The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1859-07-06

effect Of a free interchange Of social eourtesies
between individuals and masses Of people OF
different sections of the country remarks, Ma
tional personal acquaintance is indispensable,
not only to friendship, but to a just opinion OF
character Too well we know the hate on the
one hand, and the contempt on the other, which
the citizens of the two great sections OF the
Union entertain for each other.
To the uninformed north-eyeu to that part
Of it which ought TO be best informed, (the
newspaper part the people of the south are
little else than a barbarous and brutal horde
Of slave-drivers, and vice versa to be unn-
formed south, the people of the north are but
an unprincipled rabbIe of swindlers, atheists,
and fanatics This is all wrong, as 1t is alto
gether false. There are different characters
tics ia the two sections, but the average OF IN
telligence and morality is much the same, This
must be allowed by all rejecting men-by all
that know human nature is much alike the
world over. It would be allowed, too, by all
men Of either section, were not passions in
famed to madness by the misrepresentation
Of demagogues and, above all, if they were
better acquainted with each other
1t cannot fail to have struck the observer
that tie most liberal men north and south, and
the most Union loving, take them as class,
are the merchants. Especially is this the case
with the southern merchants; for ten, yea
twenty, of them visits the north to one north
ern merct ant who visit the south But the
northern merchant, and we may add, the
northern manufacturer, is thrown into close
personal contact with the southern man-and
this, more, far more than motives of selt-inter-
est. occasions that lberaIity of feeling for which
the commercial men of the north have ever
been, and we trust ever will be, distinguished.
Hence the great conservative class OF the re-
public is the commercial class. Hence in the
midst Of fre-eaters, the southern merchant
maintains his equanimity, and year after year
repairs to the north just as though fre-eaters
had never existed. Hence, amid all the fury
Of abolition presses and pulpits, the northern
merchant stands serene and unconvinced that
his customers are savages, and brutes. And
the bond Of this perfect union, greatly more
perfect, we believe, than that subsisting between
any other class in the country-the bond of
this strong union is personal acquaintance.
Our genuine statesmen, if we have them, our
conservative men, our religious men, those OF
every name and function who hate discord and
love harmony, may learn lesson from this
fact just stated II is short, it is very simple
it is an easy lesson, and il is this; To preserve
the Union, make the people of the two sections
well acquainted with each other This is the
whole theory.
LATER FROM UrAH-Ihe western mail, with
dates from Great Salt Lake city, arrived at
st. Louis on the The 18th inst. The Valley
Ian, Vt the 18th, announces the transfer OIL
that paper to john Harluett, esq. under whose
auspices ii Will hereafter be conducted. Con
siderations Of personal and private character
have induced this step" In taking leave OF
his readers, Mr.. Anderson says Should the 4
question be asked, does peace exist in Utah, it 4
d
10 engagement has taken place between the
United States troops and The mormons, and
mat there are not Two visible opposing forces
u the field; then there Is peace III = 1''''.
". L..u. l............ .----4lpl In our history 1
10 the anomalous cundluUn OF affairs now exist
ng here. All chrlstendom has looked earnestly /
III, from the commencement, to see the end vi 1
The troubles III this distant territory, and events
which have recently TRANSFERRED will quicken
The interest which Tie mormon question has
every where excited.
The record Of the proceedings connected 4
with Judge CfadIebaughs late court at Provo /
has been made up, and is now before the cabi-
net at Washington.
The distinct and unavoidable issue now pre-
seDted to The American people, whether crime
Is to be smothered up in Utah and allowed to
20 UNPUBLISHED, or whether, as is the case
every where else, an independent judiciary is .
~ be sustained in It's earnest and IaborIUus
Efforts to vlndicate the majesty OF the law
While the question thus stands, we bear the
notes Of preparation on the part of the NOR
mons, setung their squalrOns IN the field, should
-helrlnsolenL and extraordinary pretenslons not
be regarded in whatever judIcIa! action is TO
come. The goyernorln the proclamation pub
shed last week, informs lis that 1.-THE peace
and good order OF the territory" is. abouL to be
'jeopardlsed'' by persons associated together
ii a military capacity throughout the popu
ons portion of the territory. We referred last
week 10 the circumstances which elected this
document, and which we characterised as "a
condition of affairs reasonable in It's animus
and insulting to every loyal American citizen"
We have word OF Two more TO say about
his proclamation. We repeat what we said
before, that It's results will be just nothing
whatever. Weare in die habit of dealing win
acts as they are, and not as in our Judgment
hey ought to be. From the language Of the
proclamation, who coud tell what persons Were
meant by il? Ii could not be the handful OF
christians who are here. OF course it does not
eer To the army or any of It's detachments
Y meant the mormons. 1t meant disloyal peo-
5le, long residents of this territory, and it
'uyht to have said SO. Mr.. Buchanan, in his
PROCLAMATION, SO designated them. 1t ought
D have been placed in thehands of the 'smar-
hal for the territory" appointed under the
authority Of the United states. Both of the
ederal judges have concured in the Judgment,
hat the attempt to createa territorial marshal
md thrust him upon the fderal authorities, is