Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-07

weary of the perpetual excitement aud
alarm attending their possession Of this
property, and OF the spice Of cruelty that
abstract theorists in all societies imagine
iu it.
The African slave trade will not hinder
the progress Of the elements in the farm
ing States. II will only cut down the
profits Of slave breeding, which is now the
great support Of slavery in the Border
States; and it will thus hasten the decay Of
the 'institntion"-ss in our habitual misuse
of political terms, it is called. -r
AS soon as relieved from the outside pres
sure Of the Northern section of the Union
on the border States, the natural forces
which have long been at work there,
will resume their progress. In spite of
political fanaticism, and of the habitual lazi-
ness and absence of all energy and ambition,
which slavery entails on the poor white class
of the South, the interests Of free labor are
constantly gaining on slavery. They are
already so much greater that nothing but
the fanaticism which the politicians create
ont OF their connection with the North, gives
slavery that tyranny over the popular senti-
meut which il exercises in the Border slave
States.
Emancipated' from this by a separation,
the interests of the white man will begin to
assert their power; and the irrepressible
conflict viii be found fully developed on a
field where it will have not only all the per-
tBacity of an abstraction, but the virulence
of direct contact of interest and rights.
| We, of the North, looking from our Egypt
across the Red Sea, TO their wandering and
plsgues, ard tire. eating serpents in the will
derness, will not laugh at their calamity.
But VIC will reflect upon the blood and the
murrain, and the frogs and the lice from
which their departure relieved our politics,
and will be thankful, while we give them
our prayers for similar deliverance.
That the Border slave States will become
free States, is what every Southern states
man sees TO be inevitable. This is one o
The elements of their apprehension Of the
future. separation from the North will
only hasten this event. 1t is not a matter o.
sentiment or Of political action hut it is
the operation of forces which are supreme
ever both. Then the irrepressible conflict
between free and slave States, which We
have so long "enjoyed" in the Union, viii
break out with new vigor, on new border
several degrees further South; and in pro-
portion as the border States bind themselves
to the slavery interest, during the first ex
citement will be the force of the reaction
and of the new conflict. ..
We need not say to any one who has eve
thought Of the matter, that what is calle
the rights of the South" are not the 10
teIest of the majority of the white men of tn
South; but right the contrary: yet SLAYER.
rules them with rod of iron while unde
Southern Republic they will have to pa
most of the cost.
A Southern Republic will begin with
brilliant scale of expenditure, and will keeI
it up. This will be appreciated by the peo
pie; for, with free trade, it will have to b
paid by direct taxes. Slavery. furnishes
very small basis for taxation. great tax
able basis requires the accumulation {
. wealth in the country, instead of systst
, which exports it all, and then abandons tn
land.
The South have never known yet what
is 10 pay the expenses Of that costly luxury
O national Government. They think dilIet
emily, and really believe they pay it RearI
all ) and they foot up the value of their e,
| ports, aud call that paying the expenses
/ the Government and the debts of the Mort
5 So it is the current idea there that the Sout
. fought all the great battles of the Rovolutio
end of the Mexican war, and is more than
{ match for the whole world. We would nC
. destroy this pleasing delusion but expt
rieLce will. The South has never yet begu
f 10 pay for national Governments. A sing
, fact will show this.
The revenue comes from our import
, Neither the negro laborers nor the laz
: poor whites of the South consume any in
| ported goods, to speak of. Nor have the
S manufactures TO consume the great quantit
5 OF materials of all sorts which are importe,
This reduces the class using imported good
to a small one, compared with the people
the North; and this class do not average
greater consumption than the same numbe
taken Unfortunately from the Norther
people. Thus it will easily be seen that,
the way Of mails and Offices, and Cover
. ment expenditures, the South gets back 9
!. it pays to the revenue, and leaves about ii
3 whole support Of the General Governmel
on the laber of the North.
r So it will be in Southern Republic. FIR,
= labor will pay the piper, while the Gu
! States will dance to the music. And as
. viii be in direct taxes, people will kno
l what they pay for their whistle, and wi
5 ponder and consider. The support of Il
, mails in the South costs from $1,000
t $4,000 in each State over the receipts.
e direct taxes that would be so serious bu
Is den that it is probable the Southern Repul
2 lie would abandon it. That would be ol
Il of the early fruits of independence. tt
y people would not like it, although many
y the politicians dislike mails, and have a po
II opinion Of reading and writing. .
In all other matters, the government
l. schemes of a Southern Republic are Il
o most airy castellated fabric, compared wi
e the taxable base. All the projects for fo
l. eign alliances, and for acquisitions of teri
a tory by war or purchase, are purely for 4
re interests Of slavery in the Gulf States, VIII
ID the property of the Border States viii p
70 the chief part Of the cost just as we ha
au heen in the habit of dninO In the late el