The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-09-24


pie when they formed State constitution, to admit
or exclude slavery as they might elect. The Kansas
act done nothing more Tor the people of Kansas
than What had already been previously done for
Utah and New Mexico.
The second compromise was made in 1892, on the
oppressive tariff, which was introduced by Mr..
Clay. 1t declared that such a per centage OF the
tariff should come OF every two years for years
should be permanently established. The South say
they submitted for ten years TO what they consider
ed grinding oppression for the sake Of Union and
peace; but in 1912, when the 20 per cent ad calo
rtm duties we're 10 benefit them the North wheeled
round and putup the tariff about as high as il had
ever been before, and which remained IN
force until ls46 when the present tariff was adopted
by the democrats. and which has worked well Tor
tie country ever since. The people of the South
therefore. consider that the North cannot justly
charge them with bad faith and disregard Of COM
promises.
FREEDOM or SPECIE AND FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The South is accused Of being unfrendly 70 f.ee-
dom Of speech. This was not manifested IN the
days Of Patrick Henry, and they contend IL is II =
now. There is a wide difference between licentions
ess Of speech, intended TO lead TO insnrreoton AID
l0odsheJ, and that freedom of speech recognized
ly organized governments and civilized comman
ties.
Let us suppose Messrs. Strickland 4 Epson sell
speeches the negroes Oi Mobile, and while ling or
those inilammatory books they bad persua led the S
norant blacks TO conspire against the wbes 10 des
troy tfeir lives burn The town, rob Tue banks, seize
the Shipping, and escape to st. Domingo: it would
have probably been justified by the Tribune, Tins,
and other republican papers OF toe North. on the
ground that il was the fruit OF the freedom OF speech
and the freedom OF the press.
During last winter year ago there was 2s~
senbled large meeting Of labor;ng men in The Park
of New York, who said they could gei 10 work,
while they and their families were suffering for food
amidst abundance. Suppose Southern man win
money at his command, and fluent of speech, hal
addressed that multitude telling them thar ney hal
been oppressed by the rich, that their wages hat
been az best scanty, and they tarned Of D
starve while the rich were living in luxury and that
they had redress in their own hands and sao.
pose he had supplied them with arms, and advised
them 70 open warehouses and clip themselves y
exact it from the banks. This would, n
the black republican sense OF the tern,
have been free speech; ye. II is what public
opinion, and even many aooiit;onsts themselves,
would have denounced as RIGHTEOUSNESS OF speech
But at the South the suppression Of incendsry ~
peals OF similar character IS denounced as the
suppression of the liberty of speech. And black
republicans talk Of legitimate freedom and free
in any Of the States since the adoption OF the con-
sti.aticn.
WAGES OF LABOR OF THE WHITES NORTH AND
SOUTH.
There is no part Of the South where white labor,
and especially mechanical LABOR is not better paid,
and especially in the cotton and sugar districts than
i, j. at the North We have no. space TO give com.
pa,ative tables, which would be quite easy were It
necessary. There are but two classes at the South
whites and blacks and there is part Of the
world where there greater equality than there is
pong the whites of the South, irrespective Of the
more conventional distinctions OF wealth.
EMIGEATIoN PRoMoTED AND WHITE LAeoE MADE
MORE REsUSERArlvE BY THE SLAVE LABOR OF
THE SOUTH
Ii has beea estimated on reliable data that II re-
CURES between 1900 and 5000 ships 20 ;ranspor.
one crop Of cotton, to say nothing Of other s,ase
products. These vessels, when reaching Europe
bring back merchandise less balky than costor-so
bacco rice .Ec--hich leaves large space uuoccl
pied, and which they end it profitable TO fill with
sreerage or emigrant passensers o. very loy
rate of fare--a rate which would be unsttainaoe
were il not for be large number OF vessels engaged
in the cotton trade; that the great influx OF emf
grants at the North has been largely pro
moted by the slave labor of the South. No. only
o. but the white labor OF the North has been large
promoted and sustained by the South. The la
horers ia sh pbuilding have been benefited. The
abor employed in domestic manufactures, 70 large
amount, which supply tue South with shoes and
hats, ready made clothing, and with 4 vast amount
Of machinery, has all been better employed and
better paid on account of the patronage OF the if
teen Southern States, than 1t possibly could have
beer without Il.
These facts prove that the interest of all sec
lions are intcrtwined, and that the country has
made the greatest progress as whole, IN com
mon Union and under common constitution.
Hence the worst enemy 70 free labor AT the North is
that party, by whatever name called, whose princi-
Piles are most at variance with the constitution and
Union Of the States, such as we deem those Of The
black republicans TO be. And suppose tue negroes
once liberated at the South, would they not come in
swarms to the North and compete with white labor!
SO that the very red republican socialists of Germi
o@l,or r@a at Cbp
litionzed in the United States, and are enlisted "a
enemies and fighters against the South, are indebted
for their cheap conveyance hither aud their best
support when here TO the cotton bales OF the South
MogMoxIsM, sPIRIrrAtrsN AND FoURrEErsM Us.
KNOWN IN THE SLAVE STATES.
One clause OF the black republican platform sheer
ingly denounces slavery and Mormomsmin the same
sentence. Whatever else the South may he charged
with, Its people have never embraced single ism
at the head of this chapter. In all the South there
Is .aid not TO be found single Mormon. This mon
srous and beastiy sect s exclusively OF free State
origin. Joe smith, its founder, a native of New
England and went from the western part Of New York
10 Illinois, where he established the sect at Nauvoo.
Brigham Young, the present bead OF the Church at
Salt Lake, is also from New England well IA
large number OF his followers. The two girls who ORR
pinated the miserable deuson Of spirtualis belong
to Rochester. New York. II is in the North where
Fourierite farms and pbaanxes are formed.
Free soilism and all the other isms referred 10 are
more intimately and closely allied than slavery and
Mormonism.
We come next 70 arguments in favor OF the per-
pe'uty OF the Union. drawn from the commercial
and ptcunary relations OF the States, and proceed
10 show, first
THE INTEREST or THE NORTH ~ THE NEGRO sLA.
VERY OF THE SOUTH.
II IL easy to show that the cultivation Of cotton in
the United states has put the whole country one
hundred years ahead OF what Il would have beea
without il. Sot only so. but IL has largely con.
tributed the advancement OF commerce aud civil
cation over the world.
II IL estimated that not less than two hundred mil
lions OF the inhabitants Of the civilized world are
now clothed In whole Or ia part with cotton fabrics
supplied by the looms ~ Europe and America, four
fiibs of the raw material Tor which are supplied by
the Southern States Of the United States.
The question Of the continuance OF negro slavery
% the south is not cfcumscrbed 70 this continent,
but il is also vital question TO England especially,
whether she il TO continue in the supply OF two mil
lion bales OF cotton annually or suffer consequences
lev have contemplated II Is also question 70 Europe
and TO the civilized world. In 1856 the frs. -four
bales Of cotton exported from the United states