Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-04-11
The English Press on American Afra,rs.

We take the following extract from Cores Oliver
pooD Advcrser, of the 9th ult.:
The last news from America is fully as important as
any which has reached since the election OF Mr. Lin
coin to the Presidential chair of the United States The
Legislature at Washington was engaged in the con-
structlOn OF tariff inmical to the interests of all
the nonmanufacturing States and not less to the n
terests of this country Such tariff must widen the
breach between North and South and must enlist The
sympathies of the whole commercial world on the side
of the latter. It plainly demonstrates that the question
OF slavery, as domestic institution is not the only one
Whlch renders reconciliation impossible between North
and South Their material terests-property in slaves
not lnciuded-le wide as the poles asunder And if
protectloa-rampant proecton-be held to be the true
interest OF the Northern States then there can be no
community of interests between them and a conntr1,
like Great Britain, on whose banners are Inscribed
Free trade with all the world" But with the
Southern COnfederacy, whose interest it is sell us the
raw material of our industry and to buy our man
ufactured goods, there must spring up spontaneously
such close alliance with Great Britain as will render
the grasping seishness Of the protectonist States
hurttul to no but themselves. Gan hesitate for
moment, when asked to decide into which scale will
throw the weight of our moral support On one scale
upltted by President Lincoln is engraved Protection
to native industry at whatever cost-ahough by its
means we may increase hundredod to our own people
the cost OF many of the prime necessaries of e On
the other scale, uptted by President Davis is en-
graved Free Trade-no duties except for the pur-
poses of revenue full supply of cotton for the mills
OF Lancashire, and open market for the products of
its looms" This suicidal tariff will efectualy isolate
the North, and seal it against the commerce of the
world, and the very attempt to introduce such meas
ure demonstrates the necessity of separation be-
tween the Southern and Northern States. Such an
Outrageousy eXtravagant system Of protection as it
embodies furnishes the South with sufficient iustif-
cation for its firm resolve never reenter an union so
destructive in its operation to their most vital interests
The Southern States know we'll that the commercial
intercourse between them and the manufacturing
countries OF the old world, especially Great Britain,
cannot be too untrammelled by fiscal regulations
The c0mmerceking tariffs of the North are hateful in
their eyes What interests have they the Iron Foun-
dries OF Pennsy yVana, the Cotton Factories of Low
ell? They care not to protect the shipping Of the
North. Their object is our object only more naturally
theirs than ours, to sell in the dearest and buy in the
cheapest markets of the world"
We therefore confidently assert that the question Of
slavery not the real bone OF contention between the
Northern and the Southern States The question at is
sue is that OF Free Trade Protection so Unsuitable
liz Its demands and selfish in its eXcusiveness as to
impose prohibitory duty articles in the production
OF which 1t cannot hope TO compete with those who
possess infinitely superior facilities for the work.
Our policy OF Free Trade-whateyer difference of
opinion once existed on the subjects now
rreversibe and while we will extend the RIGHT
hand of fellowship to those who embrace it. we will
turn the cold shoulder to those who would give us stones
Tor our bread, and scorpions tor shes-Who would
sell all the products of their industry but receive
none of in return We cannot find language suHi
GENTLY strong to express detCstaOn OF scale Of Gu
ties which intended to exclude from the markets OF
America the products of England of Germany and of
France and ne must acsh God-specd to the mew Repu6-
lie Of tie SOuth achich must triumph IN its contest 1r1th
the NO1th-6eCGuSe ats might as its RIGHT. 1t is Ia
mentable to think-We write more in sorrow than in
anger-that great people like the Americans should
so far lag behind the age so misunderstood the epoch in
which they lve and SO blindy rush on Mear oua de-
Sructlon, as to adopt policy so suicidal to themselves
Of Golf Il
enlightened spirit that which is embodied in the So
called Morrill, Tariff