New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-10


CABINET.
Tie PiitsIurgh Chronicle publishes TIE following
letter. which, 4 says, "a prominent clergyman of
pislnrgh las iust received from Number Of Presi-
dent Buclanan's Cabuet-a truly CIV isan man and a
tried ratriot." Can this mean Gey.. Cass or Judge
Black. or Howell Cobbl
WAsHrsGTos Now 49, 1867
Ny DEAR Sin: | am an rerript OF yours OF 2Hh
inst and thank you for your kindly allnslon To my
fe in connection with TIE f,atul agitation tht now
threatens the CismenberTeat OF our Government L
think tie Presidents Message will meet your approba-
ton but | lave ljte hore that It VIII accomplish
ANYTHING in modenting tie madness that rules the
hour. Tie Indications are that the movement ha7 passed
beyord the reach of haman control. God alone can
oiiarm tie cloud Of i,s hgbinings. South Carolina
viii be out of Ire Union, and in the armed assertion
of distnct nationality, probably before Christmas.
Ills is certain uTiess the course Of events IL ar
rested BY some PROMPT and decided aioH on the part
# tie Ieo le ard Legislatures of the Northern States
Tie tier Slave States will follow South Carolina -
a few weeks, or months. TIE Border States, now 70
devoted to the Union, Will linger little whlle, out
they will soon Uitc tECr fortunes with those Oh
tier Southern fiftors. Conservative men nave now
no ground TO stand upon-no weapon TO battle WiIh'
All az been swept from them by the guilty equations
and infamous legislation Of the North. do not ancl-
rate with any confidence that tie North will act up
TO the solemn resroni tes of the crisis by retracng
those fatal steps which have conducted us 10 the
very brink Of perdiion, politically, morally and hnan-
cially. 49,
Here il feeling growing IN the Free States which
SAVE Let the South 90 F" and this feeling threatens
raj IDLY to increase. Ii il in part the fruit ofconplete
enlargement and in part of WEAKNESS OF this per-
reual conflict between H. North and the South which
las now lasted, with increasing bitterness, for thirty
yt6rs. The country wants repose, and Is willing 10
purchase it at any sacrifice Alas for the delu'lon Oh
the belief that repOse will follow the overthrow OF the
Government
l doubt not from the temper of the public mind that
the Southern States will be allowed to withdraw peace
fully; but VIXEN the work Of ACKNOWLEDGMENT begins,
we sball break mp the fragments from mouth to mouth
with the Remembrance with which we break the bread
uTon our breakfast tables II all the grave and vital
questions which will at once arise among these fTag-
Il cnts OF the ruptmed Republic can be adjusted with
ont resort TO arms then have made Wait progress
since the history of was written But the
tragic events of the hour show that have made no
Jrogess at all. We shall soon grow mp race OF chel-
iains, who will rival the politi Il bandits OF Sonth
America and Mexico and who will carve out to us our
niseIaJle heritage with their bloody swords.
Tie masses of tie people dream not OF those things
TLey suVIose the Republic can he destroyed to-day,
and peace will smile over Its ruins tomorrow. they
kn. nothing of OWL war; This Marah in the desert
Of the pilgrimage Of nations has, happily, been for
lun sealed fountain. They know not az others 90,
cf It's bitterness, and that civil Is scourge that
darkers every fresde, and wrings every heart with
anguish. They ale 10 be comIniserate, Tor they Know
moi what they DO. Whence is all this 1t has come
because the pulIt and the press, and the covering,
uuscu ulOus politicians Of the North have taught the
reople that they are responsible for the domestic insti
iutors of the South. and that they can be faithful
to God only by being unf&hful to he compact hich
icy have made with tier elIow-nen. Hence those
Liberty bile" Which degrade the statute books OF
some ten of the Free States, and are confessedly
shameless violation of the Federal Constitution, in
UOEt vital 10 tie material incress OF the South, and
yet nore vital to Ter honor We have presented IRON
wear 10 year. the huniliang spectacle of free and
foveroien states by solemn act Of legislation legal
ling the theft of their neighbors property. say
eft since il il not the Less because the subject OF
tie desIicabe crime chances TO be slave instead OF
hOrSe or a bale ot goods.
From this came teaching has come the perpetual agi-
aiion Of tie Slavery question: which has reached the
mind If he Stare PGp"LGtloH q ne SontI ana has
IL is r the feature OF the irrepressible conflict with
which the NorLtIn people are not familiar In almost
every Fart Of the South miscreant fanatics have been
found and pCisoning and cOnhagrati0n have marked
tEer footsteps. Mothers there lie down at night,
trembling, bepide their children, and wives cling to
their husbands they leave their homes in the morn
ng have brother residing in Mississippi, who ia
lawyer by profession, and a cotton planter but has
never had any connection with politics. Knowing the
calm aud conservative tone Cf his character wrote
him. few weeks since, and mplored him to exert his
iuiuence in alaying the frenzy OF the popular mind
around lin. lie las replied TO me at much length,
and after depicting the Vaccinations of The wretches
10 whom ] have alluded, and the CONSERVATION which
iogns in the homes of the South, he saye Is the
aerabe determination Of the Southern people 10 over
throw the Government, as the only refuge which is
left to them from these nsuppOrtable wrongs and he
adds on the success Of this movement depends my
every earthly nerest-the saety of my root from the
rebiand and OF NY wife and children from the poison
and the dagger
/ give you his language, because il Faithfully OK
presses tie Southern mind. which al this moment
CLOVIS de- Il furnace in ils hatred Of the North, because
Of these internal agatOns. Think YOU that any
TeCple can endure this condition of thingsl When
he Northern preacher infuses into his audience the
spirit Of a-eassinaons and ncendiarie in his crusade
against Slavery does he think he lies down quietly
al night, Of tie Southern homes he has robbed Of
sleep and OF The holplors women and children he has
expopcd 10 all the nameles horrors of seryile nsur-
rection
am still for the Union, because have vet faint
hesating hope that the North will do Justice 10 the
South and save the Republic before its wreck is COM
plete. But action, TO be available, must b. prompt
II the Free Suites will sweep the liberty bills" from
offer guarantees which will afford the same repoee and
safety TO Southern homes and property enjoyed by
those of the North, the impending tragedy may yet be
aveited but not otherwise. feel positive personal
humiliation, a member of the human family in the
events preparing. If the Republic is be offered
ar sacrifice the altar of African seryude then the
question OF mans capacity for selfgovenment is for
settled. The derision of the world will hence
forth Justly treat the pretension IA farce and the
blessed hope, which for five thousand years our raco-
amid storms and batteshas been hugging TO its boz
sem, will be demonstrated TO be a phantom and
dream
Pardon these hurried and disointed words. They
have been pressed out Of my heart by the souows that
are weighing uPonit
Sincerely your friend $50
SPEECH OF EX-SENATOR HAMMOND.
Al q meeting of citizens of South Carolina and