The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-04-21
THE NATIONAL ERA: WASHINGTON d. G, APRIL 121, 1859

ginia in her march to triumph, and sustain her
as she bears the flag of the Constitution to the
heights of the enemys ramparts.
Friends in the South Throw away the
scabbard, and once more let us hear the bugle
of the old war, and the battle-cry which has so
often cheered us in our Struggle of " God and
our native land!"
VIRGINIA AGAIN. We have cheering evil
dences coming in daily of the progress of lib
eral opinions in Virginia. The following ex-
tract is from a speech recently delivered by Mr..
Caldwell, member of the Opposition, and
representative of the city of Wheeling in the
State Senate
AS / said before, the present selfstyled
Democratic party is a mere Southern, British,
anti-tariff party. The South sell their cotton,
their sugar, and tobacco, in England. There
is their market. We ask this Southern party
to give us, of the North, protection for our in
dustry-for our manufactures and we will be-
come consumers of your products. But they
say, no. If we give you protection, you will,
many of you, quit raising the breadstufs which
we now get from you, and consequently the
price of it will be raised to us, and will cost us
more to get -four and bacon with which to feed
first and always. That is the consideration
with these Southern men. Tariffs and every
thing else must be made to suit their niggers.
sour interest here, fellowcitizens, is the
White Mans interest. l am proud to say that
/ belong to the White Mans party. The Wing
party was always the White Mans party The
Wing party always went for protecting the la
Dor of our mechanics and manufacturers-al-
ways labored to keep the balance of trade in
favor of our own country-and not leave it as
at present, over forty-two millions of dollars
against us with England alone.
I" And it always will be against us as long as
we send our raw material to Europe to have
it m nufactured for U.S. and then buy more of
those manufactures than we can pay for in ex-
ports. Why, fenow-citizens, over here in Bel
mont and Monroe counties, they raise tobacco
which is sent over the railroad to Baltimore,
and there shipped to Germany, and there man
ufactured, and then sent back and sold to us in
this very city.
" If we here ESQ it was in the last Presiden-
tial campaign talk about protecting white
mems interests, these Locofocos call us Adolf.
tionists. Everything within them is Niger.
They called Clay and Taylor Abolitionists. And
so they do everybody who is in favor of protecting
white labor. But fellowcitizens, | think there is
feeling aroused in the land in favor Of the free
labor of the country-a feeling that there are
other interests that deserve to be fostered be-
side niggers. Let us give to the South all that
the Constitution guarantees to her. let Slavery
remain to her where it now exists-but let not
niggers be the sole question. AS white labor
ing men we have our rights, and let us show
the Locofoco party that we dare maintain them
at the polls" loud and protracted cheering
A
RAcY-The Charleston lMercmy-perhaps the
ablest journal south of Baltimore-argues that
the only Democracy that is left in the world is
to be found in the few planting States. AS for
the Northern Democrats sO-called, they are not
so much to be relied on as the Republicans,
and are in fact, on all the great questions of
policy, as weak and as fat as dishwater. They
dare not even sustain the President of their
choice in the most signal and important meas
ures of his Administration but, on the con!
trary, whenever a test is applied to them, in
volving departure from the accredited sent-
ments of the free States, they stink away like
Mercury proceeds:
"Now, what do these things show? Why,
that the Democratic party has no party cohe-
sion, and is no party at all. 1t is broken up
into little fractions. One fraction supports the
Pacific railroad-another, protective tariff
another the homestead bill-another, the pur-
chase or seizure of Cuba-another, squatter
sovereignty but all tending in one general
communicable array of the two sections
of the Union against each other in deadly hos
tiity. Whether we look to the operations of
the party with regard to the President, or with
regard to measures there is distraction, dis
union, and opposition, amongst its members.
This was never the case until sectionalism be-
L. In oil -
tics of the Union. Down to the days of Presi-
dent Van Buren,, the President was the respect
ed and honored head of the party. When he
recommended the adoption of the Independent
Treasury policy, the Democratic party support
ed it. All who opposed it were cut off as mem
bers of the party. When President Polk recon-
mended the Mexican war, the party supported
it, and all who opposed it were out of the party.
Sectionalism, lingering always az the great dis
turbing cause which would in due time rend
asunder all parties and the Union ITSELF sprung
up into gigantic proportions from this war; The
acquisition of California disclosed and precipi-
tated the antagnOism between the two sections
of the Union. BY the effort on the part of the
North to exclude the South from this Territory,
the great battle of state and sectional equality
was fought and lost. The North won. Her
sectional superiority became settled fact in
the Union. Nothing could prevent thereafter
the predominance of sectionalism in the poll
tics of the Union, and nothing could prevent
its consequent dissolution. Its end was mere
matter of time. Yet the wiseacres who perpe-
trated this enormous fraud upon the South, and
the greater wiseacres who submitted to it, did
it all to save and continue the Union. The
politics of the Union from that day to this has
been nothing but sectionalism. The two sec
tons of the Union have been driven wider and
wider apart-are more concentrated amongst
themselves. The aggressive North has first
completed her sectional organization to rule
the South. The Wing party has crumbled be-
fore it; and now the Democratic party of the
North, like fostering corpse, is falling to
pieces by the dccomposing element of section
alism 1t must be dissolved, and two parties
and two only-arise in the Union-a party of
the North, and party of the South. The one
to rule, the other to defend the one to destroy,
the other to save the South. A sectional party,
faithful to the Constitution and the rights of
the two sections of the Union, is an impossible
ity. The South, although more slowly and re-
luctantly, is steadily moving on to her sectional
crystallization."
FOREIGN SUMMARY.