New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-01

rate Of duty on imported CottoDs at six cents
per square yard-Mr. Calhoun made power,
iul speech against striking out taking the mosi
thoroughly Protective grounds. and six of the
eight Members from South Carolina voted
against striking Out-0ne Of them being OF
course Mr.. Calhoun, and another the great and
good WILLIAM LOwYDE>.
/ need not pursue this history. Suffice it
that, while Massachusetts end a majority 0i
New England opposed Protection down to
very late day-opposed even the Tarfi OF
1923, which Martin Van Buren ard Siias
Wright engineered through a Jackson Con
gress-the South did far more to inaugurate
and establish The policy of Protection than the
North Mr.. Wrbsters grent Free-Irade speech
in opposition to the Tariff Of 1924 was the
prayer of the Boston capitalists not TO be
forced to withdraw their capital from Com
morce aud invest it in Manufactures; but it
was Overrule1.
For tho fifteen years preceding Secession,
there bad been no Tariff in operation that the
South did not fully copcur in passing. She
seeded under Tariff which had received the
vote Of every South CnrolDiau. every Free
Trader--a Tariff avowsdly framed for revenue
alone, and which did bot afford revenue
enough to maintain the Government ia tine oil
peace. Tee Morrill, TarII Of 1S6l-thOugh IN
my Judgment saluiary and benriicent meas
urc-cuud not haze been passed but Tor tue
secession of the Cotton States. Was 1t not
enough that the embryo traitors ran Breckin'
ridge as a bot ne candidate Tor President on
purpose to elect Lincoln, so az 10 make that
election a preiexr Tor SccrssOn? Must you
ibterpose n pea for Secesslon based on Tarlii
that owes its existence 10 that very Secession
DO Won not remember Senator llemnonds
triumphant answer to the complaint that the
south had generally governed the country
" Have We not governed it ,reHi" fou Mr.
o sullivan. realize perfectly the truth of Gen.
.Jackson's remark IN letter to Georgia
friend just after the collapse If Notification in
i3i3-"The Tariff was bnt a protect. The
next wlll be the Slavery or Negro question"
II. You charge that the Abo!tioni'm OF the
North has long "irrltated the South. / do
not doubt Il Haman was irritated at seeing
" Mordcca the jew sitting in tie Kings gate.
H,rodias was ..irriiat,d' at the boldness of
john tue Bapli,t in SAYING to the great King
Herod. alt il not lawful for thee t. have thy
brothers wife" Tie Jewish priests, Pbarl-
sees and Sa5ucees, were "irritated at seeing
-. I'm brou sinxi in ho
path of Jesus and shouting Ho.anna to the
son of David" History is full OF such ir tia
tons. The vital question lying behind this Is
" Have l not righi, as citizen of State
which has tried Slavery and rejected it, To
speak and act III the broad light OF my intense
conviction that Freedom is by far the wiser,
ulster, more humane, more beneicenti IL a
believer in bondage-say To0mbs or JEFF. Da-
yis-may lawfully seek ard strive to strength
en- dllIuse and aegrandIze Slavery, may not |
as lawfully aid uDexceptioualy seek TO weak
EN-, restrict and overthrow it," Until there
is some show of reason why | may not, ]
must consider the case too plain for argument
III. The la.t count 10 your Indictment
again It the North charges Z with tina. " final
standardization OF our party politics. by which
1t had at once insiIlted and grayely menaced
the South" Here Is something tangible. Let
us consider il:
When Louisiana sixty years age, WIS bought
by Southern President with Fifteen Millions
OF orr Public Money. adding immensely 90 the
area and the strength of Slavery in orr Union
nobody resisted that as "A " decentralization OF
our party politics 80 when Florida was
bought, more than forty years ago, under an
other Southern President, giving new eXpan-
zion and security TO Slavery on our Southern
border, the South never regarded that as . sec.
tIonali2ation." Bnt when the North, on the
application Of Missouri for admission a. q SAFE
10y one Spontaneous, unanimous outburs' said
" Messrs. Southrons you have cliched the
hons share of thee immense acqusitions-we
will take this there arose one unanimous
yell of slGyciolding indignation and menace.
" IL is hrebal m the night" said Mr.. JEFF
lcrsOD. Admit Missouri ia Slave State or
we VIII dissolve the Union - shri,ked the in
iuriatcd Slave Power. Tho North old not re-
coil, bu; very iew OF her representatives. did
and by their aid a compromise coosignlng Ms
souri, 10 Slavery was forced through thc House
by the close vote OF 90 Ia e. That was a
fatal precedent. l. was the surrender Of u
majority TO a bullying minority. When the
North thirty-iive years later, came forward 10
cim tie stipulated consideration for that sur
render, the bargain was cooly repudlated. it
Was absurdly weak to expect ANYTHING else.
Louisiana, Missouri, Arklnsas-thrce new