The organizer., 1850-12-14
From the Mississippian.
EFFECTS OF SECESSION.

EFFECTS OF SECESSION.
"As political economist and',s,atesman, he
(the GoveTnor) ought to show before he recon-
mendS or suggests 10 Mississippi as one of the
aggrieved States, "prompt and peaeeable seces-
sion" that the safety, value and productveness OF
slave properly will be at least equal after seces-
sion, TO what they are now.D- Flag Of he Onion.
Conl Governor Quitman. hava tnrn.
ed aside from the clear and concise
exposition of wrongs to be redressed.
legitimate to the character ofan Exec.
utve Message, and INDUCED himself
in an essay upon the conservative
powers of government of united
interests, we do not know any one
who would have more heartily entered
upon the task, or who could have bet
ter traced the vast benefitst to be confer
red upon Mississippi by secession. His
graphic pen would quickly have dis
PEELED the woe and gloom and sense
less chimeras, which submission to
wrong has conjured up in the mag
nations of the Federal Unionists,
Governor Quitman had other task
to perform, and how well he has sus.
tanned himself we Shall leave to the
liberal criticisms of our own and
sister States to decide.
No country on the face OF the earth
possesses more OF the elements of
prosperity than our own sunny South.
It's wrong to suppose that dissou-
ton of the Union could be attended
with any destruction OF our interests,
or ieopardise our peace and tranquil.
ity. Let US look around and see the
bountilul resources at our commad.
Our crop of cotton the past season
will amount to at least three hundred
thousand bales, and that is failure.
In a good season we may soon realize
double the amount. But this year
will realisa to our cotton planters
about sixteen millions Of dollars.
How much of this large amount now
goes to the northern manufactured
We shall make slight estimate.
The State Auditors report for lS49,
giyeAs the following items:
Amount Of MERCHANDISE sod by rege-
lar ruensh sbts ..-s IS, -
Merchandise sold at auction, OF by
lransien. vendors --...-........--...-..- 1924
$3.50 ,250
It is fair to say that at least sir mil,
lions of the above goes into the pockets
Of northern men. Now a large por-
ton of this amount would be spent in
our State. or at least in Southern
ConfederHcy IT one were formrdi be.
cause even revenue tariff upon
merchandise, say of twenty per cent,
would force the northern capitalist
either to transfer his investment 10
the South or cause his place to bs
supplied by the manufactures OF Eng
land. A duty of 90 per cent, would
efTeciually exclude northern manuN
iacturers, and there could be no hope
left them bat 10 invest their capital
in southern manufactures.
We annually consume one million
dollars of domestics. All this could
be manufactured in Mississippi
Here, then would be room for a prof.
table investment. We are now re-
alising twenty per cent. profit upon
this manufacture. Establish n tariff
of twenty per cent. and The induces
nent to manufacture will be greatly
But there are other articles pur-
chased from the north which would
afford labor for our own mechanics
The Auditors report for ls49 shows
hat there are rra
1922 carriages in Mississippi, valued Al S61i 100
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