The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-22
The Southern TrsAs OF Boston;


The New York Hauh felicitates the commercial
community on the fact that zone Of the results OF
the abolition agitation in Boston has been to drive
several merchants connected with the southern
says: "Firms have been broken up, and the par
tits have come to this city. There Is at this mo-
ment at the Astor House a merchant from Boston,
who has been forced from his home from the cause
we have just stated, and has come here with a view
Of establishing his business in Union city" The
Herald further informs US, that sit is well known
that in the business localities of Boston, real estate
has been deprecated twenty-five per cent, within
the last year."
There are some exaggeratons here. Still, the
fact is not to be denied that very serious results
have begun to flow from the examples of resistance
to the constitution and the laws, in Boston. Seve-
raj mercantile firms of this city have we learn,
tablshed branches in New York and every species
of business either has been, or Is likely to be, af
fected by the very general and prompt measures
which The South has taken, in cutting off the sup
plies No better instance of the extent Of the sys-
TEN of prescription, which has been adopted, need
be quoted than the fact, that even in art, which
should ever be cosmopolitan, and in which the
points of the compass should not be recognized and
within the sweep of whose hallowing influence no
North OF South should be known-even in art, the
blight has been already felt.
The New England Art Union, institution at
the head of which one Of the best Union men in the
whole country presides, has shared in the general
withdrawal of Southern support. The gcntlemanly
superintendent of that institution informs us that
sending back their commissions daily. Frequently
his letters are returned unopened. Books and
pamphlets on viii oh he had paid the postage, are
also returned upon his hands like unclean things.
March 3lst, and addressed to Mr.. Spear, in which
the writer says, after declining to act as agent
himself: 81 have delayed writing, in hopes, to
procure some other person to act for you, but
have as yet failed. Most of those to whom have
spoken declined, on the ground that they would have
nothing to do with the matter, because it originated
in Boston; and doubt not, you will find that your
enterprise will be in bad odor generally at the
South"
This is a very mild and temperate specimen Of
the letters that are received; and the reader may
imagine, that if Northern art is thus under ban at
the South what must be the fact in egard to North
ern trade and manufactures. If Boston had been
engaged in the vndication Of any high principle
in resisting an arbitrary tax or in carrying out, in
stead Of violating, an unpopular law-and for this
she had been called upon to suffer in her pecuniary
nterests-she would have had the consciousness of
right to sustain her; and we believe there is no
community which would, more readily than Boston,
brave any sacrifice under such consciousness. But
| to circumvent and defeat the execution of law
which must be carried out, or government be dis
solved, was extent Of suicidal folly for which
the business Of Boston are not responsible, al
though they may be made the sufferers. Nothing
has been gained. No high principle has been vim
dcated or upheld. Prescription, bitterness and
mischief have been the only fruits. And the law
has been carried out in the face Of all opposition
| We have murmurs to utter against the South
| for their course. What they have done has been
| in self-defence, and in behalf Of the constitution
| and the laws. But our New York friends may be
over eager in their anticipations. The Herald
says it "will not be surprised to find that in the
course of the ensuing summer, from twenty to thr-
ty per cent of the capital Of Boston has been with
drawn from that city and invested in New York "
Perhaps the Herald will find, that the South is not
dsregardful of the signs of the times in the great
| State of New York. The South will remark that,
at the height Of the excitement here in regard to
Simms, a letter from Senator Seward came like a
also remark that if the Boston Board of Aldermen
have refused Fanueil Hall to Mr.. Webster, the
| New York Legislature have negatived PROPOSE
ton for him to address that body.
! But heaven forbid that we should wish that New
may be in reserve for Boston. Our shoulders are
broad, and we can bear much. lncalcuable injury
has undoubtedly been done, with good result,
the antcipations of our New York contemporaries
of the Union, whether North or South, labor to do
away with every remaining cause for evaporation,
discomfort and retaliatory war. IL we will but
faithfully observe duties under the constitution
and the laws, peace and friendship may yet be
| restored.
1t is greatly to be regretted, under the circum-
not have bad hearing at Faneuil Hall. His re-
marks, carried as they would have been on light
ming wings, over the length and breadth Of the
country, would have had tranquillizing and bene-
fccnt effect at this time.