New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-21
A SCOTCH PROPHET AND AN EN-
GLNSH KING.

together. They are mutually and INTERCHANGEABLE
too sharp for one another, and diamond cuts
diamond when they arc brought into collision
with such keenness that thefe is no dust left for
either party to come down with. The Scotch
have proVerb which, if we do not much misre
member, Sir Walter Scott quotes sOmew here,
apropos TO this very iucOmpatibility Of these ra-
ces, to this purpOrt:
:" Corbies Wilma pike ont corbles een'
Perhaps "canna" would be a filter reading than
50 ninna," as it may be that the difiic Ilty lies
rather in the power than the will of the featl-
cred and the unfeathered bipeds. At any rate,
it is said that Jews cannot breathe in Scotland
any more than slaves in England. And the same
physiological anomaly has been noticed as to
New .Engand-the Scotland of America-where,
until very lately, scarcely jew or a ScOtchman
was to be found, the concentrated type Of Yam
keedom there found being more than match for
the separate or compound sharpnesses of those
keen-witted nationaties.
We do not propose to enter into any discussion
of the philosophy, or even of the facts of this
theory Of financial antipathes. 1t may be 50 or
it may not be 80, and it may be accounted for
in this way or in that. But when it comes to
patriotism. it cannot be denied that there seems
to be nothing to hinder this antipathy if it ex-
ist, from being converted into sympathy. We
reed only to advert to the consonance of religious
views existing between the Reverend Rabbi
RapLall which we have fully set focth with
commentaries in our columns, and those held by
distinguished Scotchman, who long since left
his country for her good and ours, as set forth
through the pious medium OF his Hcrald. Then,
again, the zeal of those eminent sons of Israel,
the Honorable Messrs. enjamin aud lulee, bids
fair TO eat them up bodily rs members Of this
tyrannical cOniederacy, rather than suffer them
10 call Abraham of the tribe OF Lincoln
their Father in the State. And then there IS the
Mordecai at Charleston, who stitch in the gate
of Maior Anderson, and who hath given shekels
of gold and of silver yea and men-servants and
maidseryants, too (for all we know, to make
sure of the destruction Of that enemy Of the
people among whom he dwclls.
But this Isracte, in whom there Is no guile
for there can be none such in one who actually
bath invested $4,000 and a gang of negroes in
an operation of no usuriOus proInise-has hrs
match in a son of Albyn, whose tent is pitched
in the sister emporium of cotton and Of chattels at
the mouth of the Alabams-in short, in Mobile.
The performance Of the Gentle, indeed, has
not come up to that of the jew; but his promi-
ses aud his prophecies leave his Hebrew rival far
in the rear We learn all We know of this yalua-
bic importation from the Land of Cakes from
letter addressed 10 The LireyPoot Post of Dec.
%; but from that we learn to desire his better
acquaintance. He predicts that, before three
months from the time Of writing, the eight Cot
ton States viii be an independent people. This,
be informs his correspondent, will be altogether
for the advantage Of England and Scotland,
% for as We will have the same duties on North
ern goods IA on those of England, England,
France &C., will undersell the North in
our markets, we having no manufactures of
{. our own" We are duly grateful that there are
10 BE- no Discriminating duties against our manu-
iactures; but, then, if England is to pay the
same duties that we do, where Is the Free
Trade which was TO be one Of the GROWING
mercies attendant upon dissolved union
Shades of Calhoun and MacDu6ie! are the Sons
of the South still 10 be subjected 10 the hdign-
ties Of tdewaiters and excisemen Are not
Charleston. and New Orleans, and Mobile, to be
Free Ports after all We pause for q reply.
Our Scotchman is sound on the goose how
ever. which is the main thing. lie warns his
correspondent not to believe the nonsense told by
the Abolitionists on his side the ocean, as TO the
misery of the negroes. az 1t is all delusion.'
He quotes Robert Owen, who would nos let any
hobby but tho one be- rode keep the road, to
prove that the negroes in the West Indies were
far more comfortable, aud ten times happier,
tban the laborors of England. OF course, our
negroes are thousand times happier. "The
" Abolition delusiOn is mere madness. nat
WINS the consequence of West Indian Emancipa-
honl Before il, 100000 tuns of sugar were
shipped from Jamaica, and last year only $4,000
To be sure he forgets TO state, il he knew IT.
that all the English sugar islands together, ex-
ported about three times as much rs i'll the best
year Of Slavery, beside consuming as much as
they wanted. But that's no matter Should In
Gland and the North succeed in their work TO
emancipate the slaves, the South would not ex-
port to England more than quarter the cotton
she does now, and "what would become oil
4" Lancashire and Lanark Them Starvation.
The same fate would await the emancipated ne
groes diversified with an occasional variation OF
cut throat or so. IL can see nothing Tor the
'tpoor negro, but determination" They would
mob and they would fight, and the white people
would destroy them. Indeed, an appalling PIE
| ture
Our Seotchman, however, appears 10 perceive,