Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-08-12

Value Of produce from other States, S2,S22,5O3
Exclusive, therefore, Of produce from other
States, the exports from Charleston exceed
@l2,OO0,OO0. This would give US, if freed from
the shackles Of the Federal Government. Sl5.-
0Q,000 o: imports; for from all export trade
at present of Sl5. .S3S ,:29l, Charleston receives
imports to the amount Of S20,0O0,OG0.
then the State in her commercial intercourse
should be cut oil from the other Southern States
(which can never br the case) Charleston might
experience, for few years, q falling OF Of So,
600 go IN her imports Bat tlis would cause
no loss to that city; for. nj least half the i'm
ports that reach l,erllarlor hclong to Merchants
n the interior, havi.ry been purchased 1T New
irlk, andare simply conveyed through Charles
ton TO their place Of destination, With very
slight profit 10 auy interest in the cItE.
i.ut it is said iuur-iiitis or at least Sl,,O ,O00,
800 out nt the so ,G0O,0 900 Of imports lit"
Charleston are su!.i to Merchants il ot!'er
State.-onlY unr.ii!:h or at most 50 100000
being consumed ia South Carolina. How i,
tbs possible! Does Soa!I. Carolina ac;i,'i.E
consi:.ne no ma?c than $1,000 900 of Imports
What len becomes Of her annual pro,lucc!-
Her Sl2690, 600 Of exports bring into the Uni.
ted States not less than SIS 5,0000oO Of inl-
ports. Allow s. ,000G00 for Government row
enue and profits OF Northern tTadc-what is
done with the remaining Sl0,0J0,O00! If we
consume but hall, we should get the oiheF bali
III specie, but every body knows We do not.--
There is no escape from the fact-wc c9asuine
the S Sl0,O00,0Go, and wonld consume in some
way or other, the whole 81 100000, if allow
ed to cnjoy them. Only about Sl00O0,OO0,
therefore, pass ~ Merchandise to the other
States. But OF Ills 3l0,000,000 of Merchan
dizc scarcely half is purchased in Charleston
the larger part probably. having been puFcha-
sed by Southern Merchants Mt the North, mere.
ly pass, as we have said, through the port and
streets Of Charleston And the same is true
in regard to the commodities Tor Sonth Carroll
ma consumption Probably twothirds, of tie
Merchants in Upper Carolina now purchase
their goods in New York. 1t Is tairto assume
that of the S!0,O00,Oo0 of imports cosuased
in the State, half are purchased at the North. ]
This wouli leave Charleston at present. xAhs
mercantile profits upon only ,WVgO0hafS
her S2O,OO0,O00 of imports. And thls.xe taltss
to BE- just estimate of her trade We leave
out, of course, her profits upon exports. :
How would the matter stand if South Care.
lima had separate Government in successful
operation! With the $5,000,000 of imports,
which now pass to the North by means of the
Tariff and Northern trade, and which would be
certain to come to us in commodities of some
sort, our imports would reach about sl5,OoO,-
600. Charleston would have the re-sclng Of
tho whole for the merchants and the planters
of the interior would find it greatly to their ad.
vantage to buy there, to say nothing oil the
difficulties in trading at other places out of the
State. Charleston would then derive mercan-
tile profits upon s5,OOO,OOO of imports more
than she does at present.
Will it, in reply to this. he said, that the State
could not consume the l5,O0O,O0O of imports {?
The difficulty with most nationsis to make pro.
duction equal consumption; but we, it seems,
are to constitute an exception to general
rule. But let us sce The consumption of the
State, at present, both productive and unpro.
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