The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23
From the Boston jEre,sing Mirror.
BOSTON Coming to View York.

Several large mercantile houses in Boston
have established branc oes 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 Souts, to New Eng
land abolitionism md the second, the saving OF
commissions hithei to paid TO New Workers.
In certain desert ptions of mauufactured goods,
the Massachusettsl 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 MS the brands OF
Otard or Heidseck; and Southern merchants
must and will have them, provided they are not
compelled to go into free-soil" dominions to
buy them. They feel precisely about going to
Bostonto purchase goods, as rabid Abolitionist
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 begin ning practi-
cally to acknowledge it.
The second motive we have narned for the
movement to New York is a 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 establish ment, while
the profits hitherto paid to the conn oission mer.
chant may be deducted from the cost Of the
goods
But iii not in mere business point Of view
that we call attention to the move ment, but in
political one. The South are determined on a
system of practical non-intercourse with aboli-
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 few weeks at a
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 pntronizing their hotels.
The New York merchants rs body and our
citizens generally, arc perfectly willing to leave
the subject Of slavey where the Constitution
leaves it, TO the slave States themselves. We
have no business 10 interfere with the South in
this particular. If slavery be sin, the North
is only responsible for entaiingit upon the coun-
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 hypocrites making sacrifices Ia
relieve the distress at their own doors, we shall
have more faith in the disirterestedness Of their
negro philanthropy. Y. Evening Mirror.