New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-11

and Tins II hae grown mp 70 that Rlgan1c hs u"p
which now threatens either lie own overthrow or
tie overthrow Of that which II million 'imes more
yaluel-ths great Reputli. of the Ur -'"d states
( .oud cheersl III the crisis to which we pave |
arrived now | say that we, after all are rs hlu'n
interested in the crisis of the North ssh war
making tlia speech IN sne city OF boston oi -
York The crisis which has now airivsd wss lloN
liable; ray that the conscience OF tie NORM, 'No
satisfied with the institution, was constantly ol's
ing some man forward who TOOK more eA1I
view of the question, and there grew up nae"i'"!
secfion-it may be not q very numerous one-ih Ia
,or ~ abolition 4 great and powerful party re-
solved at last upon the restraining ana 'ohl1, ~
slavery. go that it should not extend ue\ond tue
States and the area which IL DO" occupies; nu.
now If we look at the Government VI 'ne nnreu
States, almost ever since the oniolI, we sI"i n"'
thst tLe southern power has been moftly dominant
theYe Ii Won take siX-and-thifty years after the
F,r,no,iop Of the Constitution, think about l'of,
van will fad that for thirtytwo OF those years every
President was a Southern man; aud II You take the
rerioj from 1928 until 1865 you will fud that on
every election of President the South voted M The
majority. Wen, We know what an election Id IN
the uiied States Tor President. There If most
extended suffrage and there If a balloi-boX. iuc
President and the House Of Representatives. IRE
el,cfed by the electors, and generally they aie
lecte M the same time; and IL follows, Therefore, al
mos, inevitably that The House Of Representatives
10 compe'e accord in public policy with the President
Tor tie time being. Every four years tners hp,i"Bs'
from the vote created by the whole People, fiesi-
dent over tlat great nation thlnN me Wofll hi-
loris no finer spectacle han this. mink II aiioTus
no higher dignity, that there is no greater Object oil
arntit on Ola the political stsge on " tich men hIe
qerni ted 10 move. lOu may pout IL you liho W
hereditary loyalty, 10 crowIs coming Gown iuio'ke
successive ages in the same faniileF 10 thrones %
ON 1rescriptjon or on conquest, TO scepieTS wehtu
over veteran egiuns, or suuject realm; but to ny
mind there is nothing more worthy oil reverence VI
obedience nothing more racfcd Than me aulhOlIy
Of the frely.chosen magistrate 81 great ana l''e
Ieope. Loud cheers. And II there De on esIih
and among men any right divine TO govern, surely ~
rcsts WITH the ruler 20 chosen and 20 appom'eH'
lCheers1 This process If great election was Eour
through wear ago and the South. thai had 70 ions
been suoc, ssful found itself defeated mat defeat
was followed instantly by secession luSn!Ie',i'"
aDd war. In the multitude of articles when Fave
been brought before in The newspapers within TIE
lst lew months Lave 10 doubt you have seen, rs
have seen, il stated, that this question WAS very
much Ike that upOu which tie colonies oilsihaily
reroled againet the Crown OF England A. IL al''f
ing. however how little many newspaper wil'eis
know, and how little they think yon know
"A anphterl When the war Of indepencence COM
menced in America, ninety years ago or more
there was 10 approximation there AZ all Ire ic.
ion wac whether a Ministry in Downing s'F-"'
and "A corrupt and bofough-mODl eT1Dg la limenl
AT Westminster should impose taXts upon three NIL
lions Of English subjects, who had LETT Their country
and established Themselves III North Amelia. but
DOW tie question il not OF or oil
10 repre seGaOn, because as Il perfectly notorious
the representation Of the South is not ouly conf eie,
but In excess for in distributing the puuber 81 Ierre-
seniatives to the number of pe0ple-wblch l. done
every ien years in tie United Siatts-thlee out OI
every five of the slaves counted for the South rs
if thew were white men and free men, aud Tue mum
her of members given 10 them Ii go much greater
than il would be II the really free men aud White
men only were counted; and It las followed ron
that that the South has had in the HOu-c of Repre-
sentutives about twenty members more thhn IL ought
In night 10 have upon the principle upon winch me-
bers were apporioned TO the Northern and the Zee
States. Therefore, yen Will see that tbeie J. no
kind of conpari. on between the state OF things
when The colonies reyolted AMI the state OF things
now, when tits fearful and wicked insnuecilon ias
broken ont. But there is another cause when D.
sometimes in England assgLed FIR TIL. great nieioi'
tune which IL the protective theories in opera Ion IN
the United States, aud the maintenance OF the hg
tarif. IL happens IN regard TO this, that no Areii-
eaI-certaiuy no one that ever net wiih-a,tnD-
utes the dsa s2 III by ignorant In sl, t
never by informed Americans. Have not | already
shown YOU that the South, during almost the whole
existence Of the UnioD has been dominant 81 Wash
inglon. And during that period the taIif hns eg-
listed. There has been dissatisfaction Occssi0nslly
with it, there be doubt and NJ times the tariff
haB been higher than was tboughs juf, or rcnsol-
able, or necessary. by some OF the States Of the
SOuth. But the very first Act Of the United Siates
which levies duties imports, passed imme-iae ely
after the Union formed, recites that 1t If
cary Tor the encouragement aud protection of manu-
features to levy the duties (which follow and
during the with England from 1872 TO 1873. the
people of the United States had 10 pay for all the
articles hey brought from Europe many lines over
the natural cost Of those articles on account OF the
interruption Of the tIaic by the English nation; and
when the war over it was felt by everybody
desirable that they should encourage manufactures
in their own country; and seeing that England
at that precise moment passing law 10 prevent any
wheat coming from America until wheat ia England
had risen 10 the price OF 8is. per quarter we may
feel quite satisfied that the doctrines of protection
originally entertained did not find the slightest favor
az The close of the war in 1915. Now there If one
Remarkable point with regard to THE matter witch
should not be forgoten-Iwelye months ago, 1T the
meeting Of the Congress of the United States which
is hod on the fret Monday in December, there were
various proposals. made, and committee meetings Of
various kinds held, TO Try and devise some NODE OF
retiling the question between the North aud the
South, 80 that the disunion might not 90 on; but
though read carefully everything that was pub
lished in the English newspapers from the United
States that SIDE, / do not recollect that
referred to, or that any change was proposed
suggested In that matter ss likely 10 have
any effect upon the question Of seces- ion. Now,
there is another point, too: That whatever be the
influence OF tariffs upon the United States, il ia
p.uicioCs TO tie West to the South and further,
Louisiana, which ID Southern State and a seeded
State, bae always voted along with Pennsylvania,
and, until last year, in favor Of protection for liz
sugar; while Pennsylvania wished protection for lis
coal and iron. If the tarIfl WIS onerous aud grew
GUS was that for this great instruction
Has there ever country had a tariii-especslly In
the article Of foOd-moIe onerous and more cruel
than that which had in this country twenty years
ago Cheers We did not secede. We did not
rebel. What we did was ~ raise money for the pur-
pose of distributing TO all the people OF this coultry
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