The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-02

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The separation of the Union into three grand re-
publics, or confederacies, proposed ny MI NC
Dufie in the Senate of the United States, by way
of an alternative if the protective tariff should not
be abandoned as measure of policy, and the agi-
tation of the slave question in the north settled
and ouieted is a matter of such grave concernment
to the whole Union, TO the present age, and even
to posterity, that it becomes the duty OF every
branch and element Of the public mind to notice it,,
and express opinion of its tendency, SO far as
developed.
The two evil measures movements complain
ed Of by the South Carolina politicians which force
them 10 propose such an alternative, the tariff
as arranged on principle Of protection for the es-
adjustment and support of manufactures, and the
agitation throughout the northern and free States
of the unconditional aboliton of slavery.
Well, what is the Tariff ? This subject hasbee
made the salking-horse Of politicians for nearly a
quarter of century one party attributiny to its
operation a multitude of national benefits and the
other party, multitude of national evils. Now
we undertake TO say on this question, looking at 1t
in financial and practical point of view, that there
never has been such a system of hunbug prac-
ticed with respect to any question, as on this
simple one of tariff. On all the changes, re-
WILSON'S and revolutions in prices, property and
commerce. which have marked the last quarter Of
century, We will venture TO affirm that the tariff
if properly examined, has exercised influence,
the smallest of any other public measure con-
cocted by any legislative body. In that period of
time we have seen the cotton and other staples
of the south, vary from fifty TO one hundred and
fifty per cent and these variations have been with
out the least reference TO the tariff, and sometimes
directly contrary to the differences drawn from its
operation In the same period of time we have
seen the staples of the middle and western States,
-four and provisions, vary an almost equal ratio.
And will venture to assert that those variations
have been influenced less by any tariff than by any
other cause that could be named. So, also, in re-
gard to the manufacturing States We have seen
in thar time the prices OF manufactured goods vary
nearly as much as those of cotton and the fuctu-
atoms the for. unes of those engaged in manufac
lures have been great those in the fortunes OF
the cotton planter of the south, the grain-grow
err Of the western and middle States. The tariff
has had in fact, little Ting to do with any OF
the phenomena of American industry.
No-no-no The tariff has had the least to do
with the depressons in the southern States or the
variations the western States, the rise Of the
manufacturing States, of any other measure estab.
lshed IN this country. The agencies which have
produced these phenomena are to be looked for
different quarter-in the vast revusions aad revs-
iutions IN the currency-in the weather and atmos-
phere isef-in the industry of men-in the changes
OF fashioas-and in the general movements and
trade of the commercial world. And yet it is as
tonlshing to see the pertinacity with which these
men, who arrogate to themselves the name of great
statesmen, attribute TO the tariff all these pheno
mena. These men, indeed, appear to be like The
giant VINO possessed only one eye, and who nnnld
see only in hte narrow direction, but was
blind in every other respect. They are the one
eyed men--the one-eyed statesmen. They are
utterly unable to comprehend the nature causes
and reflex tendencies Of the great phenomena OF
aggregate industry in such country as this and
they never will be able to comprehend them, re-
garding the subject only as it were through chink
in the WALL or the Granny of window, and taking
their measures accordingly.
So in respect TO the slave question. Mr. McDuf
fe and the southern statesmen would make us be-
leve that they apprehend much from the agitatons
of the aboionists in the north. We do Motive
cannot believe that men of sense can apprehend
anything from that quarter. A more contemplate
mean-Ineagre-beggary body Of fana- |
fics-does not exist in any country under heaven,
than the whole abolition party of the north. From
the character of public opinion, and the arrange
ment Of the two great parties in this section of the
Union, the abolitionsts, as party, never can have
any power or influence. And, indeed the slave
question itself is thing that will be settled by the
laws Of nature, in the way that the Indian
question was settled. During the last two centu-
ries, in which that immense territory now forming
the United States has been settled, we haze seen
the Indian races in their freedom, disappear be.
fore the Anglo Saxon race, like the msts of the
morning before the rising sum- And il the Afri.
can races of the south were to have their free
dom tomorrow, they would be extinct in less than
one hundred years, by the same process which has
destroyed the Indian race. No such races as the
Anglo Saxon and the African ever can exist to-
gehsr in the same social and political condition
in the same counrry-wthout the one swallowing |
mp and absorbing the other We conceive therefore,
that the system OF what is called domestic sla- |
very" in the south, is the most benevolent and
the most practically useful for the African race |
OF any one that could be devised by the wit of
man, sage or christian We also believe it to be an
axiom certain the return of the seasons that
In process OF time, when the white of this
country multiply as they Will multiply TO certain
extent all the colored races will disappear, because
we have seen that problem already solved and de-
termined in the case of the Indian races and we
have doubt the same thing will take place with
regard to the African race There is no use, there
fore, for the agitation amongst intelligent men, of
the abolition question. The best way is to follow
fhe order of nature and the law which the Almighty
has stamped on the races of men.
These are the views which occur to us IN the
broaching Of this momentous question by Mr. Nc
Dufie. We coull multiply facts on facts, proving
the il>racy and soundness OF our views, and
enfirelx unroollng The MhnIe train Of reasoninn