New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-24


The late strocious assault on Mr.. Sumner has
BROUGHT 10 light prevailing state Of sentiment IN
the s. uthern portion of the Union totally nconss
tent with that equality of the States about which We
We ar 50 much-a state offeelng which must be In
stanty and most decidedly checked or the indePen-
derce and equality Of the North 10 gone forever As
specimen of this feeling we give the following
paragraph from The AxtaIga Citizen, published in
Prsttsvire. Alabama, which somebody at Mont
romery in that State has taken the pains to inclose
10 u.s. with the information that the ct1sus OF that
vicinity are all of the same opinion:
"There are but two papers in the State, that We
have seen that denource the chastisement OF SUMNER
by Mr. Brooks, as a shameful outrage One OF them
il The Mobile Tri6uRe one OF the edtors OF which
a Yarkee and the other is sheet the name OF which
we shall not mention With the exception OF the papers
alluded to- the press of the entire State have fully ap-
proved of the course Mr. Brooks pursued, under tue
circumstances and recommend that other southern
members of Congress adopt the same method OF senc
ing the foul moutbed Abolition emissares OF the NORTH
Indeed it is quite apparent, from recent Developments
that the shalah is the best argument to be applied 70
such low bred moneres. More than s1 years aeo .uo
Aboonists were told that if they intended to carry
out their principles they must fight. When the Emi'
grant Aid Societies began to send their tools 10 Nam
sas they told that if their object was to esaohsn
n
State men, the border of Missouri for the purpose
of keeping out SOutherners, and destroying Slavery.
they must 6gkt-and let them understand now that IL
they Intend to carry their AbOtlonlsm into Congress
and pour forth their disgusting Obscenty ana ABUSE OF
the South IN the Senate Chamber and force their doc
trine down the throats of Southerners they must Pg
Let Greeley be severely cowbded ana ne wi Jesse 10
publish his backgusrdism about Southern men-et
WILSON, and Sumner aid Seward, and the whole host
of Abolition agtators in Congress, be chastised to
their he arts content, and, our word Tor IT. they VIII
cea,e to heap abuse upon our citizens. We repeat,
let our Representatives in Congress use the cowbide
and hickory stick land if need be, the bowie KNIFE ana
revolver) more frequently, and Wen bet our old hat
that it will come to pass that southern lhstitu
tions and Southern men will be respected.
It is plain enough from this article that the Ala
bama shareholders, so appropriately represented in
the Senate by Clement C. Clay, jr., are OF opinion
that the North is made up of great majority Of
doughfaces, perfectly ready to allow tho slave
holder. to do whatever they please, and Of very
email number Of opponents of Slavery so few and
weak that the shareholders be perfectly abletose
upon them, three or four to one using the cowhde
and hickory stick at pleasure OF ifnoed be the bowie-
knife and revolver, even in the very Senate Cham
Der of the United State. The proclamation to the
Anti.Slayery men that they must fight, proceeds
upon the superstition that compared with the slave
holders they are inferior in numbers no less than in
courage and that the great mass of the Northern
citizens will stand by and if not openly applaud at
least secretly connive at any violence OF the slave
holders however bloody, exercised upon them.
That such ali opinion should prevail at the South,
considering the political experience of the last
twenty years, is not to be wondered at. With two
such Northern Presidents in succession as Fillmore
and Pierce, with such Northern cabinet ministers
as Buchanan, Marcy and Gushing, with Northern
States represented in the Senate by such men as
Toucey Cas- Bright and Douglas, and in tho
House by Herbert, Richardson, Vail, Haven, Flor.
ence and Jones, it is not surprising that the Ala.
bama shareholders should imagine that this intro.
duction of plantation d,ciplne on the floor of Con.
eress would be perfectly safe operation on their
part one TO which the great body of the Northern
people would quietly submit, and even secretly re-
joice at; and that few canings and cOwhidings,
backed if necessary by few murders of Senators
and Representatives in their seats would make
them as complete masters Of all the members in
both Houses as they long have been Of the Admin
istraticn sectiOn in each.
It is We of the North who have sent 30 many
miserable dougbfaces to Congress, and who have
allowed ourselves to be so ROsed about BY dough-
face politicians who are the really responsible par
ties for the prevalence of this opinion at the South
Who can wonder that such an opinion prevails
there when the shareholders see Pesslee, Collector
of the Port Of BO ton, Greene, Naval Officer Of
the same port, and editor of The Boston POSI-
paper said to be more extensively patrOnzed by
the merchants Of Boston than any other-LOring,
postmaster Of Salem, and editor also Of o paper
there, three delegates from Massachusetts, to the
Cincinnati Convention, stopping on their way at
Washington ard entertaining the assassin Brooks
at supper, q. if in congratulatOn Of his cowardly
assault upon the Massachusetts Senator!
The way to bring the shareholders of the South
to exhibit decent respect for US, is to begin by
exhibiting decent respect for ourselves. If we
sent no men TO Washington to sympsthize with
Southern DULLES and ss sassins, we should hear very
little about cowhides or hickory sticks, bowie.
knives revolvers as instruments for sienciDg the
freedom Of speech Let us show the South that
We can elect President not only without them,
but in spite of them. Let US show the North able
for once to stand on her own feet without auy
Southern bo-ttriDg, and we shall never hear again
Of the appeal to hickory sticks or reyolyers.
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The Richmond Enquirer, the fle.leader Of the