Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-04-25
Commercial Decline of Boston.

he way IN when the antl-SlaVGry agitation
working in New ngland, is singular instance of
retrbutve justice and affords abundant food for re-
Election to those abotionsts who not past grace
and redemption. Many of them already chew
ing the bitter cud of disappointment and remorse,
and others will soon follow their example The
gumentun dd pecuniam, the learned ogicians call
it, but, in plain English the appeal to the breeches
pocket. works wonders in the stultifed minds even
of abolitionists. The influence of the almighty dol
lar is great and will prevail. Some curious devel-
opments have recently shown themselves in the CT
ties of the East which we'll 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 anti-slavery feeling has been
exhibited so perseveringly and in such rancorous
aspect there and so little regard has been paid to
the rights of the South and the solemn and sacred
obligations of the constitution of the United States
that many Southern men have Withdrawn their
tom 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 VIC have
just stated, and has come here with view of estab
fishing his business in Union city, where it
not be affected by the insane fenatcism 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 q the be-
ginning of sorrows,'' have brought many merchants
and others in Boston to their sober senses and hence
the aacrity with which they volunteered, on Satur-
day last. to sustain law and order, and to escort
Simms, 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 of the ensuing
summer, from twenty to thirty per cent of the CAPT.
tai of Boston has been withdrawn from that city and
invested in New York. Hitherto the South has sent
5000 900 bales of cotton annually to Boston. What
if it stopped the SUPPLY The planters and mer-
chants of the Southern States have it in their power
to crush the commerce of Boston, and make the
grass grow upon it's streets. The Southerners, as
yet have only proceeded to the length of withdraw
ing their trade, to a considerable amount from it..
The day may not be far distant when it shall be to-
tally 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, shall probably hear of summa-
~ reprsals in the South by the seizure of every
sci from Boston in any port South of Mason and
| Dixons 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, the brink of destruc
ton. We have heard of certain gentlemen from
! these places who are about to abandon them, and
intend to establish their headquarters in Gotham
Already they are looking out the opposite shores
in New Jersey and Wiliamsburgh for sites for their
manufactures. Go on, fanatics and blasphemers
We are 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 to fly from the whitening effects
of you slavery, before their ruin is complete-they
are e the wise men OF the East"
There can be little doubt that the causes now ir
operation, at which we have glanced, will eventual
" result in the total extinction of the abolition party
in Massachusetts; and even the archa gitator CARR
son and his confederates, including VIM H. Seward
will have to look out for some other employment
more profitable than the vending of the moral poi
son with which they have SO long drugged theil
dupes in New England and in the rural districts Of
the State of New York. Before the realization Of
"a contamination so devoutly to be wished" what
an amount of commercial calamity and of that gen
eral misery which follows in its train. may be
expected from the blasphemous rawlings of fanatics
and the ntrigues of unprncpled politicians, which
are in store for Boston and every other city, East
and North still doomed to be visited by the plague
of abolition.-N. Y Herald