Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-10-22
NOrthern AggressiOn on the south.


South. Mr.. Buchanan himself lamenting
the use of money in the elections, could
hardly have been more dismal than was Mr..
Yancey over the wrongs of his poor, ag-
gressed-upon, abused, down-trodden, pa
tient, enduring long-suffering South. The
audience doubtless wondered what this tale
of wrong consisted Of We doubt if any man
present was conscious of any act or intention
of sggrcssing upon the South. Nor did Mr..
Yancey specify. Details are not in his line.
In new York he undertook to itemize and
he specified the bushels of strychnine fur
nished the Texan negroes by Abolitionists.
This was a month or two after the New Or
leans papers had published that the parcels
of strychnine turned out to be wheat -four,
and that the whole poison story was a hoax.
To be sure, he called US all negro stealers.
But really Mr.. Yanoey's State can not be
suffering very much from northern negro
stealers. A northern man who would 90 to
Alabama to steal negroes, for philanthropy,
would seek a cheap and pretty sure martyr
dom. There are negro-thieves in the South,
just as there are horse-thieves. 1t is purely
a southern business. Negroes escape, also,
in Alabama, but they fly to their own
swamps, and remain until dragged out by
their own blood-hounds. An escape to the
North is just about as impossible to them as
a pilgrimage to Mecca. And in regard to
negro stealing which formed so much of the
burden Of Mr.. Yanceys song, and in which
his chivalric courtesy, secure in that toler-
ance from the audience which is exclusively
a northern institution, delighted to implicate
the whole people, we can say to Mr.. Yancey
that there are fewer negroes enticed from
the South, than there are free men stolen
from the North and carried into slavery.
Mr.. Yancey comes here from State where
slavery is undisturbed, save by their own
agitation. She has no anti-slavery borders,
norunder-ground railroad, nor orabolition-med-
ding to complain of Slavery is as safe and
undisturbed is it could possibly be if every
State in the Union was a slave State. Yet
he comes before an intelligent Cincinnati
audience and performs the "Dismal Jenny
over the wrongs of his State and section; as
if every man in the audience did not know
that the whole slavery excitement which he
represents, is created, fostered and ridden
by politicians, solely for their own political
purposes. As if every man of us did not
know that the greatest danger to slavery is
the agitation of it by political factions in the
slave States, for selfish partisan purposes
As if we did not know that the worst
enemies of slavery are those who assume to
be its champions, and who have ridden the
agitation at home, in the presence of their
own negroes, until, by their own accounts,
the slaves in States FIVE hundred miles
away from free border and who never saw
an Abolitionist, are ripe for revolt.
But what are these aggressions upon the
long-suHering South? Mr.. Yancey did not
specify, unless they are included in the gen.
eral charges Of negro-stealing, notification
of the fugitive law, and an intent of the Re-
publicans 10 abolish slavery in the Slave
States by Congressional legislation all of
which have no existence, unless in Mr.. Yam
cey's brain, and it must be very diseased
brain if they have, there. But he did specify
the elements of progress and prosperity in
the South, and professed to show that she
had kept pace with the North in white popu-
lation, while she had vastly outstripped her
in the increase of wealth. Really, if this is
the effect of Northern aggression and ty-
ranny upon the South, she ought, like Oil
yer, to ask for more. AS ''FalstafF' observed
of the camomile, in his pathetic speech, 'The
more it is trodden the faster it grows"
1t is throwing away powder to review the
position of a statesmanO who counts the
whole export of cotton as the net profit of
the South, and as the contribution of the
South to the North to help pay its foreign
balances; as if the North, left to ITSELF would
be compelled to buy more than it could pay
for. 1t is as if California should claim the
$50, 100000 Of gold which she furnishes, as
her net profit; and because that about equals
our export of bullion, should claim that she
kept the nation from bankruptcy. In spite
of her net profit OF two or three hundred
millions, the South is constantly in
debt to the North for years supply ofgoods;
and there is no country where such long
credits are required; and even now, on ac-
count of fractional deficiency in the cotton
crop, general suspension of payments is
talked Of and a partial one has begun; and
Southern papers are talking Of secession as
desirable, to iquidate their debts to the
North
1t is probable, also, that Mr.. Yancey for
got that he was talking to Northern audi
ence, when he assumed that the South was
the greatest consumer of Northern manu-
iactures. The regular performance of South
ern actors is to represent the South as the
Atlas which sustains the world; but it is not
so effective here where every man knows
that on an average one Northern laborer
consumes more manufactured goods than six
negroes, and where the average eonsump-
tion of manufactured and imported goods
by the whole white population is greater
than that of the white population Of the
South. But perhaps we can aid Mr.. Yancey
in specifying some of the Northern aggres-
siOns on his much-abused South. The weak,
minority section, which, as represented by
Mr.. Yancey, appeals to the magnanimity of
the North, has controlled the policy of the
Government from its very foundation. 1t
has the lions share of the Federal Of
hces, and, by its control Of the execu-