Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-01
From the New York Merchants Day Book. Oct. Is.

From the New York Merchants Day Book. Oct. To-
New York Merchants and the south-ThcIr Relation
each other aud their Duty the Union.
We scarcely take up Southern paper in
which there is not an appeal made to Southern peg
pie to out boldly and pledge themselves not to
purchase anything manufactured imported by
Northern people. The following from the Rich
mond Republican, is pretty fair specimen of the
manner in which these appeals are made and from
what we see and hear, we have no doubt but they
are having effect upon the Southern people. 1t
certainly does to that if any people were
justified in adopting the non-intercourse remedy
for evil the people of the saveholding States are
justified in taking the course threatened
" The TRUE REMEDY.-We would respectfully suggest to
Southern friends whether it would not be well to mark
resisted and resolve not to make purchases of any kind from
those States There seems strong disposition in portions
of Massachusetts, resist the law Let the South observe
the result, and this disposition carried far
prevent Southern by violence fraud, from receiving
dollars worth of the productions Of Massachusetts, 1t ap
that in the great manufacturing town of LOWELL Mass
call back three fugitive slaves who had fed from that city
Canada, with pledge that they should be protected from
Lowell Let associations be formed in the Southern States,
Northern State city in which the law respecting fugitive
slaves is successfully resisted
The merchants of this city treat these threats of
the South with perfect Indifference if not contempt
They seem to look upon them silly outbursts Of
passion the froth and foam of bad feeling,
which will soon pass away summer cloud, leav-
ing the atmosphere of trade clearer and brighter
Instead Of looking the danger in the face and attempt
ing to avert it, they laugh at it. They the Wing
party divided upon this Abolition question, and
large majority of the country politicians, as well as
many in the city, pursuing deadly hostile course
towards the South, yet they care not. They do not
even encourage by their counenance, the efforts of
the few who strenuously resisting this tide of
hostility to Southern institutions. The New York
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ported by a large number Of wholesale merchants
who trade almost exclusively with the South and
the same may be said of the Courier and Enquirer
Messrs. Bowen and McNamee who have become
wealthy by trading with Southern merchants en-
plOy the largest number of clerks and boast of doing
the largest jobbing business done in the city who
have built of the most magnificent stores, two
splendid country seats-al from the profits of slave
labcrare both thorough going Abotionists, support
Abolition ministers, and have established an Adolf
ton newspaper. We say nothing against them
they are worthy and respectable men in the commu-
nity-but such their principles and they do not
pretend to deny or even conceal them. We only
speak of the fact of their being Abotionsts and sup
porting that cause. The South swallow all this and
continue tofeed and strengthen the arm which smtes
them.
Messrs. Chittenden and Bliss have grown rich in
the same way, support the same cause, and feed by
their slave labor profits the ministers, church.
es, and newspapers. Messrs. Henry, Smith and
Townsend take the Tribune and Courier and Enqu-
rer and advertise in thempaying them in slave Ia
Dor profits They never gave cent to paper which
defends the South, since they were in business The
same may be said of Perkins and Warren Hopkins
and Allen, and dozen others whose names we shall
have occasion to give hereafter must now turn
to the chief cook and bottle washer of all-Simeon
Draper Jr., ESQ.
We would like to be spared the mention of this
name in connection with the mercantile community;
but the position he has assumed bottle-holder to
VIM H. Seward makes it necessary to hold him up
to view little longer The world is sufficiently ac-
quainted with his pipelayng operations, so that we
can afford to let that pass 1t has been supposed
that New York was the best place for rogues and
knaves to retain respectable character in the world
and when mans character gets so bad he can't live
in New York, he can't live anywhere. The country
boasts of its superior morals; but we have case
here that will forever put quetus all future at
tempts to prove that men can be great political
knaves to debar them from the good society of the
country. New York State Wings have taken up
the New York city Wings condemned rascality.--
Sim Draper and Bill Seward are pair of about
the pretest escaped birds that ever went in shoes.
We can stand almost anything in this city, and can
swallow about as much knavery as any place, al
ways excepting Syracuse but the Draper and Client
worth frauds could not swallow. Such barefaced
rascality-such open unblushing perjury-as was
committed and recommitted within the knowledge
of, if not instigated by, VIM H. Seward, were too
much for New York city. New York State, we are
ashamed to say swallows it.
But to Sims mercantile relations He is, as is
we'll known, dry goods auctOneer and sells large
quantity of goods that go directly to the Southern
! market In fact were it not for the South he could
not live if the Southern trade should be cut off 81
moons resources and means for carrying on his Alb
clifton schemes would be very much curtaied. Five
per cent. of the money a Southern merchant plan
| ter pays for carpet goes into Sims pocket. Five
per cent. of the money paid for a silk dress,
shall five per cent the cloth which is in the Goa
or pantaloons five per cent. of the cravat money
the gloves and the ribbons which trim the bonets
If these article are bought of an Abolition obber o.
retailer, fifteen per cent. goes to the Abolition
cause. 1t is divided around two per cent. to tn
Tribune, three per cent. to the Courier three to
Abolition religious paper, three to the society,"
the rest to build country seats and pay expenses o
runaway slaves.
This is the way the North makes the South turf
the grindstone to grind their noses. Don't b
startled, Mr.. Southern Press, the Day-Book is no
half done.
Before we are through with Ibis subject we viii
= show you how you deceived by your mer
chants. who in times of great Abolition excitement
when the Southern people have refused to buy good
that bought of Abolitionjsts, have their bill
made out in the name of the clerks, and show ther
evidence that the goods not purchased of OF
il noxious New Workers. We have seen great dea
: of deception and trickery in day. and have com
to the conclusion that it is we'll to show it up
) Judge Sharkey-the president of the Nashvill
/ Convention-has addressed a very large meeting i
IS Ncksburg, Miss, called to respond to the action
/ Congress The position he occupies gives an inter
est to his opinions the question of the day Frol
c a sketch of his speech we make the following e,
&c tract:
l. HE had suspected some persons in the South
e disunion movements. Recent transactions had sa
sfed him that those persons desired dissolution
ii the Union per Sc, and that the pretext of Souther