New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-04

Faust" that during one of his youthful de-
pressions-it was, We think, of the amorous
yarety-he determined upon suicide, and pro-
yided himself with the necessary dagger; but
upon finding that the operation would be
painful, be abandoned the bare bodkin busi-
ness. and consented to live. Gen. Robert
Toombs, of the Secession Service, ought, BY
all the laws which regulate rebellion, to give
I'D cotton growing; but he finds the temptation
to keep on with the cultivation too strong tor
him. and leaves bic blacks ct work in Georgia.
while he initiates in Virginia. Randolph
County, Co., instantly lapses into patriotic
preparation. The Randolph County Committee
of Public Safety immediately communicate
sayagely with Toombs in Richmond. They
tell him that no is a very wicked Confederate
General. That he has no right to cultivate
cotton. That his avarice is greater than hla
patriotism. That HE negroes are wanted LOT
military purposes. What follows Feroclous
reply from Toombs Calls the Committee OF
Public Safety cowardly miscreant'.' Also
I" robbers" Declines to furnish niggers"
for the Rebel service. Says he may De
% robbed" but he cannot be " inundated.
Isn't it evident that Toombs's patriotism"
does Mt, 80 to speak, come up to the scratch J
that, happen what may, he will be the last
man to commit suicide 2
How tho Committee Of Public Safety afore-
said received this most dispariging telegram,
we are not informed. How they relished the
new title of cowsrdly miscreants," we may
easily surmiss. IL was Mt relish at all, but
a disrelsh altogether. " You poor. miserable,
rascaly, blufng, domineering, dirty scOun-
drels," says Toombs; you vile, plunderiDg,
interloping vagabonds, you cannot intimidate
me-" And this to men to whom at that iden.
teal moment the "public safety 7" of Randolph
County was committed. II il curious. Toombs
,pesks to these men ss il he knew them, and
knew them to be, from their heads % their
heels, poor specimens Of white humanity. We
can imagine him talking in precisely the same
way to his own private collection OF blacks.
That no would, il he could, truss up the au-
gust Committee, and give TO each member of
it q round dozen Of stripes, with the accom-;
panyng pickle, we do also believe That,
after his soldering is oTer, should ne get back
TO Georgia-which is mt probabs-he will
shoot one or two Committee linen, is very
probable. His appetite is for the pleasures of
Secession-hs has none for the pains-just a.
O man may never weary OF talking OF tho
WEAKNESS Of life, but may shrink from the
alleyiating rope or ratsbane. And we have
called attention to the precautions and cotton
limited patriotism Of this TOombs, because we
believe that Secession brag is altogether too
successful in its demands upon Northern
credulity. When Southern orator says, with
all the coarse fnery OF unbridled rhetoric, that
he 10 ready to bravo al-ruin, wounds and
desth-for the sake Of the cause, those who
are not blinded By his Lightning language. nor
inundated by his leonine roar, may shake their
heads and laugh; but the sagacious will still
ask whether, when mau goes into revolt,
ayowedly for the sake Of negroes, he will con.
tnue in revolt when continuance will take all
bis negroes away from him. To put the mat
ter in another shape, it is urged, even by
Members Of Congress, that meddling with " the
institution" BY confscaton, or otherwise, will
80 infuriate tho Secessionist that he will keep
on forever in bis deluson, doing the most
dreadful things long after the motive for doing
them has ceased to operate: i. e., he will fight
for slave holding though slaye.holding has be-
come to him - impossible as flying. We do
not believe It. 1t is grossly unphiOsophical so
to reason; and those who do reason so, whether
OF :. Conservative" meetings or in the columns
of newspapers. show moro panic than pluck.
Confscation may appear to some to be IS
savage o remedy IS cauters; but sometimes 1t
is only eautery that will do the business.
Selashnos,. OF which Mr. Toombs gives us such
q charming specimen, is the main cause OF
man owning, and that 10 the main cause Of all
our political miscbisfs. When wo hear .
planter talking about ethnology and the inferi-
ority of races and so ascending and descending
the whole samut Of SOLEMN twadle. We always
laugh. at least inwardly; because We
know that be approves of Slavery, out of no
sort of respect for Moses or st. Paul, but be-
csuss it gives him coat to wear, toddies to
drink, tobacco to smoke. bed to lie upon,
and roof to cover him, When he is cor.
nerod, out comes tho truth. Stop raising cot.
ton !" cries Toombs; "Iend you my uiggers
will see you hanged frat =" What a dear.
delightful, out.spoksp. frank aud candid TaQQbs