Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-11-09
NUMBER 3l5.

The Relations Of the North and south, con-
sidered In conncxion with the principles
of the American party.
An address delivered at 7ailadsga, '6M Septeat-
Der, 1855, before ths american party Of IaiiG-
degd coitnty, BY Hon. Jos. "A. Woodcard, cf
South Carolina.
[coNcLUDED.]
To know what is possible with the North, VIC
must understand the North and to understand
the North, we must look at things through NortL-
ern eyes,
The Whig party North was the great tariff party.
The tariff was believed to lie at the bottom Of tile
prosperity Of the Middle and Eastern States TIE
| manufacturing establishments grew up under Tie
legislation Of Congress, and it was considered that
the creator was bound to protect the creature
Then, the North had her local institutions, the
South her local institutions and both claimed that
retrospective local institutions entitled to
be protected. f@
The old Abolition party was, in the main, dcp-
tifed in interest, with the manufacturers and sur
ported the tariff or Whig party, but assacd u 0
institutions Of the South. We called on the Whies
to protect us, but at the same time, assailed their
institution The Wings said to us g Gentlemen,
you assail our interests and ask us to assail our
frendsor the sake OF your interests. Let US alone,
and we will see that you are let Alone" This Ian
guage has been addressed to me a thousand times,
tutonal and wrong to assai our institutions aud is
constitutional and right TO assail yours. But they
did not see things as did. They looked through
Northern eyes and entertained Northern opinions,
and Of course acted on cheir own opinions. Be-
sides while we assaied their institutions, we kept
their favorite public men out Of Office, and thus
incurred their political as well as their social re-
sentiment. 18
But the protective system is going down. and
can never re-ascend. Such arc the relations be-
tween this country and Europe, both as 10 com
mcrce and manufactures, that no tariff can ever
TRANSCEND the revenue standard. What now con-
Germs the manufacturers Is the preservation Of the
impost system instead Of direct taxation; but to
preserve this system and realize its benefits, Hcy
must presorue The Union. This thoy well know.
They know that to dissolve this Union would be
TO run ploughsharc over New England and the
Middle States And ] now declare TO you what
has been fixed opinion with me for years, that
tho South has stronger hold on the Wings Of New
England and the Middle States than upon any other
party at the North Not that they cherish tho
same fraternal feelings towards us rs the Hard
Democracy, but that they are identified with those
interests TO which dissolution Of the Union would
be most disastrous
To Judge Of what might be expected ofthe North
ern Wings, take the case of Mr.. Webster a mon
who, from his youth to his grave, received littlo
else from the South than denunciation. When tho
Compromise Measures of 1850 were passed, he
went forth, North, and pointed out to the people
the interest they had in this Union and told them
plainly the duty they owed the South. Ho said IL
they refused to execute the fugitive slave law, it
would be deliberate and papable violation Of the
SRns19h s BE- M tn ESH4 4sq q ssSt ts s ssh % than
all others, contributed to bring about that wonder
ful revolution in regard to the Compromise OF 1880
Now, If such was bis revenge towards US, what
would his gratitude have been? What might be
the gratitude of those who were associated with
him in politics? II is a great and material error
to suppose that the abolition sentiment is any
natural to the Wings than the Democrats at the
North. If the two parties have held positions
somewhat different, il has heen the incidental effect
Of other issues now dead and gone.
Gentlemen: If 1t has been shown that the Dem
ocratic organization cannot protect the South then
we have no other alternative but disunion, or sub
mission or the formation Of new national organ
ization. But If no national organization can be
effectual except IL be founded in ideas and sent-
ments that shall deeply concern the North then
the question Is, does the American party meet the
emergency Of the case? Whether Il do or not
the people Of the North must be the judges; and
they have said in tones Of thunder that II doeg
The American movement at the North was the cx-
plosion Of the popular bosom. When the senti-
nent that Americans shall rule America was first
announced, the people of the North knew well
what II meant. They knew precisely what polti-
cal grievance and humiliation had brought forth
this sentiment and they rose up almost as one
man. The American movement was Of the peo-
pie. Tho part Of politicians Of all sides has been
TO suppress and defeat IT, One while Il was called
an abolition conspiracy, then pro-slavery con.
spiracy, then Wing trick, then aniiNcbraska
movement, and next an Atchison plot. And its
secrecy exposed II to all sorts Of suspicious and
accusations. People became afraid that the Amer.
icau sentiment did not really lie at the bottom,
but that something else did, The present strength
Of the party, therefore, is no proof OF what il i
TO be when the people shall find out what the party
really is.
Orators deride the accident OF birth, and plumc
themselves on the magnanmity OF tho sentiment
But IL is sorry thing 70 erect the sentimentatics
of the poet into maxims Of statesmanship. No
body makes question as TO the morit or demerit
Of birth; but tho consequences OF birth and caIly
training And there is no condition upon which
so many prejudiccs and antipathies depend. What
makes you Christian, and not Mahommedan or
Pagan9 The accident Of birth. What produced
the riots at Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati and Lou
isvillcg The accident Of birth. The important
matter does not lie in the question, who wss IN
GultY As 10 the Louisville riot, am satisfied
that the Americans gave degree OF provocation
at the pols--no more, however, than frequently
occurs in the Northern elections. But il Is a
demonstrated fact, that the Sag NIGHTS had pre-
pared arms and ammunition beforehand, and bad
determined TO avail themselves of any pretext
that might offer, TO open the bloody sccne--and
thus bring discredit ON the American movement
But wise man will not care much to find out
whether the fault lay with American or foreign
birth--he will look to te fact that the riots did
take place, and that they were the consequence
of the presence ola large foreign population, who
had become odious 10 natives; and numerous
body Of religionists, under tho control Of an &C.
clesiastical corporation founded in foreign State
and that despotic State, and so blended with
State that no man can separate the ecclesiastical
| from the political elements M