New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-12

worsa however than this the North fares not even 70
eoenze hs existence Of freedom in any community the
members Vt which are suspected of having In their
veins Afrca' blood We have commercial treaty
with the peope Of Hayt because they are black and
are not liable to be seized and sold. We have not
dared to recognize the Republic of Liberii, lest it
nigh. offend the Ssutb. Look where we may, the
South dictates the pNicy Of the whole Union; the
action of whose government has. The Courier cor
recty assures its readers fos;ered the sla7chodins
interests and swelled il from six to fifteen States,
and now pr poses TO swell IS still further by repeating
the Missouri Compromise ana purchasing Cuba.
Has this policy tended to cement the bonds ofaricn
1t would seem not for. while the great of the
American people, north of Mason and Dixon's line,
have remained fast and firm in the filth Of Washing
ton, Jefferson, and Madison, and Rave carried their
ideas into practical effect by abOshing Slavery, those
south ofthe line have been gradually taking up new
faith which teaches that the relation OF master and
slave is of divine origin, and is to be maintained now
and for evermore Divine Providence, for its own
high andinscrutabe purposes" has, 40 We are told
by the Charleston pamphleteerW
Provided the whites of the Anglo Norman race in the
southern States with the necessary means OF Inexsmped
prosperity, with that slave labor, without which,
general rule colonization in country ever has or
will thrive and grow rapidly 1t has given them
distinct and inferior race to fiji position equal their
highest capacity which less fortunate countries IL oc
cupied by the whites themselves"
To preserve this state of things, ard maintain the
existing domestic institutions of the South IT, the
same writer informs US ore of the chief duties of
government, and systen based upon such institutions
becomes instinct with life and healthy vgor' Pub
lie opinion them as he says, works in it's trne
calling the moderator, rot the silepcer of inai-
yidual differences" and a community thus essab-
lished presents as Mr Calhoun was accustomed to
sure his friends the most perfect form Of society the
world has ever yet seen. II is under such circum-
stances that we are to find the highest organization,
aud for this as we are told " the southern States
have peculiar and well indispensable advantages
in their slave institutions, which forever obterate
the division between labor aud capital"
We see thus that the North and the South are stead
lily moving in opposite directOns-the one becoming
more ayerse to slavery and the other more enamored
Of it. Differences in their modes of thought increase
from day to day. Southern men require southern
schoobooks for their children and southern teachers
for themselves The ties that united the differ
ent sections of the great Methodist association have
been broken and already in other churches there are
differences that must eventually lead to separation
Southern planters hold southern conventions and de-
cline to attend those to which invited the agrcul-
turists Of The Union. Southern commercial conven-
ventoDs are held with view to measures for avoiding
northern cities. Southern States impose taxes upon
northern products from which foreign ones are free.
Southern political conventions precede the dissolution
of the ties which formerly connected southern aud
northern Wings and southern and northern Democrats.
From year to year the tendency in and out of Con-
gress toward sectonalism and such being the case,
there would seem to be some propriety in exam
ipiDg how far the northern States depend upon the
South for their prosperity and their existence aud how
far the mersce of disunon, supposiDg t is earnestly
meant and may really be carried out ought to be re-
garded by them with anxiety alarm That question
we shall take sn early occasion to consider