The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1864-09-02
Prom The New York Herald.
THE YANKEE TYRANNY.
The Central and Western States Mere
HeWers of Wood" to New England.


of New England were eternaily denouncing the
alleged ascendancy of the seven Cotton States
in shaping and controlling the policy of otr4.a-
tional government. "Everything is shaped to
benefit the cotton States, was the cry of the
New England fanatics. ssThe whole govern
ment is in the hands of the South, and every
measure of legislation is held subordinate to
Southern interests" That there was a small
basis of fact for these assertions is not TO be de-
MED, and that basis had this extent, no more
The seven cotton States demanded that the con-
stitution of the United States should be upheld,
and that no legislation hostile to their pro,iaftv
interests in the institution of slavery should be
undertaken by Congress. They also furthersle
manded, in one single instance-the Fugitive
Slave law-that Congress should make some
legislative provision to enforce one Of the rights
guaranteed to them by the constitution against
the reasonable and unconstitutional opposition
thereto of these Same New England fanatics.
This was about all the ''pecuiar legislation
the South demanded, and, in return for reeeiY-
ing it, they--a wholly agricultural and prodac-
ing people-acquiesce without murtnnr in all
the legislation demanded by the complex com
merciaI, agricultural and manufacturing inter-
ests of the remainder of the Union.
South being no longer able to bear peacefully
the constant irritation and dangers resulting
from the aggressive character of New Englang's
anti-slavery fanaticism. The fourteen Senators
from the seven cotton States not only lost their
ascendancy in our national affairs, but stepped
out of the Union altogether. And now what
do we find to be the result? Just this THAT
the twelve Senators of the six New England
-. -. L
hementIy denounced IN what they were pleased
to call the ''Black Gulf Squadron and that
our whole national policy is to-day subservient
to the interests and dictates, the bigotries and
narrow, puritanical preludiees, of the twelve
Senators who, forming the 'sBlack Republican
Squadron" are sent from the New England
States to Washington. Our present actual mas
ters are more sordid, grasping and cruel than
were the alleged Southern managers of the past.
They legislate with view exclusively to New
England interests, and their object would seem
to be to throw all the burdens Of taxaten and
revenue upon the oiher portions of the les sal
States, while compelling Us all, by high protec-
tive and prohibitory Importation duties, 70 pur-
chase New England manufactures, however in
ferior to those we could obtain much cheaper
Co., just sucn .icts as may sI,.. rC"!-
ets-we Will not say eonscionoes, FOR they ap-
pear to have none-of New England's mapu
featuring ari5tocracy
The main burdens of our internal revenue
were thrown by the legislation of last winter
upon two artices-whiskeY and tObacco-in
which the New England States have but the
slightest interest, while cur custom house du-
ties were advanced to figures making regular
Importation all but certainly improbable, and
of necessity driving the trade, heretofore cen
tired in New York, to be mainly transacted there
after by active parties of smuggers along the
Canadian border. So much is this the case that
the Secretary Of the Treasury is now deyising
means to check this very smuggling, which has
reached, even while yet in its infancy, enormous
roportions-Secretary Fessenden apparently
forgetting Sir Robert Peele's maxim, as the
suit of English experience, that ''it IS utterly
impossible to check any smuggling which, If
successful, will pay profit of over 80 per cent"
In our case, however, the profits Of running GER
tain articles into the United States from Cana
da viii be many hundred per cent; nor can this
be stopped III any manner, unless we build along
the Canadian frontier such a wall as divides the
Chinese from the old Tartar empire Even this
would hardly suffice; for, with such profit as
New England greed has left open to the smug-
gIers, it would be a remunerative speculation to
start hund.ed large balloons in this species Of
traffic.
In the last session Of the Senate, let it not be
! forgotten, the chairman of every importantcom-
mittee was New Englander, the presiding Of
ficer was New Highlander, and all the legisla-
! ton ground out was either to benefit New I'm
| gland interests, or TO supply food to New In
| gland bigotries and hates. The trade Of New
York city was to be destroyed by imposing du-
| ties which would force foreign merchandise up
| 80 Canada, and thence by smuggling, into the
| IT, States while New England was to avoid
! the heavy burden of taxation, IN great measure,
| by placing the heaviest excise duties on our IN
ternal revenue upon two articles in which her
| interests are insignificant. Her six States, with
an aggregate population of three millions one
! hundred and thirty-five thousand three hundred
and one, according to the census of 1860, are
represented by Il Senators, holding the chair
manships OF all the most important committees
of the Senate of the Union; while New York,
with a population of three millions eight hun
dred and eighty seven thousand five hundred
aud forty-two, according TO the same census,
has but two members in the Senate; and these
two, upon every occasion in which they attempt
ed to defend the interests of New York and the
Central States, were roughly overridden and vo-
ted down by the ''Black Republican Squadron
from New England
Thus it is that history repeats itself The
Purtans fled to this country under pretence oi
desire to secure religious liberty; but no Soon
er had they obtained it for themselves than they
commenced burning Quakers, non-conformists,
witches and all others whose practices they could
not understand. They protested against the as