Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-12-25

The Northern DsmOcracy,
Among the nominees Of the democratic party for
Congress, in New Hampshire is Col JOAH H. GEoReEr
Of Concord. IN his letter to the committee Of the
con4estiOn which dominated him, be gives the fol-
loving frank expression Of his sentiments
toDiosSbioh greatly exetes the northern people at
the present. Were these opinions general in the
non-slaveholdipg statss there would be an instant
cessation Of sectional strife:
desire to express my full conviction that it IS
the duty Of Congress and Of the Legislatures Of
each and all of he States and Territories TO pass All
laws required Of them respectively by the letter or
the spirit Of the Constitution and to abstain from
all ensctmens in conflict with any Of its provisions;
for I am wholly unable to perceive any middle
gnound which can be honestly assumed by any re-
dieting man between the POSITION Ofthose who hold
! to frank and unreserved compliance WITH at the
requirements Of the Constitution aud the aniagon>
stic position Of those who totally disregard It's pro-
visions believing II to be ga covenant with death
| and an agreement with he'll"
am in favor Of the policy Of non-intervention
and popular sovereignty, because believe 1t to be,
in strict accordance with the theory upon which the
government is founded, aud because lis adoption and
careful observance the basis Of Congressional ac-
ton would coDne the question Of slave or free Labor
and all other local questions, to the political COM
muniies affected BIZ their decision Secuonal ami
mosities would cease, each State and Territory
! would stand upon its own bottom, and instead OF
having it's attention distracted and passions arous
ed by the real or imaginary evils elsewhere exist
ing 10 the manifest neglect and delriment OF us
own local and material interests, would c0nhne It's
political action to its own political concerns New
Hampshire, no longer worried about The negroes oil
South Carolina would be far more usefully employ
ed in relsctng up IN the interests and leglsating Tor
the bens6t Of the people who live within IT'S own
borders Il would emasculate the race OF ponucians
bor IL a trade. live uDOD pes
tilent agitation generated by themselves as con-
vepient means Of livelihood and who would Of ne
csssiy seek SINE other employment. certainly more
advantageous the country, bat doubtless less pro
| ftable TO themselves. 49,. s.
hae 40 large an interest in the accomplishment OF
these results as New England for upon no other
section have the evils Of the slavery agitation taleh
with equal force. The commercial, manufacturing
| and mechanical interests upon which the materlai
nrosneritv of New England is based and mainly de-
pends having each and all been pArslyzed 70
Greater or less extent by the sectional animosies
which the political abolitionists Of New England
have been so efficient in producing. Hhlle new
England ships are seeking employment and pront IN
hs TRANSPORTATION Of the products Of slave labor
New England denuncatiOns Of the South and soutn
ern ins,iutous have occasioned dscri finalions 10
he made in favor Of Southern ships to such an extent
that many vessels built and owned here, are regis
tered in New Orleans in order to obtain employment
/ az southern ships While New England manufsc
tories are wholly dependant upon the cotton raised
nv slave labor for the employment OF their opera
tives and their looms and are to large degree oe-
pendaut upon the South q market for their man
ufsctured gOods, political vrulence has caused the
! construction of manufacturing establishments 10
Georgia and other Southern States, and thus dimin
isbed the employment Of our factories and the mark
ct for our goods. Our shoe manufacturers are glad
To obtain the proceeds Of slave labor by making bro
cams for Southern negroes but Southern preJudlce
| i l. Novv Enrland fOliV. COmDei6 the manu-
L facturer TO nav tax to the New York commission
It merchant who sells his shoes under false marks
K his Southern customers. Our maehinists and me-
chaucs have all felt the Consequences OF the estab
: Iisbment of machine shops in Maryland, Virginia
II and Tennessee Our merchants have seen so 'therI
= trade concentrate at New York, Philadelphia sn'
Il Baldmore They know that to q great extent tn
g establishment Of these shops and the diversion 0
this trade is owing to this miserable negro agttalol
s oriepaied and kept up at such an enormous saeri
n fee Of New England interests, for the seihsh Pur
IT poses Of sectional agitstors.
!. bava a. little respect for that cheap philanthropy
which while it clutches at and feeds upon the prof
End proceeds Of slave labor, exhibits itself IL cosrs
= and senseless denunelaons OF southern
- az for that supreme folly which thus deprves NeV
: England of her Southern trade and her best mar
- kets A few days since gentleman OF the highes
'e intelligence, formerly an honored member OF tn
whiR Tarty, whose interests are bound up IN IN
nrosperitv of the chief manufacturing city Of thi
agitation upon the material interests Of Manchester
remarked that he had political aspirations, bu
er that decent regard for his own interests and In
interests of others committed to his care, eompelle
him TO be a democrat and that hereafter he shout
= vote and act with the only national party Of tn
&c countrv The came causes which induced the gen
u teman alluded to cast his influence and his vote
v favor of the Democracy, must sooner or later re
ou;re all opposed to the utter parsyz9tion Of Ne
- England interests to follow his example.
y Again. let this principle Of non-iDterEentiOn
r faitbfpv adhered TO- in letter and spirit, and Wha
10 aoni6eent spectacle does the future of cour
:. try present New Hampshire may pass such Law
l" as are deemed suited to her granite hills and he
D. hardy people South Carolina applies its legisla
s ton 10 the peculiar circumstances OF its poPuato
he ubou It's rice and cotOn fields, and the people OF IN
Territories are under the constitution free mora
and political agents in the formation Of their ow
n political institutions. No State or Terri DRY
either morally or politically responsible Tor the II
I'll situations or laws of any other State or Territory
but eachi bound to all the others as with hooks
: steel for the common defence and the common We
ne fare Under the Practical operation OF TINS prime
ME the tulflment Of the manifest destiny" Of on
a. conn,r 20 embrace within its limits the entire cor
- tipent-with the number Of States limited only
"a the convenience Of diVision-esch State sovel
0ntv within itself aud each interested in the prot
W peritv of the whole-instead Of weakening, woul
,b only strengthen the bonds Of union and add to h
: prosperity Of the Republic. The work shops an
" manufactures of New England would have cont
be pept as the home market for their products, an
er hundreds of millions of freemen would bear test
pa mony TO the glorious results of popular sOveregnt
. and non-interVention.