Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-02-16
A SOUTHERN CoNFEDERACY.

tern COMMUNICABLE are threatened IN some quar-
ters unless Protection is sacrificed and slavery
tanned. 1t will be remembered that Notification
was threatened when the Tariff of 1912 was pas
scd but there have been more recent and mote
formidable indications Of disposition to destroy
the Union. We here give them that the reader
may sec for himself
Senator McDqGe
In the Senate, Jan. 90, Mr.. McDufie spoke as
follows, as reported in the New York Commercial
Advertiser:
He said that it was mistake to suppose that
all the various interests of this Union could be
blended under the same legislation. There are
conflicts of interests and Of sections. He wished
it were otherwise. He wished that Providence had
so ordered it, that the interests of New England
were the same with those of the South and the
West. lie would draw picture Of the relative
condition of the different portions of the Union,
under different state of things and he called upon
the Senate to look upon it, for it was sketch Of
what they were ere long to realize.
Suppose he SAID, we had three confcderacies--
one in the Northeast in the Northwest, and the
third in the Southwest. We of the Southwest, be-
ing RENTED to our just rights Of legislation, would
be able to export one hundred millions of dollars
worth Of cotton, rice, and tobacco; and we should
import one hundred and twenty millions Of dol
lars WOfLn OF IUeTCnluQlSe III return. we NOulu
lay duty of ten per cent. ad valorem on this
mount Of Imports giving us a revenue of twelve
millions. We should be thus enabled to live in
comfort and independence, enjoying the fruits of
our labor.
The northwestern coniederocy would export Gf
teen millions Of dollars worth of produce, and im
port about the same and they would, by forty per
cent duty, be able to raise revenue Of six mil
lions of dollars. If they wanted more they must
resort to oppressive exercise. Their commerce and
manufactures would be destroyed in great meas
ure. The prosperity Of Boston and New York
would be transferred, if by magic, to our grass
grown cities of the South while desolation and dis
tress would pervade the North. How could the
manufacturers of Massachusetts get protection
then The other States Of their confederacy would
not grant it, because it would be out Of their own
pockets. They 90 for it now only because it is at
the expense of another portion of the Union. Would
the West pay it No. Would not the southwes-
tern confederacy purchase their goods where they
could get them cheapest? They could get them
through the Mississippi at duty of ten per cent.
and all their imports, and all their exports would be
through the southern ports. The West and the
South we're natural allies, for the South in such
state Of things would be able to consume large
portion of the surplus of western produce
The southwestern States, under such a govern
ment, would be the happiest, the most prosperous,
the richest in the world. lie could neither wish
nor imagine brighter destiny for them The
South must see things as they were, whether others
chose to open their eyes or not. They saw two OPP
eratons carried on against them by the northern
States-one aimed to render slavelabor valuless,
and the other aimed TO destroy the institution Of
slavery itself Nothing but overbearing necessity
compelled him to speak of these things, but he
would warn the country that there was point
where oppression must be resisted"
John c. Calhoun.
Mr. Calhoun closed his recent letter with the fol-
lowing paragraph:
1t is time that an end should be put to this sys-
TEN of plumber and agitation, the Tariff and anti
Slavery. They have been borne long enough
They are kindred measures and hostile, so far at
least as one portion Of the country is concerned.
While the tariff takes from the proceeds Of our
labor, abolition strikes at the labor itself The
robs us of our income while the other aims at des
troyng the source from which that income is deriy
ed. 1t is impossible for stand patiently much
longer under their double operation without being
impoverished and ruined"
Report cfthe Minority Of The Committee on Hules.
The report of the minority concludes with the
following propositions;
"lst. That the llate 2lst rule be not stricken out
"2d. If it is, that the substitute proposed by Mr.
c. in committee, be adopted"
"3d. That if neither be adopted, the Represen-
tatives of the slave States advised to take no
part in any proceedings whatever relating to the
subject of abolition.
18th. That, in any event, they shall unite in a
recommendation to their respective State Legisla-
lures, and to their constituents of convention or
conventions of the people of all the States of the
Union, who will cooperate to consider anew the
compromises and guarantees of the constitution of
the United States on the subjects of slavery, the
domestic slave trade, and of fugitive slaves, and to
consider and adopt to arrest and forever pre-
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HENRY A. WISE,
X. CHAPMAN"
.The following the Rule proposed by Mr. Chapman
mittee and the action OF the Committee upon IT, the 25h Rule
| late 2lstl having been stricken out.
Mr.. Chapman moved to insert in lieu thereof the following,
witt
"UpOu presentation of the any
petition, memorial resolution other paper touching the obo
Territory touching the abolition of the slave trade between
Of tho States Territories, the question of its reception
shall be considered as raised which question OF reception shall
without debate be laid upon the table, and no further action
whatever shall DO had thereon"
Before the upon this motion put Mr. vnton appear
ed in the Committee, and the vote upon this motion was
Loco from free State /! the other two Southern meni
Nays-Mesrs Adams White, Bcardsley, Davis, and Vnon
| 3. IA Wings and Loeo.l
Were all this to be regarded as mere bullying,
to frighten the country into submission TO all that
South Carolina may demand, we might answer in
the same spirit, and tell the Southern chivalry to
go, and the quicker the better, if the sacrifice of
the rights and interests of the of the country
is to be the price of Union. Go, and, by separat-
ing yourselves from the Union, prove to your full
satisfaction, that it is slavery, not Federal egisla-
ton, which is eating into your very yitas. Go, and
in the full exercise of your wild theories, become
in fact, if not in form, colony Of that Government
against which your gallant fathers staked their all.
Go, and thrive, if you can, with a population at
home in which the majority are slaves burning to
be froemen, and with your main reliance abroad
upon nation which can instantly bring you to any
conditions by breathing the word emancipation"
Go, like the prodiga son, and waste your inherit
ance, if You choose,-but, remember, that when you
return naked and furnishing and penitent you will
find only SHRED servants" Luke XIV ~ not slaves,
at the old homestead.
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