The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1861-04-19
More British Opinions Of American
Affairs.

ultimO, IN leader on American
affairs, is very severe upon the tariffs
Of both North and South. or the
Morrill, tariff it says: ave console
ourselves in tho belief that this mar.
row and selfish policy will infallibly
overact itsclf." 1t then proceeds 10
dispatch the export duty Of the Sc.
ceded states 10 the following un-
sparing fashion:
For a single year the consumers
Of cotton may be made to pay tribute
in the shape OF an export duty to tho
Planters OF Georgia and Alabama.
We ourselves in India have coutrived
to levy such tribute upon the Chi.
nese, in the shape Of an export duty
ton opium. But the English are not
likely to submit to this kind of treat.
ment with as much patience as the
Chiresc, and the Southern states
must make up their minds to pay for
whatever funds they may raise in
this manner by the permanent de-
struction OF their principal article o;
export. All the abolitionists Of the
North and West never dealt such
blow at slavery as she will suGer at
the hands of her chosen champions,
from the imposition OF the tax upon
the export of cotton.
The manufacturers Of this country
are becoming thoroughly alarmed ut
the precarious tenure on which they
hold their supply of raw material -.
Tho imposition Of an export duty
will put an end TO all hesitation in
the mipds Of those at whom it is di-
rectly levcled, and everything that
British capital, skill, combination,
enterprise, and influence can effect,
will be done, in order to raise mp
competing industry to that of the
Southern states. For the first time
in this question, our interests seem
likely to be ranged on the same side
As our feelings, and we shall be
forced at last into taking q payt Tor
which consistency and honor have SO
long pleaded in vain. 1t is bu,
melancholy result Of Constitution
which, for the first time, incorporates
into itself the principles Of free trade,
to be Immediately succeeded by that
most deplorable of all economical
absnrdities, an export duty on an
article OF produce of which the state
has no monopoly, but which can be
produced almost anywhere within
35 degrees North and Sonth OF the
Equator.
THE sECESSIJNISTs ALONE ro BLAMR.
The London telegraph says:
No unpre JUDGED reader Of the in.
telligence from America, brought by
the latest mail, will deny that the
South is taking upon itself the entire
responsibility OF civil war. There
was no threat, no insult, no chall, nge
in the inauguration speech Of Mr..
Lincoln.
The Southern mind is imporvious
to any argument founded upon Just
ice. Otherwise it would concede, as
fact, the truth that the return OF
Mr.. Lincoln can scarcely he recorded
as a great triumph OF the Republican
party. Surely that patty must enjoy
many similar triumphs before it can
hope to stand on par with its an
tagonists. Taking list OF fifteen
Presidents, from Washington to Blu.
chanan, five have come from Virgin.
ia; OF those Eve, four were reelected
holding office for eight years each,
so that during exactly one half OF
he period which has elapsed since
the creation Of the Republic, its
Chief Magistracy has been held by
a Virginian. The Highest office in
the commonwealth, in q word. has
been filled twelve times by men from
the South, and only six by men from
the North, and yet the former protest
that they are denied an equal parti-
cipation in the government Of the
United States. The New York ne
less than the New Orleans Journals
Join chorus in fiery protest agains
perpetuating the reign Of tyranny
: What tyrannyl Is it that Of South
ern majority in Congress over {
, Nor,hern President, or that of a Car
e Gilman Planter over gang of make,
$ Africans, toiling themselves to deatl
( in the sun? Mr.. Lincoln has seizec
no state property, hoisted no revo
1 lutionary flag, convened no illega
=, assemblies, armed no lawless troops
{ invoked the authority of no turbu
lent and seditious rsbble. The onl,
2 blunder of any magnitude which ha
II been committed has been pardon
i ell with singular forbearance. 81,
n months ago, had President Buchan
q an been sincere in his heart arr
: strong in his hand, he might hav
Y spared his successor au immensity O
Q trouble. But Abraham Lincoln, mp
y on assuming office, finds himself il
y the perplexity of q new commander
: in chief, whose predecessor has lei
Il almost every strong position undis
u turbed in the hands OF the enemy
o In one quarter the palmetto flag ha
!, been floating since December, owe
II United States property, and With
!, range Of United States guns. tn
n only protest made having been o
oi paper. In the state archives b
is reads document, purporting to com
T. from certain South Carolina Con
ir missioners. in which the surrende
a. of federal fortress is demanded a
ss though the parties were sovereig