Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-04-28
From the Richmond Dispatch.

longer giving vent 10 IFS just complaints IN resolutions
and speeches in Congress and the Legislatures put
with spirit 100 calm and resolved to be noisy and
is pursuing in the path pointed out by
her commercial conventions, the true road oindepen-
dence and security in the Union-the New YORK
Tribune in view of this sensible promising policy
feels IFS bile stirred to the very centre OF lis
protesting to believe that dissolution OF the Union
i. still advocated by the south, has an elaborate
article, which il promises TO follow by others intended
TO show that the north would not be commercially,
or in any other way, injured by sucn dlssolutlon
About the same dale we find in the New York Herald
leading article, in which it is alleged that W. H. |
Seward and bis followers desi TO create new po-
litical platform and new party upon the basls OF
eternal hostility 10 Southern slave institutions me
ground has been deliberately taken,n says the Her.
aid, ''and the declaration clearly made that hence
forth the combined Seward organization OF the North
will occupy platform of anti-slaVery and sectional
principle and measures the best calculated to hasten
final separation of the north from the south; and
the establishment of antl-slaveIy northern con-
federacy in con- junction with the Canadas and the
neighboring British provinces.
The late speech of Seward in the Senate upon the
Nebraska bill not the speech of a statesman
whose heart and sympathies, and purposes, are with
the constitution and institutions of the United States,
which he has sworn to support His speech TO the
Senate was, on the other hand the crafty, special
pleading of deXerous agitator, whose respect for
the Union and whose faith in the constitution are
swallowed up in the inordinate ambition of the
law For twenty odd years, beginning upon the
small capital of Morgan the Mason, Seward has been
perseveringy juggling with all the odtside abomina
tons of the day"
The elaborate effort of the Tribune the pioneer of
the Seward forces, TO make it appear that it would
be rather money making operation than otherwise
the North to dissolve the Union, and similar de-
monsraons by other abolition prints, gives an air
of probability TO the Heralds statements. Indeed,
the whole political course of Gov. Seward whose sa
gacity is generally conceded his fa1thessness
TO the constitution, is in perfect keeping with the
theory that he looks exclusively to sectional support
! for the future qualification of his ambition No one
supposes that principle has anything to do with his
assaults upon Southern institutions, and it is quite
difficult to any policy in them, unless he intends
to build up sectional party which, he is too acute
not TO foresee must eventuate in dissolution OF the
! Union.
! The New York Herald takes different view from
the Tribune of the effects which dissolution of the
! Union would produce upon Northern manufactures
and commerce. The division of the Union into two
independent confederaces" says the Herald, 'woud
instantly work out mighty revolution In our depots
and currents of trade The South would establish
a system of tariffs and exchanges which would secure
them direct trade with Europe. Their imports and
exports would be carried in their ships. Man
ufactures would follow in the track of commerce.
| New York would RAPIDLY sink into seaport of Sc
! condary Importance. Boston and other New Eng
land ports would dwndle away into mere provincial
! towns. Lowell, and Lawrence and Manchester, and
other cotton and wooden manufacturing cities and
! towns of New Eng land and the North, would be d.
minlshed to comparatively deserted villages, for,
der Southern confederacy, Southern consumption
would be supplied by Southern factories. Shippers,
the shipbuiders the merchants, the manufacturers,
| the mechanics of the North would be drawn to the
South for tariff upon Northern ships and Northern
fabrics would leave to large proportion of these in
lerests other alternative than a removal to the
South. Such would inevitably be the material
suits of the division of this Union into two confede-
racies 1t would enrich the South and impoyerish
the North-it would in time advance Baltimore, Nor
folk and Charleston, TO the present Propositions of
Philadelphia New York and Boston, and reduce
these great cities of the North to the present second
airy importance of Charleston Savannah and Mobile.
There can be no doubt that the view of the Her.
aid as above quoted, the views of the CONNER
cial community of the North. The New York 1ri
buae has not the of that community. nor of any
conservative class in the Northern States.
If slavery be such accursed thing, and the In
ion moreover be Improbable TO the North, why Go
they raise such deafening clamor whenever South
Carolina threatens to dissolve partnership, and invoke
the government in the name of all that is good and
holy, to send down the whole naval and military
force of the United States to shoot, hang, burn and
cut to pieces every mothers who dares 10 whis-
per the word dissolution? 1t is the money that
vibrates. Entrenched behind her cotton bales, the
South like Old Hickory at New Orleans, bids def
ance to all her enemies.
The of such project that attributed 10
will prevail in the NOrhern mind over the dictates of
patriotism and of finterest. The Tribune is edited
by philosopher, and ought to be able to solve that
question. From the manner in which it is endeavor-
ing TO show that it is the interest of the North to dis
solve the Union, suspect that the phos opher is
aware of the influence of dimes the human soul,
and that he despairs of the power fanatcsm unless
he can reinforce 1t by the persuasions of sef-nteest
But there's the rub You never convince the
North thatt is polite to cut open the goose that lays
daily the golden egg for their commerce and manu-.
features.
For ourselves, we have no fear of dissolution Of
the Union very soon. 1t is at present beneficial tc
both parties, a1d the South might enjoy much more
prosperity and independence in il, if she would follow
the example of the Norh-manufacture for herself
supply all her necessities from her industry
build up commerce of her own, and cover her terri
tory with railroads and canals One of these days the
Union may be dissolved, but Seward and Greedy will
be dissolved long before the Union. The white ha
and the famous overcoat of the philosopher will Ions
ere that evcnfu PERIOD have been gathered to the1
fathers Our i" manifest destiny" has great many
d large jobs to accomplish and great many dimes t.
n pocket before the American co-partnershp b.
terminated by mutual consent
The Nebraska excitement (says the New Yorl
: Journal of Commerce) has done one good thing, 70
which we rejoice 1t has brought those latent abo
litionists who too cowardly TO show their hand
SO long as they thought it would be unpopular. w
j. now what they are-mere " doughfaces," afra
of their shadows but full of principle when Their
s. is any favor to be carried by it. One of the mos
furious and unchartable OF assaiants since tn
Nebraska war broke out, is man who in 1851 @
1852, achen he candidate for Office addressed
n private letter, begging that would not oppos
him, as he was very good 90 Union man at hear
but thought policy, ust then, to manifest leanin
towards free-soiism, lest he should lose his hold upo