Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-12-04

,vron the New York Journal of Commerce,

tFrom the New YORK Journal OF Commerce.
The Courier and Enquirer says that the South have
shared equally with the North all the privileges
and advantages of the Federal Government; and
that they have receiveda larger share than the
North OF the official patronage and public money of
that Government and that there is nothing that that
Government the North has done, is likely to do,
TO injure their rights or property | am a Northern
man. and used TO believe thai these things as
the Courier represents them; but have examined
these matters, and now know these statements
untrue. The South has never shared equally with
the North in the just advantages and official patron
age of the Government Our commercial system -
our tariff laws nearly all in favor of the North
to the material damage of the South; much that
we of the North are enabled TO sponge out of the
South not far from zoe in every dollar in their
ings. When the crops of the South are ready for
market, and they come into Northern hands, we
make them pay the freight to their destination. If
they North in transit they pay the freight here
paw our steVedOres. carmen, our storage. If
they go abroad, they pay us the freight We i'm
port the goods they require we charge them all the
expense of importation, and good thirtythree and
third per cent profit; and when the South gets the
result of their years crop. we have certainly got
full zoe in every dollar Of that amounts and then the
| Republicans call them pirates When we paid last
year 1884 900 for the mpartatOns of the nation
the South furnished quite 20 per cent of the whole
amount; and we have the advantage of it. Then in
regard TO the salaries or official patronage of the
| government. we have three Northern Custom
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| the whole Government. Under the last Admins
tratiOn there only one Southern that at its
close held the appointment of a foreign Minister
and that Administration favorable to the
| South as any we have ever had. Now | say there
are things that the Government and the North have
| done, and that they likely to do if Mr.. Lincoln
carries out his declarations and the platform of his
Black Republican party, that have been TO the dam
age of the South; and if his and his partys pro-
gramme is carried out will be the utter destruction
| of tha pobtS and tV of he
gitiYe slave law has never been carried out in good
! faith by the Government of the North and is not
! likely to be- See the that occurred in Mr.
! Lncolns own State and immediate vicinity last
| week, where slave was taken by force from the
United States Marshal and this act glOried in by
! Mr. Lincoln's home party papers. Mr.. Lincoln and
| the Republican party are pledged to exclude the
| Southern people from the Territories, with theie
property This is quite important matter as thr
payment of one pepper corn year into the British
| treasury, which the cause ofOur war of the Re
yolution and behind quite important principles
If theSouth be shut out OF the Territories which
were secured by their blood and treasure well
ours we at once declare that they an inferior
member in the national firm, and the Republican
party would at once proceed to treat them as such
| They would stop the removal eft slaves from one
State to another. These serious matters to the
South they strike at the very root OF their prosper
ity and independence In fact the Republican party
are alternating to do the South Just what the TurCOs
of Napoleon Third did to the Austrans in Italy, First
make them prisonersi and then quietly rob them. Is
il not surprising that to the South object The Courier
saws Mr. Lincoln is elected by majority of the peO-
ME of the State This is not in the neighborhooi of
truth He has lust about third Of the vote,
taiulv not twofifths but enough of this There is
one thing certain the North has got to act just to-
wards the South return the fugitive slaves, abolish
the nersonal liberty bills, acknowledge the right of
the South equal to the North III the Territories or
| find the South in one solid compact whole separte
and independent government. The justice OF these
positions will be maintained by nearly majority OF
| the people of the North, and will be demanded by
the whole of the Southern people, and they are
| right.
| The North. South and West are to some extent
necessary to each other the South the most essen
tia to the other two for the West finds It's most IN
| portant consumers IN the New England manutac-
| turne-States Those manufactures must stop, II
the South will not send them their cotton and II
those manufactures STOP the West has lost It's best
market for its produce; but the South has Euro
! pean market for all it can produce. Not 50 with
either of the other sections The separation OF these
States places the North and West IN just the Dusl-
ness situation of the Danubiap PrlnclpaIltleS Our
| commerce is mainly supported by the South why
is il necessary for the North TO destroy tins proSS
| peritvy We send men like Seward OF TINS state,
and Wilson of Massachusetts,, who by ther endorse
| ment of Helper's Book declare over their own sig
natures that they will have social political III
tercourse with the Southern men, and that they only
regard them as robbers, ruhans and murderers.
| Can it be that these States can remain together
when we send such men to represent US IN the Ma
tiona LEGISLATURE? The North has got to act justly
| towards the South, for seif-preserFauon the
| South will have separate government;
| A HENRY CLAY WHG.