New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-10-23
5. .SAToR HILLS LETTER.

! Orn CuITTKNprN: | have read your open
! letter aa sed To myself and published IN liE
rrIHl-NFo the 18th inst. You were entitled 10 the
/ courtesy of a prompt reply, hui dryers engage
/ rnents have worked delay winch Know your
/ rood uarure will pardon. | am glad you are get
/ ting well of your physical hurt and congratulate
I YOU on your escape.
| | have made no summer speeches in Georgia. i
made few remarks unex pectedIy M lam
/ many Hall on the 4th of july, and II must ne 10
this speech You refer as have made no otnS me- cur CUR
Jug the Summer or since the adlournnent VI IN
| grrss have been quietly, but with more IMAM
Usual solicitude. watchng the course OF Poil,i'.i
! events and have been studying 10 uhueiI
.o,S az accurately rs ! could the real
teInncr Of the North toward the Nou'h ana me Noi
,;ti,;o, tngether with the cause the tendency ana
/ me proba BILE final effect of that temper upon our
.ectionaI relations ami governmental institutions:
However much we may dihei on some questions ol
nohcv believe YOU will do me the justice 10 a',mlt
,h,t an, IN the habit of speaking. when SPEAK AT
all prcciseiv what thank on all subjects. me I'M
preston made upon nay mlu ey the s'nuN a'l.c.uI"
i not rcasapt one. VIII frankly say that nj no
period Of our Union. as n seems to- me, nave the
Northeru people greatly or 80 uuustly dis-nstcd
lie Soutl ern people nor do think There ever was
- ,sr,.rntiou M the North who So little understood
the CONSTITUTION little regarded hat ConStitu
lion As our bond of union. do not mean
c',d,G when | say that 10 hcrate and
misrcpicsent the South aud to misnterpet and
ignore the Constitution seem 10 Ice tine two subjects
which absorb the hearts and minds OF the IL punt
cans of The North. and 10 winch all other subjects
are held - subordinate. Your own letter furnishes
sirOug confirmation OF tins SAD 1aci. ION Say
Youi lmv q candidate for GoNernor-Who IS mn
cvr,iie,., man by The wav-says that The election
nm Ncw-Yoykl concerns only State affair." hut
everybody laughs at him for saying it, What.
laugh M a man for saving that stale oinctr rs are
elected 10 attend only to state affairs lou 90
on: " The common feeling seems To "9 maj me
election is not only 81 Nat iona' tcIcS' nul ma IL
,s also the fual battle with reheln0n the
climax of bitter sectional strife. and probable gate
way to comparative good 1eeliug ana assured
Naf,o,,ol prosncrifvn Battling with rebellion IN
state election for ouly State officers ~ Ncw-l ORR
nearly fifteen wears If er the war has ended Tar
l.sH tor Ns. / ID D. "a -
alue VIZ. MS Ny,lS. Won, Sem
fo write correctly the views of NCur party ~ New
York and throughout tie North. attended n
HeuuhAcan meeting in cooper lhsIihir oh we
mieht Of the 4th insi.-the might OF TIE day your
Thc meeting was called toIstify The Republican
nominations for STATE oAi'cis. Alei some
/ s.usilIe remarks. by the chairman. we had
T Two elaborate. evidently prepared, aud, /
vii add able speeches, as that word
able, goes. T. these two speeches mace 40 A,lp ii
Ias.ou 10 Srafe affairs. Not one. Win "a single
exception mot singular exception, NV lhe way lhe
Door. rcot.l.ou. baIharoes ana N'i' 9oi,n was 'e
only tltue! Tins exception vas i'4I4l .plt N"l. "F
i aul commanded NY iul afternoon. IN speaker
: made What hc called q consult uopal argument. ~
T vhich Lc unIe k ~ behalf of "n-ohIc Nhiloh-
/ o'l,ir fo give amcanIug io the CONSTITUTION Mhlch
ann sure never occurred toits trainers nor 90 any OF
ti, .fe.f evpauudelS of THAI instrument i'm The TWO
/ generations that succeeded IT'S Trainers. ana tien
addict at ii hrs cou>tTucl ION was not the correct
/ one DE was in favor Of tearing mp the Constitution
/
tionln j. that what You mean 10y the gateway
! 20 c,nparative good feeling and assured National
pr,.p.rlty'2 Is tins tearing M" process to Toe
/ fho - final battle with rebellion {
! The feeling of distrusi, abuse and hate % the
/ South DO the Republicans ca the North exhibits all
/ thc symptoms of mania. II rs Iull of ire evancv,
/ irrotionaltv and untruh fulncss. Even your local
/ elections for State county, city ana town officers
80 ,,,,,inotcd nv this feeling Of hatred and distrIst
nj the Sorfh II Is found 90 your baT-roou-, commit
-nc-tou,es and pupitS. II Is beyond reason ana,
tr.r hrvond remedy. ! see no ~ dcnce that me
/ Norlh is weary OF sectional Ntrle. ne "cplniii
/ sau party lives and thuNcs by TINS sectional
/ .t,ifr Bad mcn speculate or II, ana den agoenr>
ply It a. the best means Of getting Office.
