Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-28
Total earnings of the North per annnm
3.3?3.3G5 s13.62l S61l. .OCl.l

.uropc, g-2Gi3 933UUO l-3UBDOUu
nitcd States, 52O.o00 lU0,65i l22000000
Total, 3,3?3,3G5 S7363l S67 900
"Ol this large consumption. 100000 bales furnished
by the Southern States and il supports through the profits
fabrication, less than 900 900 whites and the
cloth produced furnishes comfortable clothing millions
more who otherwise would suffer from of it, IT, by
nny convuson the supply of materials should be cut
oil how wide spread would be the resulting desution and
ruin all nations? The Northern States have rapidly in
creased Of late years in their ability work up The
Thus in l64li2 the growth 6S51I bales and the u.
States manufactures took 26I $50 or 10 per cent The
growth of the past years has been 2500000
bales and SOP 400 bales 20 per cent has been wrought
up in the United States. Thus The national industry of the
Nor, is developing itself with rapdity that in few years
will cause require the whole of the Southern production
the exclusion o European rivals The progress in this
direction is precisely in the ratio of The increase OF capital
Superior wealth is all the advantage which England has over
the Union and she is fast losing That advantage The only
in which she check this tendency is by promoting
sectional eaousies in the view 10 cause political dlsolu
ion of IT,. Union.
Ihe South is now with its institutions and capa. itics,
possessed of that which hall the manufacturing and COM
necia interests of the world depends 1t is the source
whence the only of emplo"ing and feeding a. least
000O00 whites be drawn and without which nearly
1000 of active capital in ships and factory would
be yalneltss country, and institutions so important 10
the welfare Of humanity large not 10 be ied with.
This country forms one fal o our glorious unlon on terms
agreed upon by those immortal men who separated from
England because they would no longer suffer the conlinn-
Of the African sreradc but in its independent posi-
lion The South holds the welfare Of other nations almost en-
fircly in its keeping The capital and abong abilities OF
England such afford the South outlet for its sta
.c should il exclude Nil other customers The result OF
such would be, TO force other countries to draw
their goods from England only. On the othe. hand, the
manufacturing progress of the North is SUCH that IN few
she may absorb the whole of the southern staple and
nacc herself the head OF the manufacturing interest Tor
Inc supply OF the world To the South, il is comparatively
%, small importance whether England the North obtains
dis mastery Between the North and England II II NOR
m ue in the crises OF this struggle there are 10 be
lound persons at the North destitute o all moral sense
cred pledge o the Constitution those institutions which II
guarantees and which necessary 10 the interests o
humanity.
The continued harmony of the United States, permitting
industry each section 10 furnish materials Tor the en-
crprise of The Others the reciprocity OF benefits and min
continually increasing of intercourse and
n capital laying the foundation for an EMPIRE VI when
the worlds history not only affords example, oul the mag
nude of which the widest dreams OF the most imaginative
of the worlds has failed conceive In this IN
disturbed progress the condition of the black race is being
elevated the swelling tide of white progress lnasmuc
as that the first slaves imported were under their new mas
tcr vastly superior in condition 10 the nude canoais Dy
whom they so only because avarce triumphed over
appetite the condition of the slave OF the present DAY
above that of his progentor few generations acH
The black race in its servude the whites has undergone
an Improvement which the in lis state oil African
freedom has failed 10 manifest. BY whatever degree phy
scaly and morally the blacks OF the United states are u
pcro the nude cannibas OF Africa are they haeoed
Tie white race for active though dsnteested agency
That process improvement has not ceased but ever pro-
nressve in the train of white advancement Inc huge urn
vitality of ITSELF but attached 10 the resstes
| locomotive, forward with vgor not It's own. lt
oil that race in dependence on Its own resources Is
singular manifestation of desire tor It's progress