The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-07

THURSDAY, JUNE Z, l86
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In The HERuS Of Tuesday We publiGhsa i've
remarkable documents, each containing q ~
ray Of statements having IN important bearing
upon the great social and political questions q
the day. The FIRST was Mr.. Summers elaborats
exposition of the barbarian Of the South, -
developed by the treatment of the slaves In
that region; and the other. the papers in the
celebrated Burch divorce case, which is shortly
to come before the courts Of Illinois, and in
which "honest old Abe, p a. leader of the bar,
may have brief or at least Q retainer.
Mr.. Summers review Of the history Of slave
ry in tho South. and the consequent extension
cfbarbaric Institutions over the cotton tree,
the tobacco plant and the orange grove, honly
important from the exceeding toll which the
Senator has evidently gone through with in
order to collect every fact, or statement pre-.
| sumed to be . fact that could bear against the
slave master. 1t is the GROWING work of the
abolitionists, who have been bowling and
grooming and crying about tho negroes
any time these five and twenty years, all to
make q substratum for the republican party,
and to show that our Southern brethren arc
hopelessly demorslixed, and can only be saved
by being reduced to utter destltution; while we
ct the North are In . condition of Utoplan
beatitude, and represent all the moral virtues
In THAR u,Cak ounolir olto~otho. 1elS~k "a
phases. This is the theory of honest W. II.
Seward, honest old Abe Lincoln, honest Henry
Wilson, honest Mr.. Trumbull, honest Charles
Sumner, and all the savsgely virtuous and aw-
fully Immaculate leaders in the black republican
camp. Look say these philosopher in effect
between the oligarchy of the South and your-
selves The Southerner spends nearly all his
time in swearing and drinking juleps, the rest
OF 1t Is employed in whipping and torturing his
negroes. He Is q barbarian, worse than q
Camanche, and bis life is in the hand of any
man who sees at to take II. On the other hand
to carry ont the parallel, see what pinks of per.
fiction you have been made by the free institu.
tions of the North. Look at the record of d.
vorces, elopemeuts and so on, in the Western
States. Look at the overcrowded prisons the
penal hospitals the long lists of criminals to be
tried In the courts; the notorious insecurity of
life in the great cities; the work Of the knife,
the pistol or the sluDg shot, always in the hand
of the free ruffian. Mr.. Sumner may direct
the attention of the Senate to the fact that
large numbers of his constituents appear to be
actively engaged in the agreeable occupation
of poisoning each other; the Vermont Senators
have similar case wherewith to point their
moral, and Mr.. Trumbull may point to the
revelations Of domestic life among the higher
classes of his constituents to show that Illinois
Is not behind the old States In reproducing all
the elegancies, rehnemenb and prophecies of
manner Ito say nothing Of the absolute de-
cencies of life) for which they are dis.
tiDguished. Some other Senators on the same
side Of the chamber might make an Instructive
speech upon the extremely fscfle way in
which property in the free States Is con-
veyed from one person to another without
any consideration for the transfer, vast I'm
provement upon the old fashioned way Of doing
business, which ID still adhered to In the South,
whore they call the new method Of carrying out
the theory Of free institutions, by making free
with another's property, by hard names, such
a. swiDdlipg, robbery and the like. No evil
dence could be more conducive a. to the shock
ing ignorance of our Southern brethren than
this. They are absolutely century behind the
age, and all owing 10 their njggers.
A.
IL free to starve for all that his friends will do
for him. The white man Il free 10 debauch bis
neighbours wife; the parson b free TO get rid Of
disagreesble marriage BY poisoning bis part
ner; person holding responsible position In
the community b free 10 insult the mother Of
his children by series Of petty annoyances
and small meannesses which stand alone In the
annals of domestic broils; scamps are free To
swindle the public and 60 unwhipt of justice;
railway directors are free to kill
their passengers in fact is
free to make everybody else a. I'M
comfortable - possible. In the barbaric South,
where they do not have free institutions, cases
of deliberate crime are comparatively rare. II
has remained for the civilization of the North
70 revive all the iuxuriss Of Italy under the
Borgiaa
Is 1t not delightful picture, this ofthe civil
ization Of the NORTH And ought NOT We to be
all very glad that we are not obliged to live in
the horrid South, where there are no Summers,
and where the Hardens, Herseys and 90 on are
scarces What In the world do they do for
their morning murder and evening Grim. con?
Were 1t not for the Northern papers they would
all die Of eanvi.
"SruL HAErrSe ON Mr. DArGHrER.--we
perceive hat the sacred animosity" between
Philosopher Greeley ana Thurlow Weed has
not yet been softened or repressed The Che
Waller Webb and littlo Rav~ond have tamno.