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

crease in the value Of southern property, and to the
annihilation of Abolitonism and Free sosm-
and 10 accomplish all this there is needed only pro-
lection, not, you say, prohibition. That is not
required, but security 10 the North and tho South
against the perpetual revulsions Of England il alb
soluely necessary 10 the security of southern prop
erty-and the latter cannot erisi ioi.oui The former
How is il possible that il should? The one policy
links the South to England, the creator of slavery
| in India*-thc denunciator Of il in Amerca-the
emancipator of slaves in the West Indies-the
stimulator everywhere of competition with south
ern products-the enemy, everywhere, of southern
interests-the slanderer, everywhere, of southern
meanwhile crushing Pennsylvania, always the
friend Of the South and almost crushing the north
States Dhich stand by the South alone against the
ioorld The other links il TO friendly Pennsy lvania
and the friendly North and West, while making it
independent of the inimical Briton, who, if he had
the power, would at once emancipate every slave
and ruin every planter. Look, pray you, to the
proceedings in reference to Brazil and slave grown
sugar, and determine which il is that the South
should conciliate Next, look to the fact that she
ciings to the Briton and hampies the Pennsylva-
nian; and then determine why it is that Free Soil
grows.
OF all the parties that have ever controlled the
destinies of England, the most opposed to
southern interests and southern institutions is that
which seeks, by the establishment Of what is
termed Stree trade" to render permanent the mo-
nopoly Of machinery by which that country has at
all times sought to become ''the workshop of the
world" and yet it is with that party and that poll
cy the South desires close alliance. As n speci-
men of the doctrines taught in the school, take
from one of the papers of this day the following par
agraph to which invite your careful attention:
"The Westminsier Rsvisto, heretofore regarded as
the organ of the 'Whig, and sometimes even of
the Progressive or Radical party in England,
has lately spoken upon the subject of slavery in a
tone which ought to set all parties in the United
States TO thinking 1t says that, TO prosecute to its
proper end the policy which induced the abolition
Of slavery in the West Indies, the British nation
must extinguish slavery in the American States,
Brazil, and the Spanish West Indies 1t adds, that
slavery be extinguished in Brazil by landing
few thousand troops at Rio and proclaiming the
Liberation of all the slaves. The result says the
Revie,o, would be socialist instruction with no
Cauaignac or Guards Mobile to put it down, the
universal massacre of the whites and the destruc-
ton of their property The Repie,o does not di-
rectly recommend this expedient for slave
States; but it enumerates them among the States
in which British policy dictates the extinction of
slavery, may infer what it Mould do if it could"
Public Ledger.
Such are the doctrines of the men who counsel
the South to increase its dependence on England!
In face Of the fact that man has everywhere be-
come free as land has become valuable they coun-
sci measures that would destroy the value Of land,
with view that slavery may cease.
Rely upon it there is but one way 10 put end
to Free soilism, and that that way lies in direc-
ton precisely the opposite Of that which is now be-
ing pursued. Six months spent in the discussion
OF slavery to the neglect of every thing else,
strengthens the cause of abolition to extent of
which you can have idea. City meetings, made
up of traders, most Of whom care for nothing but
trade, no indications of the state of feeling.
believe there ten Free-soilers in Pennsylvania
for one that there six months since, and every
days discussion of slavery will only increase the
number. Let the South then open its eyes to the
fact that it is always weakening its friends and
strengthening its enemies, and let il determine to
change its course and strengthen the former, and
then il need not fear the latter. Let it at de-
termine TO meet the North with a fair and liberal
proposition for settlement, and permanent one,
of both questions, and there will then be diff
Guilty in making the settlement. That done, Free
soism will pass away, for the possession Of power
will to be object of interest to the of
the people, either North South. II is a weed of
southern growth, and it is for the South to cxtir-
pate it. Nom interference is the policy OF almost
the whole people of the North Interference is the
policy of the few. When the South shall have
made friends of the one, it will to for the
other.
The papers of the day contain a statement that
the Chairman of the Ways and Means has said that
nothing should be done until the slave question
settled. Such declaration is more efficient than
hundred Free soil articles, and this say from ac
,l..drr
kindly disposed towards the South, and most
ious for removal Of all difficulties The same pa
pers contain sundry resolutions proposed for adop
ton at Nashville, all Of which admirably cal
culated TO promote Free soil and Abolition. They
assume that the love of union is great at the
North that the South may dictate all the terms of
union. Now, believe that no man can study care
fully the phenomena Of the last twenty years with
out arriving at the conclusion that, If the line had
been drawn in 1882, leaving Virginia and that por
ton Of the South which chose TO go with her TO
legsste for Themselves the States ON the north Of
the line would at this day have a larger and richer
population than is contained within the whole
Union, and therefore that il would be TO the inter-
est Of the North TO say TO the South, "Let deter
mine TO live together in quiet, let peacefully
separate. You compel TO be Free sellers and
Abolitionists, and would prefer to to mix
ourselves up in your affairs
The course Of the South is one that would not be
pcrsevcred in were its people TO study carefully
the Of the decline in the price of their great
staples, for the result of such inquiry would be
to satisfy them that the power TO pay for cotton,
the part OF England, is steadily declining, and that
a continuance Of their dependence on her must
suit in ruin. Her market is incapable of e1paD-
sion, regards the amount 10 be paid and there
fore II is that the planter Is steadily giving
and receiving less for Il Almost the whole in
in the consumption in the twelve years from
1886 20 l54s in the two protected countries in
the world-the Zol perein and the United States;
while that Of the countries dependent Great
Britain was almost nothing, and yet they will in
sist upon continuing their dependence her, al
ways enemy, when a single effort would make
themselves independent-and TO carry out this de-
termination they quarrel with their best, IL not
their only, friends.
OF the apparent increase in the English consump-
ton during that period, large portion pro-
duced by the demand Of the Zoii-puein for yarn