The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-09-16
TWO CENTS.

| the unequal legislation at Washington. Co~G.
dence toward the North seems to be dead. The
haders' as we call them, IN other words, the pro-
m'nent men OF this State, only speak forth tho
feelings OF the mass Of the population They don't
make public opinion here. They may possibly
contribute to direct il when it, does exist into GER
tain channels, or TO certain mode Of action, but
they cannot do more. Small planters, and compa-
rativrly poor white men, who are never heard Of
outside OF their own district, have talked to me in
Ely lie and with an eamestness and sincerity that
convinced me they knew what they were talking
about. Says one man, sinister, I'D like you 70
tell me what We people Of The South get by belong
u we, by hard work, get dollar ahead, yon draw
II all out of us, and are plundered; and d0n't
get d cent back. The government spend every
mag they collect somewhere else; they don't spend
none on II here The slave States pay half the
revenue In reality. II your northern custom
houses do show bigger sum collected, it's owing
10 the crooked course of trade. II we was sepa-
rated, and exported our immense agricultural pro-
ductioDs, cotton, tobacco, ricr and sugar direct
to other countries, and received the returns back
to our own ports, where In the hell would be all
your Immense amounts OF duties, which you say
are received IN your northern oastem houses? Il
amt so. The expenses of the general Cover nment
will be $36, 900 900, and the South pays more than
one-half OF this sum from her own labor; and where
lazy Office holders at the North, and spent in APP
preparations for The free States. TIE South don't
get back two millions Of it in any shape whatever
Thirty four millions are squands red on the free
States. Mister, do y-u see them two fields over
yonder, on the side Of that hill! You they are
pretty much alike, don't ye! Now, suppose God
Almighty was to take the dew and moisture col
lected from both them fields, and only shower it
back on one OF 'eml Why, one on 'cm would get
10 be a parched. dried up, sterile, old field. not
woriha cuss, while the other would grow fat, aud
be rich loan land, and that's Just what the North
and South are comm to be. Now, take this hero
district OF Greenve, and the next district Of Spar
tanburg, and just suppose that they equal
so far as to pay each 81 900 taxes to support tho
Sfafa la - No,
suppose the State government to turn round, and
expend their two thousand in improving Green
VILE district, and not give Spartanburg a cent.
WHY, the people of Grernv lille would grow rich and
flourish, and the population Of Slartanburg would
become poor, and barely able to exist, and to
themselves would put out of Spartanburg. and move
into Greenville; and so, IN like manner, we of the
Southern States may drag along-lteraly eaten
up and pundered, by unequal legislation of the
Union, or have to move to another PARTON of 1t.
That matter has got 10 be set right, or every
Southern State that knows anything will cut loose
from The Union. and resume her own sovereignty
again, or start a Southern union. This one sided
business cant last much longer To. have a
healthy state of the body, the blood must flow from
top to toe-ifit don't, n part gets parayzsd To
have healthy Union, the revenue collected mus.
be dispensed through all the system from whence
1t Is derived: Governments are no longer needed
TO protect life alone; they must protect property,
and not ylunder u. What greater robbery caa
there be than for the majority, because they have
got the power, 70 enact laws which rob one sec
of dog who, when employed TO protect and guard
a flock OF thirty sheep, would turn In among them.
and eat up fifteen! Il amt any worse tn IN what
the Union is doing. The constitution Is no logger
safeguard, it's a dead letter-ihe majority in
Congress can read II any way, aBd they read II now
so as TO worry the Southern States out of indie
pendent existence, and to give them slew death
afterwards. The West, however. are putting the
poisoned chalice to the lips OF the plump Eastern
and middle States in good style. New England
pu, the system TO the South-draned US to keepup
themselves, by manufactures and the tariff The
West will now drain them with her internal i'm
provements. These States are crammed, thy
don't want any internal improvements, and the
West does; Fifty millions per annum can be alb
sorbrd in the great West for the next century, in
internal improvements. The West has only to
vote them. The South can vote so as to give her
the power. The West don't contribute revenue.
but New ENGLAND and New York do. Let 1t be
spent in the West, to build up that sectiou-they
have only to vote il, and they have, and viii
have. the majority and the power, aud draia
the life Ute blood OF New WI; England and ,hose Site:
and see. No. in ten years they will yell worse
than the South did the tariff, and cry
out IA earnest against violation of tue spirit
OF the constitution, and IL that wont answer,
they will be the hrst to cry out for separation
Here We have had a most uugodly and unjust war
with Mexico 10 rob her of territory, and fetch home
another big apple of discord. What did the South
do, when Congress backed the President and
plunged Us all into muss Did she back down
No, she stood up to the rack, and put it through
send lng more men, and leaving more dead in Mexi-
CO, than all the other States. Does she gam any,
thing by a warl Nothing but increased taxes.
The North have the supplying of contracts, Nc,
and does gain some, and loses some. But the West
gains everything IN n war. She has nothing to
lose. Invasion cannot reach her, and the States Of
the Wet lind a market for everything they pro-
ducc, from pigs 10 men for war requires album
dance Of provisions. and brings forward class of
men who possess no claims 10 distinction but vul-
garlfy and brutal courage, and makes generals
and presidents Of men who, in peace wouli re-
main IN eternal obscurify. not having an iota Of
any quality that would raise them from il. "The
idea that IL Of the South are forced to separate
from the States, we could be forced back again,
is all nonsense. What. eight millions Of South
erners 10 become, IN Tact, deprived Of our rights,
and forced to submit Stuff Pass the Wllnot
Proviso, deprive of rights ia the territories,
and we will show you what stuff the South are
made 81 We are men. We showed IL in the
Revolution, and we showed that we had not de-
generated since on the battle-felds of Mexico. God
In heaven forbid, that we are forced by our North
ern brethren 10 show IL in bloody fight with them
but n they force II on Us, n must come. We fought
against wrong and oppression IN the war Of l776-
we may have to fight against the same or worse
causes oil war In 1850" NoRrrTRNKR.