New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-14

WAS discussed in a stGret conversation tbo "utr
dav in our hearing: "Oh!" remarked one,
:" theie are plenty Of idle men, runl'i"s around
town dong bHhlng, VIII, will come up and pay
all the expenses" We leave the reader to im-
agine the covert bitterness and saiire which the
words partially convey.
There is dissatisfaction, too, in regard 10 qHeS-
tions of policy There is the question OF caeap
postage for one. An examination develops thh
fact that Uncle Sam has carried TIE mails
tb,onah the "ConicAcra ed States at dead
loss or about one aud half N Hons OF dollars.
Tie new Congress fearing taxation, proposes TO
get rid OF thin deficit by increasing the rates and
doing away with Improbable routes But Inc
more liberal party says, "lt Is worth pubhc
sacrifice to contribute to the general diffusion oil
knowledge throughout the cOinmunle." Ia any
ore slow TO sec what side the arisiOcrabc party
viii take on such question DlhuMon OF
knowledge is Just The thiDg they don't care 10
provide fer They will save the people from
taxation and too much KNOWLEDGE at the same
time. WHAT DO they care about little increase
of their postage bIis'
Then there ID the question of the slaVe-trade'
South Carolina already threatens 10 secede upon
this very question. "What is meant, che asks
by putting in the very fundamental act "i or
qluization stigma upon Slavery" That Is
where it touctes her feelings. But she need not
alarm herself unBecess arily. "CJnStitGt'oDs as
one of the SolOhs of the new CoDedeIaey s"gey
remarks care not straleht-jacke's III when 10
hamper communities; they can be changed 70
suit the wants of tho people SheUId this pro-
vision, designed to bumbng Tie border States
and the rest of mankind, be Incorporated 10 the
permanent Consultation, 1t will bc only prsctl-
cal cheat. Labor, already deficient in amount,
demands that the gates should Oe opened Tor tle
Ethiopian influx. Negroes at $1,000 to Sl,5oV
ARE not within the reach OF the mass OF the
Southern people. Hence future expansion viii
reuder the slave-trnde still more necessity,
since it is these poorer classes who emgra'e'
Was not the elderly Of expansion" just what
Southern Secession sought And shall IL Dc
cheated Of it, object by any tame serupes about
the slave. trade
The question of TIE tariff too, is one on which
oppusing parlies will arse III the South. On this
roint. teo. South Carolina feels occasional.
"Was not that just the thing she has always
protested against oD the Part OF the Federal
Government :" She left the Union to secure
Free Trade and she intilnates pretty strongly
that sue means TO have 1t.
Still more troubled in spirit is South Carolina
on the question of " slGoe representation. III Is
rather odd, to be sure; here we were proudly
told was TO be seen at last "a Government OF
,eL;te mem" but when it comes 70 Counting polls,
South Carolina insists that black one is as
cood "a n white one. " Nlggers constitute her
wealth and power" and she must have Der proper
representation. The proportion of black TO white
population is greater with her than with other
States But she deuurs to the mut'lation OF her
darkies; each must count one. There are many
! no doubt, who are not laore than three-hiths
/ African, but the alloy is Of finer metal, ana
lot a baser.
But there 10 still deeper dissatisfaction, among
the more intelligent and considerable of the peo-
pie, in regard TO tue muin question. They have
no liking for dsunon in any shape. They can
sea nothing bat evil TO be derived from IT.
a. There will be no end to it," says one. " The
Soutbern States themselves will divide. Louisiana
and Texas will fall of, having different interests.
The Yankees have ships in every sea Thor sails
whiten the waters of every portion Of the globe
But we have no money, aud shall have none.
We must fall under the prOtectorate OF France
or England. The Cotton States will raise cotton;
but they will have no political power; and OF
course no standing among the nations OF the
earth" The speaker then went on TO speak OF
ancient Greece how she was Destroyed By her
own internal divisions; until now she was an
ipnOmipious nothing among nations. And that
ia the way it viii be with u.s." be continued,
"whcn VIC get divided up among ourselves -
Nevertheless, but little hope Of return to the
old order Of things is yet expressed "faehs
dlscensus Arerni, sed recoeare gradum, hie labor,
hoe opus est" 1t will, perhaps, be only when
real burdens have become intOlcrablc that South
ern pride will listen TO the voice Of reason. Yet
- these are revolutionary times" we are told;
and there is no telling how much ''history may
"be crowded into =" the lapsing months. Just
now there is too much martial law about to per-
mt of movements backward. To-day the new
flag of the COnfederacy" has been paraded
through the streets and saluted. 1t is an inlita-
ton of the star-spangled banner" only very
appropriately diminished in features. 1t is pretty
enough, therefore, and quite good enough to be
followed after by slave drum and fife.
Tonight there is rumor abroad that the
order has come from Montgomery for one hum
dred thousand men to stand in arms ready for q
call TO tue field. This is probably an e1aggera-
ton; but it shows that the people feel they have