New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-29
SOUTHERN NOTIONS OF THE NORTH.

tie enough of the North from which We infer that
orr Summer visitors from those regions have
either been too intent upon their juleps or too
much engrossed in purchasing goods, to carry
back for the enlightenment Of their stay-at-home
neghbors much valuable fruit Of intelligent obser-
yation. We remember to have met and convcrsed
with a clever Yankee woman who undertook to
teach tie IDEAS of half dozen boys aud girls to
shoot, upon yirginian plantation. She told us
that the general opinion of those about her was,
that We are 80 poor and so mean that we are
ready to do almost anything for shilling and abb
solutely anything for two shillngs and siApence.
So we find ut this time the Southern newspapers
roaring IN fussy and fiery way about "hordes
of Northern mercenares" sent to cut the gen.
eral Southern throat. Upon these two words TWO
hundred changes are TUHg, and Of them two COM
ments will dispose. "A horde" according 10 our
idea, is a gang of men intent upon plunder; and
hordes usually 90 where there is something Dc
side "niegers" to steal Rome was a talr pfize
for the G0ths; but all the Confederate States to-
gether would hardly furnish 'loot' enough LOT
q pair of rspscious MISUNDERSTANDING not
enough to tempt men from the comforts oil nome
TO the disc0mforts of the field. Nine-tehths oi
the wealth of the South is in fancy human stock,
of no particular value to soldier OF fortune-ol
no value at ali to the patriotic Northern yolun-
teer. Mercenary, indeed! Those noble Soluers'
who have Just left home, and comfort, and their
loved ones, ~ fight the battle OF the Constitution,
asking no recompeuse but the CONSCIOUSNESS OF
rectitude, merc.nares If 80, then Warren ana
Adams thsn Hamilton and Schuyler were mer-
ceuaries. If 80, who would not be mercenary
The men of the North know, indeed, the value
of money. They know whit it will do; and they
know, as Southern Rebels will find out to their
cost, Just the right time TO spend 1t. History
hardly records such a profuse yet enlightened
Gberality as that which the Northern States have
exhibited. 1t is hardly an exaggeraaon to say,
that the entire wealth of cities and towns, OF
private corporations and of individuals, has been
rendered to the Government upon its own terms.
We do not believe there are ten thousand per.
sons in Massachusetts, who have not gwen come
thing, OF done something, for the cause. And
that which 10 true of Massachusetts,, is true of
every other Free State. Mercenaries, indeed
| We do not have to put the screws on our bank
! directors here to obtain public loan! There Is
| a race of giving, and competition OF munh-
! cence.
| And this, too, in time will we hope, satisfy our
onopdam brethren in Virginia, South Carolina,
and other Territories of the United States, that
We are not so mserably poor as they have been
Kind enough to suppose. After all We have
! given to the sscred cause Of Law and Order, We
h.ze stiu a dollar or 80 left; and can even Dor
| io" h''io 80 present stock i-~ 20.
But We have hardly touched the popular pocket
| yet, 80 the sooner the SUBJECTS Of J. Davis
stop laying that particular hsttering unction u
their sOuls-that silly notion that We are exceed
| ingy poor-the less will they by-sndby be disap-
pointed. Our property isn't fugacious-hssn't
two legs-doesn't run away or get sick and die.
| Another Southern notion is that thc moment
We 4. in TO be plnched, and bread 20 grow dear
we shall all be ander the domination OF King
Mob and his army of starving artisans. They do
not seem to take into account the fact which
they Will be stcrnly compelled to take into nc
count ere long, that we have plenty of employ
mcnt fer our able. bodied men now in pnttug
whe. ewithal to feed their families while they arc
doing the hoy work. War makes no mobs--t
rather prevents them. And as for the tendency
of the North to mob demonstrations, we can say
with the most perfect confidence that there are
ten mobs at the South Ia one at the North-the
only difference being that here the law puts them
down, AMI at the South they put down the law
South has powerful party at the North. IL
had once such party; but men, whatever may
be their Pro-Slayery views, do not care 30 be-
themselves slaves. The North is united now b.
"A common danger. Here and there q gIumber
pursucs his ayocstion, but he is careful not to
be loud in the Indulgence of his fayoIito pas
time. There is really 10 difference OF opinion
worth mentioning.
One Southern newspaper now before ne says:
The North is mad" I'm one sense, il certainly
iS-somewhat angry il certainly is; but We have
al! around MS at all hours of the d5y and night,
cumulative evidence that there is . method n
this Northern madness. For lunat,cs, ne are
getting on remarkably WELL From that eminent
lunatic, Winfield scott down 30 private dctards
in the ranks, there is no alarming evidence of
insanity. Northern theories of liberty and of ma.
man equality seem to BE- hardening into pretty
substantial practice.
Tie tone OF the Southern newspapers when
speaking of the wealthy aud intelligent and
patriotic North IL one great anarchy, and Of the
Northern people a. goddess mob" of " Puri-
/" tans, frceloyers, Abolitionists, Mormons, Athe-
ists, and Amalgamat0nists, has given the