New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-30
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
TIL KIND OF COMPRoMIsE--NOw AND HERRAF-
TER-MOEEY AND MANUFACTUREs--sOUTH

ERN PAl-ShATING S1STEhhTIZED.
From Our Own orrespondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. IS 1850.
That was nObly uttered by THE TRIBUNE yes.
terdsy that the Free States will not be
''bullied," aud was worthy of italics. 1t meets
1ith hearty response from thousands of sturdy
hearts among us, and it is the only true position
70 be- taken and maintained. We thank you for
giving ont the text so emphatcally that all may
understand. The only Republican evening paper
here has miserably taken the back track. 1t has
grown weak in the knees-its backbone has
given way-it tells us that we must conciliate
the South by wiping out such laws as may be
hostile to that sum of all modern villainies the
Fugitive Slave law. But we shall do no such
debasing thing. The sentiment on this subject is
almost universal here, that it is for those who
struck the first blow TO u ae the first atOnement
that the Fugitive law was designedly made
vindctive thing for the deliberate purpose of ex-
asperating tie NOrth-that whatever legislation
1he latter may have INDUCED in was merely re-
fahation against an enormous Outrage-and that
when this law shall have been shorn of its afro.
cOus requirement that al white men here shall he.
come slaye-catehers, it will he quite time for the
North to repeal its hostile laws. This depriying
voluntary motion of the South, who did
the original wrong, rot by fOrcible action of the
North. So long the former is satisfied with the
bloody code il has enacted, so long are We deter
mined to maintain undying hostility to IT. Com
promise on this issue has become an obsolete hope.
The day for compromise with people who never
yet made one but to break it, has gone by. Hence
forward We not only stani by our rights but on our
ability to maintain them. AS an abstract question,
u Is quite clear that public sentiment through the
North has become thoroughly educated on this
question, that the law is now dead letter, and can
De enforced only by the bayODet. But the North Is
not content with this method OF rendering II nugatO-
". Ii demands not a repeal, but simple moditi-
cation, giving to the Shareholder all his rights under
The Constitution permitting him 10 catch hls slaves,
not compelling as to do the foul duty Tor him. All
argument on this question rs idle waste OF words.
Public opinion all over the North and West has been
outraged by this sanguinary law and the ranking
irritant must be first removed We thank THE
TRIBUNE again and again for It's uncOnquerable ut
SeTanCes at all times, but especially IN telling
Is that "the Free States will not be bulled.'
Al sorts of opinions prevail among us touching
fhe political crisis and where it Will end But un-
deriving all Is a conviction that the North, beng
euitess of wrong has no atOnement to make, and
will not be cOerced into any Illumination. III mas
eaten dirt enough atOretme and is so SICK OF such
nutriment that il viii eat no more. Those who
sTayer in their faith OF fmness are those only VINO
are oppressed by pecunlary stnngencies. Inc rais-
Ing of money lets down the spirits, and this depres-
sion tnpes with OrebOdings the whole energy OF the
man Yet it is not 10 be disguised that cool heads
with pockets still undepleted gleve over the exist
ing embrogliO and wish that we were out OF II. No
one would take back the election OF Lincoln. The
deed has been braveiy done, and braVely VII us
conclusions be- enforced. This is the unanimous SEN
tment no matter what CONFUSION may follow. but
taking things as they are, not as We would desire
Them 10 be- the cloud which OyeThangs commerce,
stocks and money cannot fail to discharge occasional
explosions. As one bright streak of light appears
on II il will suddenly close up into gloom by some
1elegraphic dispatch from the South, no matter
whether il be the truth or lie, so much DO men
take counsel of their fears A single factory dis
charging its hands will make a new sensation,
the failing of d heavy firm another. The news
of the first dsuuOn cOckade was nuts TO
the alarmists, and the hes told about the
famous Palmetto flag were equally rleh IN re-
suits Specie will flow in from Europe within thlrty
days. but with il VII come Intelligence that all
ENGLAND il not only astOnlshed, but alarmed al "hat
j. transpiring here. As the latter VIII aSSuIeuiy
occasion panic there so the news OF such panic
there will stimulate new alarms here. Some Danh,
which ought 10 have broken years ago, VIII one Ol
these days break entirely, and thence another
fright of which the telegraph viii be sure 10 make
The most. These shocks to public confidence must
be looked for at every turn. Men must De pre-
uared for them until the cloud lifts aud moves away
When that happy moment will De, no one can no"
foreteU Events are III a transition state. A
mighty revolution in the whole policy Of thls Gov
eminent il at this moment taking place; contest Of
nrinciple and DO great principle either III p0lucs
ar religion has ever set been established but al the
cnst of corresponding sufeTlngs and Sacrlhces.
Our Revolution was achieved through grief ana
losses 80 intense and crushing that history has been
Impotent in describing them. Christianity lisel
Saded through seas OF blood before II gained per
lDapent foothOd in the earth 1t II too cary 10
form al opinion. .u 49,. ..
least lust before the suspension. thihh hotoi
heard Of more savage rates for day or TWO Oe-
fore being all the Way up from 10 i've per cent
a month and that too on cOlaterals OF thc strong
est kind Much Of this grew out OF the eiOr' 10
earry stOcks AT this time there s h0pelul Iet-up
though the general want of confidence ~ the iuturc
makes almost every kind OF business extremely
xlugoisb There is "a prOdlglOus dulness IN the shoe
and leather trade ShOemakers have been DIS
CHARGED not in very large numbers, while those
st;il nj work continue at lower wages. The cloth
mo houses have discharged good many hands en-
,,1eed an Southern work, not because theH SOllh-
SrI1 customers don't order goods, but because tney
do order and don't send the money, Tor creuI III
that ouarter n pretty much cut of. cOuId n"iu
other ware now piled up and ready for those AT the
south who ordered them, and who have been ho'l-
fed that they most be paid Tor before shipment
An H. h. not owing 10 any hostility 10 the
81 hut n common sense business eau
ron INST "a the West was treated TWO years
80 Reside. il is known that last years Southern
b9ance. are not paid up a. they o0eht to be- LEI
= - curious 10 remark that all orders Tor hre-
go have the money behind them TIE demand
81 - of an kinds has been aud continues Ia