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Show Appendix. lection of most of our renders. Then, for the first time, was heard in tho streets of our cities, Tho cry of soher, industrious, orderly men : "Give me work! only give me work; MAKE YOUll. OWN TER!\1S- MYSELF AND FAMILY HAVE NOTHING TO EAT!" Thousands and tens of thousands of such cases then occurred, and by those who can now recall to mind the state of affairs that then existed, it will not be deemed extraordinary that we should state our belief that the cost t0 the people of the I•'ree tates of one such year as 18·11-12, was more than the value of the trade with the Slave tates, for which we arc dependent on the Union, in half a. century. This state of thiugs had brought with it, however, a remedy in the change of public opinion that had bern produced. Mr. Van Duren, the "Northern man with outhern principles"-the advocate of the policy which looks to the extension of Slavery- had bern defeated, and the people eall('(l for a change of measures. Then, however, for the first time was the slave-labor policy advocated as a. party measure, and in the division that then was had in Congress, the votes of both North and South were less unanimous than they previously had been, a is here sholm: Free Lahor RtntoFI, . Slave Lal>or ~:ltatos For. 83 3:J llG .llgn i11st. 4!) G2 lJl The tariff of 1812 went into operation, <md its effect was almost electric. Credit was rc{'stablished- mills anu furnaces wrre bnilt, and the people were once more enabled to purchase anu pay for for eign merchandise. Public and private revenue increased, and within four years from the elate of this triumph of the sellers of labor over those who desired to buy slave laborer , the prosperity of the country had attained n higher point than had ever before been known. This, howevrr, did not suit the ac1vocatcs of the slave-labor policy. Then, as now, they desired that the free laborer should be cheap, and a crusade was gotten up against protection, among the most active promoters of which were the people of Virginia, whoso chic:f manufacture is that of neg1 ·orsfm· exportation, and who nrc protected in this department of trac1~ by an absolute prohibition of all competition from abroad. This prohibition they have always rega rded as constitutional, because it enables them to sell Negroes at a tl'ousand dollars that might be imported from the co:~st of Africa for a hundred, and yet they deny to the free laborer of theN orth any right to protection to fmthcr extent than can be obtained by aid of duties imposed exclusively with a view to the r a i ·ing of revenue. To carry their ·views into effect, it was deemed necessary to extend the area of lavery by incorporating Texas within the nion- a measure that was carried out by aid of "Northern men with ~outhcrn prin ciples," so wc11 described by the CliarltJston Jlfercury, as "hucksters in p olitics," always ready to sell themselves and their constitucHts when the advocates of cheap labor are ~eeJl- tq I).cep assistance~ T exas in the Ut}ion furnished two senatorial Appendix. ' 'otes, and by aid of those votes, added to the Senate in d fi f h Constt·t ut!·O n, t 1t c tan' ff o f, 42 was repealed and that of ''16 e ba nc· e o t . e . , ' • • su stttuted m 1ts place. 'I he advocates of Slavery were thus triumpJ 1 ... 11 t b t tl .. , u 1e conse-quences to the free laborer of the North were S}1cedil)' sec 11 • d' · · 1 d • 111 a 111lllllS le demand for labor. l\ltlls and furnaces were ever)' where cl s d d 1 · . o c , an t 1e1r owners were rumcd; but the object of the South the c!1e· · f f labor, was thereby accomplished. · , .t pen 111 o,,. o rcc In another paper we shall give some of the detilils of the\ 0 1 · r 1 · . • v r ong o t us Southern system; but, 111 the mean time will ask 0111· rc" 1 t. fl . ' u( en; 0 re cct upon the fact that, for more than fifteen out of the last twenty years, the men who buy laborers have had the control of the policy of tile t . . go\'ernmcn , to the ent1rc ex:clus10n of the men who wish to sell their ow 1 "s 1 b 1 · , . 1 a or. out 1crn mterests have had, dunng that time, ns the Charleston P atri-ot most truly ?bs~n·~s, ~~ th.c ~nastery in Congress," and 11 the ~overnmeut, alt.houg~l hosttle m 1ts mc1pten r.y, to Slnnry, and starting into political bemg wtlh a strong bent towards Abolition, yet afterwards"- that is since ~833 -~~ so changed it~ ~?licy t.hat its action has fostered the slave-h~lding mtercst, and swelled 1t, by :ud of war or purchase, 11 from ::; ix: to fifteen States, and from a feeble and sparse populati on to one of ten millions.'' How has this been accomplished? By aid of taxes paid by the North for the purchase of land in the South, and for the maintenance of the fleets and armies required for the protection of Southern men and inte rests connected with the occupation of the lands so purchased. The people of the North have paid at least cnc dollar per head, per annum, more than would haH been required had they stood alor.c, and this they have done that Florida might be purclwsed and cleared, nnd that Texas might be converted from free Mexican t erritory into one or more Ia ve , tates ; and they arc now required to agree to the paynwut of a hundred nnd twenty millions for tl~c conversion of the l\lcsilla Y nllcy into slave territory, and for the prevention of the Africanir.ation of C11ua. The more land they uuy the ~rcatcr will be the power of the ~outh, and yet no Northern poli ticinn dares propose to increase the power of the free laborers of the North by the acceptance, t'nfree .fl~ft, of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Canadas, with their two and a half millions of hard-working, instru cted, and economical population. The South may buy lar.d to be filled with slaves whose votes, through their masters, shall govern the North; but the latter may not accept land covered. with men, because those men will then vote for thcmseh·es. '\re sec, then, that the Union is maintained at the cost of taxation to the North twice greater than would be required for the North alone. It is maintained at the cost of relinquishing all right to self-government in this important matter of protection to free laborers. 'Vhat is its value has been shown. \V c ask our readcrH to compare the forty cents per h ead gained by the U nion with the many dollars per head that it costs, and dctennine for themselves the justice of the assertion of the South, that the continnnncc of the connection is of "such inestimable worth" to the North that, however disagreeable may be the purchase of Cuba or the r epeal |