Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-04
WHOLE NO. 594.

tnFpugh the Union, IL IS evidently intend
eo as the great intellectual effort Of the camlmiqn
As citizen of New York to be effected ~ -
Doctrines yield, therefore, to your invitation 10
examine somewhat the accuracy of lis statements
and u time shall permit, the soundness OF its con-
4 clusions. @t
The fundamental proposition and cardinal idea
OF the address Is that the sixteen non sayeholdip0
States greatly exceed and excel the remaining fiji.
teen slaveholding States IN all the Legitimate pur
suits OF national Industry, and that this Is proved
by comparing their respective products of material
wealth, and upon this allegation the Speaker con-
tends that the sixteen non-sayeholdinq States are
now entitled to direct the government OF the Union
The reason assigned for this alleged superiority
is the existence of slavery in the fifteen States 4
region where, in Mr.. Banks's language. there 4
lone man down and another man holding him down
one portion of the people doing nothing and
another portion Of the same people helping them
TO do nothing This is the first reason, and the
second, which he denominates the secret that
accounts for the difference" is that the men of the
South abandoning agriculture for the time. aud
having no literature, no science, no mercantile
Ipower, no mechanical or manufacturing industry.
" nave gwen their whole attention 10 the govern
Inent of the country" They are immersed
says Mr.. Banks, :" in the methods Of obtaining
offices of honor, of emolument and trust from the
Federal Government"
Having thus phosophically discovered the se.
cret OF the evil, Mr. Bankss remedy is obvious.
Its to deprive these misguided men oftheir offices
for, says he, what win they do when they are
despoiled OF their offices of honor and trust and
emolument in the Army and Navy and the Fed
eraI Governments will tell you, I" adds he. what
they viii do. They are out of the goYernmsnt.
according to their own statement They must do
something and that necessity will turn them Inn
mediately 10 the increase of the material wealth
of that section of the country 'sThey win come
e.o North ~ ihey VIII go into the middle of the
States and there they will see men operating
! with mechanical Inventions" aud what, asks he
"will the Southern men then do but provide
substitute for slave labor by the adoption of the
mecanicai inventions that have distinguished the
industry of the Eastern and Middle States. Thus"
says he, by this single change we will pave the
way for vast change in the history and the insti
tutions this government"
Here, then, is the successful solution of the great
political and economical problem which heretofore
has tasked the highest wisdom Of our patriots and
phianthropists. The proper distribution Of the
black race over the American contiDent--the grand
continental result supposed by some short-sighted
statesmen to be work for generations if not for
centuries yet TO come-is to be attained In Noyem.
Der next, by simply "despoiling the South of TIER
Offices IN the army, the navy, and the Federal Gov
ernment."
/ Now, when We consider that no more than fifiy
thousand, at the utmost, of the total Southern
white population of seven millions are IN poases
1
certain that all even of them will undertake. aftcr
their election, the task of wandering through the
North to examine the mechanical c0ntrivances for
dispensing with slave abor-it may be doubted
| whether the means provided by the statesnansbio
OF Mr. Banks will prove quite adequate to the end.
u is gratifying, however to learn from him that be
does not view this general sweep of his "Soutberp
| brethren from the army and navy as sectional
process, but views it as an eminenty fraternaI and
national proceeding. {" With the institutions of
the Southern States, says he, "loca OF traditional
| we have nothing to do" and 81 dismiss the matter
by asserting that the declaration that we intend to
interfere in their affairs is bold and baseess SIAN
der" Contenting himself simply with turning
them all out OF Office because they are slavehold
ers, and with their consequent efforts to substitute
mechanical inventions for slave at or, he refrains
| from inquiring what is to become of the four mil
lions of helpless blacks whose labor is thus super
| seeded.
He deems IL quite subordinate matter IN n.
qnire whether these four millions Of blacks who IN
thirty wears will increase to ten millions are To ba
sent further South and WHEREOF distributed
among the States, and which, or sent to the ANA
zon or to the Niger, left to perish by starvation
or to cut their own throats or their masters, De-
tails 50 petty, the comprehensive statesnanshp Of
Mr.. Banks does not condescend to embrace
And now for the statistics of the address which
drew down the enthusiastic plaudits of the intel,
gent audience assembled in Wall street They are
| certainly very remarkable dealing with matters In
no small way, but presenting pictures that infame
the imagination with the sublmest visions Of ma,
tional glory
Mr.. Banks himself is profoundly convinced not
only of their Importance but OF their accuracy
| Hear him." In what have to say to YOU mean
to rely upon great facts, above all question as to
their truth, and facts, which if admitted remove all
| questions as to the policy by which we should be
| directed in the impending controversy between
twenty yseven millions Of freemen for the chief Off
| ces of the Republic / see before me nation
which has produced results such as the world never
| before has Witnessed and such as the mind Of no
| intelligent man has heretofore been able to con
| ceiYe," and then comes the great fact embodying
proposition SO vast and comprehensive, and vet
80 condensed, that the orator declares it to be
Nthe product Of all that he has to sayn Ia its
grand simplicity it Is this that the people OF the
United States in 1856 will give to the world az
their portion of the industrial product Of the hu-
man race foTty.fue hundred millions Of dollars /"
I" a sum greater by an eighth than the entire ma
tonai debt of the British Empire, that has been
accumusting for two centuries
The newspapers inform us that the annunciation
Of this result was received with loud applause by
the crowd in Wall street How far that commen-
dation was creditabe to the intelligence Of those
who bestowed il let US briefly examine.
In the first place, If it were true that the nation
produces forty-ive hundred millions annually il
does not "remove oil questions in the impending
| controversy" whether we shall elect Mr. Fremont
to the Presidency and despoil our Southern breth-
rem Of their offices in the army and navy III the
North produced the whole forty-fve hundred mil
lions, and the South did nothing whatever but
keep the black race in subjecton, il would not fol-
low thatthe South should be excluded from all par
ticipation IN the government, for If, as some con-