New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-11

These gentlemen boast very much OF the strength
of their bulwarks, their fearlessness alike of the
Divine displeasure and the assaults of men whom
they are wont to call fanatics, and yet in fact are
afraid to have coored Norherner circulate freely in
Charleston. Their Scripture arguments are like
Gibraltar unassailabe; and yet, when the young
book -peddler Amos Dresser was found by accident
to have wrapped his books in waste Anti.Slavery
papers, they lynched him as an ncendiary. Their
slaves are perfectly happy, their minds too inferior
to appreciate Freedom, their enterprise too dull
to be- awakened by the noble example OF
brother slave and yet when booksellers pro-
cure and sell to white people Fred Douglass's
Bondage and Freedom" it is denounced as in
cendiarsm mob law is introduced, and the poor
ncendiaries, at great loss expelled from the coun-
try. They talk about the Constitution and their
vehement reverence for that venerable instrument;
and yet every Southern Postmaster acts as spy
and Judge Lynch on every document that comes
into his hands. There is not day that some in
suferable and impertinent violation of the national
law il not committed in the Post-Offices in the
Slave States They assert that the Union may go
to destruction before they will allow Northern
fanatics to circulate their publications as freely
among the Southern whites as the Southern fanatics
do theirs at the North. Such Northern doughfaces
as George Vail and Billy Wright Of New-Jersey
and Scott Harrison of Ohio are flooding the North
with the speeches of Stephens and Toombs of GeOr-
gia and Butler and Bully Brooks of South Caro-
ina The Postmasters distribute them, and are
never held in check by vigilance committees.
But at the South ono man has been in
dicted for the crime Of receiving q package
of Congressional documents; we suppose he would
have been hanged had the oense been the reception
of a bundle of Summers famous speech. If men
at the North wish to take The Charleston Mercury,
The Richmond Enquirer, The 81. Louis Republican,
or any other organ Of the Fire Eaters, OBJ
jects; the community does not prApitate itself
into mass Vigilance Committees nor bring the
matter before Grand Jury. But in Virginia.
the magnificent Virginia, the mother of Presidents,
and Wholesale breeder of niggers-The Hsstern
Christian Adroeate with its editor Dr.. Elliott, and
our own humble sheet have been gibbetted by reg
ular Grand Juries and, strange to say, We are
still alive.
1t is humiliating spectacle-these political
braggarts, so brave, so argnmentative, and 80
heavenly just, and yet afraid Of package With
wrapper of Northern newspaper about it, and ter
rified to learn that half dozen of Fred Dougass's
book has been brought into a city, or dozen of
Stewards speeches into Congressional district
Bold as Falstaf, yet quskipg every time the mail
arrives lest it contain copy of The TRIBUNE or
freeman's speech in Congress Very bold, indeed;
yet their champions, like assassns, applying gutta-
percha canes to hampered, unarmed and surprised
antagonists, whose arguments they could not an
swer; or asaulting old men in tho public omnibus
for the crime Of free speech; or stabbing unarmed
men for the same crime in Northern hotels! Afraid
of nothing but the danger of travel to Canada, and
the unerring rifle of man who has gained expert
ness in the use Of his weapon by long practice on
the heads Of squirrels in the woods of Michigan!
The position of the South, at this moment is very
like to that fthe Italian States in religious matters.
They are sure they are right, that they only have
heavens truth, and yet spies, policemen and SOL
ders priests lawyers and herarchs, all on the alert
to keep ont the weak trash which is allowed in En-
gland and the United States. 1t is even so at the
South. They occupy the attitude of resistance, as
if they were afraid of arguments which they pretend
TO despise, and enforce a system OF espionage 80
thorough as to Danish clergyman for refusing to
say that he approved the cowardly attack of Bully
Brooks on Senator Sumner.
Thus far they seem sure of triumph, but if they
will look back only twenty years they will see
progress which is not in the direction they might
wish Then moks riddled the churches, halls and
houses of Anti-SlAvery men, shot LOyejOy, Quilted
the printing Office Of Birney in Cincinnati, threat
ened to burn such peaceful villages as Putnam and
Granville for entertaining assemblages modestly
named "Anti-Slsvery Conventions expelled Gid
aings from Congress and threatened the same VEN
geance on John Quincy Adams In those days the
churches and States at the North cared but little
about Slavery, or the encrOachments of its advO-
Gates But now throughout the Free States there is
a deep and powerful conviction which animates the
popular heart, and an unaterable resolution to OPP
pose the extension of this "sum of all villanies"
The Anti-Savery mObs are no more, the Press at
the North is unmuzzled, whole religious denOm-
nations are speaking out boldly, and preemineut
above the whole the magnificent majOrities Of
Iowa, VERMONT and MAINE, thrilling and ex-
citing the sons of Freedom to noble and decisive
efforts. From all parts of the Eastern, Middle and
Western States we receive the animating news that
this contest has at last penetrated to the popular
heart. Among the rugged bills of New-England
the disciples of their common schools are baking
so as to be heard, andamOng the mountains ofNew-
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and over the boundless
axnanaaa Of the Wasf tho Daana are dny0urinQ the