Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-04-12


,oa;ate connection of the whole South with Mexico
and the West Indies, with England ana nnaeI 'ne
+ the North its ships, goods, produce and trafc,
e,,H at once be excluded The rigor of that Brit
;s6 exclusive system which before drove the indepen-
Sant Northern States into Union with the South,
ond anpv with ten-fold force, and while the South
w. low beeome necessary to every country OF Eu-
rome the North has nothing to offer, beng IN 1act
;TaI to each and all in manufactures The areas OF
the free and slave States are as follows:
.rr. op 30 STATES WITH LANDS uNsoLD
AREA Area sold Money Iecd Unsold PoPalsn
Area by States new states les oGo Ca
Free SssasSSs siSs 95SSs 1Sl5 sO
The area of western lands unsold, with a large
NORTON of that already solo, is entirely commanded
hv the Mississippi and it's tributaries, and the pos
SCISSORS of it's Delta the controlling power The
introduction of manufactures is most rapidly pro-
crossing in the northern save-states, and as those
become less able to compete with the more southern
lands in agricultural productions, the impulse Will
he enhanced and with greater success than the I'M
nroying prospects of the material promises to
enhance the capital applicable for that purpose:
Every year the progress of affairs makes the North
less necessary to the South, and makes the latter
more necessary to England and Western Europe
The face of affairs is entirely changed since Gen
Pinckncy in convention assented to the proposltlon
giving Congress the right to pass laws regulating
commerce by simple majority, on the ground that
it was boon granted to the North In consideration
ut
strong northern neighbors. The cotton trade then
scarcely existed but the material has now been spun
into a web which binds the commercial world to
southern interests. The North now has tar more
need of the South to cherish her commercial ana
manufacturing interests, than when the merchants
of Boston, headed by John Hancock, pettioned Con-
gress to the following effect:
Impressed with these IDEAS petitioners beg leave to
honor address, that the mPositions of the Brit
sh the trade and exports of these sates may be forth
may please your exceency and honor the commerce
this and Of its THnh IS ace
of nation whose have been in vain exered to accom-
plish the ruin of America"
The South is now, with its institutions and capa-
bilites, possessed of that on which half the manu-
featuring and commercial interests of the world de-
ponds. 1t is the source whence the only means OF
employing and feeding at least 6,OOO,OOO whites can
be drawn, and without which nearly $1,000, 100000
of active capital in ships and factories would be val
ueless. A country and institutions so important to
the welfare of humanity at large not to be trlied
with. This country forms one-half of our glorious
Union, on terms agreed upon by those immortal men
who separated from ENGLAND, because they would no
longer suffer the continuance of the African slave
trade: but in it's independent position the South
holds the welfare of other nations almost entirely in
it's keeping. The capital and laboring abilities of
England such to afford the South an outlet
for it's staple should it exclude all other customers.
The result of such movement would be to force
other counties to draw their goods from England
only, On the other hand, the manufacturing pro-
gross of the North is such, that in few years she
may absorb the whole of the southern staple, and
place herself at the head of the manufacturing in
terest for the supply of the world To the South it
is comparatively of small Importance whether Eng
land or the North obtains this mastery. Between
the North and England it is mortal duel, and yet
in the crisis of this struggle there to be found
persons at the north destitute of all moral
and political acuteness, to attack, in violation of
the sacred pledge of the constitution those nstitu-
tons which it guarantees and which nccessa-
~ to the interests of humanity.
The continued harmony of the United States, per-
hitting the industry of each section to furnish
terals for the enterprise of the others-the recpro
city of benefits and uninterrupted interchange of
tual productions facilitated by continually increas
ing means of intercourse and accumulation of capital
are laying the foundation for empire, of which
the worlds history not on y affords example, but
the magnitude of which, the widest dreams of the
most ina gnatve of the worlds statesmen has failed
to conceive. In this undsturbed progress, the condi
ton of the black being elevated on the swelling
slaves imported were, under their masters, vastly
superior in condition to the nude cannibals by whom
they Sold only because avarice triumphed over
appetite so is the condition of the slave Of the pres
ent day far above that of his progenitor few gen
erations back. The black race, in its servitude to
the whites has undergone improvement, which
the same race, in its
failed to manifest.
and morally, the bla
perior to the nude