Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-26
DAILY NATIONAL ERA.

every sea and ocean with their shipping gwen
them the control of the commerce Of the South,
and made them competitors with Great Britain
in the market Of the world and this day the
Union might be dissolved without seriously or
permanently affecting their capabilities and
resources Their march would still be onward !;
for they embrace within themselves all the ele-
ments Of wealth and power - agricultural,
manufacturing, and commercial
We repeat from the Union they have de-
rived no peculiar advantages The benefits it
has secured--Free Trade and Peace among
thirty-one independent States, unity Of Ian
gnage and laws and customs, freedom, inde-
pendence, and extensive empire - have been
shared in common by all sections. There is
no debt the North owes the Union, which the
South does not owe too and there is no rea-
scn why the North should be called upon to
make greater concessions than the South, tor
the sake Of maintaining it, On the contrary,
the weight of obligation il on the Southern
States, US a few considerations will readily
show.
Suppose the Union dissolved, the North and
West would be in possession of all the elements
Of national power population, diversified IN
dustry, and commerce. With sixteen millions
Of freemen, receiving annually vast accessions
Of hardy foreign races, they could supply
their own wants, and would continue formi-
dable power, expanding and growing stronger
every day. Lying generally in the great basin
r kha NV / OF a
natural attraction between them and the Can
adas would have full play, and identity OF COM
mercial interests and of race, with sympathetic
ideas and institutions, would in due time lead
to political confederation, to which, under
such circumstances, Great Britain would feel
little disnclination. But these Provinces, it
must be remembered, comprise larger area
than that occupied by tho slave States.
Meantime, the new empire would bear sway
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, possessing an
extent of Territory far greater than belongs to
the present Union, and pervaded, as the pres
emit Union is not, by homogeneous social and
political institutions, without any great excep-
tional Interest, seeking to Cypress and enslave
other interests. or the greatness, the impreg-
nable strength, the unrivalled prosperity Of
such an Empire, no intelligent mind can enter
tain doubt
| How would it be with the Southern States :
They would begin their independent career
with population of eight millions, embracing
two alien races, one held in base subsection by
brute force necessarily hostile to the supe-
rior race, and furnishing the material for a
fearful conyulsion in the social fabric. A
Union Of SIX millions of freemen and three
millions Of slaves, could not expect to compete
with a Union of sixteen millions Of freemen. A
Union. without common schools, without sci
ence. without the mechanic arts without man.
ufactures without commerce, could not expect
to rival in resources Q Union in which all these
abounded. A Union, devoting its chief labor and
capital to the growth of a few staples, and de-
pendent largely for the supply Of its wants upon
the products Of other nations, could not be as
self-dspsndsnt ard snfficisnt 70 itsslf as Union
abls % produce within itself all its necessary
supplies. A Union without sailors or ship.
ping could not command, on the high seas or
abroad, the respect which would be accord
cd TO Union whose flag was floating on
every sea and in every part of the world.
A Union, with three millions Of slaves, rap
idly increasing and six millions Of freemen,
losing by emigration more than what would
be gained by immigration, would be seriously
endangered by war in defence Of its rights,
and utterly incapacitated for schemes of ag-
grandizement and conquest. Such Union,
notorious as being the corner stone Of an in
stitution repugnsnt TO modern civilization, held
by civilized nations to be barbarous, and
against which the Public Opinion Of mankind
4 steadily concentrating would find itself ex-
posed TO annoyances indignities, and perils,
from which the existing Union is exempted by
its formidable power.
We but glance at these considerations, not
10 wound Southern people, not because We
suppose they arc not in all respects as well off
as any other people could be under such
social system as weighs upon their energies,
but 10 show them that the question of the
yaloe Of the Union and the consequences Of
dissolution has two sides to it; that oil the
real benefits derived from il by the North,
equally inure to the South; that it confers
no peculiar benefits upon the North, while
il does confer such benefits upon the South !;
and that its dissolution, while it could not
permanently and seriously affect the pecu-
liar interests Of the free States, would, in all
probability, produce the most disastrous effects
upon the peculiar interests Of the slave States
Let shareholders beware Of trying too far
the strength of tho Union, and compelling tho
people of the free States 10 calculate its value.
Many Of them are now calculating IT and
they find nothing in the process 30 alarming
as they have been taught to believe.
A HANDSOME PAmPHLrr.-Messrs. Jewett \
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