New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-03-27

eInor Hammond tells Va. hss presided over our
national desinies for the last sixty years.
It's, We are sGry to say, too true even oil the
Northern Stste.. though Of late it has become much
lees 20 than formerly, that those persons TO whom
from their character for intelligence, honesty and
independence TIE pubic interests might most
safey lie entrusted. are for the most part
wthlrs.n from pubic adai's So as to
BE- Of comps;stisely Et:'e weight in the
| political word. pat f tits is tGde of the North.
i.swAys hA4 besn and is at this moment still more
| tu. If the South. Washington, in b;s famous
letters to Iatich IIeriy NOR. than sixty years ago,
b.!.edy complained that the most re.re table and
best.quslifed Characters in The Southern States,
| would not cone forward TO seek part in the sd
minstrsticn of public affairs; that they would not
| forsshe their easy and comfortable homes sud en-
csge in the turmoil of public business, or expose
| themselves to the calumnies of their opponents
| whose weapons are detractiOn. And that same
stste of thires which existed then exist, now to
| stll more marked degree.
Certainly il IL q most noticeable fact aud ono
which ought TO draw attention ard excite reelection
1T tie South no lees than at the North, that it has
| only besn during those periods i'll which the In
| hueuce of the North has been most marked aud
| decided upon the Administration OF the Federal
(oyelnmt nt thst the better educated, more ntes-
| licent, more sdysnced and progressive portion d
The Southern people nave had any considerable In
auence upon the administration, even OF their own
| local Affairs or have been able in any considerable
decree 10 ccSp, .ste in giving color ard tone "
In txiGU h. unit Of rtV
yeats Ms that in which Southern is1uence has been
predominant, Gov. Hammond very properly leaves
oUt OF his sccount the administrations of
Wsshir gton AID J, I'M Adams--s period which
t,en be will ind it hard to deny, constitutes the
most glorious portion Of our Federal annals.
The whole machinery of the Federal Government,
- il now operates, must be considered ~ the work
ofthose Admins STATIONS work riedtOsuccess-
full completion maiply by Northern ssgacity and
Northern vOtos in the face of violent Southern
oppostion-o Of Whose tore and spirit wemsy gather
some idea FROM that Of the ultra Southernnul!i6es
and disur ionsts of to-dSy. Wi every individual
psrt of tba, machinery as those parts were sue
ccssiveIy brought into operation, this Southern
oppositon found mott critical aud pettinscious
fault and certainly had il depended nPon them, it
i. difficult 10 gay what sort Of Federal Govern
utnt We fhOud have had. And if, IA Gov. Ham,
mond bcas;s, they had succeeded in carrying on the
Federal Government during the psst sixty years,
how have they done it. BY forgetting all their
i.Imer criticisms ard objections, ~ adopting with
out essential chsnso the very political mschirery
originally devised by Northern agacity and es-
tablishsd by Northern votes, against their OPPOSE
sio and even when they have for time attempted
TO dispense Hitb part of it, drawn back sgan by
the force of circumstances anu their helpless
Be.s snd want of originating power t. it, re-
adoption.
But f the FIRST twelve year, OF he federsl Gov
eminent constituted the period Of it over which
the ideas Of the North hsd the most decided snd
predominsting influence, il is not less true that
during this sane period in spite Of the apsthy OF |
which Washington complained the more intelli- |
gent ard cultivated portion Of the Southern popu-
lation had share in the administration both of |
Dstiepsl sud of their own local Affairs much more
considerable than they have ever enjoyed since.
simultaneously With the commencement Of that |
eIs Of Southern domination over which Gov. Ham
mond exults, this better portion Of the Southern
population began to lose their political standing |
aid ir fuence. Thos- who had been known and |
distinguished rs supporters OF the policy and I'D |
miDistration Of Washington, including the abest /
ard puresi Of the Southern politicians, were, one
after smother compelled 10 retire, that very fact |
coming to be regarded as almost as much dis
qualification for office political position, or pop
ulsr confidence. as aliensge would have been.
Ii is true that sts subsequent period, while John
.. Adams wss President, and slterwsrd, while |
Martin Van Buren controlled the Administration OF |
Gen. Jschsop, and gave to it, in several respects
more of Northern character than any Admiuistra- |
ton had exhibited since the commencement of the |
century, the more intelligent and cultivated por- !
ton of the Southern population, sustained aud !
lmosed up rs they were BY this helping hand from |
Washington, were encouraged to some |
attempts at making themselves and their
wishes felt in social as well in national Affairs.
But ,multMeou.ly with the total prostitution II |
Northern IDEAS at Wasail gton, this More inteige.t
and cultivated port on II the Southern population |
bss found itself not less totally Frustrated and re-
priyed Of alliDfueLce. not merely upon the course
of ustionsl affairs bat upon the public seLti-
u.nt and deIuestie policy Of its own LOCALITIES
Tb;. Southern domination in national asaiTs is
very far from being thing over which the better
rortion of the southern people have any OCCASION
10 r,ioce II We Of the North are dominated over
/, a barbarian violence Of which tie whip tOr
II, eroes ard the budgeon for white men are the
tires and favorts instruments, our civilized aud
cultivated brethren Of tie South Are not less srl-
rcr,rs thsn We Indeed, they are far more 30,
Inca We possess at least power OF remonstraoce