New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-02
TOOprBs.

lisa habit with most Southern statesmen to sa
more than they mean. This habit grows out OF tn
impulsive temper and warm f'asSonS engenaereo
hot climates. When the spee>"h OF o sou'hsf
member of Congress ia to be consid, 'eo' IL 10 .uu
always safe TO regard il in the light 'i'" '"''
facts indicate. d.
Dir. Toombs of Georgia, in his speech last wecs
exemplifed this peculiarly in the most striking
manner. He fairly smoked with heat, and req
dered himself alike ridiculous and disgusting by hi:
extravaganza We cannot burden our columns
by reference to his offensive objurgstions in detail
We will barely recur to one Of his amusing passages,
where he besought Senators to observe the dangers
that menace the Government. Among them, he
called attention to the furious discussions of Con-
gress on DsunioD. Obserse, said he, how we
threaten Look into the other branch Of Congress.
Consult the debates of the Senate. Il there no
thing in all this, he asks to convince Senator'S Of
the deep-seated perks that environ usl For our
part, ct this distance, We admit the tremesdous
character OF these threats, but we think Mr.
Tom BIS makes very ludicrous argument in citing
them as evidence of national danger.
This whole speech of Senator TOombs, as it is re-
pe,ted IN The Globe with his own corrections, is
one Of the uost insulting pieces Of volcanic Oratory
that il was ever our fortune to peruse. lie raned
perfect seIu.e of impairment denunciation on his
opponests. He. made use of all the epithets fur
nshed By his opious vocabulary of Billngsgate,
plipg then UP on after another in lavish profusion
upon the reads Of men better than himself IN every
quality that goes 40 constitute true manhood. Ii
il was NOT On aftcya inner effort, it was the speech
If a bedlanite. and Mr.. Toombs deserves
,troisbtiackes.or % svug berth in insane asylum.
Mr.. Toombs concsrs. IS his irritating and incen.
diary barangue by cOops cling Georgia to pull down
the pillars of sFe Nstio nal Temple in case Mr..
Tsombs's candidate feg the Presidency should be
defeated: as he thinks, N such an event. our ma
tonal disorders viii hare risen to an intoersble
hight.
We beg to differ entirely from the very partial
views taken of our affairs by Mr.. Toombs FFem
the earest survey we are able TO make the whole
field we have come 70 the conclusion that there is
10. nation in existence whose difcrders are
so trivial as our own. We know Of none
whose present state is 30 fortunate, so slight
ly disturbed, or whose future seems so clear
And.this Notwithstanding the efforts OF men like
Mr. Teombs, of n,endiaIy newspapers and other |
agencies, to excite discord and magnify our ma
1t must always be remembered that
we are on the very opeaest sea of discussion that
the world ever saw. In Congress, and throughout |
the Free States there ia not the slightest restraint
upon any kind of utteranee that any man, from the
most conservative to the most radical, desires to |
indulge IN The bellows Of opinion blow porpet- |
ual storm from every quarter OF the heavens. And
though it may sometimes seem to threaten the
safety Of the ship OF state it is only gentle pa-
fer of the atmosphere Of public affairs.
AL ether Governments. and countries have their
disorders and their perls all Of them greater than
ourss England struggles under prodgious lead
OF debt, and a Colonial system that preys forever
at her ytals. France lies PROSTATE under the heel
of despot. Austria wallows in the mire of bank.
ruptey urder the shades of dreary night of ALSO
lusism. Spain is so reduced that her pride aGd
poverty alone remain. Italy grOans under burdens
too grieyOas to be borne. Russia is involved in the
d fculties of great social reform. Prussia and
Germany find their consultations only in promises Of
tho future. On this continent to the south oS us,
national affairs are IN sons cases even worse han
IN Europe, and in oil, quite bad enough.
But here in our Republic, our one great distarb-
ing questionable only one that is claimed to be of |
a serious Characteristic only one upon which. our |
orators grow spasmodic, and distress themselves- |
is the question whether or no the institution of |
African Slavery shall be arrested in its spread ever
our unoccupied Territories. Because a powerful |
party, arisen here in the interest of freedom and
civilization, says thar Slavery ought to. be thus
We are told that the Government is on |
the eve of tremendous CONFUSION; that its foun- |
dations are saoped and undermined; that we have |
already beGome old and decrepit-rotten before we |
ripe and that hs last great and sad catastrophe
which sooner or later comes upon 81 nations is at |
our doors; that the sun Of the great Republic is |
about 10 set in blood. That is o.Ssy, all this inn
pends unless ths Republican candidate for Presi-
dent should be- defeated in 1860.
al of whish, we repeat, we regard to be gro
tesquey Toundless, and aordl satiieien, evidence
to establish the monomania of its utterers, and
warrant their speedy apprehension and confinement
in some place adapted to the care of lunatics.
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ONLY TALK, AND NOTHING M0RE.