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Show so6 Appendix. case in 1841-42. 'Vith all the vast in crease of production, the domc·stic demand that has resulted from protection, even so far as our farmers have obtained it, has grown so fast, that we have now far less food to send abroad than we had thirty years since, and prices arc far higher now than they were then. Had the North repudiated protection it would be poorer now than it was then, for it would have more to send abroad, and would get less in exchange for it. Had the South adopted protection, it would have now far less for which it must seck a market abroad., and would be receiving twice as much cloth, iron, copper, tin, and lead, in exchange for the di'minished quantity. Under the Northern system profit and power grow with increase of population, but under the Southern one all have diminished, and must continue to diminish. The greater the territory and the greater the population, the greater must be the qu_:mtity vf Southern produce required to go abroad, the lower must be the pncc_s, a~d the weaker must become the cotton-growers ; and. therefore the reahzatwn of Southern schemes to their fullest extent can only render the members of the anticipated Southern Uni on very much poorer, weaker, and less respectable than they arc at present. THE NORTHERN SLAVE STATES. Our readers must, we think, be satisfied that no dh·ision of the Union can take place which will deprive Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, or Tennessee, of the benefits they now derive from their connection with the North. The last three have been 'Vhig States, generally identified with the North as to the true course of n ational poli cy, and. n othing but the wild.est insanity could lead them to a connection with the extremists of the South. As regards Virginia, the State so remarkable, as we are told by The Enquirer, for the perfect development of "the principles of self-government," and for "the di~nity, propriety, and self-posse ·sion of the dominant race," she has been kept in her present position only by a denial to nearly one half of her nominally free ])Opulation of any claim whatever to the exercise of "self-gon:!rnment." Her system is a tyranny equally with that of South Carolina. Out of 92,000 votes cast in 18-18, General Taylor had 4.5,250, or within 750 of one half the whole number, and yet this immcnsC' minority was represented on the floor of Congress by but a single member, 11 the lone star" that was by "the dominant race" permitted to shed its light upon the deliberations of the House of Represcntath ·es. Such, too, has been the case during many years, that the State has been nearly equally diviued between the \Vhigs and Democrats. Out of 96,000 votes, Mr. Clay had within 2,.500 of one half; but so admirably had the State been Gerrymanrlm·ecl by "the dominant race," so conspicuous for its admiration of "self-government," that that great minority was almost entirely denied the privilege of representation, and was thus gagged to prevent it from disturLing in any manner the "dignity, propriety, and self-possession" of those who preferred the government of" Northern men with Southern principles" to that of high-minded and honorable Southern men like liel'lJ'y Clay and Winfield Scott. Appendix. One fifth of the whole population of the State over twenty years of ago cannot read at all, and this would give about 20,000 voters who can neither read nor writC'. Of these nineteen twentieths may be set down as belonging to the Gerrymandering party that has ruled the tate, being at least six times the majority by which it has been so long administered in the interests of the South. The C('lcbrated "tenth legion," the stronghold of what is called Democracy, has in it little short of two thousand voters who can neither read nor write, and whose votes