Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-22

as new rHSlduu STeeu nus leIC open W Iuc
smugglers, it would be aremunerative spec
ulatiOn to start hundred large balloons in
this species Of traffic.
In the last session of the Senate, let it
not be forgotten, the chairman ofevery i'm
portant committee was New Englander,
the presiding officer was New Englander,
| and all the legislation ground out was either
to benefit New England interests, or to sup
| ply food to New England bigotries and
hates. The trade of New York city was to
be destroyed by imposing duties which
would force foreign merchandise up to Can
ada, and thence, by smuggling, into the
United States; while New England was to
avoid the heavy burden Of taxation, in
great measure, by placing the heaviest ex-
else duties of our internal revenue upon
two articles in which her interests are in
| significant. Her six States, with an ag-
gregate population of three million one
hundred and thirty-five thousand three
hundred and one, according to the census
of 1860, are represented by twelve Senators,
holding the chairmanships of all the most
important committees of the Senate of the
Union; while New York, with population
of three million eight hundred and eighty
seven thousand five ehundred and forty-two,
according to the same census, has but two
members in the Senate; and these two, up
on every occasion in which they attempted
to defend the interests of New York and
the Central States, were rougly overridden
and voted down by the "Black Republican
Squadron" from New England.
Thus it is that history repeats itself. The
Puritans fled to this country underpretence
of desire to secure religious liberty; but
no sooner had they obtained it for them
selves than they commenced burning Qua
kers, non-conformists, witches, and all
others whose tenets were not identical with
their own, or whose practices they could
not understand. They protested against
the ascendancy of the Black Gulf Squad
ron" in our national affairs, even provoking
civil war rather than submit to it; but
no sooner are they given chance of power
than we find the "Black Republican Squad
ron" in full sweep, with the black flag
hoisted against the rights, interests and
opilions of every section of the Union.
Our whole government to-day is one of
Yankee ideas, and the most miserable sort
of Yankee philanthropic notions. The
scepter thrown down by the extreme South
as it rushed out of the Union is now WELD
ed more fiercely and remorselessly by the
extreme northeastern section of our peo-
pie.
When will the day come, it may be ask
ed, in which the great Central and Western
States will assert their natural supremacy,
and crush out the extremists, or corner
men of the continent, as we may call them
-one faction of these residing in the south
east, and the other in the northeast corner
of the Atlantic seaboard. When will the
day come that we of the Centre and West
shall be Americans" and not " Yankees"
in the eyes of Europe, and indeed, of all
the world? We are called yankees"
hxy yvD
know better, raphically-merely be-
cause it is seen that we are the
helots of Yankee cligarchy, patiently
submitting to Yankee rule, and fighting
out war which had its origin in Yankee
intolerance and bigotry. With seven hun
dred and fifty thousand more population
than the six New England States put to-
gether, we have but two representatives in
the Senate of the United States, while New
England has twelve; and, not content with
foisting on us the greater part of the bur-
dens of the war, while at the same time
running the trade and marine of our great |
est city--the greatest city on the continent
New England has now capped the climax
of her expressions by so arranging it that, |
while but twelve and half per cent. of
her population has been enrolled for the |
coming draft, no less than twenty-siX per |
cent. of our population in the first ten dis |
tricts of New York have been enrolled for |
the same purpose! Does this really mean |
that the lives of two and fraction citizens |
of New York are but worth the life of one |
man? Or will the Bay State |
assert that one of her lanky sons is able to |
whip two and something over of our New |
York athletes? The question is pertinent |
one; for, as things are now progressing, no |
one can tell how soon these questions may |
be brought to very practical test. The |
only remedy for these evils is for the Cen
tral and Northern States to make strong |
alliance, offensive and defensive, during the |
progress of the Chicago Convention, and to /
place upon platform, opposed alike to
Southeastern and Northeastern extremists,
some conservative soldier or statesman who
shall be the vigorous exponent of nation
Il, anti-corner policy.