East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-05
Clingnnn on Fcderai Relations.

10th, 1860, are worthy of perusal. They
present the relative position of North and
South in different light from that gene
rally considered here.
Speaking of the ability Of the South to
resist the encroachments of the North, he
says:
Let us look at this matter for few
moments calmly. At this time the popu
lation Of the South is nearly thirteen mil
lion, Of which more than eight million are
free persons and four million slaves. At
the beginning Of our Revolution the pop
ulation of the colonies, both free and
slave, was less .han three million. The
slaveholding States are then far more
than four times as strong as we're the
colonies when they dissolved the union
with Great Britain.
Is IL likely that after having been indie
pendent for eighty years, our people arc
less attached to their rights? But many
Of your Abolitionists say that savehold-
ing has enfeebled our people, and render
ed them so spiritless that they are neither
willing nor able to make defense. Ed
mund Burke thought differently, and said
that of all men Shareholders were the most
tenacious Of their rights, and defended
theirliberties with the highest and haugh-
test spirit. | do not refer to the war of
the Revolution, when all the States were
slavehoding; but i'll the last war with
Great Britain the Southern States sent
out more men than the Northern, and it
has never yet, as far as / have heard, been
pretended that Harrison and Johnson
Scott and Forsyth, were not as brave as
those who went from the free States to
the Canada line, or that Jackon aud the
men under him in the Southwest did not
exhibit proper courage. To the war
with Mexico, though much the less popu-
lous section, the South sent nearly twice
the number of men that the North did
\ leading black Republican editor SAYS
that one regiment from New York would
be able to conquer all the Southern States.
\ regiment from New York certainly
conducted itself well during the Mexican
war; but it has not, think, been affirmed
that it behaved itself better than the regi-
mcnts from the slavcholding States. lfI
you, therefore, think that one Of your
regiments is able to subdue the South, our
people will probably differ with you in
opinion. You say that fear Of the slaves
will prevent any resistance to YOU. As
y sudden movement of few negroes,
stimulated by abolition cmissarics, might
destroy family or two, there is undoubt.
.cdly apprehension felt. Fifty persons,
however, arc killed in this country by Vi
cious and nmauagcablc horses, TO one
who suffers from the act Of q rebelious
negro. There IS, in fact, about as much
reason to apprchend a general insurrcc-
tion Of the horses as of the slaves of the
Sogth when left 10 themselves. When,
during the war of 1912, the British ar
mics were in tho slaveholdng territory,
though they induced a number of slaves
60 join them, they found no ADVANTAGE 10
result from it, aud their government paid
for all carried of at the close Of the war.
Though the Spartans and Romans were
the greatest Shareholders in the world,
and though, too, they hell in the most
rigid scrYitude men Of their own color
and race, and therefore liable to rebel in
great force, yet they were strong enough
to overthrow their enemies. In our
opinion, the slaves are positive element
of strength, because they add to the pro-
duction Of the country, while the white
race can furnish soldiers enough. Every
man, too, among us, is accustomed to ride
and to carry weapons from his childhood
There are, however, other important
elements to be taken into the account
During the last fiscal year tho exports of
the United States, exclusive of specie,
were s278, 100000 OF this amount, the
free States furnished, exclusively, So
PSI ,000 the slave States SlSS,693, 600,
and the two sections jointly, also, SS4,-
Al, 900. OF this latter sum of SS4 ,000,-
600, the slave States probably furnished
one-third, but certainly one-iourth. a
fourth added to the amount exclusively
furnished by them, makes total of $21O,-
600, 600 as the value of their exports to
foreign countries. They also exported
large amount to the free States. New
England alone received about fifty mil.
lion dollars worth of Southern produc.
tions: and to the rest Of the free States
WcIc Scntj uOuutlcsS, iIolt' uc cIJlrc
exports from the slaveholding States to
the free States, and to foreign countries
combined, must greatly have exceeded
three hundred million dollars. AS the
South sells this much, it, of course, can
afford to buy alike amount. If, there.
fore, it constituted aseparate confederacy
its imports would exceed three hundred
million dollars; duty of twenty per cent.
OH this amount, which would be lower
rate than has generally been paid under
our tariffs heretofore, would yield rcve-
nue'of S60,000,000' More than fifty mil
lion of this sum could be well spared for
the defense of our section, and the sup
port of larger ARMIES and navies than the
present government has. Though it may
seem strangeto you that the South should
in this way raise as large revenue as
the whole Union has ever done, and this,
too, with lower tariff. You must re-
member that most of the tariff taxes the
South pays go, in fact, in the shape Of
protection to those Northern manulactu-
rers who threaten us with negro insur-
rcctions and subjugation. Do you think
that with these prospects before our peo-
pie they are ready to submit uncondition-