Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-22
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oughfare for the commerce of the West
have subjected us to burdens, more by
home legislation than that of Congress-
These are, however, open to competition,
which makes vast differences. Abusing
the Federal authority tor commercial gain,
has, in part, been their policy; but they
were ,indoctrinateds with it from abroad,
and their frequent support of administTa-
tions opposed to spoliatiens on Western la
bor, shows that the great body of their
people were at heart for free trade. ,qs.,
The people of the Southern States, were
not entirely free from desires for Federal
spoils, but they confined them to office
seeking, especially if they were positions
Northern invention. For their products
they claimed no privileges. until Louisi-
ana came with claims for. her sugar. The
South was, up to 1850, purer in politics
than theNorth, in whatever light we may
beapleased to view it. .nt b. sl ~ u ga
z You will have noticed, that my criterion
for forming Judgment upon the conduct
of the several sections of the Union, is
their behavior as co-members of the Feder-
al Union. What are to us. the local con-
Germs of. the several States and their peo-
ple9 RAT home they may be excellent pro-
.yiders fur their families, their township
trustees and county officers, and State au-
thorities may be excellent public servants,
but their only relation and Significance to
us, as citizens Of the United States, is as
fellow members of the Union. Are they
good associates in Federal Government?
That is the question. And are, they not
good fathers, husbands, brothers, farmers,
mechanics, merchants, &c? Nor do we
wish to Know, when we discuss Federal
politics. whether their local governments
are good or not. % .,@
History is full of facts, explaining my
meaning. Aristides was a good Athenian,
and good Greek, too. Pericles, however,
was good Athenian, but bad Grecian.-i
Bismarck Is excellent as a Prussian, But
pernicious as Germans And in the same
way contend that the Yankees are too
sharp to take care of themselves, to be
good fellow States in a Federal Union. .
b The great men this Union has produced
also illustrate my meaning. New Engfand
gave us the Adamses, Webster and
Chasee The Middle States gave us Wright
of New York. Morris, of Pennsylvania, and
Seward, of New York. The South gave
US, before 1860, Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, jackson, Calhoun, Grundy, Tay-
lor,5 Clay; Mcdowell and Benton, and in
our unhappy days, Lee, Davis and Stone
wall Jackson. leave to eacll>of you to
judge, whence have come the best and
greatest number of the real friends of our
Union. Where is the Constitution the!
safest to-day? In Richmond or in Boston?
Whose geographical tendencies endanger
most this instrument of peace?
L am free to admit thatothe Middle and
Southern States, as compared to New
England, ibid not develop in their home
life as we'll as New Englaud. Their rail-
roads. turnpikes, schools, colleges and uni
yersities are not in as high acondition, nor
dc they as fully supply all parts of their
area. / concede, too, that the Southern
State and county governments had a
rickety look about them, and that lack of
energywas buttoo visible in them. Irespect
the Yankees for the multiplication of their
ever held, and hold now, that a slave
machine made of wood and iron is far bet
ter than any human slave. / wish them
every success in this direction. ,o,,-.1...,
But here must stop. / will not! | can
not! as man, as a father, as a citizen of
Ohio, agree that the taxing power of the
General Government shall be used to give
an advantage to the human labor of New
England, and still more do object to CIV
ing any such privilege to the machine la
Dor of these States. Every law favoring
Yankee industry, as they call it, subsidies
besides 100000 of laboring men and women,
also million of machine slaves as repre-
sefted in steam boilers, water power, &c.
have no wish and no right to interfere
with the relations between the free labor
ofNew England and the stockholders in
their manufacturing corporations, but they
need not suppose, that do not know and
understand, what an inequality there Is
between simple laborer working for
himself and having none to help him, and
s1e r o~uo, ~ cho paunss p9,.,ts
% .nree niaonihe oeli M ioioos W oho human
ioIoo poi;+;ool ooonon, +ooobas os ol-a.d,,
ossieSt ,,so.s yh IN H1 h;n
labor to live from can never rise to enjoy
certain comforts comprised in high CIV
il.za.ion, v.S L. ielse hnaW 1sna' snS slssiC
Meal.n y. oei Ualn nel Al M Eom sns ianp 70
.ne lesuty " ProlIss LloIu niasy nulnah oe
!ngs employed, ana OF enree-iefo IN amount
III hachiiery. 10 sugtece my seiI ahu NY
iellow , men 70 thls Is, spollatIon ol SeW En x
lanu, Deslues tne ankee men auu women,
ana tnelr macnines, as sGaCeu, Would De
not merely a ioily, IL would De CRIME
The laborers of New England live in
New England. Their property, their COM
fort, even their elegance is er hanced by the
Incidental results of living among wealthy
men. Their schools and higher seats of
learning are improved by these droppings
from wealth and capital; but to us in the
West this works entirely different. We
depend ON our own labor, aided by immi-
grafton and pasture. The latter are our
equivalents to New England machinery
and former Southern slaves Shall We be
made to support ourselves and New Eng
land capital, besides-not New Englind
capital employed among us, but capital re-
siding abroad from as? - go TO-
Our accumulations now wander through
tariff laws eastward our roads and thor
oughfares, our schools and colleges our
houses and furniture, are not as good as
they might be if weepjoyed our own ac-