New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-11
TUF CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.
By WILLIAM RrssELL L. l. D. BaTrister atLaw the
Special Cores pendent of The London IiHef
TIE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

BY wILr,aS Bov.rp Rr.srLL l. l. D. B.TTter a'Ls~ the
Special Cores pendent Of The London Imef
TIE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
APRIL 80, 1861.
Nothing could say can be worth one fact which las
forced tsef upon my mind in reference TO the senti-
mens which prevail among the gentlemen Of this State
have been among them for several days. have
vi.ed their plantations have convened with them
freely and fully, and have enjoved that frank,
teous and graceful intercourse which constitutes an
irresistible charm Of their society. From all quarters
have come to my carr the echoer OF the same
voice; it may be feigned, but there is no dis
cord in the note and it sounds in wonderful strength
and monotony all over the country. Shades Of
George Ill. Of North, Of johnson, Of all who con-
tended against the great rebellion which tore these
colonies from England, You lear the chorus which
rngs through the State Of Marion Sumter, and Pinck
new snd not cla) your ghoetly hands ia triumph
That Voioo Gays, " II could only get one of the
ROYAL Of England to rule over us, we should be
content" Let there be no Mi-coBceiti0n Oh this
point Tint sentiment, varied iu IA hundred ways, has
been roIe-te1 to over and over again. There
is general admission that the means 10 such an end
are waiting aud that the deslre cannot be gratIhed
But the admiration for mOnarChical institutions the
English model for privileged classes, and for IA landed
sristocracy aud gentry is undisgued and apparently
genuine. With the pride Of having achieved their
independeuce Is mingled in the South Carolinians'
"a
and many are they who "would 60 back To- morrow if
we could" An intense affection for the British
nection love of British habits and oms respeet
for British sentiment, law. authority order, civilizs
ton, and literature, preeminently distinguish the IN
habAnts of this State who glorying in their descent
from ancient families the three islands, whose for
tunes they still follow and with whose members they
maintain hot unirequently familiar relations, regard
with aversion OF which IT If Impossible To give an
idea 10 ole who has not It's manifestation = the
reorle Of New-Euglind and the populations
Of the Northern States, whom they regard AZ
tainted beyond cure by the venom Of Puritan
ism" Whatever may lie the cause this Is the fact
and the effect "Ihe State Of South Carolina was,
| am told, founded by gentlemen Ii was not
established by witcb-buniDg PuIans, by cruel perte-
cutting anatics who implanted III the North the stand
ard of 1orquemada and breathed Into the nostrls OF
their newly born colonies all the terociiy, b0OdthiIs l.
ness and rabid intolerance Of the lnquisiton. Ii Ii
absolutely astounding TO stranger WHO aims at the
preservation OF decent neutrality TO mark the yio-
lence Of these opinions. If that coniounded ship
lad sunk with those - Pilgrim Fathers on board"
says one we never should have been driven To these
extremitiesW "We could have got on with the fanai-
icr if they had been either Christians o. gentlemen,
says another; "for IN the first case they wonld have
acted with common charity, ana IN tIe second they
would have fought when they insulted u.s. but there
are neither Christians nor gentlemen among themp
Anything on the earth! exclaims third, any
form Of government, any tyranny or despotlsm you
will; but "-and here is an appeal more terrible than
on earth shall ever induce MS to submit 10
any union with the brutal, bigoted blAckguards
OF the New England States, who neither comprehend
regard the feelings Of gentlemenl Man, woman,
and child, we II d. first" Imagine these aud an in
finite variety of similar sentiments uttered by couy,
weleducaed men, who set great store on a nice OBJ
seryanee Of the usages Of society, and who are only
moved TO extreme bitterness and anger when they
speak Of the North and you will fail TO conceive the
intensity of the dislike Of the South Caronians for
the Free States There national antipathies on
ride Of the Atlantic which are tolerably strong,
and have been unfortunately pertinacions and long
lived. The hatred Of the Italian for the Tedesco Of
the Greek for the Turk Of the Turk for the Ru,s,
and fierce enough to satisfy the Prince of Dark
ness not 10 speak Of few little pet aversions among
allied Powers and the atoms Of composite empires;
but they are all mere indifference and neutrality OF
feeling compared TO the animosity evinced by the
gentry" Of South Carolina for the "rabble OF the
North"
The contests of Cavalier and Roundhead, OF yendean
and Republican, even OF Orangeman and Croppy, have
been elegant joustings regulated by the finest rules OF
chivalry pared with those which North and South
will carry on If their deeds support their words
Immortal hate, the study of revenge" will actuae
every blow, and never in the history of the world,
perhaps, will 10 forth snch dreadful pctis that
which may be heard before the fight has begun. There
is nothing in all the dark of human passion 30
cruel and deadly ne the hatred the South Carolnans
profess for the nkees. That hatred has been swell
ing for years till i is the very blood of the State
II has set South Carolina 10 work steadily to organize
her resources for the struggle which she intended TO
provoke If II did not come in the Of time. In
compatibility II temper" would have been suiic ent
ground for the divorce and am satisfied that there
has been deeprooted design conceiyedin some mems
minds thirty years ago, and extended gradually year
after year others break away from the Union at
the very first opportunity. The North is to South
Carolina corrupt and evil thing to which for long
years she has been bound by burning chains, while
monopolirts and manufacturers fed on her tender
Limbs. She has been bound in NJ Axentian union to
the object she losihes New-Englsnd 10 to her the I'M
carpation Of Moral and polit;csi woksdAsss s''a SOCIAL