New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-12

rather the Union party ought to lay hold OF
il as a last means of salvation. Let It
change its name to the Anti-Linen party
and who knows but it might elect president!
OF course the South would renounce all
previous predictions and 90 in for the An
ti-Linen movement with a looseness. Be-
sides. there would then be such thing as
conclusive test Of political orthodoxy Ihis
is badly wanted. Now it is hard to tell who
is who, and men have to argue. and infer.
and make long speeches, and great many
Of them, to prove themselves all right on
the great issues. But create this new par
ty and the difficulty vanishes. Then each
aspiring Statesman will need only TO unbut-
ton his coat and prove that he wears no linen.
What saving of time to devote to the ser
vice of the country. Let us have the party
set on foot without delay. 1t ought to be
done. 1t will offer a great chance for
Northern man who wants to be President.
Let him but come out stiff and uncomprO
missing against Linen, and he may rely on
every electoral vote south of Mason and
Dixons line. Who speaks
There are two points in the disquisltion of
The Republic, namely first, that to inquire
and write about Flax-Cotton is to conspire
for the destruction of the Union and second,
that Mr.. Greeley is unfriendly to the insti-
tuition of slavery; these form the reason of
the personalities with which our cotempo-
rary adorns and animates his columns and
which he fifty accompanies with falsehood
concerning Mr.. G.'s appearance at Exeter
Hall.
Can ANYTHING be more supremacy silly
than to suppose that the political constitu-
ton of this country can be dangerously at
fected by a discovery in Chemistry and
Manufactures, or to accuse those labOring
to advance such discovery of conspiring
against the Constitution That Stiffness
The Republic may boast of, and find no
competitor to dispute its 'laurels.
And if to be unfriendly to Slavery is to
be traitor, let the indictment be first
brought against our revolutionary fathers,
and against Washington, Jefferson and
Franklin. If to labor for its extinction be a
crime, accuse Christianity, popular educa-
ton, the printing press, and the railroad, for
all these are its deadly foes.
What now chiefly gives power to this per-
nicious institution in this country, is the
great extent of the cotton trade and the
virtual monopoly of it by the United States.
Since the modern use Of cotton began,
southern slaves have largely increased in va
lue, and slavery has obtained new lease of
existence Now, if mode of preparing and
manufacturing fax can be discovered so that
fabrics made of it can be afforded cheaper
than cotton fabrics, as they are universally
admitted to be better, the culture of cotton
will be greatly diminished, the value of
slaves will fall, the institution will lose its
political supremacy, and come TO an end
sooner than otherwise. For to an end 1t
must come in the order of Nature the only
question is one of time; and the more
speedily that epoch arrives the better for all
parties.
Now, we say that the means of acting
against slavery, adopted in this case by
Mr.. Greeley, is the most legitimate and In
offensive that could be conceived. We
should like to hear what sort of resistance
would be offered to a great agricultural
and manufacturing Improvement. Perhaps
South Carolina would secede from Chemis-
try and Manufactures as well as from the
Union and Common Sense.
But it is not alone, because cotton is
the bulwark of slavery, that its present
Importance and the monopoly of its
production are a misfortune to the United
States. The monopoly in producing any
great necessary of life is in the long
run, fatal misfortune to any country, what
ever be the temporary and apparent prosper
ity it may create In this country the pre-
sent influence of the cotton interest is 10
keepus dependent upon Great Britain for
our manufactures. Who made the tariff Of
'32? Who made that of 40! Emphatically
the South. The reason is plain. The South
being the great producer, and England the
great buyer Of cotton, it is apparently
Though the appearance is mistake,) for the
interest of the former 10 admit British man
ufactures at the lowest possible duty, or at
none at all. Hence the previous, as well as
the present British tariff under which the