Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-11-01

i pr a. NOR our jndrts 10 rxpound iheli wna' womb w
think Of such mpuien1 interference III m, ARE me no.
corn h,u,, 4 thousand tines more ihipu"eh. ~ 81
n,essorS oi tie abnlnrs;s upon me 'ie s 81 cnn -,
whe,r her interference may be attended WIN '''''
quenccS. 49,, fj., laes of palty why
dom, yo rc Inc blacks oTn door Q" .he a," a.,
rb,.epn nraer which they inboii on heeh "o :" >" So
~ as :,arna Nt,e -hrico, or ttah you nle ~ ,m,
-, i;,i near your own lesideS. Make the so" " YOU
avn STATE free before make pr0risoa 10, 20 r,r
sands ii n..s OIL whose SOIL climate anu i"'' " 81 e
tender such interference unnecessary
IN T,,r MERCHANTS, TRADERS. AND Aif'haN'
| ~ '''' les OF All. PARTIES ,
PERM, me now practically bring 10 your h"ii''
sequences your interests, OF opPosiu , and nonir
uud Nv tho Comnromsc Bills Of the last session
Compress Iou doing business in CITY stunning a"S
The first in the world population, and unsurpassed IL
wealth growing Of comnerclai ana gu
rerprize The merchant princes OF me moue'h ~ ~ ~
out their big ships, freiehed with The huky anu iI pr
ncts of the South The great commercial as vi EUROPE
~ Il, and 10 South America to pay for The Manufactured
and other goods transported back to Us Inc port o' view
York being the great carriers vi the nout our y"
miles upon miles oil vessels as spenuiu d.
fleet, ard we'll manned the prondcst coinnefcidi po
in Europe boast Tie offices and counlin houses
our merchants animated by the energy Oh
foreign commerce the heart from whence business ccha'f
10 all blanchcs of trade which The rural districts OF ON
Empirc State receive their full share OF heneit- ,
| Our wharves are also crowded with the more hnnlbe
though numerous craft that keep mp an active coast"s.
commerce with The slave States of the Sonth transmitting
TO them in manufactured gooas vi III eSc'
ons. Also for mile upon mile OF Your busv CIV are VIZ
stores OF those who supply these ships great ana shhi
with The outfits for those foreign and coastwse
For mile alter mile air The sipyards the workshops, tn,
factories the sheds the mechanics connected Win, ana
dependant upon, his mighty trade Its DEMENT'S nre no
confined merchants who own, and the shpwfsh's
shipoincrs ripes carkcs and painters, VINO ohiu ahc
furnish ships bn the chandieis efoceis ans
traders OF various other kinds who supply these SHIPS i"
their European and coaswise VOYAGES There are als'
sevcurcs yonr carnen, AMI lahorers VINO lat'ak'
/ uf thp
Yo have also miles Of stores occupied hy our nnnmera
Bile dry goods firms who sell 10 the smaller dealers oil '
Southern States millions of dollars Of goods a year W.
have also hundreds commission merchants and bok''e
who get their living by receiving, selling and Transporting
abroad the cotton the rice the tobacco the sugar me corn
the wheat AMI the naval Of The South II has been II
grea degree this traffic upon those great productions
South, which has onr merchants prosperity an
active and profitable employment TO thousands oi me-
| chancs.
But where yon merchants, traders and mechanics
this should BE- lost you even checked II
line separation is drawn between and your Sonthe!
customers whereby you get none OF her extensive pr"
ducts 10 transport and they refuse 10 buy OF you their goods
what becomes oi your big ships then aud your stone AM
man blc towering 10 The skies lonr PROUD SHIPS
they do their w!arves will become dead and IN
'alenbe capital ior high ireghts or low ciehts are tn
standards OF ship value The clean nnso!ed loors ~ you
palaces will ,en echo back the silent tread OF YOU
sts. AMI melancholy clerk, ard yomr Diminishing shelly"
and srunken profits will saun remind you that your days
prospectus business gone. Remember thai Tyre and ~
don of old and Geno, and Venice oi modern day
glorious cities revealing in the rich commerce OF IN
Indies and liz! Mediterranean and scattering their coone
ana trad. through all the Of the world. Yet Ty
Ana >iiln c,,a and VENICE have fallen and grass grow
II 'Er streets III those mat are NJ, DESTROYED The TIDES
rnGe ana hw and eb, and entirely diverted
from their accustomed channels.
