all
sermons and other religious teaching, as well a.
What people may say and what they may not ID
stump orations, and even what candidates they may
presume TO nominate and vote for, especially for
Offices of the highest importance. The scep'er oi
this sefappOinted olisarcby is gutta-Pfrcha cane
backed BY pistols and bowie-knte under the Zap
Of the coat, and lis patron saint, canonlzed "hile
be yet lives, is Bully Brooks.
We have little cause for wonder az the iaslity
With which republcansm has been overthrown'
ard this fearful tyranny established at the South.
1t is well known that one principal reason by wheh
tie Spsr'ans were induced to submit to the stern
and cruel oEgarchy under which they lived was the
dread ard terror in which they stood OF their slaves
tie Helots; and precisely similar dread and terror
has led to the establishment of the EXISTING tyran'
MES in our Southern States. The terrorlsts VINO
now rule with rod Of iron those unhappy conlmu'
mites first put themselves forward IN the oenehceh
disguise Of de.ectors and panishers OF intrusive
AbOlitiOnists, who, twenty years or more ago. sud
denly became such a horrid bugbear to the slave
holders, under the idea that they were coming by
thousands at time, not merely to induce the slaves
to run away but TO stimulate them TO rise and cut
their masters threats.
Taking advantage of this ridiculous panic-Just
about as absurd as the Popish plot with which the
North itself has lately been frightened for similar
purpose-a set Of ambitious, dOmlneerng, I'M
scrupulous. Jacobinical individuals, under pretense
Of keeping cut the AbotiOnists, have gradually as
sumed to themselves the most arbitrary dlctatoral
pow ers, till at this moment, in those fourteen I'M
happy States, no man can take part IN nominating
in getting up an electoral ticket, or in voting Tor
John c. Fremont az President, or even saying IN
public that if elected his election ought to be sub
mitted to, without danger of being denounced as an
Abolitonist, mcbbed, banished, and, perhaps
tarred and feaihered
THUS by q sudden and unexpected attack, repub-
licansm for the time at least, has been completely
suppressed in all the Southern States and most
odious despotism established in it's place. And how
is il here at the North Here We are yet free;
vet even here, republicanism hangs in the balance,
beset by danger very similar to that which has
overwhelmed il at the South. Taking advantage OF
ridiculous terror-one of those occasional pan
les based on old and inveterate preudices to which
every community is subject, and to which II would
be easy to produce many parallels from the history
of other cOuntres-a terrOrat the spread of Popery
for which we fear our clerical friends are some
what too much respoDsible-and terror at the al
legged danger We were in of being Overrun and SUBJ
iupated by foreign immgrants--a set Of audaclou',
ambitious, interruptions individuals among our
selves set On foot dark lantern conspiracy for put
ting the mass Of the voters under solemn oath TO
be- governed in everything by their exclusive dicta-
ton Amid communities blinded by fear and
terror this arocous conspiracy met with astonlsh-
ing success Thousands seemed, and still seem,
anxious to annihilate themselves as citizens, and
to transfer themselves as bond slaves to do the bid
ding of self-appointed masters.
The heads of this new anti-republicsn power az
the North are now attempting to strike bargain
with their natural allies the dctators of the South,
in order to crush out the Republican party, and to
divide with them the power and patronage OF the
General Government. Should this conspiracy sue
coed what then will be the prospects of republican
ism herei With repubcanism extinguished at the
South, and the whole vast power and patronage of
the Federal Government exertcd for its extingulsh-
ment at the North, who will undertake, in such
case, to guarantee us against calamity similar to
that which has overtaken our Southern brethren
We have, indeed one advantage may say
two. We are warned in time we see the danger
impending over u.s. whi.h our Southern brethren
dii not. And tn we have what, unfortunately
they have nc,--a strong. intelligent numerous mid
die class: laboring men with brains in their heads
and money in their pockets-a very dangerous sort
Of men for conspirators against iberty-whe:her
conspirators Of the lash or c0nspirarOrs of the
ontern-aDd they, if any body, will save US.
correspondent of The Journal Of Commerce,