Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-13
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN POLICY

The following is an extract from the Tribune $
series Of articles designed to prove that the North
can, in PINCH stand alone, and need not fear and
trcmbe at the Southern threats Of dsunion, as has
been her coward habit,
Northern policy is attractive of immigration be
il looks thus TO the elevation of the labOrer
immigration is always largest when mills and fur
naces are being built and when there is the great
est demand for labor and it always declines when
mills are closed and furnaces are allowed 20 out
/ of blast. Under the tariff of 1928, immigration
trebled. and by 1884 it lud reached Go 900 after
which II remained nearly stationary until the tariff
of lS42 came fully into operation, when it com
menced to increase with such rapidity that in lS44
\ it had already reached quarter of million, the
point il would have touched ten years sooner haC
the people Of the North been permitted to direc
the operations Of the Government in accordance
\ the views of Franklin, Washington, Jefferson
Madison, and jackson, land long before tho pres.
ent time it would have reached q million. ...
! To this, however, "tha impersonaton Of the vel
born, well educated, and well bred aristocrat" j,
opposed. 1t dislikes "squatter sovereignty" and
holds in great contempt the people Of "the birollnq
States" who sell their own labor, while looking
with great complacency upon the operations Of Its
own people engaged in feeding corn to men, women
and children, to be sold in Louisiana and Texas
| there to swell 'the immense commercial resources
of the South" which constitute, as we are assured
in the Inquirer, "the basis Of the commerce Of the
Union" 1t would, therefore, if it could, put
sto to the voluntary immigration of free men
while it would gladly reopen the African slay,
trade, which now 10 be regarded at the Soutl
as the real measure of civilization.
North Of Mason and Dixon's line, of Ohio, an(
of 36o 30>, we have land sufficient for hundreds o
millions of inhabitants. We need population, ant
the surest way TO bring it is to afford the people
Europe reason for believing that by coming her
they will be enabled to earn higher wages thai
they can obtain at home, and enjoy, in greater per
feciion, the advantages Of freedom. Every persol
that comes here is worth 10 tie community all h
cost to raise and the average cost of the mon, wo
men aud children We import. has certainly no
: been less than $1,000. Were these people blacl
and did they come from Africato southern ports
} they would be propertv, and hs community woul'
be regarded as being richer by at least $500 heat
t because of their importation. If so there, thel
t why not so here? 70 the community it matter
not who is the owner of property provided 1t ex
t lists and is owned among themselves. The negro !
the property of another, but the free immigrant
, his own property, and hence more valuable thai
the negro; and every such person constitutes n
addition to the wealth Of the community of pt leas
81 600. Northern policy, as it is now carries
out, attracts nearly 4000 900 such persons annually
: few or mono of whom would come under an entire
ly southern policy and 10 this vast immigration il