Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1833-03-04

luir,ng the unanimous assoh, of the Senate, ana
objections being made, It wns no, pressed.
" NORTHERN INTERESTS AND pRlNCI-
rLFS'
The following paragraph Is cxt,aelcl from a
speech recently d|eliyeted III tho House Of Repre-
sentotiyes, on The mod fsatian Of Inc T'alin, by
William Il. Shepard, Esq OF North Catolina.
We commend 1t To lhc re,dsni Of those WHO ,hlnL
II treason agains, Tho south 10 admire the indus
Try, economy and skill ofour Northern brethren
d Did | believe 1t essential 10 tic prosperity on
welfare Of the Soul ern States, that The manufsc-
tories Of the North should he lovelled viii, tho dust
1t would be an unpleasant duty L. yotc a benetl To
myself, which would be the entire rum of anntner
A few summons ago, While dying fiom tie demon
of i'll health, | visited New-England. | found lep
towns and villages crowded with On industrious
and cutcrprIsing population, her hills and valley
redoent with health, prosperity and contentment
every mind seemed to be intent. every hand WAS
occupied the world does not contain II more nou,
ishlns community. There the advantages of edn
cation arc extended to the poorest individual IN 80
ciety, and that society receives It's remuneration
in his sober, industrious and economical habits. Ii
the divine Plato were alive, he would 70 LONGER
drow upon his imagination for n specimen OF q
pcricc, republic ho would there find IA community.
in which the humbiest individual hnd The same
voice with his more wealthy ~neighhor, in lnvinp
the pubic burdens for the public welfare. asked
mysclfif it were possible that the prosperity of
this people could bc the hot bed production oil an
artificial system, or father # II w.re not the result
of long continued toll, OF an industry that nevoi
tired, Of an economy that never slept. looked
upon the scene around mt with no foclmr of nun
muring discomfort | felt the mote rcjoIccd that II
WIS n part If my county"
This description of actual scenes, in the bosom of
our own lard, h.oush 50 bsief, Is harJ less rupti
,nling than DIR, Jolnson's picture of tho lIeppy
Valley. Aud how is il, we may we'll ask ourselves,
that the cold and sterile North presents 10 the eve
Of the traveller such unerrins evidences, not Of
srleaLor and gaiety, but of plenty md ellcerfnlncss
while, the " tcemin, South exhibits max of pre-
mature old nge-the touch Of Decay already upon
her mansions aud the VOICE of Discomfort heard In
all her borders, h~eraljing her suns TO distant lands,
in CUES, ofbettcr fortune How is II, NC ask Z l.
it not, that VIC Of the South, eithel fem the ener-
waiting effects Of Il warmer SUI, or fso9 the degra-
jltion which, from the operation Of 4 cause known
to all of us, we nc accustomed 10 attach To manual
lal OF, added to the habits Of extravaganza aud even
of pto1igacy, which our youth in,bihe among thoir
earliest IDEAS, nre not so industrious and prudent us
those who have to extract a competence from the
reluctant Weddings ofa finty soil 7 BE the cause
what 1t may, no one can doubt that a wide differ
! ence exists, no, only IN the habits aud customs, but
IN the orncrsI c%,nlition If ile peonis al tho tur
great geographical divisions OF our couniry-nnd
that, in all the essentials of comfort, the Advantages
are on the side Of the North. THIS fact wc have
frequently heard asserted by persons inimlcal 10 the
Tariff system, and employed by them as an argu-
ment to show tho inequality Of the operations Of
that system-ior TO that cause have some attributed
the prosperity Of the North, wllle, al the same time
the Southern States were complaining Of poverty
and, by the TIDE Of emigrption which rapidly dimln
ishel the number of their population and contrib
uted to enlarge the borders of the new States IN IN,
West and South west, demonstrated that thcs,
complaints were founded in truth. But, the caus,
ofthls wide difference, we imagine, lies deeper thar
in any system OF legislation and doubtless Mr.
~ ~ N''NsO'N ''N'J LIP ~ l'iitiNi'il ~
the philosopher, he asked himself, " if were pos
.iblc that the prosperity Of the people Of the NortI
could be the hot-bed production Of an artificial sys
tenn, or rather, il it were not the result Of long-con
tinued toll, OF an industry That never tired, of al
economy that never slept - Convinced ourselves
that the latter is the true cause of Northcrh prosper
ity, the evidences Of which excited such agreeabl,
emotions il the mind Of the liberal Southern repre-
sentative, we like him, are SO much the " advocate,
of Northern interests and Northern principles ut
to wish that it were in our power to excite, in thu
minds Of all with whom we commune, personally
or editorially, like dispositions and habits, in the
confident belief that they would be productive here
of similar results, and thereby remove one erea,
cause Of sectional Envy, thcparcnt first of Jealousy
and then Of Hatred. The hand TINT pens these re
marks, and the read that dictates them, arc South.
ern-in birth, in principles, in associations, in in
terests, in destiny. The writer is essentially Vir-
ginian, in all his feelings, and even in his preju-
dices. 1t is because he is so that he is anxious 10
see the citizens of his native State discard the un.
generous antipathies against the people Of The North
which are so unworthy of us and SO unjust to.
wars them. Ii is for this reason, too, that IN W u.
from their expcrience-become like them, ia5ls-
trious and economical in our habits, and d. mrt