New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-31
THE CONFLICT APPROACHING.
From Our Special Correspondent

fTom OuT SpecMl tVHttpohu'iA'
CHARLESTON, s. c., Jan. 81 1851.
TIE town has resumed the mos: belgerent IS
pect, and it is generally reported that Judge
RObeItson's mission Of peace has been summary
rejected, and that Hayne, not having succeeded IN
making the Federal Government withdraw Us
forces here's the attack on Fort Sumter vii be
made speedily This confirms the impression ]
have often expressed to you Of the imminence OF
the emergency. aud oi the fertility OF tho socaltd
negotiation at Washington, which was only a.
fected in order 10 gain the time necessary Dr
erecting new batteries and for completing 81
other preparations. The Slave oligarchy will soon
stand openly arrayed in fierce battle against tte
Federal forces. and the first gun fired at Sumter
will light connagration all over the countr!
Seeing Virginia and the other border States hel-
itate, South Carolina wishes to secure theF
accession to the Southern Coniederocy by baI-
tirm Of blood and at the same time seeing th'
seeding States asserting their influence IN tn'
embryo empire, she is anxious to secure her o"i
supremacy as the originator and leader oi me
revolution, by sounding the tocsiD Of war within
her own borders.
Inc laklHE VI i or DuihA'' w" I'"'' " '''''
difficult and formidable task; but the siege bonn
bardmcnt Will rouse the spirit Of the whole
country and enlist the symphthies oi the dJiior-
eLt porties in the conflict, in proportion as Their
fayorit,s viii be- exposed 10 danger. The chef
object is not so much the capture OF the fleet
and the massacreiug of the garrison, but rather
the creation of al OK element, which shall seal
A. "A imam tt,p nf a
reign Of terror, under the influence of which tle
still.wayerinc States vii be coerccI into Seces-
sionsm and the explosion Of passions Of hatred
against the rising Northern power, 50 IA to give
10 Wise, Floyd and other most infamous of the
traitors an opportunity TO incite tho PoPulGcc 10
tie seizure Of the Capital, and to proclaim there
the formation of tne ncH Southern Emp.rci thi'
depend upon it, is the grca. goal of Southern
ambition. Ills win initiate a war, before the
horrors of which H." IMAGINATION 81 the most
ro-siute may Well reco; worse stu, the South
ern forces viii be- exposed eventually % the FIRE
# two armies: that Of the freemen Of the North,
determined TO anDihilate this reign Of ignominy
and shame, and the army OF the slaves, whom
actual war viii coon ind ice to the attack OF
their masters. All the other incidents here OWN
die into insgnifcnnce compared with the aP-
preaching conflict, and the North viii soon be
made Ia understand that il wants generals and
soldiers for its armies, aud not Commissioners
and DEPUTIES for its conventions. Forces should
be- in readiness in the Free States, and 70 be
concentrated, if need be, by land and water
round Washington. All advice 10 the country Is
imbeclity. All advice to the country will take
away from the Federal Government the OpPor-
tunty Of asserting III power against its asslil-
anti The eyes Of mankind rect now upon the
frc,nen Of Americn. VIII they become the slaves
of the slaveholdersl That ID the question; lnd
the sooner it is apprehcnded, the better for the
fame and the honor Of America. M the con-
promising politicians of the North have only
tended TO fill the South with additional contempt
for what they consider pusillnnimoas peoPs,
Whose only object, they say, is to make money,
and TO let the devil take TIE hlnduosr. All thar
sermons, writers, lecturers and other huncomi-
ere, Notwithstanding. The time has come for "a;
Norherners to show themselves in thor rel
character Of American frcemen, ready to BATH
aud TO die, if need be, for the defense Of tier
country.