The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-06-17

the California question exist had the admins.
tration OF 1916 maintained the policy Of 1892 Yet
the former was southern policy and the latter wal
the northern one. Examine il carefully, and you
will find, or am much in error that the northern
policy is tho that has at all times been needed
for strengthening the South.
The true interests of the South require that il
should inuite population, instead of erpslIing it
With every such expulsion 1t becomes weaker The
North ressts, when if sought to weaken the South
II would aid in expelng population from the Older
southern States. The South desires votes in the
Senate that it may protect slavery, and aid in main
tanning system of commercial policy that weak
ems itself while aiding the growth of Abolitionism
and Free solsm. The North refuses the South more
votes because it feels that II suffers under southern
policy, which is weakening southern institutions
by stimulating the growth of Abolition and Free
Soil, both of them foes to the peace and harmony
which the North would desire to maintain. In ti,
question Of commercial policy lies the tohole difficulty
The North cannot be stimulated to desire for SUI
premacy except by measures tending to the ruin Of
its best interests. That stimulus is furnished by
the South.
The North sees its mills and furnaces closed, and
its mines abandoned and its people flying by hun
dreds of thousands, while the time of Congress is
exclusively occupied by the fugitive slaue bill,
and other kindred measures that there is chance
for considering the of fugitive freemsn. Its
people being ruined, and its expensive works
passing by into the hands of the sheriff.
Everywhere men are seeing the day of their ruin
approaching hanging by the eye-lids-
yet they told that their case cannot como up
for consideration until it shall have been deter
mined whether not the South shall have more
senatorial enable to continue the desolat
inc ,pda oh hay Ca
der, under such circumstances, that they become
Free-soilers' Are you not all the time engaged in
making Abolitionists? ! really think you are. You
appear to me to have been doing 80 for twenty
years, and the more vigorous the growth of both,
the more abundantly you feed them beg you no,o
carefully to note the fact that the day Of the pas
sage Of the compromise in 1888, abolition had
ly existence, and then to to yourself the
questions Would it ever have grown had not the
South compelled the North to adopt its policy?
WiH il eper diminish if The South continues to
pei adherence to the present system? That it will
not feel assured. On the contrary, the hostility
to slavery can scarcely fail to increase with every
hour that it is maintained The people of the North
are becoming tired Of periodical ruin produced by
southern control of all the operations of Govern
ment.
The South insists, however, that its policy is the
ny--not discord. Prosperity produces the one,
but ruin the other. Ruinous is southern policy
to the North, it is suicidal as regards the South,
and it is its policy that produces it's own weak
ness, and its jealousy. Five hundred mil
lions of dollars would be not approach to the
amount Of loss to the planting States from the
abandonment of the policy of 1928; and feel war
ranted in asserting that the value of southern pro-
perty is not at this day half of what il would
be but for the adoption of southern policy in 1888
Northern manufacturers now fear perfect protec
ton. because it will produce southern competition.
Northern free traders caution the North against
protection, because it must extend manufactures
in the Southyet that extension is all that is need
cd by the South to double the value Of its land
Neverthelsss il clings to them, and would regard
me almost enemy.
For the last seventeen years the South has con-
trolled the policy of the Government, except dur
ing the four years from 1912 TO 1916. Has the
value Of southern property increased in that Pc
riods Ia tas great in proportion to population as
it was in 1892 Had the policy of 1928 been main
tanned, would not the South be now studded with
factories, at which there would be consumed at
least half a million Of bales of cotton, and would
not the coal and ore beds of the South be pro-
ducing iron by hundreds of thousands of tons, to
be employed in making railroads through the
South, and factories in the South, creating de-
mand for labor, and increasing the value of both
land and labor? Should we not have imported mil
lions of people 10 be consumers Of cotton, each
consuming here five even ten times as much as
he consumes at home, and would not the home de-
mand now absorb 90 much as 10 enable the planters
fix the price for themselves instead of having it
fixed in the auctuating market Of England Such
would have been the case, and 30 great would have
been the effect that in asserting that the value Of
property would have been double what IL now is,
l feel assured that assert far less than the truth.
Hundreds Of thousands Of men who now at the
North would have found place in the South, but
for its suicidal policy-and it is man that gives
value to land-yct the South is always engaged in
the expulsion Of man from land.
Let It not be said that this ia question Of the
divided South against the North A very large
portion Of the people Of the southern States have
already arrived the conclusion that the policy Of
1912 was the true one, and would this day vote for
its establishment could their opinions be fairly
represented Virginia Is almost equally divided
yet her immense minority is almost unrepresented
ON the floor Of Congress. Delaware, Maryland,
Kentucky, and North Carolina, are favorable TO
protection by large majority. Tennessee. Geor-
gia, Louisiana, and Florida, arc equally divided,
and il may be deemed doubtful IL in the whole Of
the States south of Mason and Dixons line there
not majority adverse to that which is regarded
southern policy; while at the North, could the vote
be now taken that question alone, ,oitout refer
sncs 10 party, the vote in favor Of protection would
probably be two 10 one. Nevertheless, by force Of
party organization. the minority rules the major
ity, and is then surprised that the majority strug
gles TO preventive adoption measures tending to
the maintenance Of such n system.
Free trade, however, you will say, must be right
IL is 80, but how to reach iti fou, perhaps, will
say that Adam Smith taught that IL was 10 be by
the removal Of restrictions trade. He did but
Of all restrictions, those which he deemed the most
disadvantageous those English ones which
tended TO prevent the loom from going TO the
plough, az he saw IL naturally tended TO do. Smih
regarded The home market the great one, and he
taught that every measure which tended 10 a dim
mutton Of the proportion Of mechanics 10 agrcul-
rsts was not only great encouragement Of sgri-
culture, but violation Of the dearest and most i'm
portant q the rights Of man-and such II was
that the men of 1776 resisted, and that we resist