New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-28

,..ro,, our permission: and that We have not the
nouer. even il we had the will, to grant it. Con-
sttution, must be regarded as fixed facts untuthey
arc overthrow. The laws must be respected ana
enforced until they are repealed, especially In
Repubic, without any laws to which, III theory, Nv
least. the whole people have not assented. IL MI
Keitt does not know If, it is high time for some
friend of bis, yersed in the elements OF blackstone
70 inform him that treason is just as much crime
os petty larceny, and just as promptly to DE pun
ished. Our Institutions permit unlimited buster,
| and are very tender Of written or oil spoken
nonsense; but they were not framed in sport, nor
Is the Constitution of the United States bagatele.
! There has never been period of our history even
in the early days of our struggle and our weakness,
when the Federal Government was not strong
enough TO crush any revolt against its authority,
however threatening. 1t is stronger now than
ever; as those who have felt its strength-some
| times upwsey and sometimes UNANIMOUSLY exerted
have .d good reason to know. Against the whole
body of the Slave States, united in folly and crime,
il would be inyncible and upon all traitors, how.
! ever powerful, its hand would fall certainly and
l
| rigbt-South Carolina has no right to anticipate
| apy other result of rebellion. II there might be
another, il is not to be thought of or spoken OF
| and much less is it to be made the theme coarse
and vulgar appeal, or to be paraded nsolently as
| contamination to be wished for. For, should
the Honorable Laurence attempt to reduce his pep
perry theories to plain practice, it will be clearly the
| I nf her IN
| may be President, to introduce Mr. Keitt to
twelve of his fellow.creaturcs in panel assem-
bled. while il viii be also his fate to listen to
short address, in which there will be painfully dis
| tinct illusions to necks and TO neckweed.
This threat Of dissolution would be ridiculous
enough if all the great Slave States should be
harmoriously united in crime But harmony, if
occurred at all, must be secured, not by common
| injuries only but by common sense. All thinking
| men will agree with us in the opinion, that the
| South could no more unite upon scheme of seces-
sion, than company Of lunatics could conspire to
| break out of Be5lam. South Carolina aud Louis
lana would be fitting in a week; Alabama ard
Georgia would be in the field with hair triggers in
a fortnight; Virginia would be domneering;
Arkansas hot-booded and Kentucky loquacious;
and no man need be prophet, or the son Of
prophet. to predict the result The very pathos of
Mr.. Keitts appeal shows that he is haunted by
msgiyings. "Wil the South, he anxiOusly asks,
"be divided upon this issue!" We can answer bis
question, and safely answer it in the affirmative.
We are speaking in this matter by the card.
We permit ourselves to be guided in making up
our minds implicitly by Mr.. Keitt; for to what
but to his famous letter should we look for cata-
ogue of Northern crimes-for an inventory OF
Southern injuries? Loose and indefinite state
ment enough We certainly have; yet as this is a
pretty important case, we must call for little
more accuracy in the peadings. physician is
sometimes informed by his patient that he feels
| i'll call over but upon such statement not
even the most enthusiastic homeopathic would
prescribe deconth dose Of arsenic or nux vOm-
lea. Of abstract discussions of the Slavery ques-
ton, Mr.. Keitt frankly admits that he will not
complain. I" Southern literature has been IL
bcled but We cannot 60 to war about sonnets
and romances; Southern pulpits have been de-
no,Inced but they have denounced back again to
the best of their ability and with such knowledge
of Hebrew as Providence has yOuchsafed to them;
and having taken these initial measures the North
is now ready "torestrct cripple, and extinguish.'
Mr.. Kett further laments that Slavery is regarded
at the North "as crime" just as Anti-Slavery
sentiments are regarded at the South as crime;
but are we, who imagine that we think tOlerably,
to be debarred from thinking, and is the South to
have monopoly of reflection as well as of cotton
The South is charged, he tells us, with cruelty,
" immortality, and barbarty." Very well; they
fog their slaves to death, if We may believe
their own newspapers-is that cruel They
bcget thousands of Legitimate muatto quad
room, and octoroon chdren-is that immoral
and they sell them, when pressed for cashis that
barbarous 2 Now, Mr.. Keitt can never have
heard Of the Le1 TalioniS, or he would not
be surprised if the North wind does sometimes
bring sharp word or two to Southern
ears For We have been charged by him, by his
associates, and by the newspapers which speak
their opinions, with all the crimes Of the
Decalogue, and with several not specified in that
code. We starye our cotton spinners; we cheat
our shoenlnkers; we swindle our workiDgmen a
BODY and then send them to the alms-houses.
Boston is Sahara of infdelity. New-York is a
Sodom of immortality. We have borne all these
accusations with patient shrug, and have never
threatened on account of then nor upon any other
account, to 20 out of the Federal Union. Must
Virginia have monopoly OF TRADES as well as of
tobacco Are cotton and conscience to be found
only in South Carolina Can sound Biblical
exegesis flourish only in warm climates ? And is