New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-12-15
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| 70 be about tile only prominent politician of the
| Abolition party who correctly apprehends the
true state Of afairs at the South, and appreciates
the losses which will result to the North from
| disruption of the Union. Here is Thurlow's con-
fession:
| Many suppose that the North has nothing to lose
| nv a division of the Union. Some even say that
| we are to be gamers by it. We do not, for obv
Gus reasons, intend to discuss this aspect of The
question. Baa Is 11ststake-d serious and an
| e1pensiue mistake. The North and South were
| wisely, and by good Providence, united, Their
interests their welfare their happiness, their glory,
their destiny is one. Separated, while the North
| lauguishes the South becomes, first q despotism,
running riot for season. with unrestraned Atri-
can slavery, to share, in time, the fate of every
tropical nation whether despotsm. monarchy, or
republic. That fate, induced by the Incidence.
luxury aud laxity of the privileged few, over the
oppressed, degraded and enslaved many, is anar-
chy and destruction. That fate is written in the
history Of all enslayed nationsits ancient. SCARED
and crumbling bnt instructive monuments, are
seen in Egypt in Italy in Central America, and in
Mexico,
Here. It will be seen, this able and dangerous
man admits that the North would anguish if
the Union were dissolved. He regards it as : a
serious and expensive mistake to entertain any
other opinion. And Weed is right. Senator
Toomhs Of Georgia. in the powerful and brilliant
speech which he lately delivered before the Legis
beginning Of the Government the legislation of the
country had tended to the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of the
North at the expense Of the South From the be-
ginning they have had a monopoly of the coasting
trade compelling shippers at the South to employ
American vessels, and forbidding them to employ
foreign vessels in the coastwse trade, if the
latter could be chartered for nothing. They have
had fishing bounties paid them out of the common
public fund. paid to a set Of people for attending
to their own private business, and business which
is profitable PEI. Sc. They have been protected
from foreign competition BY high duties-oompel
ing the consumers Of the South to pay manufactu
rers their profits instead Of forcing them to enter
the markets in fair competition with all Others
They have had almost a monopoly Of the public
lands. Above all, the great bulk of the annual ex
penditures OF the Government have been disbursed
in their midst. Senator Toonabs says that of the
seventy millions Of dollars now annually spent by
the Federal Government, sixty millions 60 to the
North. Well may Weed declare therefore, that
the North would be the loser in the financial sense
of the word by dissolution Of the Union.
Equally clear is it that the South would be the
gamer. When the Abolition leaders have had full
experiment Of their Northern Confederacy, they
truth Of Weeds warning that it il serious and
expensive mistake'' to suppose the North would
not suffer by dissolution.
But Weed attempts to solace himself for the in
jury to the North By picturing the evils which
would also come upon the Southnot financial dis
tress but social and political evils He is pleased
to contemplate the South as becoming I" a Despot-
ism if she set up her own hook She ii to
il to share the fate Of every tropical nation r.
and that fate, Thurlow kindly informs us, is
4 Anarchy and Despotism." Here's bit Of his
torical information not laid down III any Of the
books. We were not aware, before, that it was
the fate Of emery tropical nation to be the victim
of Anarchy and Despotism. On the contrary, in
those tropical countries where the system Of Afri
can slavery prevails, I'VE find less Of anarchy and
daspotism, and more Of order and general pros
perity, than IN those where the system il excluded
Who can sag that the fate Of Cuba and Of Brazil |
would not be that of Central America and Of
Egypt but for the wise conservatism which al. |
ways exists where the institution of African slavery
prevails
But all be this fine theory Of Thurlow's il upset
By another circumstance -whichis, that the South
ern portion Of the Union i'd not tropical country
The delta Of the Mississippi the extreme Southern
portion Of the Union, except little neck Or Florida
and corner Of Texas-is nearly three degrees
from the tropical line. The Northern line of the
Southern States is eight or nine degrees above the
tropics. On no account can the Southern States
be called tropical region. Even if they were, |
they are populated BY a different race of people |
from those who inhabit tropical countries. They
are peopled by AngIo-Saxons and their descend
ants-by the people of middle and western Europe
and their descendants-by brave, hardy, patient,
industrious race, with ahe love Of liberty in their
hearts, but not victims to the revolutionary pas
sions which affliot the people Of Mexico and Cen
trail America They are altogether different races
sof men. In every respect, then, Weeds theory
about the fate Of the Southern Republic is not only
Improbable but palpably absurd. To talk about
Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, in the
gorges of whose mountains the snow scarcely ever
disappears as tropical country only shows how
wide of the mark this writer is in all of his specu
lations about the fate Of the Southern Republic.
A The Southern States, as an independent COM
munity, are abnndantIy able TO take care of them
selves, In every respect Of government, finance,
social order, and popular comfort and content. OF
that let the leaders Of Northern sentiment be well
assured. They have never asked any favors Of the
Federal Government-an bountes ANY special
or peculiar fayoritism. Nay we were willing to
grant such things to the North if only the North
would keep the peace towards US, and let US alone.
If they think slavery such crime, let them organ
ize their own Government, and have none Of it.
Then, they will not be offended by being in the
same political community where it is protected.
II they want high duties, let them, in their own
confederacy, establish duties Of thousand per
cent. if they choose. # they want to pay people
to catch cod fish, let them pay five dollars piece
for every fish caught, if it SO please them. After
they get their own confederacy, and we get ours,
they may have as much class legislation as suits
them. They may provide that every citizen may
live upon the common Treasury, if they like--only
they must themselves keep their own Treasury FULL
Southern craftsmanship believes in equal rights to
ALL no oppression or denial of rights to any, and
no special fayoritism TO any. This is the sort of
Government which We propose to organize, and in
tend to organize. If the North wants a different
sort Of one, let them organize it for themselves.
They may then give full swing to their propensity
for expressing one class of citizens and aggrand.
izing another-for high duties and Goldfish boun-
ties-for making war upon any species Of property
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