The national Republican., 1861-03-29
NEW YORK TO BE EXCLUDED.

If there is any one city which the Confeder'
ate States will never admit to their sweet EN-.
braces, it is the city of New York, and for the
plain reason, that to get rid of the overshadow-
ing commercial supremacy of that city, was one
of the leading inducements to the present at.
tempted disruption of the Union. Upon this
point the Charleston Mercury says:
"There is but one solitary stumbling block in
the way Of direct trade. A reconstruction OF
the slave States with any of the Northern, free,
importing States, will at once, in our judgment,
strike direct trade to the ground. New York
| has the track. She has the accumulated cap.
| ital, and she has the custom. Nor can any pos
sible efforts at the South divert her trade from
her, except through the operation Of two dis
tinct nationalities. This will do it, as we have
shown, most effectually. And nothing else will.
Any political connection with New York will
again bind us,'very vassals in commerce, at the
wheels of her triumphal car. Her rod will
again be over us; and, with her accumulate l
arrest it. Let US look well to this matter in the
future
In his speech at Savannah, on the 22d Of
March, Mr.. Vice President Stephens, after pre-.
dieting that the slave States, not yet seeded,
must "grapiate" to the Southern Conlederacy,
proceeds to add:
"Looking to the distant future, and, perhaps,
not very distant either, it is not beyond the
range Of possibility, and even probability, that
all the great States of the Northwest shall grav.
itate this way, as well as Tennessee, Kentucky,
| Missouri, Arkansas, &c. Should they do so,
| our doors are wide enough to receive them, but
not until they are ready to assimilata with us in
| principle"
Mr.. Stephens neither predicts nor desires the
accession of the manufacturing and commercial
States of the Northern Atlantic seaboard, for
that would be to reduce the South again to that
condition of rassals in commerce." from which
they suppose that they have just escaped.
The New York Express, and papers of that
stamp, talk of a reconstructed empire, from
which fanatical New England is to be excluded.
But it is really not fanatical New England, but
commercial New York, and manufacturing Phil.
adelphia, which the leaders of the cotton nui.
fcation desire to exclude. 1t is preeminently
the city of New York which these leaders have
intended to strike down by their recent move
ment, although, strangely enough, there is no
other place at the North where they have so
many open sympathzers and supporters. The
merchants of New York will, by and by, under
stand it.
Dd5" In the Senate on Monday, in brief
interruption Of Mr.. Douglas, Mr. Clark, of New
Hampshire, said:
81 believe, if the Senator will allow me, that
the propositions that have been made in regard
to compromises have demoralized the Union
feeling in the Southern States, and if we had
stood on the simple question of Union or dis.
union in those States, we should stand better
to-day than by standing on the question of
compromise or disunion; because, failing to
get compromise, great many Of the com.
promise men may become disunionists."
These are golden words of wisdom, as cur.
rent events are testifying. To hold out the
prospect of impossible compromises, was to
encourage delusions, of which the advantage
was short, while the recoil of disappointment
was certain and dangerous.
The Sarannah Republican of last Monday
says:
Judging from the several puddles of blood
to be met with yesterday morning on sidewalks
in different sreets Of our city, it would indicate
that Saturday night last was one Of more des
| perate debauch among a certain class than ia
usual in Savannah. Our attention was par
ticulary attracted, when passing in front of the