New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-30

allow the Union 10 be dissolved, we deprecate the
irritation which threats or apprebensions Of force
are certain TO produce. ave can whip you"
"Try it such are the foolish banters in
which most scenes Of human carnage have heir
origin. The seoessionists are everywhere up
penliDg to the courage and pride of the South,
on the assumption that they are about to lock
horns with the North in n life-nnd-death struggle.
He who stnnds for the Union is held up to
Odium as Observation-Disclosures who lacks tbs
requisite yaor or faith TO stand up for the rights
of his section. DO you 40 fear the prowess and
"pOwer of the North that you dare not stand up
for the rights of the South 2" is virtually asked
How this must operate, in region where to
be accounted coward is to be universally des
pissed and spit upon, we need not say. We pro-
pose to wrest this potent engine from the dis
unonists by saying frankly to the Slave States;
"If you choose to leave the Union, leave it; but
"let us have no quarrel about it. If you think
it a curse to you and an unfair advantage to
"us, repudiate it, aud see if you are not mis-
taken. If you are better by yourselves, 60
land God speed you: for our part, we have done
every well with you, and are quite willing to
keep along with you; but if the association is
"irksome to you, We have too much sefrespect
{" to insist its continuance. We have lived BY
"our industry thus far, and hope to do 50 still,
"even Though you leave u.s."
They who think to salye over the widening
chasm between the Free and the Cotton Stutes
are utterly unaware of the seriousness of the
matter in issue. We are confident that the Fire.
eaters, instead of being in any degree placsted
by promise of tho North to eyince greater zeal
and diligence in catching runaway slaves, would
rather feel insulted by it. LincOln's election, We
must repeat, was not the cause of the secession
movement, but only seized as affording favora-
bic opportunity for bringing it to issue. The
SOuth--especialy South Carolina-is poor deeply
in debt, and with faint prospects of Improvement.
No people who devote their energies to the grow
ing Of one or two bulky staples, buying almost
to run deeper and deeper into debt until utter
bankruptcy supervened and q slayehOIding com
munity is least likely to prosper under this
ruinous system. The South owes this day every
pound of Cotton, Tobacco, Rice and Sugar
she has made or will make from the crop of
1860; yet her buildings are generally shabby, her
furniture poor ard scanty, her hones' destitute
of comforts, and her soil wasting away. Her
poorer white people are indolent, imProyident,
and i'll at ease. Cut of from the North, many
of her statesmen fancy that she would fabricate
for herself, and soon be a perfect bire of me-
Chanics and manufacturers. To this end, they
now think of providing by law that slaves shall
be employed only in Agriculture and Household
service opening all the arts to white energy and
ambition. This would probably work The over
throw Of Slavery in generation or Two; but
that ia not our affair. We repeat that only the
sheen of Northern bayonets can blind he South
wholly TO the evils of secession; but that may do
it. Let US be patient, neither speaking daggerS
nor using them, standing to our principles, but
not to our arms and all will yet be well.