New-York daily tribune., 1844-12-03
south Caroline Policy.


The olguchy of the Nulliyirg State distance
even the Parisians in their taste for a sensation
From the days Of Hayne, Hamilton, Jr. and Nc
DufHc, their Governors Annual Message has been
surcharged with great swelling words OF vanity
and with acrimonious Ihodomortade Annually
or at fsrthest biennaly the Union is shaken about
the cars Of our as.ounded People and then set quiet
" down where it was. Every thiDg is treated as
though Cotton and Slavery were the two pil-
lars ON which repose the peace AID prosperity OF
mankind. One year we have the Texans de-
pcunced (see Gov. McDufie's Message, 1886
as robbers and outlaws, for whom no consderate
citizen Of well ordered State can manifest the
least sympathy. In little while the wind
changes, and sympathy for, admiration OF, eager
ness to be incorporated with, Texas, form the
touchstone by which is tested your love Of Coun-
try and of Liberty, chat is, Slavery) OF all
waywardness, that of Carolina bears the palm.
And vet there is method in this madness. The
Calhoun iunto-the admirers Of Slavery in the
abstract, who desire to see that institution UNI
yersal and etcrnal-at last despairing of call
to lead the American People, have resolved TO
try their hand at driving. To this end they
seized the reins at Baltimore; and, gratifed
with the success Of that experiment, they now
grasp the whip also. The way Gov. Hammond
applies it to the ears and eyes of his Northern
brethren in tho faith of Polk and Texas, is GER
tainly not fascinating but these things set easily
ON those who are accustomed to them. Their
domestic experience has taught the Carolinians
how to manage such vassals as the Tariff Dick
ersons and yrooms of New-Jersey, with their cro-
nies, the Dallases, Wilkinses and M'Candlesses
of Pennsylvania. South Carolina is evidently
determined that the Polk triumph shall every
where be regarded as her victory, and shall SO
approve itself.
We heartily wish Gov. Hammond's imputa
ton on the Northern States, of being governed
by determined hatred Of Slavery, were founded
in fact; but the votes of New-Y York, Pennsylva.
MIA, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois in favor of
Polk and Texas-to say nothing of the heavy
maiorities in Maine and the Northern Slave
State, New-Hampshire-would seem to refute
his charges. We epprehend he will find no diff.
Guilty in procuring the Annexation of Texas,
provided only that there is Polk majority in
both Honses of Congress. Security 10 Slavery
that is the Governors watchword-will carry
sll before it in Loco. Foco Congress. Witness
The Mail Robbery bill and the various Gag Reso-
lu.ions denying the Right of Petition.
The Tariff will not be so easily managed
Bsrtering away our o'on Rights and Prosperity
to please our Political allies, after the victory is
won and the spoils are divided, is very different
matter from merely sacrificing subject and i'm.
potent race. We will not yet believe that the
crack of the Carolina whip will bring the New
York and Pennsylvania Locos wholly into the
Free Trade harness. The demand of an utter
abandonment of the Protective Policy is so per-
emntory aud unequivocal that the Iron and Coal
men will hesitate bafare decidng to ooey it. The
assertion that all duties above twenty per cent.
wers for ever precluded by the Compromise of
1888 is at once at variance with truth aud with
common sense. Nothing like it was stipulated
or uuders,eod The Compromise was limited by
IFS terms to nine years, but JaSaes X. Polk (who
had voted to pass it, voted to break it before one
year had expired. Mr. Clay expressly stated in
debate that It must not be considered OF perpet-
ual force-that future Congresses would do as
thew saw fit-and that he believed Experience
would demonstrate the necessity of q return to
Protection. So it has done.
The Nullifers evidently mediate new crisis.
They mean to nulify again in the course of ls45,
oo,Io oil, trr N
Compromise. Let every Wing stand from under
What has Mr.. Clay gained by saving Calhoun,
McDuffie s. Co. from the az of Gen. Jackson 2
Their relentless opposition and hatred. Where
he, with his unequaled ability, experience and
anxiety to prevent bloodshed, met with so poor
success, let no other man hope to triumph. Let
Loco. Focoiem compromise away the Rights of
Labor to its hearts content, but let the Wings
wutchword be, Hands OFF,
Itmust puzzle plain man to determine how
Gov. Hammond makes the two ends of his logic
meet. Protection is blundering, bhghting, bale
full. destructive to the common veal, and espe-
c;ally to Agriculture and yet it cannot be shaken
off except by the action OF one twenty sixth part
of the Union, boarding and bullying the other
twenty. FIVE into submission 10 her wishes! Pro-
lection curses Agriculture, yet Ohio. North Caro-
lima, Kentucky and Tennessee give their votes
distinctly in liz favor, while Georgia and Lousl-
ana are barely lost to it by Texas and fraud. The
bes. Farming Sections of Maine, New-Hamp-
shire, Pennsylvania and Indiana give large ma
;or;t;es for Protection and these are sections
where Schools and Newspapers ore rather more
abundant and more psc6.ed by than in Edgeheld,
Colletor, or ST. James's, Goose Creek OF all
the men who own and work farms in the Union,
,here cannot be a rational doubt that large ma
iority have jus. voted for Clay and Protection.
Wv, ia i, that the Intelligence and Thrift of the
Country needs to be ovelsnled TO its own saliva
.iOn by the metaphysicians of South Carolina
But lot us test one Of the Governors syllo-
cousin of McDufhs's 'forty.bale' the
ovv-vir.