New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-05
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

| THE PUBLIC PULSE-THE REAL BATTLE GROUND
| TAKING AWAY OUR TRADE BOOMING THE
| DELAwARR-NEw JERSEY AND DELAWARE.
| F.on Oar Own Correspondent.
| PHILADELPHIA, Oct 80, 1860.
When great public emergency presents ITSELF
the tone of such city as this will have its proper
| W, igbt in tie nation. The time has been when
what was here enacted fell on the national ear
| with an emphasis as eectrifyDg as the cannon at
Bur ker Hill. TIE shouts which went up at the
first promug cation OF the Declaration Of Independ
| cree vbrated through millions Of sympathetic
| pulses elsewhere. There can be no mistakiDg the
defiant tone it impaired TO he national energy.
| We may at times have been divided as to local
| issues, but when the national supremacy was en-
dangered we have buried all local differences In a
common grave. In WashingtOn's time, tTo Phila-
deiphia Quakers, Roberts and Carlisle, accused OF
treason in accepting office from the British while
they he d the city, were condemned and sentenced.
A party defcd the Government as not stroog
enough to puaith them. But they were hanged.
Tie Whisky instruction was suppressed by Fed
eral troops marched across the ADeghenies, with
| out firing a gun, the leaders tried aud CON
yicted But this was ia time OF peace; and
| though the Government was strong enough to hang
| them. il was also strong enough to pardon. III dld
co. and that early resistance to its authority IS al
T. adv one of the half forgotten episodes OF history
In 1912, though party warfare ran high in opposl-
ton to the war, yet every trade and profession Ii
Philadelphia in succession shouldored plck-ax and
shovel and marched out daily to throwup intrench-
ments to defend the city from tie British then med
| italing descent We know that all these events
gave tone 10 public sentiment abroad just as the
! Boston tea patty inygorated US here. Some OF
them will live and shine in all future history, while
others have already passed cut OF common renem-
brance ii is cheering to reflect that the Govern
,neBt came out of these emergencies not only TIL
| umpbant, but defiant Though subsequently over
| Swallowed as commercial center, Philadelphia
possesses vet the power to give tone to public senti
! ment even in the great turning crisis wh;h now
overhangs the nation. This month she gave bare
majority Against the party which demands that
| corIupf Government shall be- driven from power.
| Next month when the naked Issue comes, that
majority will disappear, and THOUSANDS Will indicate
| her preference the other way.
| such a verdict will strike new terror to the
| hearts Of all traltorous ploters. Our equamml'!
suffers no disturbance under what We see aud hear
| The issue we have so long coveted has only come,
| and we are fully prepared for it. Our sentiment y
| that the game of brag has been played cut; tna'
/
Cether that the cry Of Disunion is merely the OLD
sham revived that there will be neither that nor
civil war. except among those south OF Mason ana
| Dixon. and that those timid holders OF stocks VINO
have been frightened into letting them 60 at ioss
are already beginning to discover their folly ana 10
be ashamed of themselves. Intelligent and wealthy
Southern men now in this city, holders of hundreds
of slaves, openly rdcule the threats OF secession
| They pronounce the letters published IN your New
York sensation papers TO be torgeiies, not written
i'm the South but in your city; and that when the
| crisis comes, Northern men may stand back, Tor
they will themselves crush out tie Dlsunon traitors
They tell us it will not be contest between Norm
| and South but Of the South divided against
itself in which the traitors will be put down. inc
Union men victorious, and On met l9i
free Republican speech aud sentiment established
| assure YOU these sentiments have been loudly pro
claim ed here BY large Shareholders within the WeeA
| who also wonder at the calmness OF our citIehs
under the torrent Of hes and defamation heaped Oh
| them from the South, and reechoed by mercenary
toadies of the press at home. Old Democrats mere
onenly avow their determination 70 vote Tor l4u,
coin. declaring themselves sick OF agitation ana
equally determined b. crush out Dlsunion. can
not count the changes OF this kind that are 'ahipt
place, but they are numbered by thousands d;
Cobb's atrOcious attack on the stock Inaihe'
the worst game for him and his parry ne e'o'
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