These are a part of the
blessings resulting from that increase and variety of product which
could not have existed if we had all been alike; which would have been
lost to-day unless free trade between the United States was still
preserved.
And here it strikes me as somewhat strange that a book recently issued
has received the commendation of a large number of the representatives
of the manufacturing and commercial States, though, apart from its
falsification of statistics and low abuse of Southern States,
institutions, and interests, the great feature which stands prominently
out from it is the arraignment of the South for using their surplus
money in buying the manufactures of the North. How a manufacturing and
commercial people can be truly represented by those who would inculcate
such doctrines as these, is to me passing strange. Is it vain boasting
which renders you anxious to proclaim to the world that we buy our
buckets, our rakes, and our shovels from you? No, there is too much good
sense in the people for that; and, therefore, I am left at a loss to
understand the motive, unless it be that deep-rooted hate which makes
you blind to your own interest when that interest is weighed in the
balance with the denunciation and detraction of your brethren of the
South.
The great principle which lay at the foundation of this fixed standard,
the Constitution of the United States, was the equality of rights
between the States.
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