Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-05-09
THE NORTHERN MAN WITH
SOUTHERN PRINCIPLES

ne northern han VINO mas seuteu nlm-
.selfin the Presidential chair by advocating
southern principles, is again endeavoring,
'hy the same means, to retain the govern
ment in his hands. As it was not declared
by his friends at the time they announced
him as willing to sacrifice northern to south
'ern principles, what were these southern
principles by advocating which he was to
buy their votes. it becomes us northern
nIan to look into the matter, before our
northern President has bound us hand aud
foot, and delivered us over as the slaves of
the planters of the south.
1t can be no longer doubtful that the
policy of Mr.. Van Buren is to take money
out of the pockets of the free democratic
laborers of the North for the benefit Of the
shareholders of the South. We oil know,
and none will deny, that the leaders of the
Van Buren party as well in Congress, as in
The press under their control, have for
long time, denounced an extended credit
currency, and advocated currency of
gold and silver. Some of his southern ad.
vocates have claimed, and justly claimed,
that while such reduction o. the curre ency
would greatly reduce the price of all art-
'cles the growth of the northern and north
western States, great quantities of which
'are consumed in the planting States-it
scould have no effect on the price of their
staples, cotton, tobacco and rice, which
find their chief market in Europe, aud of
course could not be affected to any consde-
rable extent by the scarcity of money in
this country. Let US, to make this matter
palmer, suppose Mr.. Senator Walker, who
us planter in the State of Mississippi, has
one hundred negro laborers, who grow cot
ton for him to the amount of five hundred
bales of 400 lbs. each. This, at the ord-
nary price, say l2b cents per h., will sell
for twenty-five thousand dollars. THIS, we
will say, is his gross income. There is al
ways money enough in England and France
to buy his cotton at fair price, no matter
how scarce 1t may be in America. He is
sure, therefore, take one year with another,
to receive from his agent who ships his cot
ton at New Orleans, about the sum of twen-
'ty-fve thousand dollars. But Mr.. Walker,
lin ordinary times, will have to pay large
portion of this sum to the northern mecha-
MICS and western farmers who have furnish
ed him with the means Of devotng oil the
labor of his slaves to the exclusive produc-
tion Of cotton. To have one hundred field
hands he will have, of both sexes and all
ages, at least one hundred and fifty to feed
and clothe, and provide with the implements
Of agriculture. He must have ploughs and
axes, and hoes, and shovels, and harness
dor his horses, and cotton gin, and nume-
rous other things, most of which are man.
nfactured in the north and west. For cloth
ing for his own family and his numerous
slaves, he must have large quantities of
shoes, hats, and coarse cloths, &c., nearly
all of which are made in the free States.
and he must have from the farmers of the
west, horses and mules, pork, bacon, beef
and other products not grown so far south.
Is it not as plain as the nose on your face
that if Mr.. Senator Walker can make mo.
mey SO scarce that oil these articles can be
bought at half their usual price, 1t will save
him just half their former costl 1t is like
ly that, at old prices, all the purchases to
keep bis plantation going, and enable him to
keep up his family style and coach, would
cost him some fifteen thousand dollars; but
if he can, by driving away all the currency
but the comparatively small amount of spe-
Gle in the country, reduce the cost Of all
his purchases one half, he will thereby save
seven thousand five hundred dollars a year
--and he will save it out of the hard earn
dngs, the sweat and toll, Of northern free
men whom he despises.
The project to bring down the prices Of
labor and produce of the north, is in accord
ance with southern principles. 1t is evi-
IDENTIFY of cotton planting origin; but we
have in the executive chair recreaat nor
thern man with his despicable band of
northern ofice-holders, endeavoring to car
ry it into effect. Endeayoring did we say!
Nay, he has already carried it into effect.
The north is already sold to the south, by
one of her own sons, whom she had warm
ed into political life only to be offered up as
a sacrifice to his political ambition.
Let the cotton planter support him, but
let all western men who are not prepared
10 be the slaves Of cotton planters. join IN /
hurling him from his trator-bought elsva-
ion, and placing in the honored seat Of the I