The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-12-23

The following article from the Crockett Argus,
Texas paper, is in the same vein of candor
which characterizes the letter of Mr. Rayner.
We clip it from another Texas paper, called the
Standard, printed at Gainesville and it NAV
therefore be regarded as rejecting the senti-
ment of large part of the people,
From The Crockett Argus.
SOUTHERN FANATICISM.
The article in this number of the paper. en-
titled The North has the South by the Throat"
Is not inserted because we endorse the senti-
ments 1t expresses, but simply to show how
like maniac man may become, when he per-
mlts a single idea to engross his mind If Gen
Houston ever uttered so silly saving as that
attributed to him, he ought to be rebuked for
II, both by the South and the North for it savors
little of either craftsmanship or patriotism. and
is only calculated to furnish pretext for such
insane rawlings as those the Charleston Mercug7,
1t was as much the fault of the South as of the
North, that protective tariffs National banks.
and constitutional appropriations for internal
improvements, were saddled upon the country ::
and the favorite statesman of South Carolina
has as much TO answer for in these respects as
any other. 1t is true, that the South was fore
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measures, and that they were not productive of
the benefits she anticipated from them but
she is not the less chargeable with their incep-
ton. Protective tariffs are as injurious to one
portion OF the country to another because
the burdens they impose fall upon consump-
ton, which is not confined to one section. Had
the South been able, as she hoped, by means
OF slave labor, to compete with the North in
manufactures, she would probably not have
been so early in discovering the unconstitution
atty of these tariffs; and as respects Banks of
the United States, it would be difficult to prove
that they were more injurious to one section of
the Union than to another We regard all,
banks, whether State or National. as unmiti-,
gated evils, and alike unconstitutional but the
South has been as culpable as the North in
reference to both. Internal improvements bv
the General Government have not been prose
cuted to an extent calculated seriously to affect
the interests of any portion of the country. and
cannot be charged to the General Government
as evidence of hostility to the South.
We are wearied out of patience by the can
tous, unreasonable, and unjust complaints
which are constantly made in some quarters
against the Government, or rather against the
Union OF States, If these complaints were
worthy OF belief, the Southern States would be
set down as one of the most down-trodden, op.
pressed, and wretched portions of the earth
whereas, in truth and in fact, nowhere else in
the world can we find people who live in so
much ease and comfort, who enjoy so many of
the blessings of existence, and who have so
much cause to be grateful that their lot was
cast in a land so favorable to the pursuit of.
happiness. Such things as pinching want and
houseless suffering are absolutely unknown
and, with health and moderate amount of in
dustry, the road to independence, if not to afflu
ence, is open to all. The Government against
which there is so much railing is neither seen
nor felt in the ordinary transactions of life. and
the evils charged, if they exist at all, are of
pure speculative character If the North has
outgrown the South in wealth and political
power, 1t was not owing to any action of the
General Government, but to causes over which
1t had no control. 1t could not divert the tide
OF immigration into different channels, nor
could 1t direct the minds of Southern men TO
those pursuits which have built up the power
and wealth of our Northern neighbors.