New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-08
TILE PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE
A Deficiency Of the Spirit Of TO-
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
TROUBLE AMONG THE TRAITORS.
styu Our Special Correspondent.

i wrote to you this morning IN respect 10 the
political clouds which are gathering over the &C.
sessisnist horizon; and private letters, received
In the course of the day, from Georgia, Ala
bana and Louisiana, confirm the worst fears Of
he South Carolina authorities. According to
the accounts il seems that Upper Alabama is IN
spen rebellion against the Yanceyites, while even
IN the other parts of the State the proceedings
al Montgomery are beforehand denounced as the
work of designing politicians whose ambition bas
been foiled by the freemen Of the North and
who are now bent on fastening their claws upon
HE people of the South, whom they wish to re-
auoe to bondage appalling as that which
yppresses the Africans. YaDcey and Cobb have
been burned in efHgy in several localities; while,
On the other hand, the reluctance of Chief.Jus-
soe Campbell, Of the Supreme Court, to playing
into the bands of the rebels, is we'll known at
Montgomery. Few men are more respected for
elevation of character statesmanlike grasp OF ln-
teIlect, and enlarged gmpathies with American
nationality, than the CbiefJustice, who was
resident Of Montgomery, before his removal with
His family TO Washington. 1t is said here that
nan Of his remarkable intellectual powers, and
Of his sdamantine integrity, cannot be expected
10 ioin revolution which has been insugated
BY low.minded demagOgues and worthless per-
sons like YaDeey aud Cobb 1t is further asserted
that Chief Justice Campbell, with bis detestation
of the illegal proceedings of flibusters and pi-
rates, of which he has given copious evidence in
Ehe Walker and Quitman case, cannot lend his
sanction to the ripgleaders at the Montgomery
Convention, whose movement, if successful, must
also result in piracy and treebooting.
While the Alabama letters are thus full OF
dependency, those from Georgia are not more
cheering for the SecessiOnists; and the tender OF
fhe Provisional Presidency to Stephens, far from
being regarded fayorably as ralying point OF
the conservative classes, begins to be looked upon
as fatal mistake, considering the peculiar ma
lure of Mr.. Stephens, which, it is said, unfts
him for the position assigned to him, this position
requiring total abnegatOn Of those reasoning
and mental powers which this gentleman pos
sesses in q higher degree than any other public
man South of Mason and DixoD's hne Large
brains are the most terrible enemies which the
sentiment ridden and childish South can en-
counter. However a fictitious patriotism and
the excitement Of the hour may lead Mr. Ste
pbens TO the wrong path, his brain will lrressl-
bly, bring him back TO the right one; and hence
the despair Of the impetuOus and dashng ToOmbs
ut the association with q colleague who is as
much guided by wisdom and lgment as he,
TOOmbs, is under the influence of bombest and
passion, while the lower class Of men of the
fancey and Cobb ilk are stuDg to the very core
Of their corrupted hearts by the awful sensations
which association with superior men like Ste
yhens never fails TO produce upon the mind OF
those who feel instinctiyely crushed by the weight
Of their ibferiOrity.
While storms are thus brewing in Georgia and
Alabama, the fears in regard to Virginia, Ten
.seessee, and Kentucky are increasing, and n
Louisiana, too there 10 strong popular feeling
against the Secessouists, it being commonly re-
ported that one of the United States Senators
from louisiana has received positive instruction
60 resign his seat in the Senate.
Charleston is now the great focus of the news
from the Secessionist States, and, leaving TO your
other correspondent the duty of enlightening you
about the local movements in South Carolina,
will continue TO Keep you informed OF the state
OF the Seccssionist atmosphere generally. can
not, however, conclude without referring with
pain 10 the financial difficulties which begin to
become mere aud more oppressive. The wife OF
one of the most unselfsh and generous of the
Secessonist leaders remarked to-day tbat her
husband, after running his business (he is cot
ton factor) aud giving all his ready money up
ward OF $30, 000) 10 the State, his nov not suf-
kcieDt money left 10 supply her with the means
Of purchasing provisions for the daily wants of
the family. This is one case out OF hundreds,
] am sorry to say. There are also here in
Charleston q great number Of shabby -genteel
families, owning few negroes whose only
sleans of subsistence are derived from the wages
which these negroes can obtain. The misery OF
these families is now very greut, for it is Diff
cult in the pFesent time for these negroes to earn
even the miserable pittance upon which their
mistresses and masters dspend. Tlese families
correspond With those OF the old Doblesse in
France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal, who are too
poor TO live without working, and who are too
proud to work-wth this difference, that those
classes here do not possess the high mental and
moral culture which constitutes the only re-
.ieemng quality Of those in Europe. Yet these
d lspidated relics Of the fag-ends Of Euro
pam TOryism seem 10 DO reoonciled 10 their
wrtched condition as long rs the printed assess
EnenL-boOk OF the citizens of Charleston records |
their names in connection with their owpersbip
Of tao or three negroes.
While financial difficulties, great and small. now |
besat the once prosperous city, other difficulties
Of O still more formidable feature loom In the |