New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-07
HOW TIE SOUTH CAN MAKE THE NORTH
DECAY.

To Me Editor Of tn. n. Y. Tribune:
p SIN: Let me say to my Southern brothers-suppose
the State Of Virginia for instance, were to become
Free State some fine day what think you would be the
consequence DO you suppose she woud stand sui IN
tie march Of social progressonl Quite the contrary
Families from barren and conservative New-Engiand
would GEEK homes there; agriculture would be stinu-
lated manufacturing would begin in good earnest ana
be- nowhere else better rewarded; commerce would
follow suit II Northern free labor take Virginia
non and coal to New-Engand, work them and return
them to Virginia at polt, cannot Southern free labor
work this iron and coal al home and send 1t TO New
England at profit Cannot the like be done with
other articles alsol DO you not remember that the
ate Hon. Abbott Lawrence attempted TO establish
free-labor cotton mill in Virginia, and that the slave
labor sentiment alone made il mpracticabie' lou VIII
probably concede that the hourishing CONDITION OF
things have briefly spoken Of in the ease oil rilgie
Free State would happily come to pass. But how
would the North be affected thereby She would lose
certain amount of trade, and consequently certain
amount of profit. This loss sLe might perhaps make
M from other sources and perhaps she might be unable
10 do go Suppose, now that the remaining Slave
states were 10 become Free Staies-what would be
true in the single Of Virginia would hold good oi
each Of the other Slater, only IN greater or less &C.
gree according 10 circumstances. There WOuld DE
drain of business and Of population from the North,
and reduction of Northern profits an equalization
would be going on, and level finally found; and
unless other business and profits were allied by The
North to the extern, Of her oss she would inevitably
decline The conclusion is irresistible Tell me, now,
whence would the requise new business and profits
be derived for ! conferr / cannot see
Now the North is all right She has hitherto fat
tered on Slavery. II she We're now mercenary merely
her true policy would be TO widen the limits OF Siav
ery not oonlne them; but in offering the principles OF
FREEDOM for your acceptance, she virtually oiers you
A. rert of her business aud part OF her profits, rs have
hastily attempted 20 showa and you are so blind you
cannot see her hand. But spoke of your revenge;
Would Won behold the decline Of the North Would
II .aisfy Won 70 see Lowell, and Lawrence and Man.
| Il erter and Lynn and the Ike places langnish :
Whoever Hye- 10 see the abolition Of Slavery in thu.
country land the boy j. bom who will witness IT., VIII
behold tie South attain the portion to which her Gu,
MAZE ,oil ard unnyaed resources entiile her; VIII
tehold the consequent reduction OF Northern prohf,
md the increased remuneration Of Southern capital.
Tie eoualizalion have spoken Of will b. effected,
and national property the property of all classes IN
sfekally more desirable than the highest possible de-
cree of mere sectional advantage will surely come 70
| n,ss And ~ the progress of Freedom, the emAncPa
,iop Of the Black Man trH bring about fHcyltdby a,
| . I'm, h, vt, he dociae N he North; and you Will
have your revenge How are you to seek 1t, DO you
ak By yeicor4ing oheshing, aud enc 'uraglng inc
grread az Republican principles, as step ward tha'
,..penei,aiou TINT universal Freedom whlch 'ney one
tor Who arc ready 10 perish. Am not Hgh' Ms