New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-12

Scotch fapatcs Old al the battle OF Dunbar. Eyen
should Mr. Senator Hammond be in commsnd,
they will force BIN against bis viii into the policy
which has 40 lorg prevailed with them, Of attacking
Instead of defending while We foresceing Il
glorious ard at last decisive victory, shall have
occasion TO exclaim with Cromwell on So many
other occasions g. The Lord hath delivered them
into our hsnds
Irpo, one great and fundamental pont, we differ
IN toto from SeDatcr Hammond. lie holds We
dare cay sncerely-thougb il we're just as reason
sIle in us TO question his sIncerit. IN ttis matter
6. fsr him In ca.t stones as be does 1T the sncerty
ofws,.rs. Seward, Hale. Wade. Wilson, Wilmcs,
Chase. ard otht r.--he holds ans he makes IL the
basis Of has whole political and social philosophy
.ha, Siod created n,yroes for no other purpose
:. thnn to be- hewers of wood soi drawers OF
-" water. that is, to b- slaves to tbs white race.
Upon tbs point, We are not abb to agree
with Sesator Hammoi7s- On the contrary, We
fpd Ourselves in direct opposition To- him. Is's
ummary sahjection of the whole negro race-ua-
attoes. We suppose, and even qusdroons ana
nustees deeeended on the fathers aud paternd
crandfsthers and srsst eranafathers side from tno
best Southern families. inclGdrd-sccms httie 100
much in the spirit Of the reply of Seymour VIII
lams, Attorney General to toe application OF the
pous and persevering Blair fm small suu out of
The royal treasury whcrcwith to endow the Colege
Of William and Mary. CONSIDER. Sir, said the
earnest Blair. that the people Of Virgins have
souls to save" "D-n your souls !" wss the
gross reply, in the very spirit OF Senator Hsn-
monds summary disposition Of the negsoes,
"D--n your souls make tobacco
But though diaeriag from the Senator on this
fundamental point, w have the hnppiness to ssree
with him upon many minor matters-matters, now
ever. of no slight Importance in the current poll
tics Of the country, Snd our free expression OF
opinion upon which has exposed us to no htae
obloquy and suspicion at the SCath. senator
Hamm. nd declares that, when the ksnsas-Ne-
braeka bill and the repeal Of the Missouri Proh'o'-
ton were first proposed. be regarded them, aud
he denounced them-thoueh not t,ien in public
hfe-as L" fraugbt with deluson snd trouble to the
.South." So old We. We said that very same
thing over and over sgain in the columns OF THE
TRIBUNE, while attempting to defeat the passage
Of that bill; but the ibfstuoted South would not
listen to ~ any more thsuit would listen to Senator
Hammond
He further declares his total disguSs at the at
tempt, on the part of President Buchanan and the
Democratic patty, to forcs Kansas into the Union
under tie LecOmpton Constitution, as most Use
less and even impossible opcrat'ou-precisely the
opinion expressed by THE TRIBUNE on that mat
ter We remarked ut the time, that although one
man might lead q borse 20 the water-haviug
halter round Bis neck, ths. il, which was much tho
position of Kansas in relation 10 Mr. Buchanan
yet that ten thousand Ren could Dot make him
drink. Seaator Hammond conitsses to have held
the opinion that, "the South herself ought to have
kicked tho LeconptO Constitution out OF Con-
"Qress." That was exactly the course which
The TRIBUNE urged at the time upon the Southern
members of Congress, giving also the reasons for
it; but again. the infatuated ard foolish South
would not listen to U.s. any more than to its sensi-
bic Senator.
Again, Senator Hammond holds, and so tells the
good people Of Barnwel-there having been, it
would seem, some complaint at his havlog voted
for the English bill-tha. the submission of tho
Lecompton Constitution 10 the people OF Kan
sas was unavoidable, and could not be possibly got
away trom--the very point which THE TRIBUNE
urged st the time. Again, the rejection OF the
Lecompton Constitution by the people Of Kansas
uas what Senator Hammond expected" what
hs rather desired" We also expected it, and, !
going upon that point little further than Senator
Hammond, desired it most heartily.
Mr.. Senator Hammond began political life it |
seems most decided disutionist. He held then
that disunion was desirable 10 and 70. itself Upon
this point, he Processes to have changed his mind.
He now holds that disaniOn is q most dangerous
and desperate remedy, TO be put Oh till the last |
moment, not to be resorted to TIL everything else
h,s been tried and failed nor till the patient is ID |
evident extremity. lie declares himself 10 bs
satisfied that IN overwhelming majority OF the |
South decidedly prefer to remain in the Union,
rather than incur the unknown costs and haz- |
"srds of setting up ~parste government" |
~ The great body of the Southern people," so he |
tells his Barnwell auditors. " do not seek dsunon,
4" and will not seek it as primary object, however
promptly they ray accept it ~ an alternative |
" rather than submit to unconstitutional abridge- |
ments of their rights" This is precisely the |
view Of the state Of Southern sentiment which THE |
TRIBUNE has always maintained. We have always |
and often insisted that the dissolution sf the Union
was thing beyond the power Of clustering poll
tician. and from which the great body Of the |
Southern people, were it presented to them as
practical question, would start back with dread
and horror, while, from any assertion. however !
streDuous and however determined, of the consti-
tutional rights Of the majority of the people Of