Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1867-01-04

the North manufactures, the planter will be
taxed for the manufacturer. We must re-
move the opportunities for discrimination.
We must grow no more cotton than we can
spin. We must provide our own boots and
shoes and cloths, and mechanical implements,
as we'll as our meat and bread.
! 1t will not avail US to inquire in what way
our industry, if unmolested, would be most
profitable. 1t will not be unmolested 1t is
not our natural interest, not political economy,
but political exigcncy that We have to study
We must conform our lines to those that con-
front US. We must present no salient points
ofattack. Wemust invite 10 adverse discrimi-
nations by prominent peculiarities. Better fish
for cod and share the bounty, than grow cot
ton under heavy tax for Northern spuners.
We must spin too. We must manufacture
for ourselves. Thus VIC shall share in legis-
latiye ''protection," and escape legislative dis
elimination. 1t will indeed be worse for the
country to have its production thus uniform in
stead of diversified, Artificial instead of nat
ural; but it will be better for US. If not the
best that nature intended for US, it will be
the best that man permits to US.
by thus opposing ,patiepce to gasssion, and
by evading industrial and 'Socia! discliini-
nations through uniformity Of pursuit and by
African diffusion, we may hope in time that
it will be no longer in the power Of dema-
gogucs to hold the North in united hostility
against US. If in addition, we ascertain and
maintain the full scope and rigor Of all our
constitutional defcnces, our situation may be-
come comparatively tolerable. But all these
appliances will, at best, be but makcshits
and palliatives. The fatal blow was dealt our
liberties when a great power was set up by
our fathers, and no check retained to our own !
people; when our safety was staked on q
when letters were placed on
in all other interests but ours. But
yet we are not without hope that time with
its developments and compcnsations, will
bring us redress and relief With the
progress Of the ameliorations which We
have referred to, there will be devel-
oped other sources Of security. A COLI
sion of interests between the Northeast
and the Northwest is sooner or later in
eyitable. 1t has been delayed thus long, only
by theardorof their common hostility against
the South. When this shall abate by the
policy We have here recommended, and when
the causes Of mutual variance shall became
little more intensified, we may look to see
contest between the sections indicated in
which one or the other will 20 to the wall.
1t is New England which will then reap the
Of her present bloody instuc-
tions. In that coming rupture Of the alliance
which has borne the South to the earth with
every circumstance Of murderous tyranny,
We shall possibly find full restitution Of our
rights, and perhaps be able to gain for them
IN abiding guarantee and security.
Such is our reading Of the capabilities Of
the future. That future is dark in the fore
ground but there is light in the distance. 1t
opens with a vista Of injustice and persocu-
lion, ,such as minority always suffers at the
hands of preponderant interest against
which it holds no adequate check; but it
holds out the prospect Of an early ameliora-
ton, with final deliverance