New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-10


and cold on the same common-sense basis why
should the buyer Of goods exercise any more IN
fuence over the political opinions or acts oil tns
producer or seller than the buyer Of cotton does over
the seller Of that useful staple Msnifestly, the
buyer in either case acts upon the promptngs OF his
own supposed interest, and has no particular re-
card TO the interest of the seller. mus ureat
britain is truly pronounced the hOt-bed of Aboltion
vet no planter hestates to sell his cotton to and buy
the fabrics of the British manufacturers. He never
fancies that, by doing this, be is countenanons or
commencing Abolition; or, if be does, 1t makes no
difference in his action. Such an absurdity az IN
dertaking to punish the British for their Aoonron
sentiments or acts BY refusing to sell them cotton
or buy their goods never enters his head
Wby. then. are the merchants manufacturers,
and capitalists of the North always dealt with as
though they wero Of different and baser clay than
those of Great Britain, aud ready to profess or dis
! ayow any sentiment in order to keep on the right
side of their customers Why is every threat of
Disupion at the South met with new prostrations
and genuhexions from the North :
We tell you, Cotton deyotees of the Free States
that it is your suppeness that is drifting the codn-
try toward the breakers of DsunOn-it Is the I'M
preston diffused throughout the South that the
North can be bullied or frightened into the sur
render of It's convictions that invites and incites
the menaces and resolves that are so fast commit
ting the South to positions which involve the alter
native of disunion or disgrace. Had you steadily,
consistently said TO the South, " This subject OF
:. Slavery is one on which we cannot be expected
4" TO think alike, but must agree to differ. We
will not intermeddle with Slavery where 1t 49,
Z" and you must not ask US to acquesce IN your
planting it on common territory where I'll not !"
there never would bave been any danger of Dis
union on this account. 1t is the current presumP-
ton at the South that the North can, through you'
be brought to concede anything that the Slave
Power NAV see fit to demand, that creates the real
danger.
Do Won not see that there must be limit to your
concessions, and that limit must be reached at last
Some of you said, A" Here it is I" when the Annex
alton of Texas was pressed while that country was
stiu involved in war with our peaceful neighbor
Mexico; others when the Missouri Compact was
broken down; others when Kansas was invaded
and her ballot-bo1es polluted by the Border kuf-
fans. and the Federal Executive sided with the
wrong doors against their victims. Still Others
cried Enough when the LecOmpton outrage was at
tempted. But the great majority have from the
fist shut their eyes and to every proof OF Pro-
Slavery aggression and wrong, Justify crying
Peace when there was no peace, blinking the real
question at issue, and charging their own neighbors
4 A IL.
and fellow citizens with melting and tomentlng the
AGITATION which was the inevitable result OF Pro-
Slavery e1action and aggression. YoH, gentlemen
are thus the real authors of the pers which now I'M
pend VIII you still persist in the path OF danger,
now that its perils are manifest
Only let il be clearly understood that our deyo-
ton to the Union is no prompting OF mereensry
calculation-that, while We prefer to live In It, we
can nevertheless live without it if we must-that
we receive nothing from the South for which we
do not render fair equivalent, and are no more
dependent on her than she is on us-that, while we
do not ak her to forego the free expression OF her
own convictions, we will not surrender nor shhe
ouIs-and we shall soon be all right. Ii she leaves
us, it will be quite as much from disgust with our
Douphfaces as from hate or dread of our Repubh-
cans She loathes those who tawn on her las sue
reasonably suppOses) for gain quite as intensely as
she detests ayowed Abolitionsts Hence we see
that Northern mercantile drummers aud duns are
now being turned back from the South without the
least regard to their political professions or certi-
Gates of character. The cleanest bill OF health,
though emanating from eminent cotton-broker and
countersigned by distinguished ribbon-seller, each
Of them conspicuous and blatant at every Union
saving City Meeting of the last dozen years, will
hardly carry New-York merchant or clerk safely
through from Richmond to New-Oreans; while in
Mississippi or Arkansas-especialy If he is known
to be on a collecting tOur-he cannot get on at all
If one result of this should be very great reduc-
ton of our import and consumption OF foreign gew-
gaws, We shall heartily rejoice over it; if another
shall be general diffusion of manufactures and
mechanic arts throughout the South, We shall re-
gard that effect with a still deeper satisfaction.
With proper diyersifcation of industrial pursuits,
Slavery would soon die out of the South as it long
ago vanished from Western Europe. Only let the
North be frank and manly, calm, but resolved, and
the peril of Disunion will soon have passed away.
AsLAyEHOLDHNC ANsWRR TO ANTI
suaVRRY RAGTa.