The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-04-26
THE UNION,


Natural Results.
The anti-ssvery agitation in the North beginning
produce It's natural results by diminishing the trade be-
tween the North and the South. and by strengthening the
commercial ties between foreign nations and the south
ern exporting States The following extract from the
Richmond (ys) Republican has been before several
days.
"DlRxcr MpoxrAr,oss TO Rlcn,,osp lear bat all
the principal mercantile houses OF Richmond will send
AN agent by the make for OBJ
tanning their goods honceorh direct from England We
hail this suspicious movement for the interests OF
our cry and State, The country press OF Virginia, we
hereafter there will be necessity Tor Virginia merchants
making their purchases out OF the State"
We cannot say that we regret such action, although
regret the necessity of such action If the people of
the North will counenance those who have instituted
crusade against the rights and institutions Of the South,
they expect that the southern people will fail
every effort to weaken those commercial relations
which have been so profitable TO the North. Many
branches OF foreign commerce be carried
cessfuly by the merchants OF the South, and many
branches OF manufactures be profaby pursued by
the people of the South But the abundance of their
agricultural production has hitherto prevented the people
of the southern States from dveng their labor and cap
tal in any considerable degree from agriculture TO
merce and manufactures. Iii possibe-nay, probable
that for many years to the genial climate OF the
southern States would have been devoted principally
10 agriculture, whose products would be exchanged
for the ayas OF northern industry. had the anslavery
agitation been prevented But it cannot be concealed
that that agitation has partially esanged the two dvis-
ions OF the Union, and that the enlargement Is now
having the same effect upon the commercial intercourse
of these divisions which internal duties and mposts
would have. To sustain this proposition we need only
point to the numerous non-nercourse societies and
Citations which have been formed in the most patriotic
of the slavehoding States Virginia, for instanceand
to the extract from the Richmond Republican which we
have presented above.
But this is not ALL While the anti slavery agitation
has sustained southern manuacures-whe il has driven
off even southern wings from the protective policy and
has induced the southern merchants TO import more di
rectly from foreign portsit has, natural and inev
table consequence essened the southern trade with those
points in the North in which the doctrines of abolition
ism have received sanction and support In proof Of this
latter fact we present the following extract from the Bos
ton Transcript
very serious results begun flow from the
pies of the constitution and laws in Boston
shed branches in New York and every species Of bust
either has been likely to be affected by the very
IN cutting oil the ppe, No the
OF the system Of adopted need
be quoted than the fact that art. which should
ever be opoitan and in which point,
pass should not be recognised and within the sweep oil
whose haowing influence North South should be
known--even the blight has been already felt:
1.-THE New England Art lnionan institution at the head
OF which best Union in the whole country
pesidssha shared in the general withdrawal OF southern
support The gen,ernany superintendent OF that instin
ton informs that his southern honorary secretaries and
agents sending back their commissions daily. Ere.
quenty his letters returned unopened Books aHd
."ned upon III his hands ike unelean things We have
letter u.s. dated Tallahassee March 3D. and addressed
10 Spear which writer alter declining To
agent hmseli have delayed writing in hopes to
procure other 10 act for YOU but have as yet
sailed Most of those whom have spoken declined on
the ground that they would have nothing 10 do with the
because originated in Boston, and doubt not you
will your enterprise will be bad odor generally
al The south
il northern under ban at the South, what mns
be the regard northern trade and manufacture
Ii Boston had been engaged vindlcaon of any high
cpe-in resisting an arbitrary tax or IN carrying on
instead OF violating unpopular awand Tor this she had
been called upon suffer her pecunary inerests-she
would hsvr had consciousness OF night to sustain
NOR. readily than Boston brave any sacrifice sucl
But TO circumvent and defeat The e1ecu
dissolved was an of suicidal folly Tor which th'
business Of Boston are not responsible ahougn me
NIX p pna ips ha. been vndcs.d or Upheld Pro,cp
ton and mischief have been the only fruits
1--WE have no murm urs against the South for he
and In behalf of the consultation and the laws But on
New York friends may be In their antici patons
The Herald says WIFI not be pred 70 md that In the
the ensuing summer from twenty 10 thiry PEI
cent OF the capital Boston has been withdraw iron
dhat city and invested IN New York Perhaps the Herald
will find the South is not dseHardiul OF the signs
the times great STATE Of NEW York The South Wi
remark OF the excitement here In regard
to Simms letter from Senator Seward came like bomb
shell into The Union The South will also remark
that il the board OF aldermen have refused taneu1
Hall Mr.. Webster. the New Yok legislature have mega
uyed s-pfopositon Tor hi n to address that body.
Ht.VH ..u iaflatI tn.s "
ght bs made share in any disasters that may be 10
reserve Tor Boston Our shoulders bread aud we car
bear much. Incscusble injury has undoubtedly beer
DONE with good result, present or prospective But we
have that the cpations OF our New YORK cotem
be realized In the tme let every lricne
Of the Union whether North South, labor to do away
with every remaining Tor evaporation discomfort
and realntory war II will but faithfully observe on
duties under the constitution and the laws, peace and
friendship may yet be restored.
1T IL greatly be regreued under the circumstances
alluded above, that Mr. Webster could not have had
hearing at Faneu Hall. His remarks carried ms thej
would have been lightning wings over the length Mn'
breadth of the country, would have had uanquzing sns
benz oial Effect al this time"