Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-30
A Scotch view of the American Crisis.

From the Glasgow Herald, May TO-.
The distinguished wisdom and success that hav
| marked every act of the Southern Confederacy
and the amazing stupidity and selfshness that Eav.
characterized the conduct of the Northern, are Blu
exemplifcations of the comparative statesmans hi
of the two sections.
From the beginning of the Government the SoutE
has supplied the Union with its principles anC
statesmen, while the North has occupied itself with
schemes of making money out of the Government
by means of protective tariffs, fish bountes wal
pensions. and land gr nts. The Articles of Asso
citation of IVA were the result of Southern exer
tion and appeal; the Declaration of independence
OF ING was the composition of Southern patriot
and the Constitution of 1871 chiefly the hand
work of Southern statesmen. From the organiZa-
ton of the Federal Government, down to the pres
ent time, all that has tended the glory and pro-
gress of the Union has been the fruit of Southern
minds; all that has conduced to the emolument OF
classes, to the aggrandizement of the few, and to
the injury of the many, has been the products OF
Northern contrivance, ingenuity and selfishness
The great glory of the South in her whole cOnnec-
ton with the Federal Government has been the
dsinterestedness and unselfshness that have char
scterized her entire conduct; whereas selfishness
greed and avarice have been stamped on every
measure of Northern policy, and are written ON
every page of Northern history.
But the GROWING act of unblushing seldshnes
which dgraces this meanly and wretchedly section
al concern is the Morrill, Tariff Bill by which the
vast financial system of the Governments has been
made tributary to the petty interests of few per-
and localities of the North A Senator or some
relative carried on 4 large mandatory of wood
screws or such like, the only one in the Union; and
to minister to the wants of avaree of this single in
dividual. prohibitory duty was imposed by this
Act upon the foreign screw, such other articles
requiring every consumer to pay an extrsvagant
price, or at least 80 per cent more than he should
do This narrow spirit of selfshness turns through
every section of this odious bill Than this Morrill,
Tariff Bill the of folly could go no further
or selfish, mean aYarice, or vulgar greed. The
spirit of Southern statesmen, the other hand is
admirably e8empliied in the amendments it has in
grated upon the old Constitution. The greatest
good for the greatest mauy--the success of the
common cause the interests of the many before
those of the few-these the ideas of the new
instrument. A tone of lofty un<elfshness runs
through every line of the amendments, hich abre-
viate1 are follows:
l. The absolute prohibition of all bounties from
the Federal Treasury, and all duties or taxes on
imported goods intended 10 promote or foster any
branch of home industry.
z. positive prohibition of Federal appropriations
for internal improvements, and the substitution of
local tonnage duties for such improvements.
3. The restriction of Congress by majority vote
to such appropriations as may be recommended by
the President or some Executive Department, all
other appropriations requiring a two thirds vote.
f. The holding of contractors to the strict letter
of their contracts.
5. That the Post Office Department shall pay its
OWN expenses. ~
MUsr PAY UP.-The New York merchants who
IN the spur of the moment induced their employees
% volunteer by promising continuance of their
alaries, it seems need little coercion to make
hem comply with their hasty contracts. The
Tribune threatens them after this fashion:
mo little Indignation is felt in certain regiments
" members, who were expecting to serve their
country, and whose employers in New York had
ran.ed them leave of absence with continued paw.
hat they should now be compelled to resign and
eturn or allow their families to suffer on account
i the stoppage of salaries by the aforesaid en-
loyers. ltwould seem no more than Justice if the
ames Of such employers could be published"