Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1867-09-04

erS. Its streams are smaller, and thell
valleys do not lead to harbors, which
can be the seat of a very extended com
merce. The Yankees first tried farming
for a living, but found it hard work anC
poor pay they then tried fishing, but
Nova Scotia beat them at it for natural
causes not necessary to be mentioned
here; thereupon they turned to manu-
featuring, trading and traficking-fo1
whether a Yankee be farmer, a mechan-
ie. lawyer, a doctor or a preacher, in
every occupation he is also a trader; and
as the latter business did not bring
enough at all times, be has always, since
the establishment of United States Gov
ernment, done considerable in Federal
politics, to help himself along.
The old Middle States have a more
genial climate-on the whole, a better
soil, and much more mineral wealth.
Their streams are larger, and at the out
let Of one of them is New York harbor,
their commercial center, as it is that of
the Union. Farming, mining, shipping,
and commercial business generally, has
been their chief reliance for support
They did not neglect politics, no more
than the rest of mankind, for they had
ambitious men; but commercial politics
that is to say, using the Federal Gov
ernment for private gain-was not indi-
genOus to their soil. Their homes were
more self-suppOrting: and hence they
were less hungry for Federal support.
The South has a soil more fertile still
in its constituents, as well as through
more sunshine. 1t has more Opportuni-
ties for alluvial sediments. through the
mountain chains running through it. Its
commercially agricultural products-to-
baccO, rice, and cotton-and its system
of labor, negro slavery, gave to the
Southern whites very easy existence !;
and as they had fine rivers and great
mineral wealth besides, there was not,
before 1860, a people more fully sup
ported by means within themselves, than
these same Southern folks, negroes in
cluded. Of course, they participated al
so in political aspirations.
Bearing this general outline. -meager
as it is, yet sufficient for intelligent com
parison, in mind, we must now take up
some general rules, established by the
history of man in all ages and in all eli
mates, and recognized by political econ
Omy.
l. That mems ideas and wishes in re-
gard to their governments are in exact
to their physical wants.
2. That the less nature offers men as
individuals, the more they try to use
power, such as govern
ments.
8. That men, having nothing to de-
pend on except each his own labor, may
enjoy the necessaries of life, but they
can not, without extraneous assistance,
such as profits from laborers employed,
or, slaves, or machinery, or an oppOrtu-
nifty to appropriate the fruits of other
mems labor gratuitously, acquir the
wealth nor enjoy the higher social enjoy
ments which we all covet so much.
4. That the poorer the country the
greater is the necessity for such extrane-
Gus assistance.
Now, if we apply these rules we find, |
without much trouble, why the New
did, to become rich, 60
abroad in search of wealth; why, like |
the TyroIean and the Swiss, who are
forever going to France and Italy for
wealth, or like the Phenician Of old. |
who planted colonies all over the then
known earth, the Yankee is ever swarm
ing beyond the lines Of his early home. |
It is as natural for him to do so, as for
the bee to fly abroad for honey. 1t leads
US also to ascertain whence comes the
strong tendency in his character to seek
to appropriate the labor of others Ct
mean this in no offensive sense,) and
why he specially has sought to misuse
the General Government by seeking un-
due advantages for the sale of his pro-
ducts. We see the origin of fishing
bounties, of protective tariffs, of plans
for internal improvements, for harbors,
for Notifications, lighthouses, and other
means to turn the nip of the public treas
1ry toward New England. We of the
West, and they Of the South, have been
FOR Yankeeland good milch COWS, ana
Uncle Sam did the milking.
The other sections of the Union we're,
IF course, also alive to their interests.
1ut vastly more with some regard to jus
ice and fairness. They have within
themselves abundant means of comfort
lble existence. The Middle States being
he natural thOroughfare for the com
nerce of the West, have subjected us to
burdens, more by home legislation than
hat of Congress. These are, however,
,pen to competition, which makes a vast
Inference. Abusing the Federal author
ty for commercial gain, has, also, in
,art, been their policy; but they were
with it from abroad, and !
heir frequent support of administrations
opposed to spoliations on Western labor,
hows that the great body of their peo-
lie were at heart for free trade.
The people of the Southern States
we're not entirely free from desires for
federal spoils, but they confined them
o ofice-seeking, especially if they were
positions of Importance. Small Office /
begging is a Northern invention. For
heir products they claimed no priviIeg- f
S, until Louisiana came with claims for a
Ter sugar. The uthwas, up to 1850, |
Durer in politics than the North, in |
whatever light we may be pleased to y
Jew it. '
You will have noticed that my critcr- {
on for forming judgment upon the 1
onduct Of the several sections of the
Union, is their behavior as co-membors
f the Federal Union What are to us )
he local concerns Of the several States t
nd their people? At home they may t