The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-07
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SATURDAY MORNING. JAN. :, 1880
CsulA tie NsssA Subdse the Ssuth
We alluded yesterday 70 the remarks Of Mr.
HicKAAn, In the yet unorganixed House OF
Representatives, with regard TO the steps
wAic1 ~ North would take, should the south
thiak proper 70 withdraw from the Union
We indicated the certainty that the non-s'ave.
holding States could not hold together, and
the impossioility therefore OF their precipi'as-
Ing their whole weight upon the siSsehoIdina
portions Of the Union. We now 60 farther
aud cay, that the Nor,h could not srbdue us,
although IL should all hold together
Those who remember the Mexican war, re-
member likewise the difficulty Of raising
men In New England, and the readiness with
which they offered themselves In the South
west. While ssachuset,s was raising n sin
eis regiment Tennessee, II we recoilect cor
rectly, offered the government between thir-
~ and forty. Now, we do not remember what
the population Of Tennessee is. but we feel as
sured that 1t IL not larger than that of Mas
sachusetts; at any rate, 1, Is not 50 much
larger ~ u justify any such result as that in
dica,ed. There must be special reason for so
great difference, and 1t is to be found in the
difference between the systems OF labor estab-
lished In the two countries. In Massachusetts
all that portion Of the population which con-
stitute its bone and sinew--all that portion,
in other words, which would be called on to
serve in the ranks in the event Of war-sup-
port themselves by their own labor. To leave
his farm or his work shop, would be to ruin
the soldiers affairs. lie is, therefore, natural
~ enough, very 10th to make the sacrifice
Hence the difficulty of raising volunteers in
New England. 1t is not that the people are
not brave as elsewhere, but they do not
leave their homes Ior military service with
out great reluctance, because they know that
TO do 50 10 to expose themselves to ruin. In
Tennessee. on the contrary, the work is done
by slaves. The population are either owners
Of slaves, or non shareholders who cannot
easily be injured by abandoning their homes.
This 10 the case throughout the South. In the
Southwest, moreover, ardent spirits, always
ripe for any enterprise, abound ABOVE all 9TH
Or countries ia the world Nothing could suit
these men better than a war. aud a great many
Of them are desirous TO have it, no matter
with whom. In the South, no volunteer,
Whatever Northern people may iooiishiy
Ing tai. family with has servants. lie knows
that community on earth is so safe, or So
little liable to be injured by any species OF
outbreak As the Southe community. Hence,
in the event of war, the South would, of her
selL TIE able To raise a much larger army than
the North, and to main tain it, too, much more
easily than the North.
For. as We took occasion to explain yes,er-
OAy North ia absolutely and uiferIv do.
pendeat upon the South. To the South she
sells nine-tenths OF every thing she produces
Take away her Southern market and she is
nothing Tue cntIre amount OF ali she raises
and exports is less than eighty millions Of dol
lars. The rest of her exports, amounting to
nearly two hundred millions OF dollars, she
introduces from the South. How is she to
make up the difference when the South shall
have been entirely cut of from her. To sep
arate her from the South would be to reduce
her to instant, universal and irremediable
bankruptcy. Far from main tanning armies to
hight the South, she would be unable to keep
her population from absolute starvation. Far
from sending men to fight other people, she
would find a civil war Of the most ferocious
character-a civil war slim ulated by absolute
want-raging in her own bosom and tearing
s
abroad for Il fight, she would find every body
fighting at home. Ii it be supposed that this
Condition of affairs would but precipia,e the
larger force upon our borders, we answer, that
armies must be organized before they can
march, and without money, and without
credit, how could she organize an army For
IL /. absolutely certain that, having no longer
any dependence upon the great exports of the
Sho a.
any exchange in Europe.
With the South, the case would bp far differ |
ent. The South, by vlrtse of her staples, could
command her own terms in the money mar |
kets of Europe. Her great staple of cotton |
makes her mistress of the world more espe- |
ciaily it makes Der mistress of England. 1t
was that staple that built up Liverpool and |
g lasgow. 1t was that staple that enabled Eng |
land to subsidise all Europe against NAPo- |
LION. and to come OUT victorious in the slrug- |
gle. 1t is that staple that supports the Bril- |
fish government. Take it away tomorrow. |
ana the throne OF VICTORIA is not worth the |
wood out of which it is made. England has |
been for a whole generation deyising means |
to obtain it on the best terms. LIE, the South |
say to her. that she shall have it free of cost |
or at mere nominal duty upon English fab
W
open to England-and is there any sum which
she would refuse Tell her she shall have this
great Southern market, which our tariffs have
secured to Northern mar ufac,ures--tell her
that the North shall be utterly excluded from
it-and what could we ask that she would not
give We could get money in any quantity.
arms by the ship load--an alliance (if we wish
ed it) offensive ard defensive, and a fleet TO
ware to the 81. Croix. With the subsidies she
would furnish, and willingly furnish, as the
price Of disunion, We could keep up an army
Of 2OG,UU0 trained veterans. We could march
to Philadelphia ~henever we thought proper
We could reduce New York to such condi.
ton, that the grass would grow wais, high ia
her streets. We could burn Boston to the
ground, and ill up her harbor with the bricks.
as Tyre was destroyed OF old, becoming SO
small Us to be known only as a place where
fishermen hang their neis. We could. make the
universal Yankee Eation howl for disma and
wish the May flower had stayed a, home with
It's cargo Of intolerance and treason, ms tead of
disgorRing 1t upon these shores, to the curse Of
all future generations.
Let II not be supposed that we are indnlripp
our fancy in drawing this picture We uresent
u AS the counterpart OF that drawn by Mr. |
HICKM n. So sure as these States of the South
'hali be forced ont of the Union, and an attempt
'hail be made to sublugate them, so surely
will they throw open their ports to Great Bri
lain. and all the rest follows as a necessary
We shall get better goods and
ieal with more honest men. We shall make
what loans we wish, aud keep up a standing
army, which shall be an eterual menace to the
North. 1t Is not worth " hiie 10 tell us that
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