New-York daily tribune., 1854-04-25
xCu-u AND sOUTH.

NORTH AND SOUTH.
The article. we hsve recently published on the rels
tive mover Of the northern and southern divisions o
tho United States. on the cost Of the Uoion to the
North and on TIE free use of the national resources 20
extend the area Of Slavery while nothing is suffered
IN he done 10 improve the rivers and hartors OF the
Free States are naturally exciting deep attention N
every quarter The journals of oil parties aud all SET
,icns make them the occasion for such comments 81
,uit their varied predieetioDs We receive toee
manifestations as evidence that there was need Of te
exposiiion We have given OF these remarkable facS-
Indeed il wss high tine 70 respond To the insoen' aD1
fool,b assertions santJ pat forth by the orgns
&C the slavedrivnr power that the North owes all h,r
n icbty growth and prosperity not to her own uany
industry sid enterprise, but 70 profits made upon
southern trade snd derived from southern patronage
Tbst absurd notion we have exploded we have sle
shown to some extent at least, what ridiculous mei
ace i. that of dsuniop, wherewih the SOu'h has 80
long srd so ofeu frightened the Free Safes into SUI
mission 10 her most lJtOlersble demands and on ttS
subject We now propoe 10 make few additional o.
servGtious
We beg our readers, 10 compare With us the present
relative po.itcn Of lorthern aud southern States sud
cities Sixty years since Virgins stood at the h. al Of
the Union with ten representatives 10 Congress willie
this State had only six. Where stand they nos
New.York has thirty three and Virginia thirteen.
Sixty wears since South Carolina had five represeGts
tiyes While Ohio Rad scarcely white inhabitat;
now the former has still her old number " ve while
tie latter has twenty one In that time Massachusetts,
has grown from eight 70 eleven; Penus! ia from
eight to twenty five and little NewJersey, which
tLep had only four, balances the State which fur
ubed the great aristocracy OF the land in il. Pink
news Ruledges Cheveses end Gids3ens. At thst tne,
this City Norfolk and Charleston might fairly have
disputed the chances OF commercial greatness that
hung upon the future but where stand they now :
At the last census Charleston bad ~, 500 inhabitants,
having increased in ten years precisely l,tt9 Nor
folk bad II 800 or 3,i0O than she had in 1910,
while New-YOrk ard Brooklyn hld risen TO more than
100000.
We are tod, however that this is all due to the ac-
tiou of ibe Federal Government that L" ;he immense
commercial resources Of the South are among the
"inost startling and certain in s emer-
geIces that if there tariff OF any kind, and
absolute free trade, the southern seaports would in
"a quarter Of century surpass the northern ones,
"not OIL, in imports and exports bit also IN poPua-
ton aba the arts snd that the way to bring about
this reign OF free trade and prosperity is to tax all
mercba disc imported from northern ports or IN
northern ships while admitting ;ree all those imported
from Europe or in southern vessels Incredible as it
n6y to readers such is the mode We ud ad-
yOcated in Tie Richmond Enquirer as that required
for the establishment of perfect free trade.
If however, the prosperity of York, Nassichu-
sets or Pennsy lvania which are manufacturing States,
has really been due 70 the tariff aud if protection is
/ Injurious to agricultural communities how, we would
ask eau We account for tue growth of Indiana and
Illinois which are not manufacturing States Agree
ably TO the slavery theory they should suffer equally
with South Carolina and Virginia; and yet we fnd
them growing TO almost million each OF population
while ArksDsss almost as old, has less than 100000,
although she bas offered in free gf the choice Of all
her lands that have been sold for .axes. Their rail
roads count by thousands OF miles, while Arkansas
has, believe, the first mile OF road yet to make.
Southern men can scarcely charge the new State of
Wisconsin with protection, end yet, she bids fair to
haze q thousand niles OF rail before Texas snail
have completed fifty sixty miles of her first
road Telenaphs abound through the western and
northwestern Sta'es. and OHIO contains o perfect
network of them: while Virginia, the Caronas,
and Georgia present TO view little than a single
lire and even that maintained alucst exclusively by
the Transmission OF intelligence across them from
northern cities 10 NewOrleans. Look where we may,
we find the same result; throughout the North there
is the activity of freedom aud life, while Throughout.
the SOub there is the palsy of Slavery and death.
TIE prosperity Of the Northwest IT, however, as We
are told also due 70 the partially of the Federal Gov
ernment, the almost exclusive management of which
has been so generally in Southern hands. What Mas
sschusets and this State gain from the tariff is made
up 10 the newer States by donations out of the
mon treasury of lands On this head we quote from
The Richmond Hhg
Illinois is indebted for these two thousand miles of
railroad the bounty Of the f. dcra Government,
bounty INDUCED at the expense Of the Southern States
whose fobeness and deeey sneered st Every foot
of these roads has been made by appropriations of public
lands Not cent has come ont oi the pockets oi the
people Ard railroads not the only fayOrs bestowed
upon the hreng States Immense contributions have been
them ALL for schools and coll gs. dare say,
If the liberal had been dealt TO the slave
holding States if their territory had been permeated by
canals railroads and schools stabshedn in every neigh
boThood et the expense of the northern States too
might boast Of our property II would not be going too
far 10 say that Illinois herse H. in addition to the mil
lions she has received from the Federal Treasury had had
The benefit Of slave labor might hsye been still more
prosperous
In reply TO this contemporary furnishes the follow
ing abstract of report em the Department of the In
terror made few weeks since, showing the donation,
OF spd 10 six Western free States and six slave States
/ 10 which We ask the attention of our readers:
Ohio IIdi.us Illinois, Missouri Alsbana vi.
wncol'a ksn,.s' Eiodds
Seheoi Lands acres A7373 acres 505c
sests OF OoVeinneht '.''..'''''' .S % :.