New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-30
.LRT US ALONE

The RichmOnd wing lnuOrses inc sentlmcut vi
The Memphis Araianehe that all the South wants
ia " to be let alone" But how let alone ?" This
phrase covers very comprehensive meaning; or
may be made to do so. TLsbprglar may say oil he
wants is I" to be let alone." The African slave
trader may say all be desires is to be let alone.
We mean nothing reprOachful by our SMILES. We
are q Confederacy of States embracing vast diver
sites ofclmate, position and occupation The North
is commercial and manufacturing The West agri-
cultural the South plants broad acres by pecu-
liar form of labor. The interests Of the various
sections are to q considerable extent diverse, and
vet the action of the Confederacy must be a
unit Recur for a moment to our past history.
The maritime interest of the Republic is highly
prosperous. Our canvas whitens every sea. The
nations rights are infringed. The COnfederacy
deems it an imperative duty to impose restraints,
and put shackles upon our foreign commerce,
and the maritime interests of the North fall pros
trate before the Embargo aud the War that follows.
Those interests could have exclaimed, did exclaim,
all we want is " to be let alone" But the common
interest of all demanded that they should not be let
alone. And they were not. When high tariff
had turned capital into manufacturing channels and
IFS industry prospering that industry demanded
''to be let alone" But the tariff was reckOned
to be bride on the planting interests the South
and il was repealed, and manufacturing industry
turned adrift TO shift for itself When the CONNER
eial interest had established financial system that
suited it, il demanded "to be let alone" But it
was not, and the United States Bank fen before
other interests combined against il. When terri
toral expansion at the South was demanded IN the
annexation of Texas, in order to spread and
srerethen Slavery, Northern interests and princi-
pies opposed, and demanded "to be let alone" But
the Confederacy, acting as a whole, said, - we viii
9" take Texas" and Texas was takeni and what
wa. not openly bargsined for, War with Mexico,
was taken at the same time. That war brought
more territory, and forthwith disputes arose be-
tween the North and S,uth as TO whether it should
be iree or slave territory. Neither side, in this con-
troyersy was content 10 le; alone" or be - let
'alone." Interests end principles ollshel in the
contest, or were supposed to clash, and tle dis
Tuie went on.
THIS T, ctal is simply intended as an ilustr4tion.
II shows that diverse sections and diverse interests
within The common Union never have let one an
other alone, and, by inference, that they never VII.
This inference, based on the facts Of our history
is amply sustained by the deductions of reason and
eommon sense. The very fact that we have a
country extending through distant parallels Of a-
tude, giving variety Of climate and production that
a portion Is ocean washed and abounds in safe
layens, while other portions lie far inland, or are
debarred from maritime development by shOal
waters and shifting sands, is enough to account for
various aud antagonistic interests. When we add
to this the great fact of our national life and his
tory that portion is covered with free aborers,
and another portion occupied by degraded and
servile race we find elements inevitably hostile,
always cashiBgj conflict irrepressible."
For any one part Of great country thus sitnated
and cireumstancej, to enuDciste in the midst of
that countrys career with legislation of every SORT
bound up in the volumes of its statutes holding
each pOrtios to certain duties and responsibilities,