The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-18
DISS0II-TION OF THE UNION.


the Union, no longer giving vent to Its Jus'
complaints in resolutions and speeches. IN
Congress and the Legislatures but win
.n;r;t too calm and resolved to be noisy ana
tarhulent. is pursuing in the path pointed our
,u,.-commerciai conventions, the true road
- ;naenendence and security in the Union
,ha New York Trt6aae, in view OF TINS sensi'
~. and promising policy, feels IL bile stirred
20 the very centre of its liver ana PROGRESSING
"a ha,;eve that a dissolution OF the Union Is
st;,l advocated by the South, has an eiaoo-
80. .rt;c,e which it promises to follow by
o,hars intended to show that the North would
not be commercially, or in any other way III
;,r.a ~ such dissolution About the same
date we find in the New York 1era'a ieao
ing article, in which it is alleged thst w. II
Savard and his followers design to create
new political platform and new party upon
the basis of eternal hostility to Southern
s,sve institutions 1.-THE ground has peen
deliberately TAKEN says the Herald; land
the declaration clearly made, that henceiorth
the combined Seward organization OF the
North will occupy platform of ntislavery
and sectional principles and measures the
best calculated to hasten final separation OF
The North from the South; and the establish
ment of an anti slavery Northern confedera'
cy in conjunction with the Canadas and the
neighboring British provinces.
The late. speech of Seward in the Senate
upon the Nebraska bill was not the speech OF
a statesman whose heart and sympathies, and
purposes, are with the constitution and insti-
tutions 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 dexterous agitator, whose re-
spect for the Union and whose faith IN the
constitution are swallowed up in the inordi-
nate ambition of the anointed apostle Oh the
conspirators of the higher law. For twenty
odd years, beginning upon the small capital
of Morgan the Mason, Seward has been per-
severingly juggling with all the outside aoo-
limitations of the day. -.t .s
The elaborate effort of the Tribune, the
pioneer of the Seward forces, to make it ap-
pear that it would be rather money making
operation than otherwise to the North to dis
solve the Union, and similar demonstrations
by other abolition prints, gives an air of pro-
liability to the Herdid's statements. Indeed,
the whole political course of Gov. Seward,
whose sagacity is as generally conceded as
his faithlessness to the constitution, is in per
feet keeping with the theory that he looks ex-
clusively to sectional support for the future
qualification of his ambition. No one suppo-
ses that principle has anything to do with his
assaults upon Southern institutions, and it is
quite as difficult to see any policy in them,
unless he intends to build up sectional par
~ which, he is too acute not to foresee, must
eventuate in dissolution of the Union.
The New York Herald takes a different
view from the Tribune, of the effects which
dissolution of the Union would produce up
on Northern manufactures and commerce.
The division of the Union into two indepen-
dent confederacies,'' says the Herald, ''would
instantly work out c mighty revolution in our
depots and currents of trade. The South
would establish system Of tariffs and ex
changes which would secure them direct
trade with Europe Their imports and ex-
ports would be carried in their own ships
Manufactures would follow in the track of
commerce. New York would rapidly sink
into seaport of secondary importance. Bos-
ton and other New England ports would
dwindle away into mere provincial towns
Lowell, and Lawrence, and Manchester, and
other cotton and woollen manufacturing cities
and towns of New England and the North,
would be diminished to comparatively de-
serted villages, for, under a Southern con-
federacy, Southern consumption would be
supplied by Southern factories. Shippers, the
shipbuilders, the merchants, the manufactu
rers, the mechanics of the North would he
drawn to the South, for tariff upon North
ern ships and Northern fabrics would leave
to a large proportion of these interests no 9th
or alternative than removal to the South
\ Such would inevitably be the material results
OF the division of this Union into two confed
eracies. 1t would enrich the South and i'm
poverish the North-it would in time advance
Baltimore Norfolk and Charleston, to the
present proportions of Philadelphia New
York and Boston, and reduce these great
cities of the North to the present secondary
importance of Charleston, Savannah and Mo.
bile
There can be no doubt that the views of the
Herald as above quoted, are the views of the
commercial community of the North. The
New York Tribune has not the ear of that
community, nor of any conservative class in
the Northern States ess
If slavery be such an aecursed thing, and
the Union moreover be Improbable to the
North, why do they raise such deafening
clamor whenever South Carolina threatens IN
dissolve partnership, and invoke the govern.
ment, IN the name of all that is good and no.
iy, to send down the whole naval and military
force Of the United States to shoot b.ne
burn and cut to pieces every mothers son
who dares to whisper the word dissolvt;o, ,
It is the money nerve that vibrates. Fin.
trenched behind her cotton bales, the Soutb
like old Hickory at New Orleans, bids def.
ance to all her enemies. zs-s.ss -