New-York daily tribune., 1861-01-05
DISEASE AND REMEDY.

DISEASE AND REMEDY.
If any State of this COnfederacy possessed the
power to force upon another any one of its Pc
cular institutions, and were to persist for half
century in doing 80, no great foresight would be
needed to predict social convulsion. If Utah
forced poygamy on Massachusetts,, the blood of
the Puritans would quickly rise to boiling heat
If Illinois were to violently engraft her wildcat
currency on the anti-sbinplaster Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania her people would reSnact the mad
ness of her old whisky insurrection. If the siayc-
breeding concubinoge Of Virginia were required
TO be made an institution of New-York, it would
be expelled at the point of the bayonet. SO, if
the policy of any one section should be set up as
the arbitrary code for the WHOLE dwarfng it's
growth, impOyerishing its people by destroying
its industry, and subjecting it's whole commerce,
trade, and manufactures to constant and ruinous
vibrations, common sense would toach the ma
iority that the cause Of this destructive uncer-
tainty must be removed. No matter whether it
be poygamy, wildcat banking, or slaye-5reeding
the suffering section must be freed from it's un-
natural bondage, and the evil influence kept
within the bounds of that section where it orig
mated. States and sections may have politics OF
their own, which others will cheerfuly permit
them to enjoy, but no forcing must be permitted
to compel dssentients to adopt them. A pecu-
liar institution ia in terms sectional one-Pecu-
liar there-but exceptional elsewhere.
In 1923, under the Free Trade dominion forced
on the nation by the Slave Power, agriculture
was absolutely bankrupt In Ohio, wheat was
lees than 20 cents bushel, -four at Pittsburgh
wos 81 % barrel farms were everywhere
sacrificed by the Sheriff, manufactures were
rooted ont, and thousands of operatives were
starving. In 1924, that Power conceded small
measure of protection, but it was wrung from it
with the utmost difficulty Yet, though very i'm
perfect, it saved the country from utter ruin,
changing an average specie export of S2,5OO 600
TO On average import Of 81 600 COO annually, dur
ing the four following years. -Four years later,
the Slave Power was compelled to yield further
protection as the only means Of discharging the
public debt That whole debt WAS paid within
five years, yet the import Of specie went on in
creasipg while the balance Of trade was not less
than SIC, ,OO0, 900 annually, in our favor. In
1892 Jealous Of the Northern prosperity, the Slave
Power invented notification to destroy protection.
II terrified the North into submission. and the
COMPROMISE tariff Of 1888 was enacted. This
quickly brought back the disastrous times of
1923, but with treble aggrayation. The national
industry was paralyzed-none but lawyers and
sherigs grew rich, while every one else became
poor. Bankruptcy was universal The country,
reused in 1910 by its intoerable suderings droye
the Slave Power from Office, escaped from
S4OO, ,OOO, 900 Of indebtedness BY bankrupt law,
and again wrung from its unwilling tyrant the
tariff Of lS42. The same general revival follow
ed, until the same Slave Power destroyed it by
the destructive tariff Of 1916.
Look now at the present embarrassment, and
the same potent agency for evil viii DO seen
10 predominant. 1t is the parent of every panic,
every bank suspension, every national insolvency.
We are as much its slaves as the plantation
chattel. II has forced upon the hitherto timd
North its leprous policy, with tho merciless rgor
of an unmitigated despotsm, and We are cow
ards all if patiently permitting its continuance.
No mitigation Of ts unyielding sehshness has ever
been voluntarily granted. If it seemed to yield
something in one place, it was only to grasp ut
more in another. II has debauched the press
and pulpit even beyond the limit of its
lawful locality, suppressed free speech, and
demora1ed the public conscience everywhere
within. its poisonous atmosphere. The Govern
ment il has made hissing and nm astonishmont
to the world, filling the high places with its per-
ured conspirators, until the wrath of an outraged
people has driven them out. 1t has deliberately
plotted the overthrow Of the Constitution it had
sworn to uphold. Il ia now In league with
traitors who are in open rebellion. Itself at
last in minority, it is now oonspiring for tho
destruction of tho nation because it can no longer
domineer over il, if not to hide, in the confusion
of q general wreck, the hidden evidence of vii.
lainies whose living oounterparts have already
made the country aghast with astonishment. One
day, all Northern commerce, industry, and wealth
are suddenly laid PROSTATE, that Free-Trade may
minister to the demands of Slavery. Another,
that it shall still be master, though driven out BY
public acclamation. Such has been the ruin
wrought within the Northern hive by this despOtic
agency during forty years, that the losses would
purchase the liberty Of every slave on the CONT
nent. How much moro its repressivo action has
served to intercept its profit, it would be impos-
sible to calculate. Taking either view Of its
bHghting influence, il is time the Slave Power be
driven back within its own municipal limits, there
alone TO grow and foster, or there to perish be-
fore the sure ordering Of Divine Providence.
Henceorth, the true cause Of these repeated
national cslamities ought to be so plain that he
who runs may read. Having discovered it,