Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-05-01

WHO ARE III ~LUSATECss
The New York T-Js1te, in o Of its
characteristic o~ul-p0urings Of fsh-tr0-
g4aH7y epithets concerning the South,
uses these words
Cotton Is Kiug-sh0uted the south
aend Isbor Is the business Of slaves.
Then abusing Us in set terms for an
alleged political scheme-m the past-to
H13 e alsas on agriculture and make
every other interest Of the country bend
10 cotton growing, the Tribune writer
CHARGES mat the southern people-li6e SO
many stark lunatics-sta-ked out Of their
cotton fields into battle fields utterly
without other martial resources than
courage. That Is. without lrg2' cloil'
or leather manufactures 10 powder
paper or rolling mills no machinery Tor
making arms OF means Of i~rGnsporl2-
ton: no navy to keep our ports open
and only cotton without the osgglug 10
mt il in. We admit much Of this but
canuota assent 10 the causes alleged for IT,
namely. The ingraiBed hostility OF the
southern masses and statesmen 70 a pro-
teeHve system-or their free trade policy
Dur uakedness OF manufacturing re-
sources on the contrary, was due 30 the
fact that the dominant financial and
tariff measures Of the United States eyer
since the formation Of the govern
ment. had tended to build mp and
nurture the industrial luterests OF
tine northern section Of the country
At h expense Of the southern section
That Is the interstate free trade which
existed in the Union, inevitably beneht-
tad the North and threw the whole man
ufscturiug for ihe country into the BANDS
Of the people Of that section by nature
calcBIatsd for that species Of industry,
rather than profitable agriculture. The
only protective system" thereiore, tha'
cogId have aided the southern states
IN avert fhis condition and Duhd Up
workshops Of their own would have been
one that authorized Virginia, South Car
olira or Georgia te protect LhelF me-
ehanies bv state duties, OF taxation
upon the products brought hithef F2m
Massachusetts,. Rhole Island or Com
r...tiegt. But that was not possible and
We rppeat. that the whole legislation OF
Congress WIS directly framed 70 FOSTER
h mechanical interests Of the country
that H. the interests of the northern PEG
ple, without a single spark Of ~consldefa-
ton for the great agricultural interests Oh
the south.which in the iorty years lmihe-
diately preceding the secession OF the
South. furnished more than LtresJ1gp's
Of the products Of American industry
sent out Of the United States. True, IN
deed the astute North yielded to cur sec
tion the executive power Of the govern
meDt for much Of the time, bat held fast
70 the TAR making branch, and cum
pingIv warned and moulded Congress in
AL possible practical ways, to ends con
trivcd for the gain Of northern industry
and capital
If the war has fallen like a dreadful!
p~sstlence upon the southern States, 2
has, however, done them Oue good, We
believe, in giving the people a determi-
nation 10 manufacture for themselves a,
much o. practicable. Without the wal
20 such disposition, we fear, would have
been developed, and we should have
grown, year by year, more dependent
and more subordinate TO the North and
the North must have more and more mo.
nopoized the benefits Of cur system OF
later-St4ts free DQae-more and more
monopolized the benefits Of the Union
more and more benefited, also, by the
fact that our southern cotton was the
imperial staple Of the industry and com.
merce Of the world!
But here Jet US pause TO observe it i
not true as the Tribune alleges that tbs
southern people ever shouted that ola
bor Is the business Of slaves." We sim
plv declared that under our system al
otherwise thriftless, idle race Of savage
-to the number Of some four millions
we're converted into the PRODUCES Of
.tanle that entered into and gita}aed ev
branch Of human trade, commerce
- industry. This Is what vi
ta8 ~ also that we had under la
~a svstem. brOughttnese creatures int
1ea5trian OF greater intelligence, CON
go md happiness than had Y e bee
1890 nv As many Of the race before O.