North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-04-26

COMMERCIAL DECLINE OF BosToN. The way in
which the anti-savery agitation is working in New
England is singular instance of reributve justice,
and affords abundant food for reflection to those aboi-
tlontsts who are not past grace and redemption
Many of them already chewing the bitter cud of
disappointment and remorse, and others will soon
follow their example. The argumentun ad pecuniun.,
as the learned logicans call it, but in plain English,
the appeal to the breeches pocket, works wonders
the stuli6ed minds even of abolitionsts. The nhu-
ence of the almighty dollar is great, and will prevail
Some curious developments have recently shown
themselves in the cities of the East which are well
calculated to alarm the inhabitants.
One of the results of the abolition agitation in Bos-
ton has been to drive several merchants connected
with the Southern trade out of business, and even
out of the city. The ant-slavery feeling has been
exhibited perseveringly and in such a rancorous
aspect there, and little regard has been paid the
rights Of the South, and the solemn and sacred obi
cations Of the constitution of the United Sates that
many Southern men have withdrawn their custom
from Boston houses, and transferred it to New York
Firms have been broken up, and the parties have
come to this city. There is at this moment at the
Astor House merchant from Boston, who has been
forced from his home from the cause we have Just
sta ted. nd has come here with view of establish
ing his business in Union city, where it cannot
be affected by the insane fanatcism of "the City OF
Notions.'' 1t is we'll known that in the business
localities of Boston, real estate has been DEPRECATED
twenty-five per cent within the last year.
These alarming results, which are only 'the be-
ginning of Sorrows" have brought many merchants
and others in Boston to their sober and hence
the aacrity with which they volunteered, on Satur-
day last, to sustain law and order, and to escort
Smms, the fugitive slave, out of the city. But the
ball, having been set in motion, is likely to go
ahead for some time to come, and we would not be
surprised to find that in the course of the ensuing
summer, from twenty thirty per cent. of the capital
of Boston has been Withdrawn from that city and
invested in New York. Hitherto the South has
sent 100000 bales of cotton annually to Boston.
What if it stopped the supply! The planters and
merchants of the Southern States have it in their
power to crush the commerce of Boston, and make
the grass grow upon its streets. The Southerners,
as yet, have only proceeded TO the length of with
drawing their trade to considerable amount. from
it. The day may not be far distant when it shall be
totally removed, and the historian will have to write
- the decline and fall of the commerce of Boston,
Should another attempt be made to retain fugitive
slave in that city, we shall probably hear of sum-
mary reprsals in the south by the seizure of every
vessel from Boston in any port south of Mason and
Dixon's line.
But it is not Boston alone that has suffered and is
in danger of ruin. The manufacturing towns of
Lowell, Lynn, New Bedford, and the other infected
places of Massachusetts, on the brink of destruc
ton. We have heard OF certain gentlemen from these
places who about abandon them, and intend to
establish their head quarters in Gotham. Already
they looking OUT on the opposite shores in New
jersey and Wiamsburgh, for sites for thei. manu-
factories. Go on, fanatics and blasphemers yc
driving trade and commerce from your own doors to
the city of New York. We receive with open arms
and hearty welcome those fugitives who have the
good sense to fly from the whitening effects of your
slavery. before their ruin is complete-they the
wise men of the East.''
There can be little doubt that the cause now in
operation, at which we have glanced will eventual
result in the total extinction of the abolition party
in Massachusetts; and even the arch-agator Carl
son and his confederates, including VIM. H. Seward,
will have to look out for other employment,
more profitable than the vending OF the moral poison
with which they have so long drugged their dupes
N1rr al. l..a- Al
State of New York. Before the realization of 6 a
SO devoutly to be wished" what an
amount of commercial calamity, and of that general
pected from the basphemous rawlings of fanatics and
the intrgues of unprncipled politicians, which are
in store for Boston and every other city, East and
North. still doomed to be visited by the plague of
abolition.
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