Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08
An URtried Remedy.


We have for years thought that strict system of
commercial non-intercourse the part of the South
with the North would prove sautary, least in less
ening the encroachments of abolitionsm if not en-
tirely eradicate the evils of which the South
bitterly complains If the farmers and planters
to pursue the system of purchasing goods but from
those merchants who supply themselves far pos
sble alone from the Southern importer, change in
public sentiment in the South would manifest it.
self preiudical Northern feeling and Northern in
terest If sudden withdrawal of Southern mer-
chants from the cities of New York, Boston, Phila-
dephia and the interior manufacturing towns at the
North could be compassed, shock, such never
before felt upon the commercial and montory affairs
of those cities would be produced, more blghting and
deadly in its effects than any legislation within the
legitimate power of the State or National Govern
ment.
The South should foster her own interests and en-
deavor to build up, by encouraging home industry and
direct trade perpetual safeguards around her nstt-
tions She has it in her power to live independent,
only of the North but almost of the world beside,
while both compelled to be tributary to her Let
the experiment be tested Let planters and far
mers whose interests mainly at stake, set about
the work at once. Let them resolve to buy nothing
of Northern manufacture when it can be had at South
establishments, and an important step will have
been taken. To effect harmony and concert in the
matter, neighborhood meetings and county conven-
tons should be held, proper organizations effected and
general correspondence opened with all sections of
the South. The State Rights Associations that are
being pretty generally formed in the Southern States,
could render themselves peculiarly efficient in putting
such thing foot, and effectng such organizations
we have suggested.
But let us 90 step farther in this direction, and
what power the South is actually clothed with With
out the contribution which the South makes to the
commerce of the Union, what would that commerce
be WORTH Without her Ninety millions worth of cot
ton and her twenty millions worth of tobacco, sugar
and rice, where would ships find employment
where would the means from that pay for the
imports that yield a revenue to the government
where would the government derive Its means OF sup
port without resortng to direct taxation! The South
is rich and powerful in her resources and her products
With her cotton she is Independent of the North and
cln bring Great Britain down supplan at her feet
and with her cotton she find allies to defend her
against Northern aggressions among all the manuac-
turing nations of the earth By stopping her supplies
of cotton, the South starve nearly halt OF the sub
jects of Queen VictOracause privation and want to
reach the doors of thousands of her Northern Oppes-
sors-and-leave half of the Northern shipping to
their wharves. Arouse then, ye gallant South
erners and resolve be manufacturers as well as grow
of cotton Bring all your energies into requlson
that the immense resources OF your country may be
speedily adopted-your water power applied to manu-
featuring purposes-and your waste lands made the
home of thousands of enterprizing emigrants from
Europe. Capital may flow to your section as fast as
it may be wanted when you bestir yourselves to this
work. and you will even draw among you the most
valuable portion of the Northern people. Northern
ships will then your wharves for freight, and
the period will arrive when abolitionsm will be
repented of at the North in sackcoth and ashes Re-
solve to take of yourselves-assocate together
by hundreds, and start your own factories and iron
works-make al importations direct from theil
places of produeton-hat is the way to avenge your
selves upon your oppressors.
Let the policy of all be to build up our own State
to develope its valuable resources and thsoursc
rigidly adhered to by every Southern State and we
shall have interference with Southern rights
Alarm them for their interests-and the work is done
THE TAXING Power OF THE STATE CONCURRENT AM
Co-EQUAL WITH THAT OF THE UNITED STATEs-NEITH
ER SUPREME OVER THE oTHER.-In few numbers VIZ
propose to discuss the power of the State to tax fo
revenue purposes, and matter of internal policy
or domestic policy, goods, produce, and manufactures
not of home production. This power is denied By
of the advocates of snon-resstance and passive
obedience'-upon the ground that it conflicts with thu
powers vested in Congress by the constitution and pro
hbited to the States In our last paper stated tina
had carefully examined the subject through the de
bates of the Federal conventions contemporaneous ex
positions and Judicial decisions; and satisfied O
the power of the State beyond all doubt
We had designed to-day, the publication of synop
sis of the proceedings of the Federal convention
of the State convention this subject, showing wha
construction placed upon the powers of the Gov
ernment of the United States by those who advocate
the adoption of the Constitution to induce its ratca
ton by the States And in future numbers to trac
the subject through other contemporaneous authorit
and through Judicial investigations, to the present time
The work we are compelled to defer until our next.
We regard this subject of vast importanc
to the Southern States independent of our Federal
iations. We have too long neglected our own affairs
While both North and South, other States pursl
ing system of State action which has advanced the
citizens, and given an impetus to the industrial pu
suits, in almost every branch-we have supiney sui
imtted to policy, which have in almost every thin
rendered us tributary to the North and degraded tt
labor of our own State. independence at home is
policy which recommends itself equally to States al