New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-11
THE ANImUs OF TRRAsON.

! Our readers will bear witness ths, we have
from the outset insisted that the pretcxs for re-
beon set up by the apostles Of Secession woro
pretexts merey-tbat their real impulse was not
I the election of Lincoln nor the refusal 10 extend
/ Slavery, nor Squater Sovereignty nor this or
that Tariff, but dcadiy hostility 10 Popular Cor
erament. We fad this view strIklDgly confirmed
in the last letter which has reached of Mr.. Rus
sell, the famou. correspondent to The Times Lion
dom. Mr. Il. reached Charleston, ;. c., soon after
the fall of Fort SUMTER aud spent some weeks in
that city, the favored guest of merchants plant
ers, bankers, and public men, and was everywhere
treated as friend into whose Sympathizing, or
| at least kindly, ear their choicest confdences
m;oli be poured. After fortnight Of this, Mr..
| Russell, on tbs last day Of April, writes to The
| Times as follows:
| " Nothing could say can he worth one fact which
has horced itself upon my MUD in reference to the sen-
ments which prevail among the gentlemen OF this
State I have been among them for several days. l
have visite, their plantations, have converted with
them freely aud fully. and have enjoyed that frank,
conrte0u- and graceful intercourse which constitutes
an irresistible charm Of their 70 lety. From MI
quarters has to my cans the echoes oil the rne
Voice il may be feigned, but there is no dscord IN
the note and IT rounds in wonderful strength and mo-
notony all over the cosnJy, Shades oi George III,
of North of johnson, Of all who oon'euded against
tie great rebellion which tore these colonies from
Epgiud can you hear the chorus which ring. through
the State of Marion, Sumter, and PinCkDey and not
clap your ghosty hands in triumph That c0ice says,
II are couid only get one Of me Royaf race ~ EH-
giaDd 10 rule orr as, are H0nd be content Letthere
be no misconcepOn this point. That sentiment, va
red in hundred ways, has been repeated to me over
and over az IN.
"Tbere il general admission that the means 10 such
an end are wanting, and that the desire cannot DO
gratod But the admiration for monarchical iustitu.
lions on the English model for privileged classes, aud
for landed arstocracy aud gentry is undisgured and
apparen ly genuine With the pride of having achieved
their dependence is mingled in the South Carohians
hearts strange regret AT the result ana consequences,
and many are they who would 20 back Tomorrow II
we could An intense affection for the British connec
ton love OF British habits and customs respect for
British sentiment, law authority, order, civilization,
and literature prominently distinguish the inhabitants
OF this State who, goryiuv in their descent from an
Glen; families on the three islands whose fortunes they
stil follow, and with whose members they MAINTAIN
not unIre Iuenly familiar relations regard with an
aversion of which il impossible to give an iea TO
one who has not its manifestations the people Of
ew-Englaud and the populations of the Northern
States whom they regard as tanted beyond cure by
the venom Of 'pulitanlsm. Whatever may be the
cau,e this is the fact and the effect
We think Mr.. Russell is slightly mistaken
with regard to the South Carolinians' "pride Of
having achieved their independence" They
never did achieve it. They did little or nothing
toward helping to achieve it. The Carolln'anS
Of 1850 were Of like faith with those OF 1860.
90 Their admiration for limited monarchy on
% the English model for privileged classes, aud
for a landed aristOcracy and gentry" were
eoual to those of their grandsons. There was
Whig party among them, based on resentment of
British acts of tyranny aud misgoyernment, but
not on any devotion to tho Rights OF Man. They
we're dragged into republican associations by the
force of circumstances, and ore now trying to
fight their way back to the good old system OF
monarchy and arstocracy, church and State.
Hence tho sympathy they excite among the Brit.
ieh aristocracy, and their confident expectations
of British aid in ships or money in their war on
the Stars and Stripes. Their triumph, if that
we're possible, would be hai'ed with heartfelt e1'
ultatiOn ny su who halisve that the MANY were