The New York herald., 1850-10-28
AxrrsLavnv AND ru SILK rsApu-rHr cA.Ds

Avn aivRy AND TIE SILK TRApl-Tn CARDS
OF CHnrxEnxn Il BLISS, AND BowxN & AoNAHH.
The recent awak ming of this great commercial
community, produced by the renewal, under Sen
ator Stewards auspices, Of the anti slavery agia-
ton in New York, has brought out some curious
Developments, singular declarations, and unique
cards, from persons transactng business in the
vicinity of Change, in Wall street, in the silk
and cotton line, in Broadway. II appears that, in
collecting signer for the new and important Union
meeting, which is to be held on Wednesday eve-
| ming at Castle Garden, some few persons refused
TO go with their fellow citizens into recognition
of the laws of the country and would not put their
names upon the general subscription, in favor OF
| the peace measures of Congress This caused
! some agitation in the commercial circles of the
metropolis, and those who derive portion of their
profits from their Southern trade, were anxious to
be relieved from all suspicion, by bringing forward
those who refused Accordingly, we hnd that one
or two who have declined signing the call, have
given explanations, as Will be seen by the annex
ed cards;-
73 BRoApwAY, Saturday morning
To the Editor Of the Ersning Post:
DIAR sR-We have, another mas well said no
principles to SELL but IL supposed the public or
business connections interested to know our ssnt
ments on any particular subject We should not object
1t is not our opinion that you designed.
willing represent in your leader OF yesterday IS
having been in duced by fear to sign the call for the
Union meeting" but think this the fair and obv-
Gus import Of your language.
The fact 10, we deliberately determined to sign the
call before the attack upon appeared In the Journal
Of Commerce and did not choose to De deferred from
zig ming IL, account OF that.
If YOU were as familiar as you may easily become,
with certain movements which have been in progress
in New York during the last two weeks, you would be
in danger suspecting Of bsing easily alarmed
by the malice of rivals the denunciston Of those
We sh.il feel obliged If you will give this place in
CHIrrENDEN BLISS.
A ACARD.-The public. including the New York jour
nal Of Com aeroe, are informed that are Silk Msr
chants and keep extensive and well assorted stock
of goods which offer to responsible buyers on rea-
sonable terms As individuals, we entertain our own
views the various religious, moral and political
questions OF the day which We are neither afraid or
ashamed to declare on all proper occasions
But wish 10 distinctly understood that our goods
and not principles In the market The attempt
punish merchants for the exercise OF our lioer
ty citizens We leave to the judxment OF the com
muuity. BOWEN McNAABE.
The sentiments put forth in these cards sound
very well and seem quite appropriate, yeti appears
on looking little deeper into the matter, that, ac-
cording to the Erentng Post, Messrs. Chittenden
d Bliss, and Messrs. Bowen & McNamee, are
joint proprietors in the Hsdependent newspaper,
very violent abolition journal, conducted by Ward
Beecher. They do not alone confne themselves
10 the sale Of dry goods-cotton, silks and
velvets. Each firm has two shops, one in Broad
way, where they sell articles to clothe the body,
and another somewhere else, where they dispose,
by wholesale or RETAIL certain Independsnt sheets,
one yard and two inches long, by about thirty-hve
inches broad, at six cents each, with discount to
Wholesale purchasers, which are intended to adorn
the mind with anti-s slavery doctrines. Its nothing
new for merchants to have two shops for the sale
of different kinds of goods, and, therefore, to pro-
scribe these merchants, is not exactly correct. ac
cordng to the rules of right and privilege. They
have perfect right to sell the silks and other ar
ces imported by them, provided they do not ajure
the country, and without any further regard to the
constitution and laws, they have right also to sell
their opinions and antislsvery notions at any and
every shop they may find it profitable or agreeable
10 their own taste to establish In fact, no one
can reasonably object to their making Henry Ward
Beecher their chief clerk in the antslavery trade,
or John Jones in the cotton line. All this comes
into their rights as citizens.
There is point, however, beyond these con-
siderations. II, through their agency, and by
means of their doctrines, issued at six cents
sheet, the laws of the Union should be resisted, or
not obeyed, as they recommend in the Indeperdeni.
dissolution of the Union, they will be held, and
ought to be SO held, responsible, as patriots and
citizens for the results of their conduct in selling
the dryest goods possible, hereafter to ignite for
general conhagration Of society. The truth is,
that the anti-slavery agitation has been going on
now for twenty years, and promises TO show us
great consequences, on a wholesale scale, if we
may Judge by the details in some special cases
l,cLt h..
been established seventy years. The first fifty
years passed away ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS North re-
cognizng, and not interfering with, the consttu-
tional privileges of the South. Within twenty
years, a spirit of misrule and anarchy has sprung
up, and though have averaged at the North,
from our Southern trade, profits to the amount Of
fifty millions of dollars annually, or about three
hundred aud fifty millions Of dollars during the
period OF our existence under the Union, yet we
seem not to be satisfied with this result OF our
industry, bat oud break upon the interests OF
Southern brethren, and cripple their enterprize,
regardless of all duties TO the country a
federacy, scaled by sacred compact. Our trade
has grown up under constitution and laws framed
by the representative wisdom Of the whole coun-
try, singularly well selected for promoting equal
results to all sections Of the Union. The consti-
tuition has granted certain privileges both to the
North and the South. II is compact OF COM
promises in all its relations, and till men began
to direct their thoughts treasonsbly against its
wise provisions, all was peace, prosperity, aud
harmony. The last twenty years, however, have
exhibited scenes Of elimination, recrimnstion, and
agitation; and now the political design Of the agi-
taiors Of ,he North, is to njure the general pros
periy, and to act the two great sections sf the