The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-06-05
A LITTLE ONE-SIDED.
The Pittsburgh Gazette saws:


The Pittsburgh Gazette says:
Oh, no. old fashioned Wing principles are
nothing; the. Tariff is nothing improvement of
western rivers and harbors nothing: there is
only one national principle, slavery; there is
only one great question at issue which calls
for the solemn consideration and decision of the
American people, the duty Of catching runa-
way negroes! Every thing else must bend to
this, and i, must be done, too, in the bonds of
love and duty" What signifies il that the
manufacturing interests of Pittsburgh and
Pennsy lvania are PROSTATE? What signifies
il that the fires of our furnaces have nearly all
gone out, and that the workmen are scattered
abroad to seek livelihood as best they may I
What matters it that hundreds of lives and mil
lions Of property are lost on our western rivers
and lakes for want of improvement? What
matters any thing that the people may justly
have to complain off The only principle is the
support of slavery; the only measure worthy
of consideration the endorsement OF the flnalify
of the Fugitive Slave Act in the "bonds OF love
and duty"
To this the New York Express replies:
There is nothing in the Constitution OF the
United States, we may reply, which contracts
for and guarantees protection 10 furnaces, Oh
makes rivers and harbors by the Federal TO-
III.
tuition which expressly, and in the strongest
terms, guarantees the delivery up, and on claim
only, of the fugitive slave. And hence, when
the Constitution is violently assailed upon that
point, naturally enough more attention IS at
tracted. to the assault than TO assaults upon
interests not thus expressly protected there.
Comment. We do not intend to view this
matter in party light, nor do we feel thatwe are
doing SO, when we ask, how is it possible that
the Gazette can expect any party in the South
to protect Pennsyl vania furnaces, TO clean out
Pennsylvania rivers, to rectify any of the evils
in short, of which il complains? But a few
months ago citizen of a slaveholding State,
in pursuit of his property, guaranteed to him
by the Constitution, was murdered in Penn
sylvania. The murderer is at large-the blood
of an unoffending man cries in vain for justice
the example is held up by large portion
Of the Pennsylvania press as one worthy of imi-
tation-and similar fate is openly threatened
to all those who engage in similar enterprise.
Can it be expected, then, that the South should
be particularly anxious TO protect the interests
of those who so wilfully disregard hers? Who
hesitate not to inculcate murder when an
unoffending Southern man merely asks for his
own, and attempts to reclaim it by process of
law?
There is no city in the Union, which depends
more directly and absolutely upon the South,
than Pittsburgh herself Almost her entire
trade lies with the lower Mississippi, with Ten
nessee, with Arkansas, with Louisiana and with
Mississippi. If the slave population were libe-
rated to morrow, Pittsburgh would be a ruined
city. She does not hesitate to live and to
thrive upon the labor of the slave-she, in fact,
is as much dependent upon it as New Orleans
or Mobile or Charleston. Extinguish that,
and you put out the fire of every furnace in
and ground Pittsburgh. Yet the city of Pitts
burgh supports a paper which is continually
assailing these very Southern people by whose
means Pittsburgh lives, by whose means she
has attained her present pitch of greatness, by
whose means she hopes, in time, to rival the
prosperity of the great Atlantic cites-yet the
representatives of the Southern people, not q
all interested in the iron and coal of Pennsyl-
vania, are expected to forget all this, and to be
stow the boon of protection upon those who are
daily calling them tyrants, felons, and man.
stealers! We admire forgiving disposition,
yet we think this is asking little too much.
But the Pittsburgh Gazette is not singular in
its expressions of irritation at the South, for
not rewarding the people of Pennsylvania 70,
the murder of Gorsuch. The Hon. Joshua
X. Giddings thinks it perfectly right, thai
southern men should reward him for his apoth
. costs Of the runaway lately killed in Pennsyl
vania, while engaged in resisting law o
the land, by voting for bill 10 clear out tn,
harbor OF Cleaveiand.
The conduct of sou thern members, in thi.
particular, meets with our sincere appreciation
The Wing party is understood TO be in favo
OF revising the tariff of 1886 1mmediatel,
alter the compromise act, all of them, with
one exception, voted on the preliminary steps
IN the affirmative. In the meantime Cover
nor Johnston vetoed a bill to enforce the Con
sdtutional provision for the rendition of fugi
live slaves. The question of revising the
tariff came up again, and il received but two
approving votes from the south. We hope
the south will always stand firm, whatever in.
dividual opinions may be, in this position,
1t is the Thermopyle of the constitut ton.