Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-17
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP,


1he New York Tribune is an amusing Jour
nal. few days since it contained a wordv
and labored ar icle, to prove that the South
produced next to no:hing-living, moving, and
having its being only by the sufferance of the
North, and through northern liberality. To
render plausible all this nonsense, the writer
garbled any quantity of statistics from the
Census Report, and gravely assured his read
ers that the cause of all this shoe king deteror.
alton Of southern affairs, is the fact that the
whites of the South abhor labor and con.
slider it disgraceful. The impression sought
to be made by the article in question: is that
the North may at will violate the Constitution
and trench upon the rights of the southern
states, as connected with their slave property
and its interests, the South being too weak to
oner any other resistance than by the tongue
and pen. No man can read the article to
which we allude, without coming to this con-
clusion. Fortunately for the cause Of peace
between the two great sections of the Union,
the nominaly educated masses of the North
know at least enough to be aware of leading
facts which disprove the reasoning of such
demagogues and would be disturbers of our
national harmony for their personal advance
ment, as the writer of that argument. They
know that the business of Newark practically
commerce of the great city of New York is di
rectly or indirectly for and with the South
They know that but for southern cotton, every
one of the millions of northern mouths fed by
spinning and weaving, trading in it. making
it up, &C., would, to say the least of it, be
much worse fed than at present. They know
that for fifty years past, money has paid better
interest at the South than at the North, that
every thing sells higher there than at the
North, and that no northern man whose enter
prise leads him to the South in search of bust
| ness, ever comes back dissatisfied with the
chances for an industrious man there or spout
| ing lies against the manners, habits, charac-
| ter, and institutions of the South, unless his
own want of integrity caused him to be sent
| off with a flea in his ear. They know, also,
| that though the Tribune breaches the degrade
| ton of labor at the South, there are at this
moment hundreds of thousands of northern
| mechanics working at their trades there, salts
| fed and thriving, and flooding their friends at
home with pretty much such letters as tie
| Irish in America send back to the old country.
| 1t is difficult to believe that the northern
| masses place confidence in the statements Ct
such journals ss the Tribune on such subjects,
| without coming to the conclusion that under
their boosted system of universal education,
they learn only Just enough to make them most
| easily imposed on and led by the nose by poll
teal, social, moral, and religious clarlatans
The War in Europe.-Ths probabilities Of
| the great war in Europe-of its grand results
are now most conversed over by the statesmen
assembled in Washington. Thousands of the
ories are started each one appearing to have
views on the subject different from those of his
neighbors.
One cannot listen long to what is being said
| relative to the war, without coming to the con-
clusion, that here at least its future and its re-
suits are profound mystery. We never before
heard go many and so totally different opinions
expressed on subject by the same number OF
commentators or critics. All, however, appear
| 10 concur in the opinion that the people and
government Of the United States are to be al
most alone gamers by the dire contest. This
opinion is predicatsd on the now unanimously
| prevalent belief that We will be able to PIE.
| serve our neutrality. England and France
having agreed to respect our rights as neutrals,
the infraction of which would be likely to Sc
riously involve US in the contest, against the
| side or interest failing in such matters to do
| us justice. As for our taking up arms in any
contingency of results Of the war, as party to
| the affairs OF any transatlantic government.
no public man in Washington dreams of sucL
thing. Our business is to let them fight it
out trading as far as possible with all sides,
| and extending our commerce and strengthen
| ing our national interests wherever the confu-
sion and endorsements of the commercial af-
fairs OF the nations engaged, may make open
ings for US. So much for Washington opinion
of the proper position and action of the United
States in the current condition Of European af-
| fairs.
We may add that we find few here not in
| clined to believe, that ere the close of the wal
there will be extensive revolutions all over the
continent, to end in very radical changes of
| more or less of the governments. 1t is thought
by the best informed, that the Prussian gov
eminent must eventually side with Russia. i
but through fear of consequences afar off in The
future. That is, after Austria shall have been
driven by like cause to take the same course.
And further, that when Prussia shall become
so involved, France will cause the revolution
airy standard to be raised wherever by so do
ing, she can paralize these allies of the Car:
who would use the same weapon against them
as We explained day or two since, were the,
to side with his enemies, rather than under his
standard. 1t is further thought here that
Russia is impregnable at home. That is, tina
her out-posts only can be successfully attacked
by England, rance and Turkey, and that tn,
treasury of England will stand very little o.
the draining incident to protracted war, before
her people will be clamoring for peace Ilel
foreign commerce is necessary for the very sus-
taEence Of millions on millions of her subjects
The Gear will not fail to cripple that in thous-
and ways. He will aim to make her millions
of factory peopla Of oil ,l