East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-04-11
The English Press GA the Aineri-
can RcvOIuiion--The Times Fa-
vOrs the Southern COnfcderacy

DY tnclr own IN ISL, anu tue TWO ne
publics must be weighed, not by their
professions or their previous history, but
by the conduct they pursue and the posi-
ton they maintain among the powers OF
the earth Their internal inStitutlo
are their own air; their financial
political arrangements are emphaticaiiy
ours. Brazil is slaveholding empire,
bat by its good faith and good conduct
il has contriyed to establish for itself a
place in the hierarch Of nations far supe-
rior to that of many powers which arc
free from this domestic contamination
If the Northern Confederaoy of America
evinces a determination to act in mar
row.. exclusive and unsocial spirit, while
its southern competitor extends the hand
of good fellowship to all mankind, with
the exception of its own bondsmen, we
must not be surprised to see the North,
in spite of the goodness of its cause and
the great negative merit of the absence
of slavery, sink into secondary position
and lose the sympathy and regard OF
mankind
We may be said to be already in poss-
ession of the first fruits of the American
disruption. The secession of so many
members of the two houses of Congress
has conferred upon the North an unnis-
puted majority for the first time. They
have not been slow to avail themselves to
the utmost OF this advantage. They
have, indeed, done nothing appreciable
towards healing the wounds Of their dis
tracted country, They have taken nc
decided measure, either of Cancellation oil
coercion. The South has heen allowed
to mature its preparations, to seize the
Federal arsenals and forts, and to organ
ize new government, without even an
Ineligible protest from the Legislature
at Washington. There was much excus'
es for this. The period between the
election of the new President and the
surrender Of Office by the old is sort oil
interreguum in which it may be said all
legislative and executive activity Is par
alyzed. But, though unable to do any
thing for the cause OF the Union, the
Senate and the Congress have employed
the interregnum to strike second blow
at tho commerce, the finance and the gen
eral prosperity of the country infinitely
more fatal than any abstraction OF terri
tory or dimunition of population. The.
employed the last weeks of what is prob
ably the last session Of the last Congress
of the United States of America in undo
ing all the progress that has been mad,
in the direction of free trade, and in man
aching their country once more IN tn
letters of protection amounting to pro
hibition. We fear that the bill has al
really received the assent of the Presi
dent, and at the present moment tn
twenty millions of exports which Englan'
sent last year to the United States, have
as far as laws and regulations can etieo
it, been virtually excluded. If Amerl
cans wish to know with what feeling
this measure has been regarded in Eng
land, they have only to turn to tho trad
re ports OF the Times, and their curiosit
will be gcatifed. Thus, we find from
Birmingham that hardware and cutler
trade Of E3,S00,000 is looked upon a
worthless. South Stafordshire is in dis
may. "The conduct of Congress on tn
tariff bill has much changed the tone c
public feeling with reference to the seces
sionists, and none here, even those who's
sympathies are with the Northern States
attempt to justify the course which tn
protectionists in Congress have pursued.
In Manchester the proposed increase q
duties on cotton goods in the Unite
States is causing great attention. l
Newcastle il is considered that it will b
impossible to do business with the I'm
ted States on the terms set out in tn
tariff, while the business with the soutl
ern States is described as satisfactory
In Sheffield, considerable apprehension
felt as To the effect of the new tariff o
the steel trade. In Wolvernampton tn
anticipation that the tariff has become
!, law darkens the already gloomy prospect
, of the iron trade. When it is remen
bered that all ,his i'll will aud disruptio
: of international ties and sympathi(
which were becoming closer every da,
and which America never needed mo,
than now, are to be effected for no be
ter object than that of protracting tn
! sickly existence of an artificial mannfa
: turing system, raised and nurtured at til
, expense of the shipping and trade Of til
, country, and by levying an odious tribu'
! from all classes not concerned in mani
features, we cannot but wonder at I'll
( madness of democracy and its utter I'M
, biity to apprehend and retain the mo,
} obvious principles of economical scienc
, Protection was quite as much cauce
, disruption Of the Union as slavery. /
that respect it has done its worst; but
: is destined, if we mistake not, to be I'll
fruitful mother of other descriptions. :
| What interest have the great agricult,
raj western States, for instance, in bein
: tributaries to the iron masters of PEN
| sylvania or tho cotton spinners Of Lowell
They will desire, as the South has desi
ed; direct trade with England, and Il
, peculiar position of Canada, with its faci
tiles of communication by lake, river an
, railway, viii show them the readie
/ means Of obtaining direct trade by
fresh seperation-possibly by an amalg
r nation with our own colonies.
!. These topics are SO obvious that v
, forbear to insist upon them, but we be
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