The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-10-09

to invest their money in public works for pri-
vate profit Commerce is corrupting III lis ten
denotes; large cities are Gomorrahs manufac-
tories mere academies of crime, degradation,
and ignorance; change is all abomination, re
form humbug. The distribution of political
power should be regulated by an equilibrium
and when one section obtains more of the
1t should be equalized by virtual gift of politi-
cal influence TO the section which has remained
stationary. All men. according to the doctrine
of these morallsts, ought to grow some agricul
iural staple; whilst slavery is, in their opin-
ion, an institution ordained by God, essential TO
freedom, and presenting the happies, and most
prosperous condition of human society This
school Businessmen has never relied upon the
development of the physical or social resources
OF their country. 1t has buried her talent in
napkin. Ii has inculcated the doctrine that the
interests ofthe North and South are irreconci-
liable. 1t has long claimed the exclusive guar
dianship of Southern honor and interests. Its
system OF defence has consisted in protests and
pronuncamentos, ingenious eXpositions of POI
litical rights and violent threats of sectional
resistance. Having few affinities with the .'peo-
ple'-without recommending measures that will
educate single child, employ single adult,
OF develop single interest, its leaders call
themselves Democrats. Having declared a
special devotion to the Rghte6f the States, they
recommend withdrawal from the invaluable
advantages Of the Union. and course Of policy
which will make the seeding States the mere
colonial appanage of some foreign nation.
With this lmpractcable school must be con-
trasted another, which is at present rallying as
the ''Union and Southern Rights" party. The
position and policy of those who constitute this
party differ widely with the abstractionst or
secession school. They are as true to the South
as any men in it; they have every thing at
stake in the title of its property, OF the perma-
nence of It's freedom. They are aware of the
growing ascendency of the Northern States
They do not propose to check that ascendency by
sectional action. They propose to counteract it
by sectional prosperity. They see that the
true cause of Northern predominance is North
ern enterprise; that the reason why the com
nation; why her manufactures are vended from
Manchester to Maabar; why her internal in
tercourse commands the whole productive area
of the Union, is that her practical citizens have
first eNerted their own energies, and then awaited
! themselves Of the fostering aid of the Federal
Government They value the Union because they
have contributed to establish it, They rely upon
It's protection TO develop those great interests in
dispensabe to the independence of every State
In pursuance of this policy for the maintenance
of Southern rights, the members of this party
encourage every legislative proposition for the
advancement of mechanical, manufacturing and
commercial industry. They devote themselves
TO the construction of lines of internal commu-
ncation which facilitate immigration and social
ntercourse-which open to the farmer the mar
kets OF the world, and bring him, in return,
supplies at the lowest terms that competition can
afford. They recommend this remedial system
instead of proclamations and civil war The
Union and Southern Rights Party" have stood
as wall dividing the waters of fanaticism
They have been panied and exasperated at the
violence of abolition, but they believe +" the
South may honorable acquiesce" in the com
promises of Congressional Legislation.
Such are the doctrines aud such the remedies
of the Secession" and "Union" parties, now
standing in organized opposition to each other.
We hope the Leople Of the South will discard
the baleful and chimerical remedies of the one,
and encourage the practical, patriotic, and con
servatiye policy Of the other.