Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-04-24

Union, could they do so without danger to
their ownrights, preservation, and prosperi-
ty. If these cannot be preserved against
Northern violence, then perish the Uuion
a thousand times before they will permit
the first act Of aggression at crisis like the
present. There is no danger to the South
from disunion. Far better is separation
for her than the Union, when the con stitu-
ton-the bond of it's broken. What has
the South to dread from separation The
sword Of the general government? Bah
1t would be splinlered before il ever fell on
a Southern Slate. A loss Of property or
prosperity? Stuff! Southern property and
Southern prosperity would double in year
How are they now, in the Union Now,
the Southern States subssi, exist, on their
agricultural products alone. Then, every
great source Of wealth of the Union would
fall to their share. The South would pros
per-the North would perish. Wha, do
the Southern States gain by being in the
Union The great sources Of the wealth
Of the Union are agriculture, manufactures,
commerce, and navigation. The three las,
are almost exclusively monopolized by the
North. The South support, in great mea-
sure, the manufactures of the North. Ill
lions Of millions Of the great Southern pro-
duets furnish the vast capital required by
the Northern merchants for The commerce
from Northern ports, with The whole world
Northern bottoms carry the agricultural pro-
duce through the globe; and Northern
manufacturers, N orlhern merchants, and
n orlhern shIp-Owners, amass millions, d.
rec,ly and indirectly. from the Southern pro-
ducers. The Southern manufacturers are
mere acorn; Southern merchants are the
mere retail shopk ee2ers, who get their goods
from the North Southern navigation own
ers are comparatively unheard Of And, as
if these sources of enormous deductions
were not sufficient of themselves to impov-
erish the producers Of the South, the feder-
al government steps in, and draws al least
thirty millions more annually, from the
South, by revenue and protection, Of which
it spends nearly all on the free States. Clio
rious Union! Glorious equality Glorious
days for unprincipled political adventures
to enjoy honors and emoluments for keep
ing up SO glorious federal system!
Where would the South stand were she
to separate? Her agricultural productions
would be the same, and her producers
would reap the just reward of labor. Her
manufactures would be un,rammelled, and
having every shape and way, she would do
her own, and would be able to compete
with any nation in the world. Her mer-
chants would have capital which the Worth
now employ. The navigation of the South
would f1oa, on every sea. Her trade would
be open TO all The world, and thousands
would pour into her borders from all lands
The federal government would be simple !;
for even now that section is governed al
lllle cost to the Union. Her States would
retain their sovereign capacity, which they
have now nearly lost in The Union. Justice
would be the watchword of The Southern
republic. Honor would be her safeguard,
and prosperity would be written on her
gates and where, then, would be The boast
ed superiority of the North where the
proud commercial cities Of Philadelphia,
New York, Boston, and hundred others ?
While Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah,
Charleston, Mobile, and New Orleans,
would be spreading their borders, and be-
coming the great depo.s Of commerce
"Grass would grow in the streets, and their
ships would be rotting at their wharves" in
the Northern cities and the doom would
be just and right, for they were The first to
commit wrong, and first to forge, justice to-
wards their brethren of the South, in the old
Federal Union. PATRICK HENRY.