The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-06-30
The North and SOuth.

The North and SOHth.
OF the many startling ideas, by which The New
York Tribune seeks 10 attract attention TO it
columns, have seen nothing yet more prodi
ginus for audacity of assertion and preposterous
Of logic, than The lahOred efforts OF that jour
nal to prove that the South tyraniZes thu
North; that il draws its substance and lives, moves
and breaIhes by the special leave and indulgence
OF that section Of the Union that the Southern
States, after all, produce nothing worth talking
about, and II they were To be ..kICkei out of The
Union they would perish Of weakness, poverty
and helprssness; that the Union is their only
protection and an oppression, a wrong and an
injury To the NOrfh. These extraordinary propo-
sIllons elaborated through about two columns
of This plausible. but deceptive and pestilent
sheet. The Tribune is famous for lis isms, its
queer and eccentric ideas, its disposition TO adopt
strange and general rel rcted ideas, or the very
opposite of universally received opinions. and by
a cunning and disingenuous array Of figures, au-
liberties and assertions 10 give them quite pIausi
bic and attractive aspect, TO people prone TO
new discoveries and theories.
But, with all its various vagarIes, its Commu-
nsm, It's Grahamism. lis AboIitionism. Maine
Lavish, Table -knockingism, etc, it has attempt.
ed yet nothing difficult and paradoxical as to
Prove that the Southern States OF this Union are
dependent upon the Northern States for their
strength, their support, their existence; that the
Suu,h, which gives employment to the North,
winch supplies their industry with the mate.
rial out Of which they make The fabrics that con-
srItue the largest portion OF their wealth. which is
the chief buyer and consumer Or their products,
the South, without hose support more than half
of the maruacIori"s Of the North would he closed,
and millions of their mocha MICS thrown out Of en-
plnymcut, and millions upon millions of capital
driven out of the country the South, whose val
liable crop is returned from abroad in cupious
streams OF foreign capital, that spread the
hole Union, The greater par; Of il settling upon
the North, that this region is the dependent pnr
rion Of our Mon, and only exist by virtue o: the
Union aud The mercy of The North is so srupen-
deus pTnp"sitiou that hardly think our readers
would regard us serious attempting deny or
refuse it
LIT US see. Suppose The Tribune should be
mistaken, and The SouilIrTn States should at last
consent tn be "kic%ed out Of the Union, and
between the Bulletin and its New York cores
pendent, '.IIlns Yorkel," such an event begins
already To be contemplated among the posi-
biIItr"a OF pnlIticS-what would be the result ? |
We should certainly produce as much cotton and |
sugar as we dId before, and for cotton and sugar
there great many other customers besides |
the NurIhrrncrS-cuSnmcrSw with whom il would |
be quite possible to make quite good bargains.
us with shrewG brethern North of the Tweed
we mean Mason and Dixon's line These is |
mol hing which get from that section
~ Inch could not get elSew here, and at cheaper
raies for should not then have Ia pay the
duties which go into the pockets OF the North, 10
support their manufacturers. More than all this
there is nothing which get from the North
that we might not make ourselves, under the pres
sure OF necessity. There IS no part of Gods
earth which Is so indcpendei as the South A
Gordon might be drawn round tins whole section;
1t might be- walled in, and vet The people would
find within themselves every element Of wealth
and INDEPENDENT existence. 1t is far different with
the North. Cut her of from intercourse with The
South and she would he bankrupted and impOv-
crushed IN year. Close her mills, manufactures
her shops and stories, TINT depend exclusively
uPnn the patronage of the South, and the whole
country would be bowling waste, Pandemo.
MUM Of lOa lers, marauderS and starvrlings. Her
schools would become poor houses her colleges !
hospitals aud aims houses; and her prisons %yould
overflow with offenders driven TO crime bv idle
ness. Her ships and steamers would te sent TO |
he South 10 he sold, and, her capitalists would
steal INTO our territory in such numbers that we
should he compelled TO have guards the frontier
% prevent former bret crn from being entirely
abandoned and left 10 srnrvp. ,
The South can't DC kicked out Of The Union :" ;
Why, the North has no other foundation for ITS {
Existence but the Union With Us. attachment to ?
he Union is but sentiment, It is not conviction ?
nor is II interest, that induces cling to it,
There are few rrflecring Southerners who do not +
lOubt whether great Southern Conederacv. self s
XIsiant and reliant, living on terms OF peace and
Enlightened commerce with he rest Of the world :
would not secure greater material prosperity TO :
hese States than they enjoy under the Union, so 7
fien, so constantly perverted TO our injury and 7
oppression. But, IN the North, the Union assumes Y
far more serious character. Ii is the very breath y
4 their EostrilS they could no more exist out OF
than flies in exhausted received. Fanaticism,
ShIch frequently Overrides all considerations Of
interest and welfare, might mPel them, like the q
Prodigal Son. TO wander off from the old fold .
ut thew would soon experience the distress and
egrndaon Of that misguided adventurer, and
teal back debased, abject and ptiful begging to
c re-admttcd into the family they had deserted. \
NeIc Orleans Della. b
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