New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-01
A NEW PRESCRIPTION.

pacifcatng the country we nave heretOIore hdu
occasion to notice, has brought out new one, 1t
is novel, aud may properly be styled flillards Own.
Here it is, as developed by its author in speech
made at a meeting of the Constitutional Union
party, held in Mr. HIS front door-yard, on Mon
day evening last:
81 really think that it would be good employment
of the public money, if Congress would set aside
sufficient amount OF money to employ twenty men OF
New.Eng and in travelling through the Southern States
in the inter- and similar sum for the employment OF
twenty men OF the South TO travel in New-England
during tie Summer season..
The restrictions here set forth as to the time
when these missionary operations should be under
taken led us to fear that considerations OF per-
sonal convenience, comfort, and entertainment en-
ter quite too much into Dlr. Hlllard's plan. We
see very plainly that he would send to the South a
set Of moral and political yaletudnarians, but we
can see no prOprety in paying money which shall
90 toward the restoration of the brOken.down con-
stitutons of few lecturers, instead of devOng it
to vigorous attempt to uphold the shattered Con-
stitulion of the country. We fear that the places
chosen for correcting false impressions" and
"bripgiDg back harmony" would be the White
Sulphur Springs and the other watering-paces OF
the South This will not do The missionaries
should be men Injured to hardships, and not afraid
of tar and feathers and the penitentiary. Probably
most of them would never Intentionally run
into danger from these institutions; but as
it is customary to lynch persons who even
accidentally bear about with them Anti
Slavery books and newspapers, men of muscle
and nerve only should be selected Mr. Hllard
evidently thinks thinks that he would be good
man to send, but we have our doubts. His record
is not altogether a sound one. He may travel with
it into the mild regions Of Baltimore Washington,
and Mount Vernon, but he wood hardly venturelnto
Atlanta, Ca, where the ferocious Hambleton keeps
watch for unsuspectiDg NoItherners, or into some
parts of Alabama and Mississippi. We dare say,
however, that few men might be found whom it
would be safe to send. Mr.. Everett would do,
though those unfortunate remarks which he made
at Taunton soon after the assault upon Mr..
Sumner, are probably remembered by some peo-
pie. We should recommend him to paste
into the inside of his hat an ex-
tract from that memorable speech in Congress
which drew down upon him the wrath and sar-
casm of John Randolph. We doubt whether it
would be quite safe for those two other eminent
citizens of Boston, Mr.. Halett and Mr. LOvejOy to
travel far into the Southern country. The Rev.
Ur. Adams and President Lord of Dartmouth Col
lege, however, would be rapturously received.
Mr.. Hilards friend, Mr.. George Lunt, has an un-
mpeachable recOrd his chiyairic and successful
attempt to browbeat Charles Follen, one of the
earliest and sncerest of the Anti-Slayery men, and
his efforts (well meant though clumsy to convict
The Shadrack rescuers, must commend him to the
gratitude OF the shareholders and render him al
ways welcome guest at their houses Besides,
&c is 70 impregDably clothed in garment of self
righteousness that tar and feathers, should he hap
zen to merit them, would be powerless upon him.
On the whole, we think twenty missionaries might
be found, who could venture Southwark and who
could be well spared from the North.
The mission Of these men, according to Mr..
IIard's notion, will be to make the people of the
two sections know and understand each other, so
that false impressions may be corrected. And he
gives very delightful bit of his own experience as
follows: 81 assure you that found men there
"such opinions upon Slavery as |, in common with
"you and all New-England men, entertain" This
is very charming, indeed. 1t is genuine bit of
bumor, equal to Charles Lambs quaintest and
quietest sayings. The kind reception of Fernando
Wood in South Carolina is good evidence, we sup
pose, of the tolerance of the people of that State
Why didn't Fernando tell US that his opinions on
Slavery were not offensive to the South Because
he is bot a humorist as Mr.. Hillard is. We shall
expect to see The n. Y. OJserrer and The Journal
If Commerce claiming that the popularity Of their
sheets in the Slave States is evidence that the peo-
ple are willing to hear Slavery discussed in kind
aud Christian spirit. Such jokes are quite over
towering. Spare us Mr.. Hilard
1t does not seem to us that Mr.. Hards plan
is feasible one. Taking himself as model lee
turer and con'erser and harmonizer what good
can he be expected to dol Can he make the
Southern people understand the New England peo-
pie better7 Why he does not understand the
New England people himself; and the shareholders
have sense enough to know that he does not. He
goes to Baltimore and Washington, and Mount
Vernon, with his mild doses of Anti.Slayery and
water made Paatable to his entertainers by strong
denunciations of the Abotionists They see that
be is a harmless and inohensiye person, who, II he
eniertans any Anti-sayery opinions, will never
provoke anybody, or convert anybody, by the OK.
preston of them. SO they tolerate him, and, for
their own purposes, hatier him. But they under
stand very well that he does not represent any
considerable number of persons in New-England
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