The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-08-13

supply OF cotton to the splndles and looms of
New England because, although war should
prevail, the laws of trade will be sure to car.
ry the needed supply to the place of demand.
This, indeed, must be Of a crcuitous route,
and at an enormous expense. But on this
| lay no stress. 1t would indeed prevent
the Yankee from hoping to compete with
the English manufacturer in markets open
to both, while war would shut him out from
! this the chief and best market
"And how long would such a war last ?"
asks Mr.. Webster with a scornful scowl.
'How long would it be before the fleets
and armies of the north would sweep the
coasts, and blockade the ports, and overrun
and desolate the territory of the South, and
turn the knives of the slaves against their
masters throats? ?" How long! Sir, such
war will never be waged until Massachu-
setts shall have lost her senses, and be pre-
pared to rush on self-destruction. Whence
but from the Southern States comes the cot
ton that keeps in activity the spindIes and
looms of the North Sir, the North would
not dare to prosecute war with such activity,
as even to dsminniSh the supply. Obtain
ing it., as she must do, from neutral ports,
the North could only get what was left af-
ter supplying the demand of other countries,
and any essential diminution would leave
her nothing. But a war of dcsolation!
Why, sir, such war would react upon
the North like the bursting of a cannon in
a crowded ship, working ten times more
mischief there than on the enemy. Do gen
tlemen consider the nature of great manu-
featuring establishments kept in operation
by what they call free labor; the labor of
those whose daily bread is the purchase of
daily toll, and who, left without employ
ment for a week, must staVe, or beg, or
rob. The mind of man has not conceived
the Wretchedness which the failure of one
cotton crop would produce; Universal
bankruptcy universal ruin--the prostration
of the wealthy, and the uprising of the suf-
fering mass violently snatching from their
beggared employers portion Of the scanty
remnant of former abundance, to satisfy the
wants of nature Sir, when the overwhem-
ing force of France threatened to invade
and subjugate Holland, the Dutch cut their
dykes and let in the ocean the enemy with
drew and all thought of again invading the
soil of a people capable of defending their
liberty by such sacrifices was abandoned
forever, Here was a self-inAicted suffering
which did but warn the enemy, without
wounding him: But what if the people of
the Southern States, goaded by insult and
wrong, should determine on much less
sacrifice? What if, with one accord, they
should agree to make no Cotton for single
season, except for their own factories, and
apply all their labor to laying up store of
Grain for another year The South could
bear it sir. 1t would incommode many
1t would enrich some. 1t would ruin no.
body here. And what would be the effect
elsewhere The mind of man cannot cal
culate it. The imagination Of man cannot
conceive it. Hor@eSc0 referenS. An earth
quake shaking the Continent from the Poto-
mac TO the Lakes, swallowing up the British
Isles, and overturning all that Revolution
has left standing in France and Germany
would be hardly more destructive. Sir, the
| pillars of the world would be shaken and
here stands tife South gtys4T,irrg~ them iii her
/
Sampson, sit to make sport for these Philis-
tines who mock her degradation. Wil.she
not make her prayer to God and bow herself
in her might, not like him, to die with the
| Phlistines but to overwhelm them and
stand unhurt amid the ruins? No, she wall
not But this is always in her power; and
this she will do, if ever her loathing detesta-
ton and scorn of her oppressors- equals in
acrimony and malignity their fierce philan-
thropy and insidious friendship.
Something like this would be the co1se-
quence to the North of any war with the
South. Worse if possible than this would
be the consequence of war of desolation
and emancipation In that case the mis-
Chief would not be confined to the North.
1t would overspread the civilized world, in
aggravated horror. In New England we
can calculate it, The seven hundred mil
lions of which the South has been robbed
by the unequal operation Of the Federal
Government, has been realized, as they call
it. 1t has been built into ships and factor
les ; it has been paid out for barren lands at
high prices only justified by these establish
ments; it has been built into palaces where
merchant princes and manufacturers dwell III
marble halls. There are no other objects
of investment, and the boasted heaped Up
wealth of New England is just that-no
more. Now take away the cotton and
commerce of the South, and what do you
see? The ships lie rotting at the wharvesi
the factories tumble into ruins; and skulk-
ing in corners of their marble palaces, tlE
merchant princes, like those of Venice live
meagerly on contributions levied on the
curiosity Of travellers As to the laboring
classes, the far west is open to them. What
violence and rapine they may practice for q
while under the teachings of Communism
Fourierism, Agrarianism, and other isms o
: the family of Abolitionism, it is not possible
to say. But they will soon see that Com
2 munism if of little worth where there i