Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-01-19

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SHH the 18th Of Nay, and, that day erase esery
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True independence.
The Banner is intensely disguised with the thing
nisnamed American independence. Our contempt
rary has discovered that the Fourth of July is a
humbug, and our national Eagle mere barD-yaEd
fowl. We have been deeeiving ourselves il seems
for the last eighty odd years, in suppOsng that
heroic ancestors had severed the bonds of allegiance
that bound us to the mother country. Our country
is still, says the Banner, ga British province" We
have no right, according to neighbours authori-
ty, to claim that we free, prosperous, indie
pendent people. We sre compelled to yield our
proud pretensiOns and bow TO the supremacy and
power of England; for England, says the Banner, is
"the Wealhiest and most prosperous country in the
world" and still retains the "zirtual allegiance of
country, in spite of bOasted independence"
or course our intensely American neighbor doesn't
intend to stand this any longer The blood of
Thousand heroes is boiling indignantly in his veins,
and he is ready TO hold meeting on his own
court get up another Deolsi alton of Independence
and pledge +" his life, his fortune, and his sacred
honor" for the preservation of our liberties. Our
neghbor is determined to have little private
luton of his own, with the patriotic purpose of lib
eratnghis country from British bondage.
He tells us how it is to be done. If we would
make our people independent we must teach them
to rely on the government for sustensnce and sup
port. If we wish to convince men that they are
able to assume the responsibilities of freemcn, we
must treat them helpless infants, incapable of
providing for their necessities and wants. We
must throw the protecting arm of the nation around
them if we would have people euterprisng and
self-reliant. They must be eternarly fed from the
maternal breast if, we would have them grow great
and strong. They must be continually kept in the
cradle, if we weuld have them bold, manly and
powerful. In other words the Banner thinks that
our perfect independence as people can only be
attained through the agency of protective tarirt.
The citizens of this country, the manufacturing
portion Of them at least, receive bounty from
the federal treasury, otherwise the nation cannot
be prosperous and Tree. The wealthiest and most
thriving interests of the country to OBJ
jects Of national charity in order to render this
an independent republic. Such is the srgu-
msnt Of the Banner, and such has always
been the argument of the advocates Of the protec-
tive system. But the people of this country
are too enlightened to be deceived by such
sophistry as this. The good of the nation
has long ago repudiated the system, and the false
reasoning on which it is founded. Intelligent men
will not believe that it is necessary TO make the peoN
pie pensioners the government, 10 make them
enterprisng and Independent. They will net be-
heve that the manufacturers of the North who
have grown rich under present system need
the intervention of government to them from
poverty and want. They will not believe that the
farmers and mechanics must be taxed to support
the opulent capitalists who demand this protection
For ourselves we unwilling to acknowledge that
any classes of our citizens are incapable of sup
porting themselves by their individual energy and
exertions We would not insult our brethren of
the North by supposing that they cannot obtain an
honeCt livelihood by their own industry and tai,
featuring classes of this country are able to meet
the whole world in fair and open competition, and
that they do not require the bounty and protection
of Government to enable them to live aud prosper.
But the Bonner is mistaken in supposing that mans
uacurers have been denied equal share the ben
e6ts of the government that they have not received
the encouragement which has been extended to agr-
culture commerce, and the mechanic arts. The re.
verse true. All the great of the country
have been compelled to pay tribute the manufac>
turing interests Under the present tariff msnufac.
lures are projected far beyond the products Of the
soil or the labor of mechanics. Manufactures of
cotton cloths and iron receive bounty of "a per
cent Gd UaIorem. Wheat, -four, bacon, pork, lard,
corn, SC. protected only to the amount Of Is
percent, sd valCrem. Manufactures of wool receive
protection to the of twenty four cents on the
dollar. Raw wool, such as our farmers raise cost
ing less than 20 cents pound, has no protection
at all.
II is unjust and unmanly for the Northern manu-,
fscturers their friends the South to ask the gov
to tax the producing classes still more heavily
for their benefit They neither need nor are entitled
to any further protection That they demand it only
proves that their " avarice grows by what it feeds
on" The more they receive the more grasping
and exacing will they become.
The Banner presents England as an example of
true independence, produced by protecting the in
dustry of her people. There, favored classes have
been taught to rely the government for support.
There, mOnOpOlies have been built up and wealth
has been accumulated in the hands of a few men.
Such would be the result in this country of the sys
ten Of protection which opponents sdvocate.
The manufacturing interests would grow into a
power more formidable than the titled aristocraev
Of Great Britain, while the masses of the people
would become their dependents, subjects, and
slaves.
"A Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that the the opposition in Con-
Cress are opposed to the admission of Oregon is
because by her State Constitution free negroes and
nulattoes are not allowed to settle there. II they
oono;dar that q reason WHY Oregon should not come