New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-25

prisoners. Particulars Of the bombardment Of Odes-
sa are given Fourteen Russian merchantmen had
been captured in the Black Sea. slight decline
had taken place in cotton. Flour advanced L.;
wheat 2d. Consols ranged o7i0c>.
REAL WEAKNESS OF TIE sLA|E-DRIVERs.
On former occasion we have demonstrated to our
readers that separate COniederacy of the southern
State. could embrace no member of the present Union
north of South Carolina and Alabama, and that when
ever formed it would be utterly powere.s for the ac
complement Of southern objects This, however
would be equally true any such Union, were it even
to include all the States south Of Maryland and MIS-
souri, several Of which never under any crcum-
stances, venture to separate themselves from the
North.
Power grows with the increase Of wealth. The
honest, industrious, and prudent man, who respects
the rights of others, finds himself from year 10 year
more able to claim and to enforce respect for his own
The spendthrilt the drunkard ant The gambler hold
ING in small respect the rights Of Others lose by de-
cr.es all power TO direct themselves and end their
days in iospitas or aims houses. The farmer VINO
obtains coed prices for his grain IL enabled from day
TO DAY 10 add to his facilities for production ana trans
portaton 10 improve the condition OF his family aud
TO increase lis contributions for the improvements of
schools for his children; and with every step in this
direction there is increase Of power; whereas he who
is forced TO accept low prices hnds himself declining
in power from day 10 day until at length his farm
passes into the hands of The Sheriff. and lie himself
becomes warderer and DAY labOrer. so it is with
communities those that are enabled to command nigh
prices find themselves becoming more powerful from
year to ycur whereas, those which, like Portugal
Turkey, Mexico India, Virginia and Carolina, are
from year to year Obliged to give more commodities
for less money. become weaker with every succeed
ing period.
The policy OF The slave States tends in one or the
other Of these directions. And the question OF power
il only Il question of wealth, we may here advan-
taeeousy examine wLat has been the effect Of their
pat course upon the prices of their staples If they
have tended upward then may the South form for it
self powerful Union, but if they have tended in the
opposite direction then must that Union, wherever
and however formed, be a weak and insignhc,nt
What the facts we propos, now to show:
Twenty years ago, say in the period from l,3! 10
l3e the average yield OF cotton about 1850 300
bales, and the average price, as stated by Mr..
Walker, some years since, was thirteen and a hall
cents per pound. Since then the population OF the
cotton growin ing States has almost doubled, and the
crop has somewhat more than doubled, having thus
but little than kept pace with the increase Of
numbers. The crop OF the present year is now esti
mated at little more than 2S0o 900 bales, and yet the
price of mddling which gives the erageof the whole
is at this moment quoted at New Orleans at eight
cents, with declining tendency" Fortunately for
the planter the crop is very short Had j, proved TO
be- as was expected, 100000 bales it may well DO
doubted if il would command even sHehait of the
average price Of the period 10 which we fret referred
Here is great reduction. and 80 what is il due To
any increase in the value Of money Certainly not
ior in the time that has since elapsed the great gold
fields OF California and Australia have been discovered
TO any general diminution of prices Certainly no..
ior wheat corn rye, hay butchers. at and all tie
raw products OF the earth.,erces, those the rsis o
rhich Coroliao, MisssPpar! Louisiana ere coaceraed
have largely advanced in price Copper Tin lead and
iron have also advanced House-ren. are higher than
known; the ireights of ships enormous.
And dus all things are Oh except cotton and sugar
the two commodities upon the price OF which depends
the power of our southern neghb0rs.
In This period crop OF sugar Lac risen from
about nothing TO $4,000 hhds., or 80 millions Of
POUNDS ,nd that Of lioasse to 81 millions Of gallons
And the chief part OF this increase is due TO the pre-
lection afforded by the Tariff of -. But for ha. por-
,ion Of northern policy nearly the whole force en-
ployed il raising Sugar would be now at wOrA in the
co,tonfelds, siyn: probably smother hall million Of
bales with price less by one-third than thai at
which it now is sold. To the liberalization of en-
ployment thus given the South j. therefore due the
fact thar the price has even thus far been main
taineS II is the North as We have already said tha.
has stood between the South and ruin.
The South had three cents pound Oh Sugar, Dat
jealousy of the North prompted it 10 infict upon the
people Of the Union the tariff Of per cent. win il,
sd valOrem system and what has been the conse-
qlence Tie duty has fallen 10 one cent per pound
the import has risen 10 $50 millions of pounds and
the price has fallen in this market " fsur cent?. one
half of which is swallowed up BY cesks freights AMI
commissions, leaving the planter TIVE cents, or only
twice the amount OF the duty on foreign sugar.
We see thus that two of the most important com.
modtes produced in the world are steadily settling
down in price alta time when al the raw produce Of the
world atc The tropical countries eTcePtedis a. stesdi-
y rising Estate OF things tending the increase OF
the power of the communities that have 10 bMy cotton
coffee and sugar, and TO the dimnution of the power
of those thar have 70 sell those commodities. WHY
this is So is that the people of the South have never
yet been able TO open their eyes 10 the truth of Gen
Jacksons views, as given in his letter to Dr. Cole
man. that the true way to increase the power Of the
people who have commodities to sell is to adopt
the measures required fox diminishing the aumber Of