New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-26
HORRIDA BELLA!

When, under the sulphury auspices of the emf
nent Rynders, the salyo Of great guns in the Park
has at the sunset hour announced the gathering Of
the Tammany tribes, we have always thanked our
private planet that il did not enter into the serene
mind of the Chief Bombadier to double-shot his
engines of war and point their menacng muzzles
at our Office. For we are Off we must own it)
weak enough since political differences must
come, to prefer war of words to a battle OF balls.
On the other hand, our patriarchal opponents at
the South seem to be of less peaceful mind. We
have before us The Plantation, fine, fresh Quar-
terly Review, printed here and published in Geor-
gia, and which is in that painful parturient
condition indicated by "Yol. j, No. l." But
the bantling is a perfect little sucking Mi
nerya, spear shield and casquet all in
cuded. She Esps in infancy nothing
but unmiigated thunder and lightning. An an
nouncement like the following, which begins what
is sarcasticaly called "salutatory," cannot fail
to excite public apprehension. SIN less than
twelve months" says this Quarterly so savage
and tartarly, 'this country may be deluged in
80 blood" We do not say that under ordinary
circumstances, we might not, even in the face of
such fearful announcement, have preserved an
equalmind, if Hardee-Hardee of " Rural Home"
tlorida-bad not followed with a dreadfully trucu-
lent broadside-with a brOadside bearing the po-
lemical inscription, "GoD AND OUR RIGHrs."
Hardee opens gloomily. "The crisis" says Har-
dee, (which has been so long impending over us,
sis at our door" The crisis can "impend" no
longer. 1t has dropped 1t is sat our door,"
At least, it is at the door of Hardees "Rural
" Home" blighting the happiness of Mr. Hardee,
of Mrs Hardee, and of all the little Hardees,
to say nothing of /" this once sacred and hailowed
Union" The gallant Hardee, with crisis thus
in the most unpleasant way numbering his door
we suppose his front door, and perhaps his front
garden-naturally issues printed address to his
fellow citizens and his Creator He proposes, in
view Of melancholy matters and terrible things in
general to raise "a Volunteer Cavalry
Corps of One Hundred Men," These are to be-
true and picked men," Being " raised" the
next thing to be secured is, of course 4" banner"
For which most necessary bit of bunting, we need
hardly say that the highsouled Hardee looks to the
ladies. 1.-THE ladies, God bless them !" cries
Hardee, will fashion for us Banner which
shall east sheen of glory upon the thickest fight
and the darkest day."
Thus far the indomitable Hardee has neither his
Cavalry Corps nor his Banner-has nothing, in
fact but that nasty crisis bothering him in respect
of his front yard. Prcsuming that he will obtain
his force and his flag it really becomes an inter-
esting question to know what he intends to do 7
Upon our word we do not know. What Hardee
will not do we are able giving him credit for toll
cradle sincerity TO guess at, by studying his most
inicrrogatiye manifesto.
shall We" asks L. A. Hardee, "assist to forge
" chains to ietter our childrenl" He answers that
he is unwilling TO do so.
Shall we, by our cowardice and treachery. rob
" them of their heritagel" He replies that he is
quite unwilling to take so discreditable course.
Shall we stand forth before Europe and the
"ciyzed world as unworthy TO be recognized as
"a nation?" Hardee thinks not He believes that
it would be "puerile, weak and dastardly" to take
that particular position.
"Young men of Florida, will You join met"
Hardee is sure that they will.
~ Shall we have the honor" he inquiries finally,
- of being the first to fill the breach y Here, Is
will be seen, we have the most decidedly important
question. Because this filling the breach, do you
mark is not the most pleasant way of proving
that nature abhors vacuum. Hardee might like
it, Hardee might glory in it. Hardee might "a
Their prefer to be an unpleasant body with thrusts
and stabs, and gaping wounds decorating that
body. Cuts may have charms for Hardee and he
may find slasheS a solace. In fact, the grievous
wrongs to which his beloved Florida, with tho
demesnes adjacent, has been subjected, may pos
sibly have affected unpleasantly the Hardee intel
lectuas. Between Cats and himself, he may pos
sibly, in his dreadful distemper, begin to lind an
insignificant difference. This we will say: In
the opinion of Hardee, there is not more
degraded, more cruelty insulted, more extremely
down-trodden and more contnmeliously- kicked
people upon the Footstool than the people Of tho
Slave States. The report therefrora-their " own
report against themseves'-is really painful.
They have already suffered whatever indisnity IL