New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-12-12

DINA ia syed from The shceres and savages dnarchy
The very soldiers who baled upon their srrvsl
as intruders d oppressors plunderers and FEDERAL
mercenares nov alone stand between the sooslledro
specable classes and al the evils Of anarchy for the
blood.stained thieves who mortally and materially
abuse The loyalists and the freedmen Woud be quite
as ready to despoil and destroy the most ultra
sionists. When the promoters Of the Rebellion made
disobedence to the law the test Of manhood and Of
State patriotism they awoke busy devil with no
more respect for those who conured him than for
those he was summoned to destroy. 1t was the
benevolent Justice of the United States which saved
them from all the possible horrors of seryle insur
rcction; il ia now the military force OF the United
States which preserves them from destruction at the
hands Of their own violent population. What COM
mentary is this upon the much-yaunted doctrine Of
sel-sustainng and isolated State supremacy! What
proof plenary and irretragbe, Of the suicidal mad
ness Of secession!
But the present troubles in South Carolina and the
adjoining States are the result Of condition of affairs
existing unchecked and unauthorized long before the
Rebellion. The public mon Of these States, many
years ago. began to teach their inhabitants lessons oil
contempt for law; and by their example more than
one eminent person there has nculcated the doctrine
Of personal vengeance and too proud to accept the
protection Of courts Of justice, too passionate to
await their tardy processes, has taken the law into
his own hands and shot and stabbed at his own saw
age will, not seldom with impunity. When felony,
however chivalrous or however bedzened with fine
name, is fashionable among the upper sort, what
wonder is it that the contagion Of bad example
spreads, and that the lower orders give us sangui-
oc fhda al
social superiorsl We refer to these things certainly
not for the purpose Of strengthening old preudlces or
of tanning the embers Of old hareds; but we would
fain point out TO the generally welmeaning although
sometimes sorely mistaken men of the South that the
true LOYALTY which it is now in their power to display
will be a bright example to their weaker brethren,
and will tend to make their own lives more sacred
and their property more secure in State which they
love too well to abandon, and which they would
gladly restored to ORDER peace and prosperity IL
is easy to indulge in factous complaints 1t is not hard
to nurse useless and hopeless resentments 1t Is mo-
mentary qualification to sheer at authority, ana 10
spit upon the statutes; but he who docs 30 III the
States lately in rebellion is destroying his own peace
picking his own pocket and filling the bosoms oil MS
own family with constant fears and poisonous sppre-
tensions If South Carolina desires to enforce her
own laws, she must begin by intoxicating respect Tor
those of the United States. Her leading men little
understand the North if they suppose that there Is
any desire to trample upon them-any wish expect to
Gee the Grant State restored to tS true and conSttu-
tional orbit, prosperous, progressive and peaceful
we must wait for this consummation, we will do so
hopefully and patiently for the descendants OF the
Hugueuots must come right at last, and the better
mind of the State in time assert itself.