The national Republican., 1861-03-16
EX.PRESIDENT TYLER.

In the telegraphic synopsis Of Mr. Tyler's
speech of Thursday, in the Virginia Conven.
ton, he is represented to have spoken as fol-
lows:
He desired Virginia to put forth an uti.
matum, demanding full and ample security, as
the only condition Of remaining in the Union.
He thought such security, if granted, might
eventually bring back the cotton States. Nir-
ginia cannot exist without them"
1t may be presumed that this gives accurate
ly the points of Mr. 'ryler's speech, inasmuch
as they correspond with those invariably taken
by Virginia politicians Of the Democratic dis.
union school. They are identical with the res
olutions adopted by the Legislature of Virginia
in January last, which declare that that State
will remain in the Union, if the Crittenden
platform is adopted, but that in any event, she
will 60 with her Southern sisters on the Gulf.
This is merely repeated in Mr.. Tyler's speech
of Thursday. TUyiniq cannot eris',' he
thinks, except in political connection with the
cotton States, and yet he wants certain guaran-
ties, as an inducement to her to forego that
connection, and remain in the Union. Mr..
Tyler may not see the inconsistency Of these
positions, but others do. If it is true, as all
the disunionsts Of Virginia. from Mr.. Hunter
down, have insisted, and still insist, that Nir.
ginia must at last follow the Gulf region, it is
in vain that guarantees are offered, which can
not control predetermined and inevitable
course.
1t is, in truth, this opinion, that Virginia can.
not separate from the Cult, an opinion based
upon several considerations, but chiefly upon
an apprehended loss of a market for negroes,
which constitutes nearly the entire strength OF
the secession party in Virginia. 1t is not the
Crittenden platform, or the Peace Conference
platform, which Vrginians, inclined to seces-
sion, really care about. They would require
no new platform, if they had the company in
the Union of the Gulf States, and without that
company, no platform will reconcile them to
the Union. And it is not by giving them new
guarantees but by showing them that Virginia
"can erist" without the cotton States, thai
they may be Induced to give up the heresy o
secession.
The bugbear is, that the Gulf States may re
fuse to buy negroes of Virginia, if Virginia re
fuses to join the Southern Confederacy. Bat
it is not likely that people who have been com
planning of the high price Of negroes, and de
sirous to open the African slave trade, in orde
to reduce the price of negroes, will seek tt
make it still higher, by cutting off an old source
of supply. 1t is not the new empire, to b'
founded specially upon black labor, which vii
decline to receive such labor from any quarter
If the politicians of the new empire shoult
legisate with that view, to crafty mere anger
it would be legislation impossible to be en-
forced, because it would be against the inter
ests and habits of the cotton States. 1t is no
Virginia which cannot erist' without them
but it is they who "cannot erisi" without th
Virginia market, in which to buy a commodit.
indispensable to all their projects of production
commerce, and political expansion.