The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-16

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The Two Great N tional Parties.
The Louisville Journal thinks that The recent
coalition in Massachusetts Of the Democrats and
Free-soiIers, must sever the connection between
the Northern and South m Locofocos We
should think so too--although one of the two
great bonds that holds the Union together will
thereby DO severed also. The other great bond,
the connec ion Of the Southern and Northern
Whir~ is already straining and swapping in every
direction. We publish some comments to-day
from the Ncw York Tribune, the leading Wing
paper Of the Empire State, on the Massachusetts
eoalitionyin which tbs predominant sentiment
seems to be that of regre', that the coalition is
not between Wings and Fres-soilers, instead Of
[. De nocrats and Free-soilers And within few
days, an article has appeared in The Ohio State
Journal. the leading Wing paper Of that State,
which is designed 70 prove that there is much
moro affinity between the Wings and Free
sellers than the Democrats and Free sellers.
We have too much love for this glorious
Union to consent that its preservation shall bs
entrusted to two old parties, the several seq
mcnts and sections of which, unite and divide
for spoiIs on every opportunity, from the cleo
ton Of President, down to that Of doorkeeper
for State legislature. We insist TINT the Union
shall be united by justice, and good will Ifthat
cannot be done, it cannot exist for the protec-
ton, prosperity and peace Gifts several members
II is the mighiiest instrument Of fraud, Of plum
der, Of agitation and aggression, That ever ex-
listed.
Il is in vain to evade the great question OF the
day. 1t must be settled The existence of this
Union, Of liberty, the presel walton of peace, and
of law, depend on the amount Of moral prnci-
pla among the people--on that afaith that binds
the moral elements Of the world together
The late Compromise was gross infraction OF
twas adopted on the assumption that the
people and institutions of one half of the States,
wore not worthy Of their share in the benefits Of
the Government. And therefore this Compro-
mise is odious to the South, however some other
people may be disposed to acquiesce, in the vain
hope that it is the end Of aggression, or the de-
lsve idea that the evils Of ing their rights
might be greater than those of renouncing them.
But because the compromise measures did
not 10 farther, because they conceded that al
though the South should be excluded from the
lands she had no: yet reduced to possession,
she should have restitution of the negroes which
had escaped from it, the North has repudated
the compromises The North has displayed a
degree Of violence, of intemperance, of arrogance
in defying and repudiaing the solitary law that
respected solitary right of the South, much be-
yond the spirit of the latter in resenting the
mighty spoliation she has suffered fact which
if unexplained would create the impression that
the spirit for which the Southern people have
hitherto had credit, either did not belong to
them, or has been crushed by power
But the explanation is this. The Southern
people although individually and personally Of
greater energy and spirit than the North, are,
when acting in collective capacity, generally
much less efficient. The North acts by associa-
ton. All the functions Of life in the North are
directed by association The water they drink
comes through the pipes of joint stock or mu-
nicipal corporation. The clothes they wear are
woven by corporations-and even the washing
is now carried on to some extent in the same
manner The fuel that keeps them VAIN, and
the light they have at nj .ht, both are furnished
by corporations Their charities are conducted
through corporations. Some are born in incor-
porated lyingin hospitals-they are buried in
the cemetery of an Incorporated company-and
we observe recently are carried to the grave on
incorporated railroads. The dandies Of Boston
and the gals of Lowell live alike in Incorporated
hotels and boarding house. They get their edu-
cation in schools that are founded by the State,
which is corporation, aud their books out of
an incorporated library.
In Massachusetts, the State ITSELF the great
corporation, supports its government almost ex-
clusively by tax on bank corporations.
Natural life is no longer seen there Labor
il performed by machines, animate aud inanlmate,
peared to each other, the motions of the animated
part being regulated by the Illuminate mure than
the latter by the former.
But corporate life, the predomnancc of arti-
nct1l over tlaiufui 10 IVY $500
domestic life or its duties Hence the home OF
Northern people is not in families and IN single
dwellings, but in factories, in monster boarding
houses and monster hotels. The natural IN
crease of I. SPECIES not being practicable on
ary pri ciples OF incorporation yet discovered,
Massachusetts no longer depends on her native
or resident citizens for the supply or rreserva-
ton OF her population, but on importation, which
can be done by the packet ships OF incorporate
companies portatioDs Of people ready grown
Whes the supply of girls runs short in Lowell,
or other manufacturing towns an agent of the
corporation scours the country for q fresh az
sortment, and sometimes has to obtain them in
the rural districts OF New York and even across
the line from the British province of New Bruins
wick.
But this faculty Of association possessed in