New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-23
SWEETS TO THE SWEET,

Senator Benjamin is said to own sugar plan
tations in Louisiana costing $2O0,OOO with ne.
groes on them worth, in ordinary times, $500 900
more, though just now perhaps not up to this
| mark By one-half The total may not be 80 great
as rumor makes it, but we take it to be good
| round figure anyhow, especially when taken in
connection with the plantation Swagger in which
| the gentleman sometimes INDUCES on the floor of
| the Senate. This swagger always indicates mig
| gers, either at home or elsewhere. Now, any
| man who would pitch this amount of money into
forty fathom of water whether deliberately or
in a fit of passion, would be written down au
ass. The chance OF his recovering it would be
small. Whoever took the contract would have
TO dive deep and be well paid for diving, for the
undertaking would be attended with divers diff
ficulties. There would be big loss, no matter
how he fixed it. Now nothing can be further
from our thoughts than meaning to insinuate that
Senator Benjamin is an ass. He has uttered
things against us which were fundamentally un.
kind, We might even say severe. But having
survived them, we will not rctaliate. Yet the
Senator is doing his utmost to urge Louisiana
into Secession. Now, as sugar planter, the
tariff of twenty. flour per cent foreign sugar is
all that keeps him alive. Let him succeed in
propeling Louisiana out of the Union, and what
becomes Of him, his plantations, and niggers
What becomes Of this protective duty, which
apparently cOmpels the North to pay two cents
more for every pound Of sugar it consumes, than
il would have to pay if Louisiana made none
We say apparently for thore is no doubt that
the effect of keeping up the LOUISIANA plantations
is to keep down the price of sugar in the market
of the world to such an extent, that We really
have to pay no more for sugar with the duty on
than we should have to pay if the duty were
abolished But If Louisiana goes out OF the
Union, the duty will certainly go with her,
and then every sugar plantation viii rush to de-
struction as swiftly as if sunk bodily in forty
fathom water. For ten years past this duty
has amounted to over 100000 per an
mum ON the average. In 1857 it amounted
TO Sl2,OOO,O00 all working directly for the
protection Of the Louisiana sugar planters. AS
surely Us Louisiana goes out provided she stays
out, just so surely will the sugar duties be sup
pressed for ever
Now, senator DeDlhniih not peing dn hso-Ss
least, not having been so written down by us-
must see this turn Of the card as clearly as do
others. He must know that in such game he
cannot come up trumps. He knows that, out of
the Union, every sugar planter would be utterly
ruined. IL he meaning to initiate the feat of
pitching bis whole fortune into forty fathom
water Can no induce the world to believe that
he proposes to indulge in any such sportive &C.
centricityl If not thus bent on his own ruin,
how can his extraordinary urgency for rebellion
be explained The facts would seem TO show
that he must be either crazed with passion, or
that HE urgency is only part Of the monstrous
sham which the shareholders are now playing out,
TO terriiy the North into bowling down to the
old raw head and bloody bones Of the last forty
years. But they need not shake their CORY locks
nc MS.