Communications: Northern Interests--home Leagues: For The Si...

I have long been accustoiuou io mdi the indication8 of the moral and political horizon. Recently a meteor hasappeared in the latter portentous of events fraught with evil. I refer :o the new TarirT party. The whole country, but more especially the free North, haa long etruggled under a load oí pecuniary embarrassment, which has well nish paralized ts energies. and exhausted its vast resources. Various theories, upon which to account for so sudden a revulsión, have been suggested, all quite ingeniom. but altogether unsalisfactory until the "awful disclosures," Tnade by the AntiSlavery press. of the fearful aggressiona of slavery upon our rights and interests, divested this subject of its mystery, and demonstrated the aetounding fact that slavery is the most prolific source of all the pecuniary difhculties under which we are 6lruggling. It was shown that slavery for a long time had held undisputed sway in the National governtnent - bad directed its councils and moulded its legislation according to the caprices of it8own will - had oriainated and matured all those measures by which great and sudden changes had been made in the policy of the Federal Government, and by nccessary consequence. pro'ducinga corresponding change in the aspects of affoirs and business of the whole It was shown that unstable legislation had been tbe bane of prosperity - that the free North had flourished andcould propr under nygOTrnaientsl policy,. iliowever variouB or adverse, provided a very brief space were allowcd for the elasiicity of free labor to conform or adjust itself as exigency requird. With or wilhout a nationa) Bank - with or vithout a Tariff, we could thrivc - thus proving, conclusiveiy, that the ihangc and that clne h.'id njured us - er at least that stability, more than iny thing else was impei ïously demanded. And nastnuch as the slave power had invariably succceded in all its efforts to derange the businsss and overturn the prosperity ofthe free States, hrouch the medium of legislative enactments - since slave labor and free labor were antagonists. ïlways had been nnd always must remain so, and consequently, since they could not exist harmoniously and prosper equally under the same laws. therefore it was necessarily inferred that as long as slavery existecL just so long nothing could be expeoted but a continued succession of disastrous ch;inges. But thee momentous truths.i?stabIÍ6hed by history. and as important as in their nature they musí be, are either unknown or unappreciated by all whorti they iniimalely concern, and henee the nigin of the Home League or Tariff party, which has so recently arisen. and which bids fair not only to have considerable celebrity, but to do a world of mischief. The object of the writer in this communicalion is not ao much to discuss the policy or impolicy of a protective Tariff, as to apprize abolition'8ts of the danger of being ensnared in the net which is thus spread for them, or of bcing allured by the gilded bait, thus temptingly displayed hefore them, and to admonish them of the the necessity of adhering strietly to their own principies, in every emergency, and under all circurn.tances. Let them be warned by the history oï the past not to expect from any temporary expedienls or measures whatever, however plausible they may be made to appear, let them be warned, I say ol the utter futility of expecting, from any thing whatever short of the immediate abolition of slavery, any permanent exeniption from our fïnancial difficulties. How often have sim.lar expedients been resorted to. and how often have the most sanguine expectations been crushed. How oft have periodical revulsions swept like a hurricane ove' our country, blighting our fairest prospects and btasting our hopes. And yet shall we be told that the only remedy Jor the evils so bur'he.TingU8, consisis in resorting to those very measures we have vainly tested! How much of (he eloquence - of "Harry of the West" or even of our venerated Slade will be requisite to prove that which all pase experience contradicts? Then Ietus never be allured by the syren voice of sophistry, which asserts that we may aacrifice principie to interest, or which attempts to justify an abandonment of principie on the ground that "we shall be ruined before this nation can be redeemed from the blightlng curse ofslavery," unless we have have recourse, as our only alternative to a heavy protective Tariff. Even admittingthe propriety of the TarifTsystem, and its adaptation to our exigencies sofaras other nations may thereby be coerced to yield to the claims of justice, still, in many respects, u may well be regardcd as of doubtful utility. The only principie, it is conceived. upon wluch a protective Tariff can, with any show of reason, be def;nded, is thai of self preservation irom the unjust aud exorbitant exaciions of foreign extortioners, and let no one apprehend that abolitionists will be slow to appreciate the wants of the country, or otherwise than prompt in adopting that policy best adapted to remove the evils under which we are laborin g. At all events, 1 et us nev er rely upon the broken reed of a "Home jueague" when it is so perfectly obvious that its principal tendeney will be to perpetúate Skivery, the abo lition of which alone can save our whole country irom speedy. and utter and hopeless ruin.