Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1860-08-24
on Industry and National Finances.
from The Cincinnati 0asesse1

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The men of business, and especially mcr-
chants, manufacturers and mechanics, should
not forget that while the Presidential cleo
ton is mainly discussed in its relations to the
extension of slavery, there is beyond this q
question Of tremendous magnitude In regard
to their interest The policy of the Demo-
cratic party in the Administrations of Pierce
and Buchanan has lin spite of the general
prosperity Of commerce) greatly retarded
manufactures, depressed some Of the great
industrial interests, and made forty millions
Of neA-deb for the Government. Shall this
policy be continued, and bad become worse
Shall American Industry, employed in its
workshops, factories and mines, anguish and
suffer, simply that the cotton trade may grow,
and negroes and slavery be increased! These
things are intimately connected together.-
They are inseparable. From the moment
that Southern planters found the price Of
cotton rising by the European demand, they
set to work to destroy the tariff. Why? In
order that Europe might be able to pay for
cotton by the products Of its own factories
and workshops.
Tins was the doctrine of Calhoun, McDu-
whether in South Carolina or New York.
who cared nothing about free trade per ~,
(Which il 1t best tTiding f1ction,) but who
were greatly concerned to increase the freight
Of ships and the price of cotton. With the
aid which such demagogues a Douglas could
afford, and the influence Of the navigating
interests, the cotton planters succeeded, in
l846. in striking off specific and running hori.
Sontal lines through the tariff. That this
should produce IN increase of foreign trade
and importations was obvious, and accord
ingly our foreign commerce swelled enor-
mously. Cotton was grown wherever ne
gro hand could be found, the merchants of
New York built thousands of ships, and ex-
ulted in the increase Of foreign trade. The
cotton brokers Of New York and the cotton
planters Of the South boasted of the millions
Of bales Of cotton. A literary work of some
plausibility proclaimed Cotton Is King; and
now, a. we have quoted, one Of the leading
journals Of New York (the Herald) proclaims
Cotton as the constitutional need be,
stronger than the Constitution. The last
point is now reached. The tariff of 1916 has
done its work. The production of cotton
has been carried to an extent beyond which
it cannot 60 without more negroes. What
next? The cry comes from the planters,
Reopen the African Slave Trade De
Bows Rsuisp has long been filed with arti-
cles in favor of the African slave trade and
the conquest of more territory from Cuba to
Mexico, for the benefit of slaveholding and
cotton planting. To make slave States out
of free Territories-to reopen the African
slave trade-to destroy the Tariff, and with
it the industry involved in factories and
workshops, were the great objects which
the Southern party have always had in view and
which lay behind the troubles and difficulties
of the Democratic party at Charleston. The
extension Of slavery was the ostensible object
but Of what use are more negroes without
more cotton trade? The thing is well un-
derstood by Southern statesmen, and in the
great question of dipertiny the national indus
try from Northern channels, is the vital ques-
ton which underlies the whole. It has de-
stroyed the Democratic party, and now rush.
es forward to force conquest of the nation,
by the help Of the factions into which it has
been broken. The cotton-planting, negro
interest is united; and it will be helped in
the great Atlantic cities by the importer, the
broker, the slave traders, the foreign agents,
and all the dependents on the foreign trade.
These with few, weak, deluded mortals,
who are afraid the Union will break,) make
up what the New York Herald calls "cosser-
ratirss," and who are called upon to defeat
the Republican party Why? The Repub.
lican party will not disturb anybody's negro
The Republican party will not break the Tn.
ion. The Republican party will not oppose
the extension Of country. Why defeat the
Republican party at all, when it stands forth
at this moment the only National party; the
only one capable of doing the least practical
good9 Why defeat that, when all others are
but factionsf A patriotic man cannot an
swer this, by anything which concerns the
real interests of the country. We must look
behind, at the cotton bale and the negro, be-
fore we understand it. It is the material
interest" Of the South which lies behind this
movement. The whole policy of this Gov
eminent, since 1643, has been to aid that
material interest and depress the staples, the
manufactures, and the interests of the North.
Shall this policy be continucdy IL the Re-
publican party comes into power, this policy
sciU be changed. Let no man be deceived
II the Republican. party prevail. the ehole
policy of this country, in regard to slavery,
cotton and manufactures, WiN b changed. =
We do not say this from any warrant drawn
from men and conventions, but from the un.
questionable fact that such il the spirit, ten.
or and intention a ~ Rep1Alisan. party it.
self. We have ssca exhibited profigacy
Of administration which has had no example
in this eeN1ly, and we have seen that it VI
the Dr. nsequence Of the policy of the
Democratic party. We have sssn industry
neglected, and the planting interest only car