Year: 1860

OF the South, Offering through your hepuo-
lican President, Congress, and State Legis-
latures, more than she now asks, with the
humiliation of receiving scoruful refusal
This is taking our situation at its best pos
sible, supposiug that we will have all the
men and money we require--the entire North
united, and Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
Kentucky, Missouri, California, and Ore
gon, cordially cooperating. But the North
is not united, nor will Virginia, Kentucky
and Missouri, with their tobacco, nor Cali
foru,a, with her annual hundred millions of
gold, cooperate in any forcible measures
This great metropolis, with its forty thou
sand Anti-Republican majority, SO far from
aiding, will be very likely to declare New
York free city as the only way left to
maintain its commercial supremacy.


The conservative North has not yet con-
templated the ease with which this gigantic
republic can be disintegrated. Her sons
and daughters have been taught to look
upon our constitutional Union as struc-
ture almost superhuman in its origin, and
indestructible; and with this confidence goes
a religious veneration for it, and a solemn
belief in our inseparable solidarity as a
people From the aged revolutionary sire,
down to the youngest urchin that runs
barefoot after the flag of our Union-from
classic Faneuil Hall to additional Tammauy
from Alma Mater where the speeches of
Clay, Webster, Calhoun, and Crittenden,
are the vestal fires at which our sopho,
mores and seniors kinde their defamation,
down to the Introductory public school,
the Northern popular mind is trained to
revere the Union.


l know that scarcely Nothern man be-
lieves that the Cotton States can secede
without Maryland, Virginia. Kentucky and
Missouri. There can be no greater fallacy.
1t would be decidedly the interest of the
Cotton States to have those States remain
out of the Southern Confederacy. They
want no rival interests within their limits,
requiring tariffs for protection, such as are
now springing up in the Southern border
Satets. All they need is monopoly of the
Cotton plant, to enable them to dictate their
relations with the rest of the world; and
the border States will serve as rampant
against Northern crusaders; for he Repub-
lcans will be glad to let them alone, when
they ind that their blind ard stubborn ad-
herence to party has resulted in driving
out the Gulf States. They will then re-
collect, and, I fear, not until then, that the
Cotton States were part of Confederacy to
whose integrity every State, district, coun-
ty and ward were bound-every Executive
and Legislator pledged by solemn oath to
support.


We talk fippantly about blockading the
Cotton ports Such blockade might last
a month or two, but what is that to brave
people, who feel that they are outraged p
And however partial the English and French
Governments may now, for sinister purpo-
ses, seem to be to the Republican party,
neither Government could exist six months
without forcing any blockade we might i'm
pose.


The Cotton of our South has, for the last
forty years, preserved US from European
aggression, and enabled US to be the haugh-
tiest and most defiant nation in the world.
Cotton is next to bread, because it is the
only means by which many millions are fed
and stoppage of supply for few months
would cause revolution in most of our Nor
thern States, and in every border State of
Europe.


There is an idea ir the North that there
will be contest about the inauguration and
the public buildings at Washington. take
it that there will be no contest about the
inauguration, and that the Southern Con-
federacy would not accept the public build
ipgs at Washington we're we to offer to sur
render them. Their interests in the Lin
coin Inauguration will have ceased before
it shall have occurred, and they will have
no need of expensive buildings for their
simple Government. The Federal expeu-
ses of the Cotton States would be very lit
tie. They would want no army, no navy,
no Custom Houses, nor postoffces. A ju-
dietary and an efficient police are all they
would require, and most of this would be
paid by the respective States, as at present.
Free goods and free ships would be their
basis, and on our side of the line only,
would the tax gatherer be met. The uu-
restricted navigation of the Mississippi
would be conceded to the Northwest, and
it is improbable that they would long con-
tinue to pay thirty per cent. taxes on im-
ports to the North Atlantic Confederacy.


Should the North not allow this simple
and peaceful mode of separation, but re-
solve to use force to bring back the seeding
States, you will admit that we would not,
in this event, be successful, if the South
could command the most money-that in
dispcnsable engine of war. Our Federal
Treasury is now empty, or will be on the
+th of March, relying on daily supplies
from imposts, which will be reduced SO per
cent. by the loss of our Southern exports.
Our Federal Treasury could not count on
more than s25 100000 year from imposts
after the South had left US. We would,
therefore, have at once to resort to income,
poll and every other sort of taxation, to
keep up our present expensive machinery
not to speak of the conduct of an often
sive war. On the other hand, all the South
would have to do, and being then less taxed
than they are to-day to sustain the present
Union, would be to reverse our system of