New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-03
GLEANfNGs FROM SOUTHERN MAILS.

GLEANINGS FROM SOUTHEhN MAiLo'
We did tn nix Of giving from our Southern papers
specimens of the wicked lies with which they feed their
readers but the instances 70 numerous that we lot
bear with the remark that mainly by refusing TO print
the truth but often by giving the exact opposite, the
Southern Secession press malciousy and persiStenty
mislead the public magpyng the trade and prosperity
Of the South insisting that there is no opposition 10 its
new Government and using every INSCRIPTIONS arti-
fee to keep the masses in ignorance. Where the 3D.
cession movement is likely TO DO affected, their state
mens are almost always colored 10 suit pur-
pose, and not 70 be believed There is hardly one Of
them that has not entered into general conspiracy to
delude the public. Only the plain record of current
events and sometimes not this can be depended
upon.
-Sherrard Clemens Of Virginia declines renomi.
nation for Congress His private business peremptory
requires his withdrawal from public life.
The Border States are beginning TO demonstrate
against the imposition Of duties upon goods and produce
sent 10 the Gulf States The Nashville DemOcratsayE
There is a point beyond which we cannot go-apont
AZ which forbearapce ceases to be virtue We sug-
gest that we have very nearly reached that point now
fhe straw that Is 10 bie.k the cameis back 10 now
about to be put That straw Is the tarh which the
ecedinQ Cotonocracy proposes 10 levy on such goods
and wares people send into those States Tor SALE
Not sati fed with stealing forts arsenals, money
and other property they now propose 70 TAX US Tor Tue
privilege of selling our lumber, goods iron, and manu-
featured articles In their borders 10 tie name OF high
Heaven what are we TO dol Are the freemen of Ten
pess-e willing TO bear the rule Of traitors who are
ready to betray 10 into the hands OF task,mssersf
Tennessee Kentucky and the other Border States are
10 pay tribute 10 Kiug Cottonl We have shed our
blood and spent millions Of money to acquire free ac-
cess TO the Gulf Of Mexico. We have built forts 10
protect our commerce on that gulf We acquired the
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Mississippi River. IL IS our right, and no porer on
earth eau or shall deprive Of IL. That river and
tho.e forts and customhouses much our property
rs 10 the State Capitol at Nashville.
In sermon delivered at Charleston, by the Rev.
G. C. Pinckney, and just published by request, with
the suggestive title Of acknowledgements Fault and
Fall" this striking passage occurs:
"Let us not rest our hopes upon Identity Of institu.
tione In the Southern States. SlGre,y IS itsef no
bond Of UniOn IL has become with US, simply as
the result of outward pressure. The Chalcean mon
archy, the Roman empire, the Greek republics, the
South American States all slayehoding countries.
Bot they have all fallen TO pieces Notwithstanding OF
itsslf Il IL mere rope Of sand, with power
politically, than any other recognized relationship.
Let not req oe on our agricultural staples Cotton
Ia the King whom commerce now worships. But ITS
reign may pass dc0y Ike other human ecepere. 1t 10
not now more firmly established In ts supremacy than
NebuchadneZzars in bis. Suddel As the ancient
monarch hurled from his seat the dominant staple
may be from its commercial throne. Sixty or seventy
years since indigo the produce of Southern fields
and cotton scarcely known. Serenity y,drs hence
other culture may sHppidnt this as II has snPpfdnted
the former production, and more remGRer6t're Ia or
may M Us place These are the two human props
upon which the Southern mind is tempted TO lean,
instead Of upon the eternal God They the arches
upon witch pride is resting our political house. But
they will sink beneath the superintendent weight,
Ike the arches in the walls Of Babylon.
The cheerful Washington correspondent Of The
Richmond Examiner has got new plan for taking
the Torugas forts. He would sell the islands to
France, and thus give Brother Jonathan war in
which he would soon get soundly thrashed."
The Tdllahassee Floridiaa Of tho 23d says that
President Davis has requested Governor Perry Of
Florida to furnish 500 volunteers for the service Of the
Confederate States. The Apaiaehicola Times is in-
formed that dispatch was received there from Adu-
tsnt- General Brevard calling for company of 100
men from that city, to proceed at once to Pensacola.
The Sarannah Republican Of the 2Sth has the
following:
We have received pamphlet entitled Slavery and
Abotonism, as Viewed by Georgia Slave. BY Har-
rison Berry, the property OF B. w. Rice, Covington,
Ca" As we have not had time to examine its con-
tents closely We would we annex the commenta-
~ of our cotemporary of The Griffin Union:
We have just finished reading pamphlet from the
pen Of this personsge, Harrison Berry. We know
Harrison, and know him to be slave ard black one
at that and although tho matter OF bis pamphlet is
not arranged with that perspiuity and system that
would mark au accomphs ed writer, there truths
told By Harrison that Il would be well for many white
men, and all black ones, 10 ponder and profit by It,
That Slavery IL the proper status for the black nan no
one can doubt who will properly investigate the sub
iect In hi, native wilds be is saysge with no hope
Of Improvement. A free man among white people be
is Inferior and cannot rise 70 level with his neigh
bos and has all bis work TO do when In health under
disadvantages that few can oyercome and when sick,
he has no one TO care for him while the slave has
only his work 10 do when In health, with all the adj
vantages bis masters petition and superior manage
ment can afford him; and when sick his MASTER ia
bound by law and int rect TO attend TO his necessities
And Is true as Harrison says that tie Abolitionss
are his worst enemies inasmuch all their efforts
only tend TO draw the cords Of servitude tightly
around him. and deprive him OF many indugences that
he would otherwise enjoy.
"A New Orleans paper says the agents Of European
capitalists who have sent their capital to Louisiana for
profitable investment, have been notified to withdraw
tho same and return il TO it's owners
The North Carolina Standard, stanch Union
paper, says;
friend has asked us TO explain bow 1t is that those
citizens among us who have properly IN inc SeseoSu
States are 90 anxious for the Border States TO secede
also. The answer Is plain. The taxes VIII 90 very
high in the seeded States They will be 20 high that
they will absorb considerable portion OF the prohts 3i
the property referred TO- Two millions OF wm'e Psope
will have not only TO pay their town, district, county
and State taxes but also about thirty millions OF dol
ars per anpum 10 the Confederate States. Inc taxes
Ia The seeded States WILL therefore, 10 oppressive
Our resident citizens who own property IN those ,ees
want ma 10 Join them and help them pay these tNee
This would be nice little arrangement for them out
would be very injurious TO the great DOdy OF our
| people. For one we decline TO ACCOMMODATE THESE
Confederate State patriots. IL tnelf treasury 70 sIS