New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-01

game, and they cry out "Tbe North Is giving
in; we've got them under foot; let us just keep
the fight up little longer, and We shall be able
to open the slave-trade. BY George we've got
'em, tell ye Don't they shake good They
holer like lathsred puppies They begin to find
out that they can't have things as they want
ems" with much more Of the same sort. / ad-
NIT that The language is lot very choice, nor is
il ALWAYS 80 coarse. But the sentiment is the
same, and the expression, whatever its manner,
is received with the approval which greeted the
outburst have above reported, and which occur
red in a very crowded bar-room, just utter
portion of political audience had gone thither
to drink, chew tobacco, and discuss the points
of the speech they had heard
But the more general expression concerning
these Pro-Slayery demonstrations st the North is
of undisguised and bitter contempt Let me
convey TO ycu more vivid idea Of this state Of
feeling than otherwise could, by reporting the
remarks of q Georgia and South Carolina Dis
unionist, who were the other day talking to-
gether in the public room of the "Lanier House"
in this place. assure ycu, moreover, that the
sentiments of so many people here are truthtully
represented by the conversation referred to, that
/ am justified in declaring that among those who
deign 10 take any notice of the Northern Union
action. utter scorn for such action is the ruling
feeling.
But to my illustration: Both the South Car
Gilman and the Georgian were men In personal
appearance and manners above the standard of
Southern roughness and ignorance; they were
talking, of course on the great topic Of the day,
and seemed to agree in their views; they had
been speaking Of the impossibiity of receiving any
concessions from the North which would te abld-
they seemed to believe that the Free States were
SO badly frightened aud bullied that they would
probably offer almost everything the slave-drivers
could ask. " The resolutions adopted by that
meeting at Philadelphia the other day were pretty
strong, any how" remarked the gentleman from
Georgia Upon this there burst from the South
Carolinian torrent of the most singing words
you can imagine which can only feebly repro
duce Said he: There, now, by -! if had
needed anything TO convince me that those damned
Abotionists were rotten towards, the proceed
ings of that meeting would have finished me- l
swear it makes me sick to read the resolutions;
you can hear the whining of their voices
and the chattering of their teeth when
YOU read the stuff" The Georgian assented
to this proposition, and said the whole affair re-
minded him of boy who hits another, and then,
frightened at what he has done, hugs him and
offers him his biggest apple not to tell OF it.
eyes" said the other, "Or Of the man who had
a quarrel with his wife at the breakfast-table,
and threw fork at her; but the moment it
had lefs his hand he turned pale with fright, and
yelled out " Dodge it, my dear" Some further
remarks in the same strain of Righteousness fol-
lowed, during which the worthy Philadelphia
brethren were rudcly handled, the South Caro-
linian presently grew warm again, however,
and proceeded substantially hus:-" You know
well enough what my sentiments ere about Slave
Nv; now, as ugly as feel toward the damned
Black Republicans, i Like rugged, up and down
fight do have some respect for bold rascal;
] have respect, of sort, for q sincere man. too
no matter what he believes. Ii, now, i was an
Abohtionist, and believed that Slavery was wrong
or If / didn't care damn whether it was wrong
or not, and only meant TO fight against it, and If
I had made strong fight, like what those
Northern fellows have done, why, by the
Lord, I'd cut off my hand and blister my tongue
before I'd take any part in ore of them SWIVEL
ling powwows they call Union Meetings Here
for years the blasted fellows nave been fighting
inch by inch till they have got every Free State
with 'em; and now, just as they have got their
first big victory, they are beginning to shake and
SILVER. and wish they hadn't done it, and hope
the South won't be offended, and promise TO
give up all they've got, and o good deal more,
and never to do so again as long as they live if
wen only let 'em of this once. Long John
Wentworth says the chivalry will back down,
that they are always ready to eat dirt when the
scratch comes; but / should Like to see the
Southern man who would crawl on his belly like
those bounds at Philadelphia and Boston, and
gobble dirt with such an appetite as they seem
TO have I'd shoot him before | went out to
hang an Aboltionist that was stealing my mig
gers BY thunder I'm ashamed of my kind
You viii observe that the gentleman from
South Carolina was slightly heated; the other
was hardly less 30; and the remarks here I'M
perfectly reported were listened to with eager
ness by crowd around, who nodded to each
other in approval Of the sentiments.
= / say to you again this is not an exceptional
instance. have heard similar comments on
steamboats,, q in railway t7ans, in numerous
tayerns, among the groups at tbs street corners;
much the same feeling was n'sre mildly ex-
pressed by Mr. Cobb in the speech l reported