The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-09-25

tic and in the valley Of the Rio Grande in that OF the
ST Lawrenceths great and universal agricultural auter
est is in It's political phase what they by the slave
power Men engaged in other pursuits in trade and
merce aud manufactures may be good and faithful demo
crats-may be willing TO accord equal rights and equal
chances to all other menmay be willing leave govern
ment to its proper and legitimate funcuonsof proyi
ding equal protection to all and fayors to none but such
s not our political history.
On the contrary other "interests" have combined
together to seize upon the government and WELD II for
their especial benefit navigation laws pro-
tecye tariffs national banks, and through these plum
der the producing and agricultural interest Of portion of
Its hard-carned toll Thus the spectacle often pre-
sented aud probably win be again. of at the South
OF great wealth and high social position voting for and
conending for the equal rights of the humbest aborer
and at the North multudes of living by their daily
labor yet under the control of great interests voting for
the very which robbed labor Of its reward and
only needed to be persisted In reduce themselves TO the
same degradation and slavery universal in Europe
Mr. Jefferson wont to say that the northern democ
racy 1.-THE abong and producing casses the natural
allies of the South and General jackson that has empire
began at the first cross-road and nothing
mon usual than to all the chartered cities OF New
York. &c, voting for Especial interests while the State
itself gave the democratic administrations Of these emil
nent men majores of 10000 and 10000, thus showing
that the country the producing the agricultural inter-
est OF the nation unit and southern shareholders
and northern farmers the true and generally the only de-
tenders of equal rights and sound national policy.
The simple fact that the leaders and opponents of the
great party which represented the industry and labor of
the country we'll the great ideas and noble truths of
democracy, southern men, has given pretext
colorng TO the assumption of "save power" But it
could not be otherwise. 1t has been from selfish or
oceseeking spirit that Virginia has given five Presidents
to the Unon that foreign missions and cabinet offices,
and most of the great Offices of State have been filled by
southern but party exigencieshc cause Of democ-
racyhe national weliarewhich imperatively demanded
it. AT the North the highest talent generally subsi-
died by special interests" by corporations by nonopo-
lies by combinations of capital and power always at
with the of labor and the welfare of the
and the fact that it was wholly different at the South
that class existed who inherited wealth, who had leisure
high capabilities of craftsmanship clear and true ideas of
democracy and of the and legitimate functions of gov
ernment Who above all had identity of interest with the
humbest laborer the North-ndeed, themselves
the representatives of abortat such found to
lead and conduct the great party of liberty and progress
the happest conunctnre that has happened in hui
man affairs
The aboonsts, and those who from political and mer
cenary motives act with them, perpetualy trying to
impress the people of the North with the notion that they
political connexion with southern negroes and thus
confuse and conound their perceptions in regard to their
true relations to southern citizens
have no more to do with it, any political
nexion with the people of the North than have those
living in Africa Hay. The labor and production Of
the South is represented by the planter is that of the
North By farmer and the latter has political
nexon with the negroes of the planter than he has with
the horses children Of the farmer They have always and
always must together for their interests nsepaa
b and instead of any such thing in past history
perverson of the government in aid of southern inter-
ests the thing itself is utterly impossible Neither Con-
gress the Executive pass any law do any act for
the benefit of the South that at the time injury
to the North Such thing is moral and industrial i'm
possibity-as impossible and senseess stick with
single end If the miserable dupes of British mposures
were asked to instance where the federal gov
eminent prosuted at the feet Of the slave interest,"
they would doubtless point Mt to the of Texas
Well is there sane in the whole republic who will
say that the acquisition of Texas has been injury to the
North in any particular degree whatever? On the
rary will he say that it has been beneftan al
most measureless well as unalloyed benefit to the
Norh2 The vote of Texas alone repealed the tariff of
and gave to the farmers of the North and West the tariff
Of 40 thus saving the aborng millions all over the North
and South from being taxed and pundered for the benefit
of a handful of capitalists engaged in manufactures
The only seeming instance where North and South, the
farmer and planter likely TO in collision would
be just such that of Kansas but that is wholly
lusory The negro labor is always profitable it APP
proaches the tropics where the white labor
all Thus while both admitted, should be admitted
In tho territory owned In common, and both should be
equally protected in it while it remains Territory that to
which it is naturally adapted will be permanent and the
other transtory All the concentrated power of hui
kind cannot white laboring population in
Cuba, negro-producing population in Massachusetts,
The industrial adaptation should govern the whole ques
ton, and will finally govern it. Thus Wmot provisoes
and Missouri compromises, and Northwest Ordinances
and other absurd "conrvances' to prevent that being
done which the Almighty has eternaly rendered mposs
BILE is just wise and just important if Congress
that the Negroes skin should be black his head
covered with wool instead of hair The whole subject
rests on an illusion dscreditable to the intelligence of the
country That the European who negro should
mistake him for white man, and that assump
tion perhaps natural enough that the British aris
against the negroshoud fellowship with him-should be
SO perverted and debased by their class distinctions
be incapable Of perceivng those stamped eernay by the
hand Of Godhat these debauched and unnamed classes
SO dead the high instincts of their race should 60
for negro "egaalty' the best for preserving
their inequality among themselves is to be expected
but that we could be thus deluded and bewildered in
regard to the daily facts presented to very
could permit Europeans to confound social
dition and designate it by term expressive of
cent barbarism, that any portion of population
could be SO sulhfed to battle against an imaginary
slave powerto "erganze resistance against thing of
the imagination, shadow senseless and nnmeaning
abstraction, dependent entirely misconception