Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-04-04


ported into the United States it shall be duty col
ector within whose district the shall be imported or
thereof the perodo the expectation the United States
in the principal of the country from which the same
shall have been imported into the United States to be APP
praised estimated. and ascertaned and to such value
price shall be added all costs and charges except Insurance.
usual rates as port Were may
be entered, upon which duties shall be assessed
SEC. 2 And be 1t further enacted, That the certificate of
any of the appraisers of the United States of the duta
bic value imported merchandise required be appra
ed shall be deemed and taken to be the appaisement of
such merchandise required by existing laws to be made by
such appraisers And where merchandise shall be entered
officer to whom is committed the estimating and COL
lection of duties of the duabe value of any merchandise
required be appraised shall be deemed and taken be the
appasement of such merchandise required by existing laws
to be made by such revenue officer
SEC 3. Ind be further enacted That there shall be
pointed by the President of the United States by and with
the advice and of the Senate appraisers of
sand five hundred dollars together with their actual travel
ing expenses be regulated by the Secretary of the Treas
ury who shall be employed in visiting such ports of entry in
the United States under the direction of the said Secretary
may be deemed useful by him for the security of the
and shall at such ports afford such aid and IN
necessary by the Secretary of the Treasury to protect and
uniformity in the collection of the revenue from Gus
toms and practicable in of appeal from tho
decision of the u S. appraisers under the provisions of the
section of the tariff act of threth August
eighteen hundred and fortwo the collector shall select
discreet and experienced merchant to be associated with
one Of the qpder the OF TINS
if they shall disagree the collector shall decide between
Them and the apprasement thus determined shall be na
deemed and taken to be the true value of said goods and
the duties shall be levied thereon accordingly, act of
Congress to the contrary notwithstan din
effect and after the first day of April next and all acts
and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act
be- and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved March 3, 1851.
Abolition Demonstration against New-Yorl-Duty
of New-York-The Penalty.
If the attempt which has just been made by the
Hon. Senator Seward to extend abotiOnism to this
city, under of entertaining the Legislature,
and smoothing over the a5perities and animosities
which exist which supposed to exist, between
the commercial metropolis and the interior rural
districts of the State should be successful the result
to mercantile interests will be precisely the
that which threatens Boston, viz: the withdrawal
of the Southern trade from The rescue of the
fugitive slave Shadrach, in that city, by mob of
blacks and Whites and the failure to arrest another
fugitive slave, Crafts--boh of which outrages were
tolerated by the Municipal and State authorities of
Boston and Observation-Disclosures nothing less than
gross and fragrant violations of the Constitution of
the United States, and of laws passed in pursuance
of that sacred instrument 1t was practical nullif
cation of the worst kind The State of South Caro-
lima never attempted to commit such outrage
either of those She may have threatened to secede
and to nulfy, in certain contingencies; but she has
never yet gone far as Massachusetts has done re-
Gently in open defiance Of the Constitution and the
laws
AS soon as intelligence of the Boston outrages was
spread before the country the South determined to
withdraw their trade from that city and in a few
weeks the effect apparent, in the decrease of bu
siness intercourse with the Southern States No one
blame the South for resorting to this method of
treating Boston for countenancng, encouraging, and
harboring a band of fanatics, who set the laws of
God as we'll as those OF man, at defiance. They had
other alternative, and they knew that they could
more efectually punish them in that way than in
any other-that they might in vain invoke all con-
sttutional methods of obtaining justice from them.
great portion of the trade leaving Boston was grad
| ually coming to New York, because the South be-
lieved such outrage could not be perpetrated in
this city, and that people were determined to
stand by the Constitution.
But what will the South say and do if this attempt
of Mr. Seward and his associates convert the city
of New York into abolition hot-bed should be at
tempted with success? Their action may be infer
red from what they have done in the of Boston
Just surely they withdraw their trade from
Boston, will they abandon commercial intercourse
with this city if Seward should succeed. We would
ask our merchants and traders-our store-keepcrs
and shop-keepers-are they prepared for such ca
amity this for calamity it would certainly be.
Deprive the city of New York of its Southern trade,
and it would diminish in greatness as rapidly as it
increased. People may talk as fippanty as they
please of the South, but it is the Southern trade
mainly that has made New York what it is. Two
thirds of the exports and imports of the Southern
States-equal to two hundred and fifty millions per
annum-are transacted through the medium of this
mounted to the enormous of one hundred and
fifty millions of dollars, being increase of thirty
millions the preceding twelve months. Are the
merchants of New York willing to throw up bust
ness amounting to several hundred millions of dollars
annually, at the bidding of coterie of abolition ia
natics and socialists who more for the slaves
in the South than they do for the Kafirs and Hot
tentots, who are now waging war against the Eng
lish at the Cape of Good Hope, except to use them
for their purposes, and for the attainment Of
their private ends To avoid such calamity, they
must be up and doing. Their strongholds have been
attacked-their business has been assailed-Seward
and his antslavery associates baterng at theil
very DOORS and this, the very CITADEL the refuge Of
the Constitution and respect for the laws, will be TIA
ken, unless our merchants arouse themselves, anC
scatter to the four winds the Abolitonists and So
cialiss, who endeavoring to destroy the charac
ter, reputation, and commerce of this metropolis
Seward and his associates have carried Boston they
have carried the Governor and Senator of this State
they have carried the rural Districts of this State
l Washington, who, it appears, rather light
weights and now they want to carry the metropolis
of New York, the commercial capital of the country
/ What the Union Committee about Are they
going to remain quiet in view of these things? Al
it is, they have allowed Trojan horse, filled no
with armed men, but with socialists and abolition
lists, to come within the gates of the Empire City
but, fortunately thus far without success viii they
allow Seward and his coadjutors under the mask O
reconciing supposed difficulties between this city
and the INTERIOR to undermine New York, and make
Boston of it-make our citizens violators of the
Constitution and the laws and compel our Southern
fellow-citizens to break up their social and
cial relations with US? Now is the time for the I'm