Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-22
IFrom the New York Herald. ]


The Yankee Tyranny-The Gem
trail and Western States Mere
s'Hewers of Wood 10 New En-
gland.
Previous to the present civil war the agi-
tators of New England were eternally de-
nouncing the alleged ascendency of the
seven cotton States in shaping and control
ling the policy Of the National Govern
ment. Everything is shaped to benefit
the cotton States," was the cry of the New
England fanatics. "The whole Government
is in the hands of the South, and every
measure of legislation is held subordinate
to Southern interests" That there was
small basis of fact for these assertions is net
to be denied, and that basis had this extent,
no more: The seven cotton States demand
ed that the Constitution of the United
States should be upheld, and that no legis-
lation hostile to their property interests in
the Institution of slavery should be under
taken by Congress. They also further de-
manded, in one single instance-the Fugi-
tive Slave law-that Congress should make
some legislative provision to enforce one of
the rights guaranteed to them by the Con-
stitutiOn against the reasonable and uncon-
stitutiOnal opposition thereto of these same
New England fanatics. This was about all
the peculiar legislation" the South de-
manded, and, in turn for receiving it, they
"a wholly agricultural and producing peO-
ple-acquiesced without murmur to all the
legislation demanded by the complex COM
mercial, agricultural and manufacturing in
terests of the remainder of the Union.
Well, the Union was at last broken ND,
the South being no longer able to bear
peacefully the constant irritation and dan
gers resulting from the aggressive charac-
ter OF New England's anti-slavery fanati-
cism. The fourteen Senators from the sew
en- cotton States not only lost their ascend
ancy 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 States have adopted therole which
they so vehemently 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, pu-
ritanical prejudices, of the twelve Senators
who, forming the "Black Republican
Squadron" are sent from the New England
States " Washington. OuI pIvsout actual
masters 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 taxation and revenue upon
the other portions of the loyal States, while
compelling us all, by high protective and
importation duties, to purchase
New England manufactures, however in
ferior to those we could obtain much cheap |
er abroad, at just such prices as may suit |
the pockets-we will not say consciences,
for they appear to have none-of New Eng |
lands manufacturing aristocracy.' s1
The main burdens of our internal reve-
nue. were thrown by the legislation of |
last winter upon two articles-whisky
and tobacco--in which the New England
States have but the slightest interest, while
our custom house duties were advanced to
figures making regular importation all but
Improbable, and of necessity
driving the trade, heretofore centered at
New York, to be mainly transacted there
after by active parties of smugglers along
the Canadian border. So much is this the
case that the Secretary of the Treasury is
now devising means to check this very
which has reached, even while
yet in its Infancy, enormous proportions
secretary Fessenden apparently forgetting
Sir Robert Peel's maxim, as the result Of
English experience, that ''it is utterly i'm
possible to check any smuggling which, If
will pay profit of over thirty
per cent" In our case, however, the profits
of running certain articles into the United
States from Canada will be many hundred
per cent; nor can this be stopped In any
manner, unless we build along the Canadian
nontier such d well as divides the Chinese
rom the old Tartar empire. Even this
would hardly suffice; for, with such profit