Does bchnvc them the merchants, traders and me
chanics Of New York, bcstr themselves il any peril IL
their hourshng trade is al hand tell you that such pc
Ill does threaen and had better your and
it, and know and avoid your danger rather than fear IL fac
H. does the foolish bird of the desei when pursued hid
ing its head in the sand whereby il seeks 10 shut out tn
Il ntI A you
wake and b,s yourselves if you wish o save your bu
sincss.
onst politicians, some of the presses which You coune
and support which, although protesting be VIII!
IN principle Obstructive in all their measures, nav you
very Senators in Congress- threaten Southern brothers
with ranpng upon their vested rights secured To them bl
the Constitution, enforced by the law Of 1913 signed b,
Washington guaranteed them again by The compro
misses The last Session Of Congress. In return,
Southern States rrtatcd by these long repeated assaults
upon their domestic relations with which we have nothing
du and experimenting further aggression upon their rights
threaten dissolution of The Union by secession from Con
gress, by stopping the wheels 81 government, ard parayz
ing all It's motions Those who do not wish Ia take such
extreme measures, advocate commercial non-incrcours.
with you, 50 long You encourge Abo.tionism by
dorsng members of Congress who advocate its des ructv,
principles and elect Governors who have the bOdness
10 denounce them.
Now that foreign vessels Southern ports on
equal footing with your own hes will transmit their cotton
their thciI rice and a their other productions for
egn ports direct in foreign bottoms md pay ilc.hs
commissions, charges for Storage labor d.. They
VIII make their arrangements 10 import the manufactured
goods they want direct from Europe Thereby again. yot
wl lose your fieehts commissions profits und all the ohe
tolls which make such goods pay BY the South fol
| whom you import them
They will 20 TO Charleston, 10 Baltimore, 10 PHILADELPHIA
and New Orleans buy their gonds and viii deal viii
yon if YOU abolition State The beginning SET
already; the end be FAR oil; business n.ccsi
ay lc AFFECTED By The dissolution OF your commercial Union
although Your political Union NAV hang together
Let me rive you ew facts, 10 show how earnest Tho
Southern States in establishing their manufacturing in
dercniPnre of In Georgia there erected and
n"n from thirty 10 forty cotton and coarse wooden iacto
% which with single exception have been highly prof
ah These lnia worked 10y both whites and blacks
ou' ~ YET mostly b. the former. White labor bein" in h,
'u c",a man black, and singular az that may
yo"' muci, ae't INV Prices paid in the Eastern States Tie
means of living being cheaper al the Snuh in The same
portion South Carolina has abou, fourteen cotton mills
some OF them a considerable size capital of ono NJ
stands at $500 Geo In that State white labor "a vet nre
dominates, although hack is used. Their goods are OF an
excellent quality and have taken premiums the Franklin
Institute Of Philadelphia. The goods manufactured are
Osna1urgs shce ting, shrnss, bedicks wool
ems.
There also large number of mills in Virginia. North
Carolina Tennessee, ,labama and Mississippi The South
err mills having the raw material al their doors
labor being cheap do need tariff for projections foreign
goods cannot compete with them Their capital furnished
almost exclusively from the States in which the factories
snted although Eastern enterprise ind skill have added
much Ia their
The MINORITY of their goods sold in their own
States New odeans ia large market. Some small
amounts have 10 iueirn markets. considerable quan-
utis are sold IN New York and Philadrlphin Rio the
shipments have rcsnlird we'll and the spners think thai
IN ne they will have large eypo: demand Tor Germany
The great bulk of is already shipped from The
Southern States direct Europe from tneir own ports and
they could very easily arrange with foreign houses and bank
kers that that portion of their crop which nnw comes 10
New York 10 be shipped Ii Europe would also 20 direct
from them, and in foreign bottoms
suggest these matters 10 you for consideration
and TO show that the Sonth dependent the North
crn States az has been supposed. J. W c.
CANADA AND THE COLORED FUGITIyES. Not.
wi,hsandng the sympathy manifested by the Canadian edi
tors at The passage of the fugitive slave law they appear to
be- unwilling that The runaway slaves should become their
neigboge Especially is this the on the border line of
Michigan AMI the district ci Canada The last
number of the Amhcrsiburg Courier says
We have been favored for the m four or five days by m
nn% Of the ro red population from The States whose adj
e' though henolatle 10 the province land of liberty