Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-04-11
TIE NORTH AND TIE SOUTH.
LET Us REASON TOGETHER.

% difference in Institutions, in climate, soil ard
pructons, between the North and tho South, iden.
tifJIer interests and should form bonds of concord
an,mity between them. Equality Of condition and
snrity OF pursuits, naturally beset composition,
rvy. aud liured between nations, as well us be.
TIVE individuals. When commerce and manuiac
turtlourish at the North, the South should rejoice,
beoe she will get her supplies of goods, merchan-
disend manufactures, cheaper and better. When
hn,fu crops of cotton, sugar and grain are pro-
ducat the South, the North, in like manner, has
cauof graduation, for she will procure in great
or adance, the necessGries of life and the basis of
her lmerce and manufactures. We're the two sec
tiomgaged in similar pursuits, the prosperity and
succof the would detract from and iniuro the
intes Of the other. Were slavery abolished the
two ions would he Immediately placed in antago-
installations towards each other, would engage in
the n industrial avocatons, and carry on u ruin.
GUS Try. The multiplication Of free Stales will in
jure North, by increasing competition and re-
stric lis market. I}ut every new slave State opens
n neid permanent market for the commerce and |
manuires Of the North New settlers in free |
State*hge in agriculture, and afford for n while II
mark The old free States. But the tendency
i'll SUI ies, as appears by the census, is to avoid
nSriesuaad 10 engage IN more skiltul md scien.
tifc lris. Already Cincinnati has become u
great iActurinS town. So soon as The CovngtOu
road isJleted, she will compete with New York
in forelimmerce. These nre trite reflections, but
they ar because they are obviously true. Now,
as the sion OF slavery is to benefit the North, Ar
it is pf the South, and since i, will preserve
The Unid restore peace and good will between
its varsctinns, will good citizens of the North
longert to its extension pari trrsEn, with free
society .
Suple Federal Government were TO exclude
all NoIinanufac,ures from the territories alleo- @
ing rs IN, That their introduction prevented the c
growtlnnestc manufactured How unjust and u
harsh the North consider it. Yet il wouid be y
but ar their old tariff argument to new USE C.
II it bssary to protect from ruinous foreign 81
compat is equally necessary to protect from Il
ruino,stic competition. Without the slightest W
inirm1n the constitution, the South, can at any u
momeicense taxes, exclude the goods and MAN.
insut'iIl'erners, by lnonopolizing, through :,
meansreat capital, overhowins population and .,
chartePan'es, the whole of the public domain, =,
willnontl be justified, in sef.deiencc IN e1clu e
ding hns and her productions from her sol' Ac. =,
cordin tariff doctrines such exclusion would
be rlgeSpedent 1t would encourage South
ern inind make her independent. whilst il de
pressern interests. We shall not adopt such
ineaslsdrvent il. But welnay be driven Oft. m,
We W, to see pursuits varied at the South. to III ln
See Tommerce and manufactures, but the
charalr SOIL climate, and laboring population
will uicuiture our chief pursuit, So long as the
Nortlns justice When all hopes of that are is,
gone mt conncxion with her, and still live, $40
unlesof plethora or sur,eit, from Superabuu- 'A'
dancesnd clothing. =
In fSouth there is not one man disposed to ha
aggreNorth. To redress aggression is the ut for