Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-05-20
From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
NO. ". A =

SIR: incidentally to the diversities which
in my former communications have been
mentioned, it happens that the South have
several decided advantages over the North,
which conspire to give them ascendency in
the General Government.
1t would seem that the great advantage
which results 10 the South, in point of Sc
curing popular favor in this Republic, from
having made manners a specific object OF
cultivation through successive generations
would of itself be sufficient to account Tor
the ascendency which exists.
But in addition to this, it rests on good
Northern authority that they have also made
politics particular object of study and Pur-
suit. Their principal advantage, however,
is, that the ruling law of the South is In per-
feet accordance with the theory of the Gen
eral Government As nation we have a
dopted the theory that Government does not
involve the matter of Religion. On this
theory our Constitution is based.
The South, according to Northern show
ing, have made almost all the Presidents.
and have secured to themselves much the
larger share of the offices of honor, emolu-
ment, and trust, under the General Govern
ment, and consequently have the advantage
which the practical conducting and handling
of affairs gives, which is the most perfect
and complete of all advantages. The adj
van,age of practice and experience are great
over nexperience, however correct and con-
summate in theory an individual may be.
The practical politicians and statesmen OF
this government are from the South.
In point of fact the North, with all their
wealth. education, intellectual and moral
worth, have waned in relative influence
On these hints political abolitionism takes
it's rise. Here it terminates and feeds its
existence.
Real worthis unassuming-is modest and
retiring. This | believe is admitted as a
general maxim. Whether so admitted or
not, it is law in New England. Though
some local forwardness may exist among
New-Englanders at home, yet, there, general
ly, and always abroad, they expect that their
worth will be discovered and brought to
notice BY somebody other than themselves.
Morality being the ascendant law in the
North, Northern members of Congress re-
present powerfully swaying and enter
prising morality. Being local men them
selves and selections out of the homogene-
ons mass, it is hardly to be supposed tina,
they fully comprehend the embarrassments
Of their position when called on to act as
statesmen for the country. New-England
ascendant morality, in a way unconscious
% Themselves, mingling with all their con-
ceptions of politics and government, they
are to act under a Constitution, which MOI
only does not affirm any particular moral
faith, but expressly declares that none shall
!. be imposed. All then that is said on the
floor of Congress on the subject of slavery
which brings its moral bearing into the &C
count, is irrelevant to the matter in hand
is, whether perceived or unperceived, in ef-
feet proposing the moral opinions of some
body to the acceptance of somebody else
is unsta,esman-like-is embarrassing to the
individual in the way of national prefer
men', and yet is imposed on him by the
sense of his constituents.
A New-England member seems to be
laid under necessity to act against slavery
simply because it is wrong, that is, morally
wrong. And this is precisely that thing
which, in the relations imposed on him as
a member of the Congress of the United
States, he has nothing to do with.
The endorsements which New-Eng-
land statesmen labor under seem to be indi-
Gated by the physical conformation of the
United States. Situated not exactly in the
Northeast corner Of the Union, but even
more Northeast than that, on an absolute
Northeastern projection from the other
wise naturally delineated Union, the infeli-
city Of their relative position, in point of
influence in the Governpent, is enhanced
by the fact that in their latitude an orator
has not that controlling influence over his
auditory which pertains to the orator in a
more Southern cline.
Leading men easily lead the people at the
South. New-England people nobody can
lead. They will lead themselves, and if
possible, their representatives in Congress;
and that too in line directly opposite to
that in which their preferment in the State
naturally lies. And, strange as it may seem,
these same people complain that their
statesmen are not preferred in the General
Government, And upon this plea agita-
lion is now actually going forward at the
North, proposing for its object an altera-
,ion in that particular of the Constitution
which allows representation of which the
principle is population irrespective of suf-
iage. alledging that such representation is
the cause why dominion under the Ameri-
can eagle rests upon the shoulders of the
South.
Pardon me, Sir, while again impose my
positive, sincere, and most deferen,ial opini-
on, that it was wise and patriotic invita-
tion which you gave to Southern politicians
To address in nersnn The nennle Of The North