New-York daily tribune., 1858-07-23

There ia an old and true proverb which says,
" One man may steal horse with impunity, wnhe
:. another will be hurg for only looking over
% bs5o.r TIE latest instance Of this is the reia-
trs treatment of Northern and Southern Disunion'
i.ts. There are thinly scattered through the rec
States. mainly in New-England, few thousand
people who proclaim themselves hostile 70 the
Union. because Of it, Pro-Slavery aspects and IN
ausnces. In other words, they refuse 70 DC Id any
manner mixed up with or responsible TOR tne Gu
,l.veuent of human beings, and, believing that the
Union renders all who freely subscribe to 1t thus
responsible, they say Away with the onion
Not on. of these Disunionsts il Governor, Men,
Der Of Congress, Judge, or even Justice OF tue
Peace-iu fact we do not know that one OF them
holds sny Office whatever. They do not rule any
State, County, City, Town or Village IN the North;
DO Journal in general circulation 'ubscrloes to tner
views; and they are just about as powerful among
us a. the Shakers or the Mormons.
On the other hand, the South has Dsunion
party embracing thousands OF her foremost clnrens
Governors, Senators, Representatives, Judges
Generals. &c, &c. Leading commercial Journals
i6 Charleston. New. Orleans, and other Southern
cities. openly advocate Dsunon sentiments and
the Disunionists enjoy their full share, in proper
ton 70 their numbers, of office and consderation'
II is rarely an mpedment to politicians advance
ment in the South that he is an avowed Seces-
sionist in some localities, it is positive recon-
meudston. Gen. Quitman, well.known leader OF
the Secession party, came within hands breadth
for
dent at Cincinnati. Mr.. Campbell of Mobile, VINO
was then and probably still is Secessions1' was
called BY Gen. Pierce to seat on the bench OF the
Supreme Court Foreign Missions and Consuships
are dispensed with liberal hand to those who pro-
claim the South their country, and spurn the idea
of being National Democrats, or National IN any
sense that accounts New.Engand part OF their
nation.
Under these circumstances, Messrs. Everett aud
Choate make orations in depreciation Of sectional
"ism" ard in ostensible support Of the Union; but
against whom are their rhetorical batteries leveled'
Against the Disunionsts in station and authority,
who are sedulously educating one quarter OF the
Union to regard its connection with the rest as
blunder and calamity These are the srandsons
of the we'll known factonists who disturbed and
harassed Washipgton's administration, aud against
whom the thunders of bis Farewell Address were
directed. But these are passed over with the
faintest ausons the bandest rebukes, by the great
rhetoricians while all their voleys are poured upon
Northern fanaticsm and sectionalism, some of them
ostensiby aimed at the Garrsonians but all of them
intended to reach ard harm the Republicans, who
are not and never were Disunionsts at all. Their
clamor against Disunion is calculated and intended
to strer gthen the only party that hugs DsunoDists
to ts bosom, which pampers them with Office, and
which could not maintain its ascendency without
them. Thus the real horse-ihieves are let off with
the gentlest admonton, and all the terrors of this
sham justice are launched against him who is inno-
Gently looking over the hedge.