The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-10-30

| Dor, my friend, and my relative.
| Christian reader! arc there none round
about us whose intirm.tics we ought TO
bear with; whom we are ncglccting, and
treating with less kindness than we our
selves, il in their situation, should expect!
Arc there none .hose past services we are
forgetting or undertaking, who havr n
ltist claim on our respect and thankfunessl
let us take this matter to heart, and give
an honest reply.
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From the N. Y. Merchants Day Book. Oct. Is.
New York Merchants and the South
their relation to each other, and their
duty e the Onion,
We can scarcely take up Sout6crn
paper in whicl, there is not IN appeal
made TO Southern people 10 come ou,
boldly and pledge themselves not to pur.
chnsc anything manufactured or impor-
ted by Northern people. The follow
ing from the Richmond Republican is n
pretty fair specimen Of the manner in
which these apPcnls are made, and from
| what we SEQ and hear we have no tlonb,
Nut they are having nm effect upon The
Southern people. I, certainly does
seem to us tha, ir my people were ever
justified in adopting the non. intercourse
remedy for an evil, the people Of tho
slnvcholding States are justified in tax.
ing the course threatened.
The TRUE REMEDY We would re-.
spcc,fIlly suggest to our Southern
friends whether il would not bc we'll to
mark those States in which the fugitive
| slave law is successfully resisted and re-
solve not 10 make purchases Of any kind
from those States. There seems n
strong disposition in portions Of Mas
sachusctls 10 resist the law. LIE, tho
South observe the result, and ifthis dis
position is carried out so far rs 10 pro-
vent Southern men by violence or fraud
from receiving their property, let the
South resolve never hereafter to buy a
dollars worth Of the productions of
Massachusetts. !! appears that in The
great manufacturing town of Lowell,
Mass. large meeting has hrcn held, n,
which it wns resolved To call back three
fugitive slaves who had fled from !hn,
city TO Cnna'la, with a pledge ,ha, they
should he protrcind from, arr.>r, b., the
ci'Izcns or Lowell. Lei the South lhcn
mark Lowell. Let associations be
formed in The Southern States, and re.
solutions passed not 10 purchase any ar.
'iclc Of any Northern State or city in
which the law respecting fugitive slaves
is successfully resisted.
The merchants oflhis CITY treat lhcsc
threats Of the Snulh with perfect indin-
crcncc, il not contempt They seem to
look upon them as silly outhursts Of
passion; the mere trolh and foam Of bad
feeling, which will soon pass away as
summer cloud. leaving the atmosphere
Of flrndc clearer aud brighter. Instead
Of looking the danger in The face and nl-
tempting TO aver, it, they laugh al ii.
They see the Whig party divided upon
abolition, and large majority Of
the country politicians, MS well MS many
in the city, pursuing II deadly hostile
course towards to the South, yc, they
care not. They do no. even encourage,
by their countcnancc, the efforts Of the
few who nrc s,rcnuously resisting this
tide OF hostility 10 Southern institutions.
The New York Tribune, n rnbd aboIi.
ton paper. is taken aud supported by n
large number Of wholesale merchants.
who trade almost exclusively with the
South; and the same may be said of,,e
Courier and Enquirer. Mcssrs Bowen
and McNnmcc, who have bccom,.
wealthy by trading with Southern ,nrr.
chants, employ The largcs, number of
clerks. and boast Of doing the largest
Iobbing business done IN the CITY; who
built one Of the most magnificent stores,
two splendid country sca,s--alI from ia"
profits Of slave lubOr--nrc both thorough.
gong AboillonS6--slip abolition
ministers, and have established m nhoi
Iion newspaper. We say nothing
agnins, them; they IRE worthy and re.
spectacle men in the communty; hul
such are their principles, and they do
not pretend 10 deny or even conccnI
them. We onl Y speak of the f,ul Of
their being Aboilonis,s and supporting
that cn,isc. The South swallow all ,hiS,
and continue TO feed aud strengthen the
arm winch Sn.itrs them.
Mcssrs. Chilendcn anil Bliss have
grown rich in the same way, suppor, the
same cause, and feed by their slave la
Dor profits the same ministers, churches,
and newspapers. Mcssrs. Henry,
Smith and Townsend take the Tribune
and Courier and Enquirer, md advrr-
tsc in ihcm-paying them in slave la
Dor profits. They never gave cent TO
paper which supports The South, since