New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-25
WHERE Is THE BLAmEr

Our Southern neighbOrs are a very hard people
to get on with. They provoked the struggle now
going ON between the friends of Freedom on one
side, and the advocates of Slavery on the other;
and now that the contest seems going against
them they fy into q prepOsterOus rage, and say
they will not submit to be defeated. They make
no bones of declaring, that sooner than meet the
approaching defeat they will break up the Govern
ment.
They exhibit in this not only an arrogant but
very childish temper. In every contest, whether
political or otherwise, somebody must triumph and
somebody must be beaten. Our present cOmph-
cations had their origin in the repeal of the Mis-
sour Compromise, measure alike unjust and In
iudicious, and for which the South is wholly re-
sponsible. The men opposed to that scheme ex-
posed il in al its bearings, and warned the South
of its malgn consequences. They developed in ad-
vance the mischieyous nature of the measure, and
one by one set forth the probable results Likely to
flow tberefrom. They we're just such as have fol-
lowed They are not, therefore, to blame for those
results. whether past, present, or to come. The
South challenged the agitation, too, at time when
the country was profoundly apathetic on the negro
question. and when both the great parties had for
mally agreed to al armistice that promised many
wears of quiet Whoever else is to blame, then, we
saw il certainly is not the men who resisted the
overthrow Of the tme-honored settlement Of 1920,
and who have been, since 1854, merely trying to
recover the ground then LOST to Freedom.
In the battle now waged, the Republicans aim to
get the Federal Government back TO the position 1t
occupied all through lis early and maturer stages
They aim at this and they aim at nothing else. Ii IN
the heats of the contest the negroes hear OF the con-
ct and think the day of their delyerance at hand,
as some of them did about the time of the last
Presidential election, that is no fault of the Repub
Heans, and is not TO be imputed as ain to
them. And so, if Kansas feuds and Kansas
fights arise, by which Slavery is repulsed by the
struggling people of that Territory at the point OF
the bayone that is but an inevitable incident Of the
conflict, for which no one is responsible but those
who provoked it. And so, too, if these excitements
and outrages create Osawatomie Browns and slim
uIate them to the performance of acts Of violence, it
must all be charged to the came account Uniess
the Northern people are in truth the neryeless pol
troons they were declared to be at the outset OF the
imbrcgio, by such sheets as The Richmond EremiHer
and similar exponents of Southern sentiment,
nothing less could have been expected than what
has happened. If the South really believed in
One-sided contest in which they were to have every
thing their own way, then, doubtless, they are dis
appointed in the loss Of Kansas and in the fact that
the only great hero Of the war in that Territory is
found to have been furnished BY the North But,
because they have miscalculated, and now find
that the results are the reverse Of their
pectatons, they cannot he neld excusable for
DOW becoming so fierce and blatant thereat.
They must learn to restrain their ardor and to take
their defeats with equanimity, both now and here
after. Having appealed to the popular sentiment,
they must abide by the determination Of popular