New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-05-02

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their Federal mon with those that cherish AMI seek
10 extend slavery. As we apprehend no evil from
free discussion and desre to present the subject in all
is aspects 10 the public mind copy their structures
! entire. Hear first Tn EIprsss:
"CalcuLAIING rHE NALEE oF 1Hf USioN Las been the
employment # a Ncw-York co.empp'ary 'lHE Ihin'NE
,or some weeks pas and .hc calculation y maze
riv doubtless .ie mind Il The writer hs the Norm
cass nothing by he uIion Of these States iAi. Is wHa'
NAV l called ,rp,irg b public mind ior ID" dissolution
Of unpro'abo al. az Abohion alie-,- %. c'u!'e AZ
rrhov comuac. Abolition FRS showed ihe clalti'h %
slavery and Freedom 20 be wicked hut iaaz N mas
I n,w attempts 20 prove il don pay.
We No, q. icLate the value the Union for Il has
r,h riceless value incur estimation that aritfneic
Of our. can reach IT, We arrive a. ~ W"ilh-ol in-lf
situated to ourseyts We look the divided and discod-
ant States Celta America. or example ana t'a we Dui
begin apprec ate the vcue OF order ami law" te results
# union here We look nj the Buenos Ayrean siA'es
again rent end tom by cy war ana then we ne5'h 70
value the peace and prosperity at about Us here cast
our ewes over the Pac n American States Peru bNiFm
Ecuador and then aain we c"igrH,uae 'u.S'Nes ma
h.fearc Ne nies rc og- 10 begerent nie-nlion-
apas,ie no cv wan W look TO Europe and see all IA,
tios there counting and cnl he great intel satsot
Tie North aud The Europe despsng degrading the
once United >tacs # the South. We come - me c'Acu-
s;,, hen ,,, a Tuion-a Government which keeps our
thrfy-onc states stretching from ocean - ocean m
amity and commercial and poh'ica irielsh :
a Union above all irce; or OF such PIict una! =
beyond arithmetic 10 value H. II l. TO u Ike me AR
we breathe or The driuk-ln indispensable ee-
~ oi our existence and human beings, We can live
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Republic live without the union Of our States
Remarks-We are sure The Express is iOrgettul.
We distinctly rccollect repeated calculations in It's
Editorial columns of the pecunary value of the Union.
In one of them il broadly asserted that though
the Slaves are heE by the South. they are IN fact
,.orLcd for the benefit of the Ncrth-that our Com
meIce Manufactures and Industry in general are based
upon and rendered proitsbe by the unpaid cocrced
slave Labor OF the South. We know 10 other jour
nal which has striycn more seduOusly TO give base,
sordd mercenary doar-and-cent complexion to
Northern politics than The EJPress. Does the Editor
forget his threat the satboers up at Syracuse that
if they did Il stop aiding iugyes from Slavery. the
duty on Foreign salt should be abolished The fact
is his objection is not to calculating the value of the
Union which he has himself done often, but TO CAL
culaua critically and accurately. If We had only
jumped to his conclusion that the North lives and
moves and has its being by the Union, he would have
found 10 fault.
The different Nations OF Southern America were
never united under one Federal Government, and of
course never dissolved any. Some of them rather
more cut up now than formerly but there was never
time when Coniederacy existed among them equal
in population. industry. wealth or power TO what would
be compri,ed in Union of our free States alone
Then where is the justice of parallel And besides
the ANARCHY and weakness of the South American
States flow directly from the ignorance, Incidence
bigotry and superstition OF the great majority OF their
people-all growing out Of the past or present pre-
dominance ofthe few and slavery OF the many We hope
our Union may be defended without resorting to such
wretched sophstry we have quoted above.
The Commercial Adreniser deals with the subject
far more canddy and cogently and though its article
is long. We give it eDtre-as follows:
The VALUE OF THE UNIoS.-It has been with unmin
ged jain that have recently read sundry articles IN the
editor al columns Of TIE TRIBUNE the tendency cf which
we do not the desgnhas in Judgment been 70 loosen
the bonds ihis glorious Union Every knows iEa aI
iourn, j. influential The magnitude of it, circulation
alone would make it 20. But this Il TO be added I'M
questioned talent and energy and bodness OF EXPRESSION
which without is effect upon the minds OF readers
And though do believe tina. lHf IRIBuSE could II
il would seriously in peril the ndlssOluby OF the Mon
We none the les regret IL adoption OF language anu argu-
ment tending III that direction. l. may be that our CO.
temporary exasperaied a the bad iah eVnced ey some
southern leaders pressing the repeal of the hsourl
Compromise. and the apprehension o the dreiul conse-
quences 20 be anticipated win reference to VIVA now
free territory j. but trying ntmdaie he South by bran
dshing The weapons which ;he south a. time
poyed much adv and that IHE IRiB " real
IL does all that lts teachings seem 10 IMPLY Bur
even n, the impending mischief j. scarcely diminished.
Il l. a dangerous hazardous thing, even to aniarZe the
popular mind wiki the sub Get Of the dissolution VI The
/ Union.
And ii is to this branch of the subject that wish brief
" address ourselves leaving Tor the present what our
contemporary calls the value of tine Union IN is
merCai and social aspects entirely out OF the question
W. therefore sune what perhsps The TRIBUNE VII de-
ny That Union O these United States OF North Ameri
ca INVALUABLE. that within the folds OF that mon only
can tile germ political freedom expand and iruetIy and
that those folds will he 10 destroy that germ r.
reirieyablv This assume because really does not
que argument demonstration The Isolated petty States
Central and South America stand beacOn upon the
shoals of non-COnieGeraied repubicanism Their divided
energies and ceaseie eaou-es do but ieraie the warning
CRY Union l. strength ana although perhaps the har-
der races the North American continent would never
become degenerate and eemnaie those referred 10,
yet by just much would ieut, be hercer anu our
| nearly exier1ninatlng.
Nor does materially relieve this gloomy perspective
% that hIrtyon independent republics are 20 be
created OF the dissolved elements o. tins great nion
great popular sovereigntics. each having al the
.lents, power Institutions ami appliances o. great
tpuhc-each OF sufficient magnitude FOR seii-suppo AMI
command the respect OF nau0ns-the geographical line
being that which already established 10y the connctng
| Institutions OF Freedom and Slavery. We enireat orr
contemporary neither deceive itself bee IL readers
| with such iallacy. Let but the bond o. brotherhood
which nowods together be severed and where L the
marwhere the pOweIihat shall gather W the loose ned
members and reencirre them tremendously with the Two
Coniederacy but who shall the componen; pts
and reuniie them il her combination The expert
neni i altogether too hazardous be dreamed 81.
And therefore i IL that deprpcate the remu,eszap-
proach 10 an attempt 20 iamiarize the public mind with
the bare possibility OF the dissolution OF the Union BY
every tic of patriotism. by every claim OF freedom bv
every obligation of gratitude. ami BY the sacred
hopes. bound 10 exclude from the mini the ts-
bliiy that this Union be dissolved and much more
BY the high arguments and sacred Obligations arr
Prohibited from discussing the prsni and loss 0f such
dissolution and from preparing the way for IL accomplish
menc by showing one section how much they may gain
and ;auning the other with how much they would Oe by
the separation. But suppose assume that our ooem-
Porary views the matter differently and that the very