New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-10
THE sAD NECESSITY.

The War now upon Us grows out OF mistake,
long upheld aud propagsted for local, personal
selfish ends The Southern masses have been led
to believe that the freemen of the North are
sneaks and coWards-to be brbed, or bullied or
beaten-not their equals anywhere, and especially
not on the battlefield. This delusion has had
many grounds. First, the moral and religious
sentiment predOlninatng at the North condemns
duels, street-fgbts and all those personal collie
ions which are comprebended at the South under
the broad, general designation Of difficulties. y
The Northern man who should challenge his
neighbOr, or waylay and shoot him, would be
henceiorth q reprobate and Outcast. If not
branded assassin. Not be who receives blows,
but be who infcts them, is here regarded with
scoru and lOatbiDg. The Southrons misunderstand
this coniouuding reverence for law and hate oil
ruffan violence with pusillauimity. They think
we do not stab aud shoot each other because ne
fear death, not because We shrink from imbruug
our hands 10 blood. -O
The SOuthrons have hitherto met the Northern
People mainly under circumstances least favor
able to just appreciation of their manhood. He
has been a purchaser at their counters, guest
at their hotels client in their lsw-ofices, pa
tron d their journals, bestOwer Of pace and
power GU theu aspiring politicians. That portion
Of the Northern people with whom they have been
cordial and intimate were suffers for Southern
favor. They always presented themselves cap in
hand alternating bows with grins, and seeking
in all ways TO prOptiate His MognIfcenee.
The SOuthrons have not seen the Northern men
who grew the food they ate, and made the clothes
and shoes they were the implements that tiled
their farms aud furnished their houses bat only
the dapper sinking go-between who sold than.
Their Northern correspondence was mainly with
this class they had no doubt that it would cling
to them il any Gaze, aud 10 whatever extremity.
They supposed, when they started this Rebellion,
that half the North would side with them against
the other halt, and that they would thus have
their own way without a serious contest. "Will
your people .fght ~ asked q Southern of North.
ern Member Of Congress last Winter. "Yes, IL
yOu drive them TO il, was the decided response.
''Well, thibk so, too, replied the Southerner
" but Otr people have no idea of it, And that
is just why we are fighting now. I'D 81 o.. .,
our punt clahs--toc mhhy OF tnem-haVe nouI-
lshed TINS fatal delasion. Mr. Douglas told Ten.
Qui'hm'an IN 90 on the eve OF me cincinnati
Con'ehl.on' tns', IL rug oou'n N"uia cia''n Fer
Jun ils"' III 'nHi pou'' she ouiu ge' 'nolu'
yen. Y hasuraly under''ooa tAis 70 mean 70
ior ~e, ana maze Tue Pauoih "hai you visa
Ut. Nr. Buchanans especial friends IN mat
bod! Pleoged fehns!Nania 10 60 Win Tue south
4 a.,
ia any sectional eOnlhoh .nat ihiga' ehsue' nus
tne Norm mas ior years peen Pu' up al a rn
anu hnoeAeo ao"h ior southern patronage oi
one sort ana another' lhere was oat one way
Ia Which this could end, and II is now upon us.
The leaders OF Southern opinion were 81 e.
tematically rnisled as we have seem the masses
have adopted, and even exaggerated, the error Of
their blind guides. That Northern men cons
iionied oy southrons would run Ike frightened
quo " '"0 ''''oi ""' =" w.
io' '"o VI 'ne io'"'i was TUG es'"0N'u'u ia,' i
OIL 'he ooutn TWO months ago Inc Sei"! ms
tory OF ierri'oriai Kansas ought 10 nave dis
PEELED ths Illusion; oul snat history Is on!
known az the North hence the necessity Tor
TINS oePofaoie war, .a b gan =.
negotiations protocols, compromises ADJUST
,aen's, can never corfee' 'nS i'nua"nen'a' et'o,'
Inc 'oou'n 'noronSos u"ueiS'ano' tna'' S"e
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