The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-08-13

but suppose tue iCW FeualhlllS SuuN"'lN u
States no; TO be driven 10 the necessity OF
choosing their enemy. Suppose, rs would
be the case, that no warlke atteH should
be made, how long would those states be
content to remain under the grinding mis-
government which taxes them for the bene-
lit Of their masters in the North, while wit
Messing the prosperity oftheir southern breth-
ren living under revenue tariff, and ENJOY
ing the blessings of free trade With a
modest, economical government, such rs
mere central agency for independent states
ought to be, moderate revenue would sut-
fee, and nothing would prevent the accep-
tanee of the overtures for free trade, now
made by all commercial nations. These are
not accepted now, sir because mainly ben
efcial to the South. Aud who cares for the
South What is the South An ass of
the tribe of Isaachar "bowed down between
two burthens, thirty millions to be paid in
to the Treasury, and twice as much more
to go into the pockets of the Northern man.
uiacturers What if Lord Palmerston
should offer now, in return for reduction
of our tariff to a revenue standard, TO take
off the English duty of seventy-live cents on
sour tobacco. Would it be accepted No,
sir, no. 1t would but enrich the tobacco
states, and what do our masters care for
them? On the other hand, let Southern
conlederacy, i'll adopting the free trade over
ture, ask difierential abatement of ten
cents of this duty in their favor, and how
long would Virginia and North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, and even Maryland
and Missouri, delay to avail themselves of
the arrangement! Depend upon it, sir,
such a conlederacy as ! have supposed
would hardly be formed before every slave
holding state in the Union would seek ad.
mission into it, The prestige of Uuon
once dispelled by partial secession, the
middle states would be at no loss to choose
between union with their Southern breth-
rem, or with their Northern enemies, perse-
cutors and sanderers.
But the thing would not stop here, sir.
Pennsylvania at this moment, with all the
advantages of a protective tariff, finds her
manufacturers often on the verge of bank
ruptcy. A tariff may protect her against
the competition OF European manufactures,
but not against the superior skill and capi.
tai of New England. Against this she con-
tends as well as she can in the markets of
the South Take that away and she will
sink at once. Even now Massachusetts
grudges her the benefit of the protection
which only enables her to hold up her head.
But let the Southern victims of that Dp-
pressiye system emancipate themselves from
it, and my life upon it, five years will not
pass over before i is abolished What then
will be the condition of Pennsylvania, placed
on the border between a Northern confede-
racy, in which she is oyershodowed by SUI
perior capital and skill, and a southern con-
lederacy of which she might become the
workshop? A revenue tariff of ten per
cent. would be worth more to Pennsylvania
as member Of southern confederacy, than
forty per cent is now--more than all that
protection could do for her, were the south
Withdrawn from the Union.
Let us look little to the west, sir. | be-
gin with Illinois, because she reaches far
thest south; because shc~is nearest to New
Orleans and furthest from New York and
because she begins to be aware that slaves
are wanted in the southern part OF the State,
and seems not quite insensibe to the propri-
ETY. Of letting such of her people have them
as have need of them Now, what will be
her situation? No man admires more than
| that noble system of inland navigation that
connects the waters of the Mississippi with
the Lakes, But tolls and tow paths are cx-
pensive things, and canals are sometimes
broken by floods, sometimes laid dry by
drought, and winter rarely fails with his icy
breath to close up the navigation of the
lakes. But the Mississppi-broad, deep
and full--is ever open to bear on its flowing
bosom all the bulky and weighty products
of Illinois, at the lowest possible rate of ex-
pense. am aware, sir, that the laws of ma
tions would secure to the States on the wa.
tiers of that river, free passage to the
ocean. But that law would not exempt
them from imposts and from export duties,
and from all the Inconvenience which
must be encountered by those who necessa-
rly pass through foreign country to get to
their own. A great river, such as the Mis-
sissippi, like an iron clamp, holds together
all the country penetrated by its tributaries,
and no amount of human perverseness can
long prevent them from blending into one
'like kindred drops
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A DISMAL PRosPEcT.-A young lady
Of eighteen, Miss b. was engaged to be
married to a gentleman Of thirty-six.
Her mother having noticed her low
spirits for some time, inquired the rca-
son. ooh dear, pama,," replied the
young lady, Il was thinking about my
husband being twice my age" "That's
true, but he's only thirty-six" He's only
thirty-six now, mamma, but-wher
I'm sixty" SWELL" "Oh dear, why
then he'll be hundred and t,0enty."
A HrNT TO MornERs. Rising earl,
is a habit of high Importance to fix il
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