The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-23

Origin pr tho had Feeling In the South
Against the North.
II has puzzlSd many wise head to account
for the apparently deep and bitter enmity Of
the Southern mind in general against the people
inhabiting the regions north Of Mason and
Dixon's line. The bad feeling alluded to dates
back In its origin to the time Of the famous
John Randolph, Of Roanoke, as he delighted to
be called Ho was man who, il not good
lover, was certainly great Understanding
his passion for hating almost to the whole race
Of mankind, including even friends as we'll IS
foes, If he can be said to have had many. IL
| any, OF the former, except his devoted Juba.
Randolph was man Of Singular and extraor-
binary genius, exercising no little power over
the mHds of the men Of his age, more, it is to be
believed, by the fear which his great powers Of
sarcasm and repartee inspired than from any
Of those great and commanding qualities OF
heart and mind which produce respect and
admiration. He was a man who, if not like
Shakspeare's Yorlck, capable Of setting table
in roar, was possessed Of such Infinite powers
| Of reproach and sarcasm that he was we'll able
to inspire contempt and excite ridicule against
any section or people whom he chose to attack
Educated as an eristocrat, proud of his ancient
and royal descent-claiming princess, no less
than the celebrated Pocahontas, as one of
his progenitors-he looked down with in
finite contempt upon all whom he con-
sidered his interiors in birth and sta
ton. Born, as Il were, q feudal lord,
accustomed from early life to command and
dictate, he could not brook association with
those whose claims to distinction rested upon
the foundation of individual merit, and who,
even If their fortunes were equal with his
own, owed them to individual or commercial
talents rather than to aristocratic birth and
rank. All these his antecedents made him
we may almost say naturally-an enemy to
Northern men; and he possessed powers of wit,
reproach and bitter invective capable Of COM
municating his own feelings to the classes and
people among whom no associated, and in
whose eyes he was being Of superior order.
He it was who first set in motion the practice Of
inveighing against the commercial North: in
fact he despised us as much as an English no.
bleman despises the peasant that works upon
his estate, and as much as the French Y,oblssse
OF the ancient regime despised the ignoble
tradesman or merchant.
1t Is said of him that having been
appointed chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means, through the influence
of President Jefferson, the ignorance which
he betrayed in that high position, Of all
financial and commercial subjects, was such
az, If not to diagust ali the other members Of
the committee, at least to disgust him with his
fellow committeeman. So great indeed was
bis vanity and selfconceit that we may well
imagine that, by himself, his own ignorance was
viewed as q superiority, and their superior
knowledge and ability in everything re-
lating to finance and commerce was
looked upon by him as something low
degrading and inferior. At all events,
bis connection with the business men Of the
North had no tendency to beget in him an ad-
miratiOn for business or love for those whose
pride and glory consisted in business talents.
From the influence Of such man as Randolph
it Is easy to conceive how bis neighborhood,
and even his State, was easily led TO suppose
that vitupsration of the North was an essential
constituent OF patriotism, and that . supreme
contempt Of the greater portion Of great
people constituted absolute superiority.
This great but erratic genius, having first sown
the seeds, did not live long enough to witness
the rapid growth Of the crop and its banesul har-
vest. John c. Calhoun followed closely in the
wake which John Randolph had opened in the
masses of the South. With deliberate pur-
pose Of separation and secession, he availsd
alf nf f,.l ~
a people, which unqlestionabiy are the in
dustrious dissemination of hatred by the in
diligence of incessant vituperation, elimination
and reproach The tariff was at first the great
machine employed to give imaginary substance
to the numerous grievances which the South
was represented as suffering from tho North.
Mr.. McDufie vioent man and an unscrupu-
lous generalizer, joining hand in baud with Mr..
Calhoe. actually succeeded in psrsuading the
people that thoy were robbed by the North Of
a whole bale OF cotton in every four bales, by
the action of tho tariff. Thus the evil spirit
Of malignant hatred began to spread
and take root, until il became a mater OF faith
among the leading men Of tho South that they
were robbed, plundered, abused and shamefuNy
illtreated by the North. When once the mind
of any public is brought to such pitch, and
worked up by such delusions to jealousy and
hatred, people may DO said TO be like maya
zine Of powder, which only wants the torch
and the 0rebrand to be thrown into Il to
produce universal explosion.
Abolitienism nnally presented and indus
triously applied This nrebrand, and at once
kindled into flame these inaammnbls ra-
tsrals. The hot fsnatcism with which the
eBiissarics Of abolition preached against
the South succeeded in giving, as " we're,
substance and reality is caus,s Of dislike
and jealousy purely Imaginary and political.
We saw poltical for there can he no d,lbt that