The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-10
Rirbmonn 9ispatth.
MORNING. :. APRIL 10, 1891.

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WEDNESDAY MORNING. APRIL 10. 1851.
x>.sAer. ssasesm aAship la Contrast with
] -e-e-1 Nerthsrn.
The distinguished wisdom and success that
have marked every act Of the Southern Con-
fcdesacy, and the amazing stupidity and self
,shness that have characterized the conduct
Of The Northern, are but exemrliAeations of
the comparative craftsmanship of the two sec.
tions. From the beginning Of the Govern
meut the South has supplied the Union with
It's principles and its statesmen, while the
North has occupied itself with schemes for
making money out Of the Government by
means Of protective tariffs. fish boanties, war
pensions, and land grants. The Articles OF
Association Of i77& were the result OF south
ern exertion and appeal; the Declaration of
Independence of 1910 was the composition Of
Southern patriot; and the Constitution Of
1s87 was chiefly the handiwork of Southern
statesmen. From the organization of the
Federal Government down to the present
time, all that has tended to the glory and pro-
gross Of the Union has been the fruit of South.
crn craftsmanship; all that has conduced to
tho enolument Of classes, to the aggrandize-
ment of the few and TO the injury OF the many,
has been the products Of Northern continuance,
ingenuity and selfshness. From the begin
ming, the North has treated the Union as its
oyster, 70 be opened and Toasted upon; the
South as an object upon which to lavish its
choicest gifts. Witness Virginia donation Of
her magnificent Northwestern domain; wit
ness the liberal contributions Of gallant SOL
diers which the South has made to the Fed
eral armies in every war, whether to repei
the invaders of Northern soil at Boston, at
Saratoga, OF on the Niagara or to meet, sim
gle handed, the invader of her own in the
Carolinas, at Yorktown, or at New Orleans !;
or whether called upon for her Palmetto,
Mississippi, and other regiments OF chivalric
men, TO conquer new glory and territory for
the Union upon the soil of a foreign enemy.
MorrEsQuIKu's celebrated doctrine, that the
principle Of government in monarchy is
honor in a despotism, fear and in repub-
lie, virtue, can hardly be accepted as true /;
for both honor and virtue must rule in a re-
public otherwise, virtue, unsupported by the
sentiment of honor, must soon expire. 1t is
prV1osely the fact that both Of these principles
have most eminently characterized the states
men whom the South has furnished to the
Federal Government, which has given them
10 large a control in its administration, and
contributed SO signally to the unexamplcd
progress and prosperity Of the American
% Union. The great glory of the South, in
her whole connection with the Federal Gov
ernnent has been the disinterestedness and
unsel6shness that have characterized her en-
tire conduct; whereas selfishness, greed, and
avarice, have been stamped upon every mea-
sure of NOkthern policy, and are written upon
every page Of Northern history.
The last months history of the two rival
Confederacies has brought ont these opposite
traits of character in the most striking con-
trast The North having commenced by elect
Ing President of its own, by its own vote,
for its own selfish purposes and advantages,
of course it might have been expected that its
chosen agent and attorney would carry ont
his presidential commission in the spirit in
which 1t was given. Accordingly every APP
pointment in his Cabinet was either North
ern in fact or Northern in animus and in
stinct. Every appointment to foreign mis-
sions has been Northern, except in the very
few cases In which nominally Southern
man, like CAssIUs M. CLAY, could be found
with really Northern principles. In the SEN
ate, as newly organized, every committee has
been constituted of a large ajority of North
agitator at is head-such mountebanks as
CHARLES SUMNER, HENRY WILSON, JOHN P.
HALE, and ZRDKKIAH CHANDLER, being made
chairmen Of leading committees. The whole
personnel of the new Administration, though
still protesting to be National, and to en-
brace the whole original Union, is intensely
Northern-intns ct In cute, Northern. But
the GROWING act Of unblushing selflshness
wi Urp fptp "
sectional concern, is the MORRILL, tariff bill,
by which the vast financial system of the
Government has been made tributary to the
petty interests of a few persons and localities
in the North. A Senator or his brother car
ried on large mandatory of wood screws,
the only one in the Union, and to minister to
the avarice of this single individual, prohib-
itory duty was imposed by this infamous &C
upon the foreign screw req uiring every man in
the United States to pay for this article what
ever monstrous price this single individual
might choose to ask for it. This narrow spirit
of selfishness runs through every section OF
the bill. Than this corrupt MORRILL, tariff
bill, the course of folly could no further 60
nor of selfishness, nor Of mean avarice nor OF
vulgar greed.
The spirit of South craftsmanship on the
other hand, is admirably exemplified in the
amendments it has engrafted upon the old
Constitution. The greatest good for the great
ct many the success of the common cause
the interests Of the many before those of the
few; these are the ideas pervading and under
lying every article Of the new instrument A
tone of lofty unselfishness runs through eve
ry line Of the amendments which, abbrevia-
ted, are as follows:
1. The absolute prohibition of all bounties
from the Federal treasury, and all duties or
taxes ON imported goods intended to promote
or foster any branch OF home industry.
O. positive prohibition Of Federal appro.
priations for internal improvements, and the
substitution of local tonnage duties for such
Improvements. @
8. The res friction of Congress by majority
vote to such appropriations as may be recon
mended by the President or some executive de.
partment, all other appropriations requiring
two thirds vote
4. The holding of contractors to the strict
letter Of their contracts
8. That the Post Once Department shall
pay its own expenses.
To these we add the others that were en-
grated upon the new instrument, which,
though not in themselves indicating unset
hshuess Of motive In their authors, were vet
designed to counteract Il selfish desire on the
part Of the North to put down an institu ton
not Its own, and to appropriate the entire do.
main Of the Union to itself; in fact, the Union
has been dissolved in consequence of this sell
Ash purpose of the North to seize all the com
mon Territories to its own uses.
The other amendments adopted at Mont.
gomery are as follows:
8. That African slavery in the Territories