The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-27

ties His death very sudden for although he had been
i'll for day or two with inflammation of the bowels, his
condition was not thought to be dangerous until few
hours before be died. Of course this cad intelligence in
terrupted all official business yesterday at the Executive
Mansion and the President and his family we are sure
will have the warm sympathy Of the country in the loss
which has thus suddenly befAen them Of near and dear
relative.
FREE TRADE AMONG THE STATES DIsUNIoN
The allus;on in Mr. Buchanans Inaugural to the free
and unrestricted trade among S States cannot have
capped the quick intelligence Of the American people That
simple argument skaters at blow the specious rea
soning Of those who seek prove that dissolution Of the
confederacy Of these sovereign States possibly work
good to any portion of the country Suppose for the
sake Of argument that the dsuRion project Of the late
Worcester fanatics prevail and the reeabo States
separated from those in which negro labor is believed
to be valuable: on what basis would Massachu
sets and Illinois form common union On what COM
basis Of interest destiny would Oregon and Maine
form union Coming South where would be the ma
terial for o union between Maryland and Texas
The Grand Trunk railway Of Canada finds it's terminus
at Portland. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad binds
Maryland and Ohio together with bands Of iron. The Mis-
siaspp its eternal ow reflects the inseparabe interests
Of Minnesota Iowa. Kansas, and Nebraska with those
of Tennes,ea, Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana. This
glorious Union based the material interests and geo.
graphical necessities OF the people, has future and des
tiny under the protecting influence Of wise Providence
which may not Get aside The States ajoned
geher by the memories Of revolutionary struggle for
independence by the patriotism of the people, and by the
laws of trade.
Washington, in his Farewell Address, pointed the
Of interea to which refer between the plant
ing States and the commercial States between the South
and the North and this interest has assumed still another
form since the increase of the cotton crop and the
growth of manufactures in New England. The CONNER
ca necesstie, Of the country however, from the very be-
ginning constituted of the strongest which
led the Union An unresrained intercourse between
the States themselves (agued of the writer's of
Federals) "wl advance the trade of each by inter-
change of their respective productions not only for tie
supply of reciprocal wants. but for expectation foreign
markets. ut may be replied 10 this 1.-THE writer
adds) that whether the States united dsunited
there would still be intimate intercourse between
them, which would the same ends but this in
tercourse would be fettered interrupted and narrowed
| by multitude Of canse A unity of commercial as
well political interests only result from unity
of government" In this belief the constitution was
adopted, and subsequent events have justified it's wis
DOM II was n constitution Of mutual agreements or
compromises, thing being yielded by the South
and another by the North. The rabid agitators at
the North to forget this and TO imagine that the con-
cessons of that instrument all side Not so
thought Of the vorie stacsmen of the commercial
North In his Albany speech in 1851 Mr.. Webster said
"Was nothing yielded by the South to the North You
know that New York ships float the whole globe
bring abundance of riches your shores You know
that this the result of the commercial policy OF the Uni
ted States and Of the commercial power vested in Congress
by the constitution. And how this estab-
lished7 BY what constitutional provisions, and for
whose beueft7 The South was never commercial
country. The plantation States never commercial
But what did they do7 They agreed to form government
that should regulate according TO the wants and
wishes Of the northern States and when the constitution
went into operation commercial system actually
tabshed which has risen up the whole glory of New
York and New England How this Effected What
did Congress do under northern lead with southern
quiescence protected the Of New York and
the eastern States by discriminating tonnage duties and
that higher duty foreign ships has been
dcred this day. except in consideration OF just equiva
lent So in that respect without srudging complaint
the part Of the South but generously and faryno by
way Of concession but in the true spirit Of the consu
ton--ths commerce of New York and the New England
States protected by the provision of the constitution to
which have referred The North should remember this
when any Of its citizens attack the constitution should
II forget what especially falls within the range of
present obec that engroes almost exclusively also the
direct advantages and profits which flow from the coasng
trade This trade from State to State song the and
around Cape Horn TO the Pacific Is practically the property
Of few States Of whose citizens clamorous
against the government while they daily proting, to
large extent by its existence and its policy No language
suitably describe their folly and ingratitude Take
away from New England and New York their cossng trade
and strike from beneath them the vast aggregate of cap
l which Is the product of southern labor and what effect