New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-08
SOUTiarRH PylOsECTs.

that region of eHy Trustworthy intelligence from
the North, they should be equally careful that
there exist no Northern outlet for Southern news,
at least in public Journals. 1t is impossible for
them to conceal from us their real condition;
however strict and successful their surveillance
over the mails may be, they cannot be equally
stringent with individuals. Not that they have
not tried, but the very measures which they have
taken to coerce opinion have only served to make
men hypocrites, by rendering it unsafe for them
to be anything else if in their hearts they dld
not approve of everything Southern. The result
is that they can trust nobody and are constantly
cheated.
But they may, at least, do better with their
newspapers, for these can be suppressed alto
gether. One of the most violent Secession sheets
of Tenne ssee is The Memphis A5atanche, and its
boastfu tone is intended to keep.up the spirits
of the people, and to take the State out OF the
Union.
In that paper of Friday morning last, for in.
stance, it is predicted that jeff. Davis will be
on the banks of the Hudson within thirty days;
that Mr.. Lincoln will fly, with what little may
be scraped together from bankrupt Treasury,
from Washington, and that Gen. Scott VIII bear
him company; that nothing viii be left month
hence of tue Old Union, except possibly
New England and that the special Session OF
Congress called for the Fourth Of July, VIII Lot
meet nearer Washington than Portland, Maine,
if il ever meets at all. And it ia such tap-doo-
die as ths-hap doodle being, as the learned
reader knows the stuff they feed fools on-thAt
is served up daily for the robust intellectual ap-
petites of the Southern brethren.
But this Araiqaehc of the day before was of
quite different tone, its leading article revealing
a state of things there which however gratifying
to that large class of citizens at the South who
lave everything TO gain and nothing TO losc by
universal confusion aud anarchy, must appaIl the
peace-loying Union men of that section. and is
an evidence to us of the desperate state Of af-
fairs with which they have to contend. The
subject of the article is the duty of the home
creditor 10 the home debtor, that duty consist
ing according TO Tie iroiaEche in iorgNing all
debts. Naked law" it thinks, is altogether
unequal 10 the emergencies OF the present hour,
and public sentiment must take its place. The
81 natural patriotic impulses of the human heart
il believes may in most instances, be trusted to,
but where they are not, then the remedy Is
public sentiment" The duty of this public
sentiment Is especially 10 make the imam Of
wealth" "a marked man. who uses legal
power TO secure his debts. The public senti-
ment demands, or is expected TO demand the sus-
pension of all legal process for the collection of
debt the adjournment OF the Courts for, at least,
the next two terms, and the entire throwing up Of
their practice in all civil cases by the whole bar
for the next six months
Such is the state Of society in the principal
city of Tennessee that such propositions as these
can be grayely made by leading journal, even
before the State has formally cast in her lot with
the traitors. Can there be- any stronger evidence
of the coming anarchy than this attempt to In
augurate it, as well a5 put mob law in place of
orderl
But The Memphis Bulletin goes little further;
or do these journals agree to divide the advocacy
of rascality, one taking ono branch and the other
another The AraiaHche only proposes that no
body shall pay his debts; The BaHetiH's propo-
sitiOn is to steal everything that is owned BY
non-residents. 1t will be safer TO quote its own
words, lest our readers think we have misappre-
hended them. 1t says:
There enough snd personal in this city owned
by Cnoinnans alone sold at auction equip for service the
thousand volunteers under arms in This city We
member the stock Gas Company held by Cncn
We do forget that the stock Of banks owned
in part Cincinnati. and the residue in Philadelphia New.
York Boston There les than twenty millions OF
railroad bank and other stocks held by Northern in this
State Tennessee has issued ishseen millions Of time bonds
these all down Fast except perhaps or two millions
This city outstanding ard half million Of bonds msny
them In Cincinnati the balance 10 the North This county
ha issued pay able In Eve years all held very nearly all
in the Adjacent counties have done the thing
build railroads. Then the people Of this city perhaps half
million Cincinnati The whole oois up iucacu
liable sum- which, ia point Of fact the North has been enabled
rob the South by tariff system, operating unusy upon
u.s. that II had only paid to the Federal Government the
that .houd have been imposed upon in oce with
comparative wealth aud numbers would have been to-
day richer than by quite thousand mon of dollars
We gh be induced to sques,er all this indebtedness TO
tie North. The State Nigh, sppoiut receiver and make all
her citizens and banks and corporations pay these comfortable
Of money into the State Treasury The Legislature is
session. and may generous spirit suthOrire Board
Aldermen hold aud po the effects Of Cincinnstnsin our
midst The joke rich that hope The Gazette and Co
Seyeiai will no. explode while enjoying it."
The Bulletins proposition, We have no doubt,
will meet with great favor, though The Ara-
ianehe prepares the way for making the plan
universal. AS both reveal shocking state of
things in Tennessee so neither is likely to cool
the desire of the North to put final and per-
manent end to such scheme.
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