/ Iou say: " If there he anything -" ncdo'd IN orr
History tLg- If can never ice GOT ont u IS the iact
flat Southern IDEAS ana Southern men have gencr-
allv az noseG the American spirit - represented hy
| The people who planted and rooted our INSTITUTIONS
I ard thrift IN the hare and thorough discipline OF
/ Ncw-Eucl0nd.' =.
/ 10 t,e abundance of our cheap tortIr lands. the
great variety OF cur productions the industry
| of our people, all protected and INSPIRED with
..,1i.,,ti"nal system of dual Federal aud
| local free governments which Washington,
! Jefferson Madison, PiLckney Rutledce and great
nm Tor nf Southern me.I had much to do In "plant-
1 ing and roofing " in this country l would abate
not one iOt tittle of the credlt TO winch New
England Is entitled i'll this work. deSpiSe all sec
tiorosln whether against the North Ol against the
/ South / believe no one section Of THIS country is
ali ylrtuOus all vicious, ana no one section e&-
ceeds the other IN either virtues or wees bnt II
/ our hist ory teaches any Two facts more lndsput-
/ ably than all other facts they are these
Tirst-Ihat slavery was planted in this country
! from Africa and rooted in the South through
the hard and thorough discipline OF New
| Eng
routed a. a doctrine in our constitutional system
| bv ew-EuCland, and was taught, advocated and
Threatened as ding Voev@-Engand Statesmen
many years before 1t was ever whispered III the
south.
term of Washlngton's administration. The New
England members in Congress had brought forward
a proposition for the assumption by The General
Government OF certain debts Of the States.
The Southern States had largely paid their debts,
while the debts of the New-England States had
spectators. some of whom. Northern historian
tells Us. were then in Cong The proposition
was rejected by southern ". Great excitement
followed. New g31d threatened 20 secede, and
Congress con no business but adjourn from
dov 70 day dissolution imminent. At
This critical moment Mr.. Jefferson arrived az the
Capital from foreign mission. He found Mr.:
Hamilton pacing up and down In 'front.' OF
his house Tor the mansionl in utter despair
Of the Union. Hamilton explained 10 MI Jefferson
the situation and appealed to him - to save the
Iuionp Jefferson did save II. Howl Not by ar
gunent, nor by denouncing the New Englan mem
bers as traitors and criminals, PIT by a trade! lie
proposed "A trade by which the New-England MEN,
hers cot their money, and the Southern members
got the National Capital located on the Potomac
Instead of further North. For two generations
afterward the favorite method of saving the Union
was bs giving the North the money and the south
the lOnOTs. lhdcf lnls process tne kioWl
SO great that she insists upon having all
the money and all the hOnors, and upon treat
ing the South As criminals and traitorsl My friend,
did you refer To tins happy faculty of coming ont
OF all contests To the Union with more money
in their pockets when you spoke of our instiiu-
tons aud thrift being planted and rooted in the
hard and thorough discipline of Newkngland y IL
So JunIus himself never made h9rder hit and you
must take rank as of the first. 1T not the very
first of American Ietter-wnters. i congratulate
Won on yonr we'll won iaurcls!
Acain YOU say; "New-York has loaued to the
South and lost more money there than all the
other States" How much money has New