Modern Abolitionism

Tliere is one foalure in "modern abolitionisni," which is more tlian any other cnlculated to awaken inquiry, excite discussion, and flnally to overturn slavery in the Soutlr. and ihat is the ' 'pocket feature." Precmen frora the North, when ïhey learn from facts and figures that they have been taxed annually milüons of dollars to support wliat they abhor, the Slavery of the Souih, they will no longer sit qniet nnder the significant cognomen of "Northern donghfaces," which in return for their blind hberality, the Sonthern Hotspurs iiave triven them. That it has ever been the policy of the South to fill the principal offices of ffovernment with Southern men, or those friendly lo their "peculiar institutions," is a part of the history of the country. Presidents,cabinet officers, and foreign ministers, have by a targe mnjority been of this cast. When once installed into office, whether by democrats or whigs, the discipline of parties and the servility of party presses have been called 10 their aid. Placed there by the Southern policy, they consult first Ihe interests of the South; and whatever measures they recnmmend, the wliole pnrlizan press, JYorth and South, wil] yelp responsive to, and the in of eulogy be heard throughout the Innd. For oursnlf, we know of no section or clnuse in the Oonstituiion, nor in the creed of the Democratie party, that prohibits us from expressing our free ppinions on this .bject. The South may talk about the delicacy of the tnsk as much as they please. and tlireaten dissoItJtion; but tbeie is one thing, w:th all due arnenity of disposition, we can assure them, that we, fora single journal, shail not permit our right to discuss tliiá or any other subject undr heaven, to be denied. Far off be the day when the ties which bind our sisterhood of sovereignties shalJ be sundered; but come that event when it mny, there are none on whom ttie illa of eeparation will more sorely press than on those States which are so ready to calcúlate the "value of the Union," and tothrea en ifs dissolution. Wliat could they do without the free States? They have been leeches upon the public treasiiry ever since they had a sovereign existence. Sixty millions of mney have been exopnded : remove ihe iVmoriie Inaimis f'rom FJort 'o r their spedal bnfi'; two millions and a ialf for removing the Cherokees fr-m Georgia, po that they could pnjoy their l.inds. - TheCrefk Tndians, with whom they could not live in peace, haveaiso been removed, at a great expense to the nntion. Millions upon mülions have been approprialed to line their coasts with fortifications, and to provide a navy so as to protect them againsl foreien agtrression, it beiog universally ncknowledged, thnt in tlie event of a war, slavery presenfs the only vulnerable poim to the enemy. White less than four hundred thousand dollars have been appropriated to build lipht houses and harnors in Northern Ohio, a frontier of several htindreW miles, and not one cent for fortiricationp. one million and seven hundred thousand dollnrs ha. been spenl on the single port of Norfolk alnnp!It is a notorioua fact, too, that the free States are taxed nearly a million and a half per 8nnum to support Üie post mail sjstem in ihe South. The Northern routes pay mto the treasury this amount above their expenditure?, and the whole deoartment barely eustains itself. Only the white population of the South are nllowed by law to read or write. - They are scattered over an immense región, making the routes long and expensive, and the mails light ín proportion to the reading population; consequently yielding luifc little revenue. Thus we of the North, in paying two shillinjTS for a letter, pay one to the carrier and one to the slaveliolder. So we might enumérate a multitude of cases showing the entire dependênce of the South upon the North . Their vital principie lies in the pockets of Northern freemen:shut up this resource, and the whole system of slavery would fall by its own weight. Let the issue be made! We have nothing to fear from the South, in their oft repeated threafs to "dissolve the Union." They may hold it up as a bugbear to frighten Northern men into acompliance wilh their demands; but they will be the last to move in a measure so suicidal to themselves, and which we should look npon as the greatest curse that conld befnl our common