New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-06

and exnense that would be involved in being over
hauled by officers at that port 1t would perhaps, be
feasible TO arrange that the goods shall 90 to their des
tinaon subject to settlement Of the duties payable at
the rt port Of entry by the collector at the port OF
destination.
iii. Az il is probable that we shall have defensive
alliance with Mexico, there should be provision that
the occupation of military positions on the Mexican SIDE
of the Rio Grande by forces shall not be objected
TO by the Southern States
w. Mutual accommodation in postal arrangements
should be agreed upon. Perhaps the best basis would
be to allow letters to pass under the original stamp from
either section of the country through the other We,
at least, should have objection to this But as 1t
nav be objected at the South that this would be too
favorable TO us let arrangement Of some kind be
made for the settlement of Post Office accounts between
the respective departments OF the two Governments.
have, in making these suggestions, assumed what
is after all but hypothetical case, viz: that there
must be final severance Of the two parts Of the Union
now arrayed against each other.
propose, very briefly, to discuss the probability Of
such result. The following propositions will, think
be conceded by any one who is at all conversant with
Southern opinions and habits:
l. phase of character has become developed at the
South, which derives its distinctive popularity from
the existence of Slavery. Mechanical industry has
become disreputabe. All manual labor is deemed
mental. The white population belonging to the better
class have no employment whatever except professional
or political. Cergymen and physicians are Of course
very few. Lawyers are more numerous, as there Is
something cognate in their profession with political life.
1t is not extravagan cay that all who belong to fam
lilies of any respecability are politicians. On the other
hand the inferior class Of whites while they re-
PEELED by the same habit of thinking from all meehan-
ca employment have other resource for an honest
livelihood The result is that large part of the conf
munty are living in state Of denese and, by conse-
| Quence of vice.
1t will readily be seen that eociety thus constituted
must be subject TO sinister influences far beyond what
can be realized by the industrious population Of the
| North.
H. In proportion 10 the corruption OF character by
the debasing influence which have referred 10 is the
ncapacity to throw off the thradom that has been i'm
posed upon the lower cass
| If the Southern States should maintain a separate
national existence needs prophetic vision to fore
cast the ultimate result Of the rash experiment. IL IL
obvious 10 the most common observation that free
| Government is wholly inconsistent with the social
inequality now existing, and which, when all restraint
shall be removed will be rapidly carried ont by nat
ural tendency to a still greater extreme
ILL., 1t is quite possible indeed is probable, that in
the FIRST stage Of Southern Nationality great induce
ments will be offered for the transfer Of Northern en-
terprise into Southern territory. There would doubt
| less be great exultaton IL manufactures could be
established there But this / predict will be found
impossible The Spirit Of Southern society is wholly
adverse TO the concession Of proper reward to honest
industry. 1t will coon be found by those who shall
venture 10 risk advancement at the South by inventive
genius, or perseyerng pursuit Of any department Of
industry, that they will be repelled from equality with
the idle and deprayed srstoccy, in political or social
posSion.
w. The great proportion Of the free white popua-
ton thus left wholly unoocuped, while naturally and
necessarily thereby involved in the vices incident to
sloths life also furnish the material for o military
| order.
II would seem that almost the entire people OF the
South have become soldiers. had the opportunity of
seeing something Of this few months sine, and can,
therefore, confirm by my own otseUatcos what has
been reported by others.
In almost every village in the Border States Of
the South several military companies organized and
20 through regular drill if the country was al
ready involved in war and exposed to hostile invasion.
Still greater must DO this penchant for military parade
in the States which have seeded. 1t may be fairly
presumed that nearly all the free whites Of South
Carolina have become soldiers, that lie to FAY either
in actual service, or could be readily called out.
V. 1t becomes apparent from this state of things,
IL have correctly stated it, that there must be
mutual repulson between the citizens Of the two sec
tions, and this must be aggravated by TN attempt to
| L II al
separation would, of course, aay in come degree the
irritation now existing. The question will, however,
still remain, whether amicabe relations DO kept up
| after such separation.
vi. NV conclusion is that the States which have
already seeded viii resist all attempts to recall them
into the Union. Virginia and the other Border States
will find that they have miscalcgated in supposins
that any terms Of accommodation viii suffice to produce
the remuneration Of the Government Of the South.
| What course these Border States will take when 1t
shall become settled that tho other which have
seeded cannot be brought back, time alone can de-
velop 1t certainly will be complicated and difficult
question to be solved by them.
twill be we'll for those who assume that Il will re-
solve all our difficulties if We simply allow the seed
ing States 10 take their own course, 10 consider the
| questions which have suggested. II an unfriendly
state Of feeling is still TO remain will it not inevitably
be developed sooner later into an aggressive action,
and If hostility is to be the ultimate result, would 1t
not be wiser and prudent to use coercion under
the constitutional right which now have than to DO
compelled hereafter TO resort to force in se-defense
against an independent Government
On the other hand If the danger from the proscrip-
tive and intolerant character of the new Government
shall be deemed less than the disastrous consequences
which would ensue Immediately from an attempt to
subjugate the nsuectioDary States then it is clear