New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-02

would be no idle spectators. The North would be
left when the hour of coercion arves, with even less
population than the South. The iss1e OF arms
the gauge of battle would be accepted without hest
tatioD, and the South would meet the North 10 the
open field. The South could sustain more men IN
the field than the North. Her four millions oil
slaves alone would enable her to support an army
Of half million. They could raise yearly revenue
imports of forty million dollars, or il their ports
were bockaded by the navy Of the North, they coud
raise nearly as large sum by taxation. Would tne
millions at the North, thrown out of employment by
secession, rush to the battlefield for employment
Would their strikers for higher wages turn upon their
best customers and butcher the men from whom they
derive their subsistence Where was the popuis,
ton to support the taxation which the South oomld
lay with impunity upon her unresisting slaves! Inc
mjscaed free laborers Of the North, really slaves TO
capital would not sub nit 10 taxation. The people oithe
North were than mad TO agitae Slavery further
and douby mad to talk about coercng the people OF inc
South When the tun should set upon this Confederacy
it ould put back the march of time in the progress
of free and enlightened Government more than 2UO
years. There would be a confederacy in the North,
one in the South, another in the North. Wes-the ally
of the South. And et another on the far Pdeiho,
destined to be the mghtiest and grandest OF all; Or
if this should not happen, they could in the
present state of Mexico what is to be the sad ana
ruined future Of our now happy and prosperous conn
been and was now the aggressor. Their cry about
the orenDg of the African slave-trade was all DEM
aeoguism. Not three thousand voteTs in South
Carolina were in favor of it, and in his own, Green
ville District he knew Of but two. The people knew
that that would be the worst calamity that could be,
fall the institution of Slavery. At meeting called
in favor of the project near Charleston after ex-
tensive advertising and great parade only one hum
bred ard seventy-ve persons could be got together,
and part of these were opposed to the object OF
the meeting. But the Norh refused to render back
escaped slaves, and kept in good faith no SOLITARY,
compromise. Aggression was her watchword, and IL
the South continued to complain, she met by
md lfa an1fh ia If
arousiDg in the quiet at the South spirit OF de-
termined resistance. They were crying, " Let us
settle this question at once and II need be- draw the
"sword and throw away the scabbard." If the SEN
timents contained in the Helper book, and the pro
eIamme marked out by Mr.. Seward, were found to in
dicate truly the sentiment of the North nineteen
tweneths Of his constituents were In favor OF dlsunion
without an hour of unnecessary delay; and if this
course of insult and sggresson was pursued though
he claimed to be Constitution and Union-loviog
man, he would return to his constituents himself to
sound the alarm, and kinde with his own hands the
beacon fires hilltops, and maintain the rights OF
the South with flaming dagger and blazing torch.
His cry should be, &" To arms~ Ii was the hope
of the South, few weeks 90, that Virginia
would take the lead iu some measures for the
protection OF Southern interests, but from present in
dications there was likelihood of immediate action.
As near he could understand the present position
of Virginia. abe tenders to the North again the issue
of the baot.box in the coming Presidential election:
He and his people would accept that issue, and
Democratic party of the South, woud make effort
to elect the man, whoever he might be, who should
be nominated by that party at Charleston. Ii they
went down in that struggle, they would unite
in such action as the exigency required.
He defended his vote for Mr. McClernand for Speaker
which had been denounced bya Democratic paper in
his District as an Ant-Slavery S9uatterSoyeregnty
vote. Mr. McClernand have voted steadily with the
Southern State Rights Democracy and voted for
by them in return. lie was in fayor of the annexation
OF Cuba with her institutions, and regarded Slavery
in the Territories a strictly judicinl question. HIS
past record the Slavery question showed him to be
as sound as James X. Polk, and even sounder than
James Buchanan. He voted for him in sood faith for
the cole purpose of defeating the Republicans and il
ore of his peers shoud question his motives, he would
answer with monosylable. He was identified with
the State Rights Democracy of the South approved
the recent letter of the Governor of South Carolina to
the Governor of Maryland in regard to the proposed
Conference of Southern States, and regretted the
measure had not been brought about
The Committee rose, and the House adjourned.