Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-18

The pecuniary .irlsclests q. the country.
dependent upon the, lnien, are enormous.
There are office -hslders and Office seek
ars-thefc are those whose positions in the
States, depend upon the success of rival
parties through the eounxry: these all de-
sire moderate aesitatiens. within constitu-
tional limits, barely sufiicient to affect cleo
tons Thesindireet inirenees were mfin-
itely of more importaaee- We feel them
in the convention which framed the Consti-
tltion. When the Eonsitution was under
discussion, the acknowledgements
sive of ACCOMPLISHMENTS that navi-
CATION acts should Only be. passed by a vote
Of two-thirds of C agfess Mr.. Gorlnarn,
of Massachusetts,. ~stassslIe desired it to
be remembered that the Eastern States haJi
no motive TO Union but commercial one.
They acere able TO protect THEMSELVES. They
were not afraid Of external danger, and did
nat need tie aid Of tie Southern States.'-
The disagreement on the subject of the
Navigation Act was quoted by a liberation
of the Stare trade for twenty years, of which
cur commercial friends became the agents.
The first Congress adopted Navigation
act which has secured till now monopoly
of the coasting trade to the marine of the
Northern States.
The same tendency to compromise for
Government bounties, scruples of consci-
ence, was shown by the manufacturing in
terests in 1842. The "home league
representing the great interests of manufac-
tures-in their address of 1912, employs
the following significant language upon this
subject:
"Now, neither the farmer nor mechanic are con-
tented TO be DISTINGUISHED, and debarred the priv
ileges of freemen, whilst portion of their coun-
trymen, possessing sure market for the products
of their slaves. deny them the right or living by
free labor, unless reduced to the degradation oi
working for the same miserable subsistence al
lowed to slaves. Even viewed coRSttutionaUy
the oDner of a thousand slaves ebatteis Of indus
try or labor sdUing machines, as tney are called
at the South, ~ has surely no more right
to be protected than the free farmer, with thou
sand cattle, or the free manufacturer, with thou
sand looms, chattels Of industry.
Protection is due to alive mean adequate
positive protection ,eeher is By tac0rabIe climate
peculiar chartered grant, discriminating
Tariff. Wherever labor, the great element of ou
growth, and independence as a nation, require.
security and protection, there the protecting hanc
of government should be stretched out, with
Wise beneficence LET THIS PRINCIPLE BE ADOPTED
AND STEADILY ADHERED TO, and there WILL BE A.
END any iaUtdious interference of one portion
citizens nth The rights and privileges of The ote,
We urgently iatredt Southern friends seriousls
| TO take this uielo oftie subject
Unquestionably if the Southern State
had yielded from time, to time to the de
mands of Northern cupidity, passively, in
vidious interferenees' in some degree migh
have been prevented. The enormous boun
ties afforded to the manufacturing, naviga
ton and commercial interests, however
/ have had, and do exercise material infiu
ence in favor of those conclusions, whicl
strengthen the Federal Government. Thi
is natural, and it is so.
There was another important condition
of the confederacy, which weakened tn
force of this disturbing element. This wa
its size. Ideas circulate slowly in the ney
and unsettled States. Slavery, In Texa
would be comparatively matter of uncon
cern to Boston, while Boston abolition i
but little heard of in Texas. So in tn
Northwestern States, for time, the idea
of Union, constitutional right, obligation
to party. were strong enough to counterac
anti-slavery agitation. The old ideas re
tanned their hold there with much fxednes
upon the people.
The increase of the conveniences of in
accommodation, and the prodigious i'm
land and Europe, have overcome this in
I fuence. Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio an
Iowa seem to pursue the ways of this fata
agitation. Those people seem as muc
controlled by abolition ideas, as those i
the Eastern States. There are other infu
ences of an inferior value, but we believ
that we have noticed the most infiuencivt
We testify to the vast power Of these infu
ences. The wonder is, that they shoul
not silence all opposition to them. TIL
fact that this agitation has attained it
present growth, against the power of thes
influences, is, in our judgment, one of th
! most ominous circumstances of the time.
! The generation, tolerant of slavery frol
their long and peaceful connection with i
is rapidly passing from the earth. Th
men who will occupy their places have bee
taught that slavery is an offence, an exc
Grafton, blight, a SIN. The warm, exr
berant, united, sympathetic Democratic pal
ty of the time of General Jackson, is extinc
The words Constitution and Union ha.
lost their spell. The Abolitionist boast
with no little cause, we have disenchaote
the mind of the people, in good measur,
as to the divinity of their parchment lido
4 We have taught men to calculate the va
ue of the Union. The idea that loyalty an
allegiance are due to it is fast becoming r
diculous and contemplate. II is begiani,
to be looked upon as q matter ofJusiness-
4 a partnership tn trade When we refe
{ with candor for one moment, what else couI
we expect? A whole people is taught TIL
their Constitution supports and upholds ii
direst. most abhorred, disgraceful evil thi
ever dishonored nation. A religious pc
!. pie is taught that sin and crime were con
promised with, in the formation of that Coz
f stitution. Can we expect them to reyer
, or TO abide the terms agreed to?
The necessity for men to hold pro-sIav
i ry opinions to reach Office has long sin
, been removed. Corwin, Ewing Collamer, A.
mum, Barnard, Hunt, Seward, Mann, Hal
Chase, are official proofs to the co,,trar
! The South-reduced in its power in Co
: gress, reduced in the election of Presiden
/ the fountain of fpower-cannot count on h
: own sons, who look for preferment at Was
: ington. Clay, Benton, Houston and o
: ers, openly WOO anti-slavery power.
2 Then, commercial ideas-the pecunial
t interests of large, and, if you please. dor
. inant classes, never did and, never c;
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