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Show Appendix. We would gain Canada by losing the South; lo c States of . ln.v and loafers, to gain ProvincP of freemen and indtl .• triou s citizens. In ca e of war, the outh would be a f' 'arf'ul burden to us; for she could not. take care of l1er cr vilc popn· Iation- f~tr less protect the North. Unit ,d, tltcy may land n. foreign war; but divided, 'We woul<l escape our only danger from it. But morality, and honor, and con s i<le mti on ~ of future powc1·, are I<'~R influentin.l, we ar told, in d<'ciding the action of com· muniti<':<, titan the multiplication table,- or appeal~ to the po('k ' t. This argument inllu ce::; me to republish, a ~ an npprn· dix, the cc1cbrn.tct1 article on th .North a1Hl South, or the co:t of the Union, which appcarc<l in the daily New York Tribune, in 185'1. They are well worthy of an :tttentive study. Sur<' ly it is batl enough to be disgracctl bcfor the world, to l1ave onr citizens murdered n.ml our travellers maltreated in tho Southern State~, bccau.'C of onr d •votion to the Union, and then find, uy irrcfutabl f}tcts, that we arc taxed at the high rate of $40 per It '<u1, every year, to . npport the vile I11. titution which is the . o1itnry c:\llse of all our wor, and the only ,·tain on onr national 'scutcheon. I regr ' t that the nblc writ r of the ...· c articles should not I1ave confin ed him elf to hi::; subj ect more 'xclusiv 'ly; but have int ·r~per. eel with hi. argnm nt the mi~ rable and explod <1 sopbistric of the protc'ct ionist ·; nnd have even t·ondcs ·end •d to try to arouse the prej udiccs of nationality ngainst a politi co-economical truth and policy. It is another illustration of the ~ayin cr that most men arc monomaniacs on orne one nl subj<.'Ct. This writer sec the ~uperio rity or Free Labor over Slave I..~abor; but he would tril c tile fett '1' · from the laborer only io pnt them upon trade. Tile South 'rners ride the other hobby. Th 'Y clearly ('e the nuvnnUtges of Free Tt·ade, but arc i11capable of appreciating the ad van tag •s of' Free Labor. Y ct these two arc but branches of one root. \V e do not wnnt to des troy the Slave P ower to rai::;e up a 1\fill P ower; to overthrow ihc cotton-rai. ing AristpcTacy of the South to cstab- Appendix. 45'9 li~h a rotton-mnnn facturing Oligarchy in tl1c North. ''That an int <'llig<'nt nation wants fi·om Govcrmn 'nt is, to be let alo 11 c, and pC' rmitted to bny where it ean buy cheapest, and seH whe- re it <'illl . ell to the m o~ t ndvantag '· Th r i ~ no one truth lwtt <:r <':.;tabli shed or more easily demonstrated than tl1is : that tarifl:_, prote<'t Capital instead of Labor, nnd build up towns n11d Yill:1ges nn<l their itnme<1iate n eighborhood~ at the C'XJH'nse of the rural di ·trict of the whole country and the shipping int PI'<'sl. " .ith th <'!-1' f •w co1nm nt ~, I . ubrnit th 'Tribune's nrticl<'S witltottt f'urth cr pr ~fitce, . ave this one additional r<'mark only that the argum 'nl in favor or a FREI~ N RTIII~ H N H.El' IJ BLlC is m nch Rt ronger to-day than when the.·e ssays first app 'a red, (i vc year~ ago. J. R. SLA VEH.Y AND THE UNION. Tt seems to be ti111e, in view of the circums t an ces in which the r ountry is n ow placed, a nd of the g reat eontrovcrsy rcspccting fi lav<'l'y rr vi n•d hy Picrce a ncl Douglas and their , onth crn allies in the ext in ct ' Yh ig party of the, outh, the Da.dgcrs, the .Jon cscs, and the Clayton s, - u controvr rsy whose con clusion 110 man can for esee, - it is time, we say, to cxa mitH' the poin t of whi ch the fioulh m nkes the g rcatcst account, which it con stant l.r employs by wny of both de fence and off'en rr, nnd without which, itHl rrcl, it would often be diflicult for Routhr rn r ha mpions to h:H·c a ny thi t.g to say at all. This point it~ su ccinctly CA presscd in the following extrncl frolll 'l'h1• lTJihm, J>nst anrl FNture, a pamphlet pul> lishr cl at Chnrlcston, in LH-'10, widely ri retd atc• cl at the time, and since rr p~tbli sh rcl , in whole or in part, in va rious othr r places th rong houtthr South ern Htatcs: " Tho North posst•Hscs no ne of tho nuttt•rial cl.t' lll (' IIIA of I!I'P:l.tncsK, in whi ch the Routh ahntiiHis whl•th cr w e rc•garcl tho prod uc· ti OII>~ nf tho sod, Lito a rrrss t!l tho lll a rl t• ts of tho 'world , or tho raparity of 111ilita ry dl'fl'II I'C. \\'hilo tho :-l la \' !l St at•'"~ produro nea rly C\'Cry thi11g w ith i11 tl H•mso lv!'s1 tltp Fn•o :-l ta i('R wtll soon dl• pr llof n11 thCIII ll\'t~ ll for food , as tlwy uow do for rir e, Hll ~ar. tohac·c·o, fl llcl ro! 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