New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-31
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 81. 1851

FRIDAY, JANUARY 81.
any interference with which be denounced as
manifest violation Of the most sacred rights OF
msbkind" 1t was the perfect knowledge thSt De
possessed Of the fact that diversity oil employ
Ipe1t was INDISPENSABLE TO the growth OF agacul-
ture that led him TO reprobate IS "only - i0' a
nation Of shopkeepers,' the system "n'cu n1u
for its Obec: that Of compelling gil TIE nations
of the world 20 make their exchanges IN
the British markets. He saw clearly tnat
with the increase in the proportion al mecnah'
ics to aericuiturists, there was 4 great IN,
crease ia the domestic market win dihiIi snSu
NECESSITY for resOTtiDg 10 distant ones, "u"0 &c
rouer there % 60 was constantly increasing oe,
Cause the workmen who ate the food. converted
the wool into cloth and fitted il 10 be cbeaPy
transported therefore, in the ratio OF me
'chanics 70 agrcnltursts rs a great discourage
meut Of agriculture" and every one tending %
compel the foreign agricuturst 70 dispense WlJh
the proximity OF the artisan as a violation ol a
mans most sacred rights His system and
that Of the South are the autipodes of each other
The one looks TO bringing the consumer to 5ne
side Of the producer, incre asing population, aug
MEETING the value of land, and increasing the
freedom Of man, with constant increase IN the
potrcr 70 trade. Il is anti Slavery In all It's ten
denotes The other looks to separating the con-
diminishing the value Of land and the freedom OF
man. with constant increase in the necessity Tor
trade and diminution for the power 70 trade 1t
is pro Slavery in sl its tendencies, because oil us
most exhausting character Instead OF encour
aging the mechanic to come and settle near HIM,
bringing the market 10 their doors and enaollng
them TO improve their land, the people OF the
South have Kept him at distance, and have com.
PEELED themselves to seek distant markets. ana
their lands have been exhausted, the consequence
Of which has been a necessity for seeking other
lands; and therefore it is that the MOCdbe prop
erty-the save-has tended to rise IN their estl'
nation as compared with the innm0rd6ie property
the land-the strongest evidence that could be
given of the suicidal character of Southern policy
How it has operated upon the older Southern
States, up to the date Of the Ceasus OF le4O' may
be seen from the following table, in which Is gwen
in thousands the movement Of their population
1890 1900. 1910 ls2o. 1880 lsi0;
s:::# ;:::: 6 4, IS s. q &
PFC: E9. si.s:.. a5 a'5 I, ia 4. az '''S
We here see that those States continued to
grow in wealth and population to the period OF the
census of $780, and up to that period there exist.
ed no AbOlitiOnism-nO Free Soil party; nor had
the mass Of the people OF the South the remotess
idea that Slavery was other than a blight The
Of nearly the whole annual growth OF the popula
ton Of those States, and with flight came pro
Slavery, necessarily followed by Northern agta.
ton, because it was a consequence OF the adop
ton of policy directly opposed to their best In
terests. The Nashville Convention dates anti
Slavery agitation back to 1884, and twas exactly
at that period that the institution Of domestic
Slavery began to be lauded as a blessing. We
see, thus that an increased tendency to the dis
persion of Southern population, Pro-Slavery and
Abolition, came into existence almost at one and
the same time, and that the two latter were ne
cessary consequence of the former. II, then, we
can ascertain the cause of that tendency 70 dis
person, we shall be at little loss to determine
why it is that public opinion in the two sections
of the Union has been so rapidly moving In oppo
site directions Up to 1924, the political economy
Of Adam Smith-that which regards the separa
ton of the mechanic and Agricultural as being in
a high degree detrimental to the progress OF Agri
culture-was held to be Democratic policy, and
the opposition to it was held to be Democratic
The Tariff OF that year received but hive votes IN
the four States of NJ aine, New Hampshire, Masga
chusetts and Rhode Island. That of s2S received
but little more than onethrd OF the votes OF New
England, while the opinion OF Mr.. Madison, IN Ia
yor both Of the rfgtt and erTedieRcy OF eglsatlo
with a view TO protection, was then recorded In
bis letters TO Judge Cabell Such, likewise, was
the opinion Of Gen Jackson; and, go long as De-
mocracy and Protection were held to be consist
emit with each other, and the tendency OF mea'
sures was consequently in that direction, there
existed comparatively little tendency TO the ds-
persion Of Southern population, and neither anti
Slavery nor pro Slavery were heard OF Agitation
on the subject was unknown. The year 1882
brought with 1t Notification, and at the instance
of South Carolina the policy OF the Union was
changed. From that year railroad iron was tree
Of all duiy-the iron manufacture was Frustrated
and the profits of other manufactures gradually
diminished until at length it ceased. Almost the
whole energies of the nation were devoted TO
making roads, by which to enable the farmer 70 go
to market and 10 enable his customers 70 ny 20
the West, with constantly Increasing necessity
for roads aud constantly increasing diminutlon
In the power 70 labor with advantage, the result
Of which was seen in the total prosuatlon OF 1912"
Now 10 keep up to this system OF Dispersion
ana Slavery is the object OF hr. Bulwers mission.
He protested against an increase oithe Iron duty
and is ready TO combat every species OF protection
against the oligarchcal monopoly.
The history of Portugal in its relations with
England, shows that in 1851 she commenced to
manufacture, "but by the disastrous treaty OF
1903" SAYS Montebron, by which English man.
ufactures were admitted at allow duty, the home
manufactures Of w oolens were destroyed"
The history of Portugal is that Of every other
nation admitting of English monopoly. Tne man
ufactUripg State Of Massachusetts, the Paris pa
pers are astounded to learn, has doubled her pro-
perty in ten years. SO will South Carolina do,
when she ceases to listen to such advisers as Dir.
BulWer.
The further expenditures of the British Gov
eminent in detail, which are called upon to con-
tribute show equal extravaganza in those frat
cited above.
Where one of our Judges gets 900 to $1,000,
the English Judge has variously from $4,000 to
fsOOO The American Minister here gets 1000,
the English El0 900 and his palace. The pen
sons in England not counting the Royal Faml-
Tvs amount TO CO. ,04l, or thirty million dol
lars year. Elk ambassadors get $4,000 retiring
pension Sir Henry Bulwer will get that when
he retires. doubtess In 1884 the sinecure Of.