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


great men'-for the smaller the people the greater
the men-nurse of great men, where no msp can
leeislate unless he owns ten slaves (mechancs and
l,bOrers) or their equivalent, FIVE hundred acres II
land OF great men like Calhoun. who gave the
world "a sublime theory of government" and of
Yoadcn, who took tea with Fillmore. At Charles
ton, then, gathered this Convention. Beauty and
chralry, wealth and elOquencc, were all there
All went on smoothly as a marriage bell. But hey
presto ii was discovered that among the Scrbes
and Pbarisees sat a reporter of The tribune
chiel takin' notes. Reader ! didst ever discover
fly in cup of overland tea a cockroach in dish Of
mocha deceased rat in tureen Of real turtle
a snappng turtle in your bed or a mad
cat in YOU chamber These all are mild
infusions to the JuriOsostrtpitoso movement caused
by the apparitlon of that reporter. Of course he
lad to decamp. History accordingly, has for ever
lost the minuter beauties of that convention, which
would have been taken down with pencil of living
light and waited like the spray Of autumnal leaves.
But sufficient Of the spirit of the great work then
cOnsummated has come down to us through the
official scribes to let us know what was DONE We
LEARNED something more of Amazona-new theO-
rens of cotton sugar and wool, the latter attached
to human heads We were informed too, by a
member, a reverend temperance orator from Ten
nessee the facetious and clever " ParsOn Brown
low, why young gentlemen of the South chew
"coves and ciDnamOn" to disguise the
fumes of liquor. Much more said and writ,
that is in the Book Of the Convention. But the
vital tints Of the scene are for ever lost for the
reason aforesaid.
"Carona" now is up and doing. She is ready
for new Convention. She tells us in the solemn
farIsgo put orh to call the faithful together, that
the South as regards the North in the race of civil
zation is where the fast yacht Engan was in COM
psrison with the America in the great race off the
Isle of Wigbt-that is "nOwhere" wide London
Times)- the pivot Of the universe is Cotton,
and Sugar The synoyial fluid which makes the said
universe turn on its axis. These words precisely
are not used but such is the gist of the argument
But with all these adorable entities, how does the
South stand How in the language Of the South
ern call for the Convention As before Relying
solely on the assistance, the life, the effort, the
money and the action Of the North. Independence,
then! Build commercial cities Build CONNER
cal marines Build Southern colleges Rear men
for the fine arts and scences-men of ideas, and
able to resolve them into actualities
All this is good theory for civilized people. Bat
the South is not civilized. Itembraces, it clutches,
il brsgs, DULLES, swears, strikes for the lowest
form of barbarism; and assumes generic doctrine
for the conservatism Of barbarism which Rome two
thousand years ago rejected as inbuman and UNI
cody. The South acts upon the system that
mechanical and agricultural labor is fit for slaves;
aud hence industry, free industry, lit by genius and
warmed into art and science--for such is the up
ward aw-fies from the South as life does from
poison. With country slavery saddled and great
man-addled, engaged in scrub race to ruin, each
State in turn exbausting the soil just in proportion
to the time that the scourge has been upon it
comes the dscordan. shrek for opening the slave
trade-for reinforcing all the cruetes and savage
res in real life which fed the brain of
Dante OF a Milton when requiring de-
scriptons for the perfdies and suferngs
of the damned-and as a superlndncticn to this
CHASTITY beastiDess Of policy, is enunciated the
equal hideous inhumany that all men, white or
black, If engaged in manual labor should be properly
enslaved Frantic, besotted, crazy, as regards
every proper moral, religious poiCco- III
dustrial, scientific and artistic dea forming the
action of civilization and liberty, the South hopes
to win lace with the North by Resolutions and
Conventions for IN independent commerce, indie.
pendent mines and mills, Independent colleges and
lyceums Independent printing presses
There are individuals who learn nothing I'D for
get nothing. The Oligarchy South-the 10000
oligarcbs who muzze the 100000 whites and
the 100000 slayes-are Of this list. Their
vision is WY Knocked restrOspecton. They SIT on
the ground of plantation and make dirt pies, and
think they are constructing pyramids of civiliza-
ton. They are now as before. Their new Con-
yenton will end as the old ones dd-n nauseOus,
deadly gas. Labor, and talent, and genius, aid
cspi'al-and all which makes a nation great good,
glorious and powertul-will avoid them until they
learn the law of love and freedom, and set aside
that of hate ard Slavery.