The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-09
The '.secessisnp and the ..Union and South
crn Rights" Parties.

We observe that the South is rapidly array
ing itself under one or the other of the above
party divisions. We have heretofore felt it
duty TO point out the tendencies of those doc
trjnes which recommend OF tend 10 disunion;
they are developed in late number of the
Q,mrierhj Reuietc. We have referred 10 that
periodical, because il presents the most deliber-
ate exposition of the principles and purposes of
the secession party. We endeavored in our
last 10 prove that the Locotoco party Of the
South was responsible for the very evils Of
which the reviewer complained. Having as
sumed that the oppression OF the Government
has reached point when the secession of the
Southern States is inevitable it might be sup
posed that some remedial system would be re-
commended by the secessionists which would
obviale the evils so eloquently depicted, and
prepare the seeding States for maintaining
their national independence. We therefore, in
this connexion, pursue the examination of the
teneis of the secession school, as avowed in the
Southern Quarterly
We will take up an article headed ''Sum-
mer Travel in the South We were re-
ally interested i'll the poetlca descriptions of
Arcadian valleys, stupendous precipces, noble
rivers, and leaping cataracts, which this arti-
Gle contains. We felt proud of American
scenery that vies with the glories of the Rhine,
or the grandeur Of the Alps. Nature has been
a most bounteous mother to the South, and
blind and heartless must that people De who
! do not love and would not defend her. But
when we pause to reflect upon the connexion
in which the description occurs, we perceive
that even this appeal to the patriotic affections of
the South is made TO counteract the intercourse
with the North. Chimerica as it may seem,
the only remedy TO be found in the serial dia-
| tribe of the Rerie,c-except disunion-for the
drain which the North is said TO have estab-
lished upon the South, is contained in this
poetical episode. The article opens with the
usual abuse of the North. A class of Southern
travellers is ridiculed under the pleasant APP
pellaton of ''soft-heads." These travellers.
! from ignorance OF the attractions of their
native land, prefer spending their summers at
Newport, Niagara, or Saratoga. They are
welcomed by the sstute hotel keeper, plucked
| by the obsequious fiunkeys who surround them,
I ana, as q ldSI acton or man
servant of the :" soft head" is presented with
the freedom Of Five Points, or gratuitous enter
tainment in the Iombs. These simpletons
the reviewer wisely advises to stay at home
The domestic expenditures of these pleasure
! pilgrims would be, we grant, a remedy pro
ia,,to. Yet we nowhere see in the Southern
| Quarterly any enlarged and liberal propositions
TO encourage the domestic interests of the
South, and thus 10 establish her true in
dependence we nowhere see the terms ship,
spindle, OF school-house, in connexion with
any practical measures for the promotion of
southern interests. That the "soft- head"
shall visit the southern Aleghanies, instead
Of Cohoes, and Lake George, is the only sem
blance of remedy recommended We except of
course, disunon; and an extremely learned essay
upon the very defective cookery of the Southern
publican, in which the voluminous abuse of the
North is suspended for lecture on the physio-
logic de govt worthy Apicus, and we rather
| think adopted from Guloseton. In this the
errors of gastronomy treated as only lit
tie less heinous than those of government, and
the uncouth maitres de hotel are adjured to
reform their cuisine, lest the patriotism of the
''soft-hea should give way to the barbarism
of mountain cookery
We pause TO reflect upon all that we have
read in this Rerie,c. We feel that there has
been much that is yolent-much that is iu,-
practicable. But we see nowhere remedial
system adequate to the alleged emergency. We
see no mention made of "the people" of the
South. Much is said Of her statesmen, much
of the value Of her staple, much Of the beauties
of her scenery; but no recognition of the re-
publican principle contended for by Union men
and Wings, that the independence of every
people depends upon the possession of the con
stiiuiional materials Of power. The Reriep
contains no proposition to spread the blessings
Of universal intelligence amongst the poor, or
to bestow upon them the advantages of pro-
fitable employment. Rich as the South is, she
requires these things. Like most other countries.
she has her poverty and ignorance. She de-
ponds upon others for what she might do for
herself; and whether she continue to buy
from and employ the sister States Of the Con-
iederacy, or throw herself into the affectionate
arms Of her most maternal majesty, the Queen
Of England, her citizens will be dependent
upon others 50 long as they will not avail them
selves Of the bounties of Providence and the
fostering aid Of the Federal Government, man
uiacture for themselves, export their own pro
duce. and import their own supplies. The re-
suit is as inevitable a. destiny they must buy Of
others, create their own supplies, or 20 without
them With the mighty water falls, unlimited
mineral resources, broad ports and valuable sta
! plies, the South ought to have all the varied and
| reciprccsting interests of commerce manufsc-
| lures and the mechanical arts. With these she
would be independent; she would then apprcci
ate the value Of the Union, within whose pro-
tective shadow she might ENJOY prosperity.
That the North has no jealousy Of Southern
prosperity will be seen from the following ex
tract from New York Journal
1--WE glad TO learn that the southern and
southwestern States are sso taking interest in
the foundation and establishment Of improved