North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-14
COTTON POWER OF THE sotJru

- The New YoIk Herald, in dra wing a comparison
between the political power of the North and the
cotton power of the South, remarks:
Does any one doubt the extent Of the cotton pow
err or of its ability to tear up, the smallest
fibre. the cankerous root OF abolition let him only
study the true nature of the niction which the with
drawal of the Southern trade from Boston has put up
on Boston during the past season. That city could
have better afforded TO have given the entire product
of the gold mines of California, for the past year,
the abolitionsts, than have had their action and
agitation. 1t has them more, and will COST them
still more, now that they have elected Sumner. The
retrbution of the South fearful one, butt is prop
er. II is just. When men break their political faith
all thu pledges of the compact and constitution
under which they have agreed to live-they cannot
expect that honest and hgh-minded men will respect
them. Tn the contrary. they must expect that they
VIII have no communication with them. This is now
the case. The chlvalry of the whole South is arous-
ed by the avowed determination of sections Of the
North to assa their rights as defined by the consti-
tuition. That chivalry is something stronger and
deeper than the mock morals which originated the
ant-masonic excitement. and which, falling in that,
has now taken up the abolition cause for political eff
feet. 1t is abiding and sincere of honor and
justice-and it will array that tremendous cotton pow
er, which can move the world, and even revoluonize
it, in such hostility against political presumption, that
many Northern cities will be made TO suffer. The
instinct OF great people, in such case as South
ern neighbors will show, will be beyond the common
ways and means which might be devised to cripple
enemies. They will see where they benefit those
who are opposed to them and they have the spirit to
cut all benefit off, if not by individual skill, animated
by warm feelings, then by chivalrous and solemn
league, which, knowing its power can bend large
portion of the world to its will, at fhe cost of only
slight retrenchments and sacrifices. -1HeE
If, in view of this subject, any one doubts the
power of the South to touch the pocket (Which is the
sou of those who arrayed against her interests,
let him remember the thousands upon thousands of
Southern families who pour, during the summer
months, millions of dollars into the lap of the North.
Last summer they avoided the infected districts of
the North; and during the present they will
not be found, We venture to say, carrying their wealth
for distribution into western New York. where aboli-
ton conventions and free soil hothouses ale as pIen
tiful potato hills. Neither will they extend their
journeys into New England. The soil of these places
can have no charms for them. The people will be
disagreeable to them. They vii! not wish to assoc-
ate, much less spend their money, with those who,
through the baotbox, would sneakingly rob them of
their rights and property, guaranteed to them by
the constitution On the contrary, despsing the spirit
of every section which has devoted itself to under
nina their security, and to steal their goods from
them, they will have too high of Just pride,
in search of personal comfort and relaxation
distribute their wealth among their foes. No-the
| cotton power will show what it is-a power beyond
political power-beyond the money power of the
North-patent we'll valia mt in the chivarous
spirit of protecting itself, and forming compact of
intentions which will conne its power of beneftting
the country those sections of it which are ready
maintain nvolate the sacred compromises of the
stitution." .-