are given, invariably, for the pro-slavery candidate, and it is by such men that the majority is furni shed. The day is n ot, however, distant when the intelligence and moral feeling of the State will obtain some control over its management; for already its people nrc awaking to the fact that with every ad vantage nature could gi vc them, t bey are declining in wealth and power, while the State is diminishing from )'£'ar to year in its influence upon the movements of the Union. H er people arc now being told by The Lyncltburg Virginian that, "Tier coal fiolcl ~ nrc tho most extensive in tho world, and her coal of the hcst anrl purest quality. Jlrr iron deposits are nltov.othcr incxhaustiblo, and in r11any irr.;<ta~tco~ so pure, that it is rnall eahlo in irs primitive state, and many of tlrcso d_eposrts rn the irnr11ediato vicinity of oxtonsivo coal fi elds. She has, too, very oxrens11•e clcp~Kit~:~ of C\)pper lead arrd gyp.,um. Jlor riven• nro numerous and hold, generally wrrh fall e11oug-h 1 for e~tcnsivo water rower. Tho Janre~:~ l~ivor, at H!chrnond, allimls a convorri hlo water-power, irrrrHorrsoly snpMior to tlrat of tho i\JerrHn.ack, at Lowell, and 11ot infcrror to that of tho Gerrosco, at Jloches ter. TJre Janre~:~ H.r ver, at her pasFiaJ! O thrnn v,h tho Blue Ridge, and the Pot? rnac, <tt Jl a_rpor's Ferry, b~th atn~rd g~oat wat.or-powor. The Kanawha, or New Rrvor, has an rrrrm errso fa~l. TJ~ero r.s har. rlly a suction of five 111i lcs hotwcon rho Falls of Kanawl~a aud th~ North Carol111a Jrrro, "that hal:' 110t fall cnonv.h for working tho mo:;t ox terHuvo nra chrnor~ . . •. . . . A ro" inarkahle fcatllrc in the mining arrd rnanufacturir~g pro~pccrs of Vrr::.rnra rs ~he ~aso and economy with which a ll l~er minerals aro '!'"'.cd; rrr ~tcad of hornl!, as. 111 J·._n~land and ch;owhcrc ~cnorally rrnhoddcd rlecp W1tluu tho howcls of rho earth, frorn which they can he Jot only with ~rear _labor and .at .~rc~t cost, ~urs_aro found C';~·ry where 011 tho hill:> and slopes, with thorr l ecl ~cs drpprnl! rn rho rlrrcrtron of the pl .trr rH below. \Vhy, then, should not Viq,:ir!ia at or:ro ern ploy at ~cast h_a~f of hrr la.~Hi r and capita l in mirrinl{ antlmanufacrunng? Hrchurond cou ld .ts pr~Jfrt.thly u~arll~f.Lr.turo all cotton and woollen goods as Lowell, ~r any_ ot.h.cr rowrr 1~1 New I·.rr~l.lll ~l~ Whv shou ld not Lynchhrrr~. with all her promr~cd larrl rty of !!Ottrng coal ar~ rl y•., met:tl m·utufacturo all articles of iron and steel JUSt as drca ply, a nd yet as pr .ntrt.thly ,'a~ ar;y port ion of r Ito Nort horn Stntel:l? Why ~hon ld rr~t evor,v tow~~ ant_t vrll :•go on tho line of every railroarl in tl10. :=Hate, erect ~het r.siW J~H, 111 whr.ch thq '"·•.Y. "' ·lll ufacturo a tho usand artirfm; Of darfy COnsurnpl10111 JUSt olS good cllld cheap il::> tllCy may be made auy whore ?" . Simply because Virginia has preferred to manufacture he~ corn mto negroes, by the sale of which to purchase her cloth and her Iron, rather than take for herself the protection required to ena~lc her to make ~•cr cloth, her iron, her r ailroad bars, and her stenm-engmcs at home .. She has been the steady advocate of the policy that looked to the ~cprcsswu of the free la.borcr to the condition of the slave, when her true mtcrest~ lay in the direction which looked towards the elevation of the slave to the c,<:ndition of a frcC'man. She has pursued a policy that has kept her, as 1 'he Virginian further says, "Dopoudent upon Errropo and the North for almost every yard of cloth, ar.Hl ~vor[ coat and hoot and hat wo wear; for onr axes, scythes, tnhs't~':\110b~~~~:~ thd~' t/~~~: for evory thing excrpt our hread nnd mont ? It rnuRt o~cur soon the nny ho none relations with the North ehould ever be severed Wn.nd w\~ho South ynot• bo able to ~r~~:~n~~rJ;~\:~~0{\,:vce;t~l~t 11~~gf~~~~~~e f;r~~ts,' ~~o~gh our field;, nor mow our |
