Sound advice.
The Philadelphia
Inquirer, a conservative journal, administers a just reproof to the censurable course of certain Republican newspapers, in their taunts and sneers and irritating philippics against a body of men already provoked to a high state of excitement.
It speaks of a late
Tribune, article, which it says is--
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"Marked by a reckless malignity that is almost devilish.
Mocking the men who have not yet escaped the troubles of 1857, the
Tribune cries out: 'Let's have a panic;' 'a roaring, smashing high old panic,' as if financial distress were a pastime, and ruin a frolic.
"An ordinary panic will not answer the
Tribune's purposes.
It wants, to use its own words, 'none of your little, hollow, half-way make-believes but a real old-fashioned break down, after the pattern of 1857.' It adds, that 'individuals may make a loss — that is their affair — but the country will be greatly benefited.' 'True, there are some drawbacks.
We have our crops just ready for the market, and shall sell these 10 to 25 per cent, lower than we otherwise would; we shall sell millions of dollars worth of our public securities to foreigners for twenty per cent less than we shall be glad to buy them back for after the storm blows over; and a good many mechanics and laborers in our cities will find the coming winter a very hard one.' There is more of it, but this will do for a sample.
The
Tribune then proceeds in its other columns, as it has for weeks past, with the same taunts and sneers of these men of the
South which have already exasperated that section, until it is now brought to the very verge of revolution; this being the very course to produce the panic it demands."
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The
Inquirer observes that the journals which indulge in such taunts "have not even the pretext that they are representing the sentiments of their readers.
Every line of this malignant stuff falsifies the true Northern feeling, and outrages the good sense of the people." "Let us, for the sake of the country, have an end of the follies that have brought the country to the sorry pass it is in, and
let all patriotic men so speak and act as to make things no worse, if they have not the power to make them better."
If the
Inquirer's advice can have any effect on Republican journals North of a respectable character, we can assure it that the
Tribune's course will produce no irritating effect whatever in the
South.
That paper is seen by but few of our people, and those who do see it are so accustomed to its peculiar style of speech that it is provocative of ridicule rather than anger.
The proprietor, who, failing to obtain Southern support for the
New Yorker, after he had proposed to keep still on the subject of slavery, commenced an anti-Southern crusade because it would pay, cannot be expected to attain to the dignity of Southern indignation.
