Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-03
Mobile and its Future.

MOUUc anu ItS
We have Just returned from short visit to Mobile,
where business called During short stay there
took occasion look of the celebrities of
the town, and particularly at the improvements now
in the ofrapid completion. 1t with
prise that directed to view several stately ed
fees the result of very recent determinations to build
Vacant squares are every where being improved old
buildings giving place to ones, and the trowel
and hammer of the mechanic is heard in every direc
ton This speaks well for the prosperity of the city
We learned through various channels that the past
winter business both large and remuneratng, and
so far as developed, sound and healthy
In vain may Mobile strive for commercial position
and independence so long she refuses to the
chains that binds her mere ministerng and weaken
ed community to an overshadoWng moned power
Mobile with capital sufficient to compass large bust
ness, is in fact dependent upon the whim and
caprcu of Northern trade and capital than any city
the South In fact, Mobile is controlled by Northern
capital her business affairs in the hands of northern
men, and the association is of too long standing, and
too intimately interviewer with her whole financial
policy, to be severed without struggle. That strug-
gle has commenced. Northern capital and northern
men ranging themselves under the banner of ac-
quiescng in the late Congressional outrage and oppo-
sition to system commercial policy that promises
toree Southern capital from the control of mercenarv
fanatics and unprincpled commercial agents. The
compromising Union party of Mobile are using every
effort to palsy and deaden Southern feeling not only in
the city, but their efforts extend into all the river coun-
ties on the three streams that empty into the bav
Mobile. They oppose direct importation by denounc-
ing those who advocate it as disunionsts. They say
non-intercourse is mpractcabe, and those who advo-
cate it are dsunonists. Thus every measure looking
to commercial independence is frowned down by men
who are growing rich upon the labor of the Southern
planter. Why is this, and for what reason is direct
trade with Europe opposed 1t is because the trading
capital of Mobiles controlled by Northern men whose
interest it is to prevent the establishment of direct
trade between the Southern and European ports thus
continuing that enormous Northern MONOPOLY which
not only impovershes the South but holds her in vas
salage to system of inequality in all commercial and
trading enterprises whereby the North reaps rich re-
ward. The South is doubly taxed under this system
and in addition to this she enrching by her labor all
the Northern ship owners.
The future of Mobile is within the control of the
planting interest of Alabama and Mississippi With
harbor capable of vast improvement at a slight expen
dlture comparatively speaking, and even now the best
on the Gulf; with climate salubrious and healthy
Se requires but moderate energy put her far aheaC
OF any city in the South only in the extent of he
trade but IN all those facilities of trade for which ma
ture evidently designed her. If the planting nteres
IN the interior will but aid the efforts of those true anc
resoute men in Mobile who are bending their energies
directing their capital to the opening of direct trade
with Europe, we an to believe that the day is not
distant when few will be found so craven as to sino
praises over that lay the ak of destruction
the foundation of Southern domestic tranquility and So
cial independence
With the natural advantages of Mobile in favor of a
direct trade with Europe it is clear that motives other
than those looking independence shape the poll
cy OF many of her business 1.-THE object were tc
bulld up that city, thus making her competitor 70,
the rich reward cast into the hands of Northern com
mercal agents, there would be opposition to any
projects promising such desirable result But direct
trade while it would surely lessen the cost of goods tc
the consumers would surely lessen the sales of the
Northern imported goods, and also the profits of the
Northern importer This is what Northern CAPITALISTS
IN Mobile know, and is this knowledge that induces
them to denounce those who advocate it as dsunonsts
agitators and factionists
If the planting interest would shape its business So
as to meet the demands of justice withdrawing patron
age from that class OF business known as achow-
der eaters revolution would be worked in Mobile in
one business season. We have taken some pains to
obtain data upon this subject and before the opennp
OF the fall business will be spread before the readers
of the Standard