Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-04-10
SHALL THERE BE PARTY OF FREEDOMS


A gentleman writing to friend in this city,
from Providence, Rhode Island, concerning the
great meeting held there in opposition to the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, says that
the speakers INDUCED freely in calculations Of
the value of the Union, and were never so
loudly applauded as when announcing their
preference of Dissolution to any further SUBJ
mission to the exactions of Slavery. He him
self, although an old member of the Democratic
Party, and formerly intrusted with mission
abroad from the Federal Government, sympa-
thizsd most profoundly with these expressions
of sentiment Let any one take the trouble to
examine the speeches made by distinguished
men at these Anti Nebraska meetings, and the
language and spirit Of the resolutions adopted,
and he will see that q change has come over
the mind of the North and West. In the abb
sence of the old declarations Of devotion to the
Union, in the GOODNESS with which it's value is
calculated, in the determined avowal of resist
ance to Slavery aggression, cost what ii may, and
in the not infrequent allusion to separation Of
the States az, after all, holding out the only
certain mode of overthrowing the tyranny of
the Slave Interest he will detect the growth Of
a Sentiment full Of warning to Shareholders
and their Northern auxiliaries.
But shareholders misunderstood, and will
continue to misunderstood, the free States.
An overweening estimate Of their own power
and consequence leads them astray. They say
that cotton is necessary to the worlds COM
fort to the worlds industry, to the worlds
commerce that it gives employment to the
capital, the manufactures, and to the shipping
Of the Northern States; that it is the great
staple Of their commerce; the chief source of
revenue to the Federal Government; that the
working classes of England, without il, would
be compelled to venture on Revolution, to es-
cape starvation that in this way the world is
rendered tributary TO and dependent upon
Slave Lsbor--the Slave Labor Of the South
ern States. This is why they bully Great
Britain just as they do the free States Of this
Union. This is why, in the face Of the remon-
strances Of both, they persist in imprisoning
their colored seamcn. This is why their lead
ing organs affect to regard Russia as their
natural ally abuse England Ms they do the
free States, for Abolition fanaticism, and bold
ly propose 10 defy the power Of the former
and coerce that Of the latter, in the plot to
wrest Cuba from Spain. Nothing could lead
them 10 assume such an attitude, but the delu-
sion that the dependence Of the free States and
Of Great Britain on cotton will compel them
TO forbearance, no matter how extreme the
provocation.
The People Of the free States are not aware
Of the estimate placed upon them by Slave
holders. These men have reasoned themselyes
into the belief that the North and West cam
not thrive without them, and that they know
it. We raise, say they, two-thirds or three
fourths Of all the products exported from the
country The navigation laws secure TO your
shipping the profits Of carrying these to for
eign ports and bringing back goods in ex-
change The imposts on these supply the rev.
enue Of the Government, 80 that we Of the
South pay two thirds or thrce-fourths of the
public expenditures. And then We pay your
importers and merchants millions annually ~
the agents for carrying on our commerce with
Europe. The wealth Of your merchant princes
your vast manufacturer your unparalleled
commerce, your magni6cent citics arc All the
offspring Of slave labor. Separated from the