Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-13
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VIZ
The Future of the North.

We have watched with an interest which
| must have been Shared with our readers the
development, which a long train of scarcely
perceiy ed canseS has prepared, of those
changes OF policy, social and public, which
are close at hand and must hereafter obtain
in most of the non-slaveh"lding States of the
| former Union. In the front of these stands
the great Empire State, as its people are fond
| of styling il. In New York, fine commercial
| spirit, the intense love of money getting, the
! almost fabulous progress of her people in
numbers and wealth and the rivalry aud COM
petit ion for OStentaIious and luxurious dis
| functions thus enge1dered in a society devO-
ted to the dollar, and therefore ignorant end
| uniformed, have expelled all care for the
State. aud extinguished even the traces of
that Spartan simplicity which made us and
| alone can keep US free people. Luxury
and the love of gain, which procures it, have
COR upted their society TO the core. Their
public men are debased by long habits of
factious politics and low public morals. Gov
eminent itself is regarded with them as
mere money getting machine. and their states
Dadnshlp has become gainful trade, insomuch
that the remark is common, that politics max,
Southern man poor and Northern man
rich nor would it be easy, in a review of
the individual history of officials connected
with the Gpvernm ut from its foundation, to
point Out many exceptions TOT truth. North
ern society, in fine, approaches that state of
degradation which makes political DespOtism
flourish, whore the people require Govern
ment to protect them in the enjoyment of all
the obj cts of sense-in personal security, as
distinguished from freedom and think. when
it has effected this, it has performed its whole
office. The duties of citizenship 10 such peo-
pie are irkSome-ihe vigilant care of their
liberties Expresses them-the refined and deli
cate relations of State rights and State SOW
ereignty are an uninteligibe study-the ter
ror of popular license affrights hem-and
they would fly from the presence of such
evils to the embrace and refuge of a central
DespOtic authority. What can be more sig
nificant of these changes than the undis-
guised utterances of their leading presses,
such as the New York Courier aud Enquirer:
.'The war may soon pass away-we may
have a q lick and vital battlefield. and the
North prove its prOwess, as certainly it will
but the truth of national unity aud pOs0er that
these events have Civ endures- Combined
--cOndrnsed-coHcentra an army and Ruuy.
" Ii is the chal acteristic of the history of
our inns, that ii gives 10 Years the labor
which was the burden in other times for ages
and The sud len ru hing into one bounding
artery IF all the life blood of the Mouth
may nosO create US. We shall ask be question
Why all Lhis needless. cumbersome. Intricate en-
tngiement IF different po,cers o mike lao ami TO
deere j,ldgDeatP We c1n cford noao 10 EFFACE
me old Colonial Geography. Ii is the odnauted
pOtCers OF S'ates WITHIN THE NATION, hut has
been The surce of oil our trouble. Nor tCiI the
REMOVAL of STATE POWER AND THE CREATION
"F A NATIONALITY, be a task so formidable. 1t
has been dOue even in the instance of Ing
land and Scotland, educated as toos by CEN
tuTIes OF warfare.
The Conflict of jurisdiction over the Dor
der is settled, and the nation of England is
virtually one-with one navy-One flag
from he Orkneys tn Lands Eud.
This artificial difficulty Of State rights is not
an insuTHountqbLe Ii must yield to the
greatest good of one power; we are not
strangers aud strange TO each other. Massa-
chussetts and New York, Vermont and Penn
sylvania need not be individudluies. They are
rooms in the same house aud require the same
front door. Even commerce is wearied with
the conflict of decisions. We need not all these
Legislatures. all these sOuereignties. We are one,
and ought to move one.
I'VE need the guidance of one law making
power, declaring principles. and regulating
US by wise rules of broad scope. The memo
rable sentence in the Federal Constitution,
which secures the inviolability of contracts,
is type of the rule. For all minor legisla-
ton, districts can easily be formed as may
Or's court is organized at Albany. The North
never before knew its strength. 1t already
sees the end of this appeal to arms. 1t has
the brain, the arm, the gold, and recognises
the rule of Our Father who art in Heaven
This makes OF US at once NATION; and we
only ask. in the midst of all the clang and
clash OF war. TO point to that which ought to
he the great end of this most wonderful
Union OF all our strength-OaT unity as na-
ton"
THE North never before knew its
strengtb?'-Strength in the architecture of
ruin! What wonder that we fly from the con-
tagion OF such crime-crime against l. berry,
for which no lustration will suffice-fy with
our Household Gods to build ourselves new
city. How remain? What specific had we
else against the infection-what prophylac-
tie against the terrible disease?
"A thousand years scarce serve to form State;
San hour may y il in he dust; and When
''Ctn its shattered splendur renOyate,
Recall its virtues back, ana vanquish time aud fateS