New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-05

Monsieur TCnsOn come again Amid the louder
thunder and ieIcer lightning of " secession
"a and the slave-trade direct with Africa" in the
Charleston papers, come the somewhat softer
tones to eye aid ear of Southern Commercial
Convention" "Ah, here we are again. as the
circus clown says when he PUSHES into the ring
turns six somersets aud makes twelve faces. Here
we are again, with the grin ace aud ground-and-
lofty tumbliDg OF Southern Commercial Convention
List, ye elements. Take heed, ye Continents!
Record it, history and pOsteTity. The Scum VIII
be free of the North Away with this accused
dependence on Northern capital, Northern enter
prize, Northern labor, Northern talent, Northern
genius Let independence be our boast So say
the Southland We cry Amen, if they can do it
but there's the rub.
The call to the uncOnyerted regarding this new
Convention is of course loud. 1t is of course long,
Several such documents as the Declaration OF III
dependence could be cut on. OF it aud hardly
missed mere length considered What 1t wants in
substance it has in nebulous expansion. Like
comets tail it stretches over hrnament-Of
words The call-the preamble, the resolutions
all is truly Southron; luxurant as splatterdock or
Hillputuft: RcuDu us uuShttbte-hhhIp 40 iht
tlesnakes bite. But long 1t is, it has lao merit of
novelty II is the old story. 1t is the howl of
Jeremiah mixed with the wrath of Achilles But
il is stale to feidity. We have had it all before
over and over again. We had 1t for the grand
Sanhcdrim at Memphis, when the heavens and
earth were compas-ed in magnioquent palmetto
Z. snlurces. and the Right Rev. Bishop Otley Dis
coursed ON the Aladdin.like spendors and riches OF
Amszonia. and Amazonia was voted the new FL Do
RADIO hy the SOuth-as the sublime, the pregnant tue
pecular: and on the strength Of the heroic gable
and garbage Of the Right Reverend Doctor, and
the sef.illumined Convention, lot OF poor devils
Of DIMES went "to subdue Auazonia to Southern
civilization and the result was, oil course, tha'
those who did not die of the climate came away
beocars or nyaldS, cursing the lay and clerical
Rubletopisns who had so misguided and betrayed
them Next we fud the same Convention reds-
scublipg the year following II, New-Orleans aud
h, re even the wondroUs party Of the Memphis Say
muches aud Doll ties was exceeded. Mr.. Albert
Pike the poet, was there III all his glory. He
spread himself like rainbow, aud the South
plowed and elistened os the prlsms OF the EN-
pyrcan His msjcstic swOOp next took up
obiurqati.ns. aud - borrow Dg Sidney Smiths
old and celebrated summing-up of the taxatiOn-sys.
fem ,fEpeland-,ur bard Pike told the dependent
Southrons-tbe Romans" the men who denDunce
our mechanics as greasy, - filthy" and not fit
"to sit down in company with a Southern gentle
"man's body. servant"-that the same South, from
tie crib to the C, ffin-from the wooden platter TO
The family bib e-ircm the fOo,tOO to the piano.
folte-fr,m the wants of plaintiye infancy TO the
Ircps Of eibberng sge-dePended on the North
Or this theme Albert bowled Ike Ossian-cynical,
.acoldrine howlir gift to permeate the innermost
psnslhnic tissue Of every recreant Southern who
does" hi. industry and genius at secondhand
who draws for bis sustentation the skilled thought,
ski cd labor and skilled brain of the North-the
despi.td, vulgar. rabid, d,bt-pnying infdel, ISM
checked, ism covered. i:m-crowned North 30!
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Mex. We have the Monsieur Onsouish Con-