The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23
From the Boston EUenimg Mirror.
Boston Coming to New York.

several large mercantlo houses In BOSTON
have established branches in this city within the
last six months, and we hear Of others about to
come. Two reasons have led to this step; the
| first is the antipathy Of the South to New Eng
| land abolitoDsm and the second the saving OF
| commissions hitherto paid to New Workers.
In certain descriptions of manufactured goods,
the Massachusetts mills are conceded to excel
all others on this continent, and to equal, il not
surpass, the best of foreign fabrics. We might
name several establishments in New England
which have acquired wide reputation, and
whose products are, and will be, sought for in
every American market. Certain Lowell and
Lawrence labels are as famous as the brands of
Otard or Heidseck; and Southern merchants
must and will have them, provided they are not
compelled to 90 into free-soil' domin0ns to
buy them. They feel precisely about going to
Boston to purchase goods, as a rabid AbolitOnst
feels. or affects to feel, in visiting the land of
slaves TO buy his sugar or molasses; and while
ne cannot sacrifice the luxury for the sake of
the principle, he prefers to get his sweets at
secondhand in New York. This is simply the
fact, and the Bostonians are beginning practi-
caiiy to acknowledge it.
The second motive we have named for the
movement to New York is minor one, but one
that will operate heavily against large class
Of commission merchants, who have been max
ing-some a living, and others fortunes, by
wholesaling for the manufacturers The per
centage saved will probably be sufficient to pay
the express Of the BRANCH establishment while
the profits hitherto paid to the commission mer-
chant may be deducted from the cost of the
goods.
But il il not in mere business point of view
that we call attention to the movement, but in
political one. The South are determined on a
system Of practical non-ntercourse with aboIi-
ton mischief makers, and we commend them
for it. They have inherited slaves, and their
fortunes, their very subsistence depends upon
retaining their property in slave labor If they
cannot visit the North to pass a few weeks ut
watering place, without having their servants
stolen by thieving Abolitionists, who can blame
them for refusing to enrich Northern merchants
and Northern landlords by purchasing their
goods and patronizing their hotels
The New York merchants as body and our
citizens generally, are perfectly willing to leave
the subject of slavey where the Constitution
leaves it, to the slave States themselves. We
have no business to interfere with the South in
this particular. If slavery be sin, the North
is only responsible for entailing it upon the conn.,
try. Let the fanatics pull the beams from their
own eyes, before troubling themselves with the
notes in the eyes of their brethren. There is
more sin and misery, more hunger, nakedness,
and suicide in the city Of New York, than in all
the Southern States together When we see
these abolition hypocrtes making sacrifices to
relieve the distress at their own doors, we shall
have more faith in the disinterestedness of their
negro philanthropy. Y Evening Mirror.
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