The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-15

| pent II few undispnte4 4e&(G Wi1Aeu4 Al
| eo1ofime whatever. MY rsadAl1 ma4 tAaa dRel
thett avn conclusions - ~ th4 epmpasa1ivt
wealth and power Of the Two ssstions. alter /
disspluti IN 81 the Union.
| The territory Of the Soutbsru States il eom
pact, while that Of the Northern lies In long
narrow, and almost disiointed string. offering
Unusual facilities for hostile invasion from eitheI
side The South ia penetrated by many navi'
gable rivers it has 22,70l miles OF coast on
navigable tide water, while the North has only
6,67b The former has 1869 miles ofsteam.
boat navigation in the valley Of the Mississippi
to the latter's 1000, where commerce has to
pass through 1000 miles of that great river,
lying exclusively in the slave States, to reach
the ocean. The South com mands the waters
o. the Gulf of Mexico, the natural outlet of the
Mississippi valley, and its best lines for railroad
connection with the Atlantic coast, while the
North has only the New York and Pennsy vania
routes to the Lakes, and the Ohio, impeded
nearly half the year by ice
The Southern States occupy all the more
temperate parts of the Union on the Atlantic
side of the continent; their soil in as fertile and
far more varied in its productions than the North
ern. According to the last census, and the
Patent Office Reports, (see pamphlet, p $50
they raise nearly twice as much grain and meat,
10 proportion to their population, as the North
rn Stntss* besides crops of tobacco, rice, sugar,
cotton, and naval stores, none of which are pro-
tnced by the North to any amount. The NeD
York Courier and Enquirer estimates their
average value for the last three years at Sll4,-
20O,8O9. The South consun 40 part Of these
crops ut home, but the exp0s.s of her produce
to foreign countries this year have exceeded
$l00,000,O00. The raw cotton, rice, and leaf
tobacco alone amounted to $84,5I7,l96; add
$3,739,728 of naval stores and lumber exported,
aud some $l9,O00,0O0 worth Of cotton con-
sumed at the North, and emitting all other items,
we have total exceeding $l07,OOO,OOO. Ii
the Union was dissolyed, we would have in this
sum alone tolerably fair basis for imports and
revenue. Even Oh Mr. Derby's superstition,
that much of these exports is shipped on North
ern account the amount Of the Southern trade
would be the same for if such continued to be
the fac, after the dissolution of the Union, it
could only be because the South was better paid
BY the Northern purchaser than by the foreigner
|, therefore, repeat the statement of the pamphlet
Up. 29) and challenge denial of its accuracy.
Meantime how stands it with the North r.
She produced for expectation in the three years
Q848-5O) an average of less than 1913, OO0, 900,
and her corresponding share Of the imports, in
GLIDING specie and free articles, did not reach
$4O,O00,000. II the Union was dissolved, here
would be the whole bass of her f. lure foreign
trade and revenue for she could not tax the
cotton she buys for her manufactures But
Mr.. Derby claims for her larger share--seven-
tenths of the imports, which are brought, not
directly, with her own goods, but with the South
ern produce, for which they are exchanged
The previous argument has, ] think, disposed of
this falacy, and let me ask, where would be her
ability to buy this produce, when she loses the
millions of tribute which have shown she now
enjoys, and which is virtually a draft in her favor
on that amount of the Southern industry! The
pamphlet did not estimate, in the foreign trade
Of either section, their trade with each other az
a basis for duties, which would be equal on both
sides; but it is on this very sister trade that
Mr.. Derby POUNDS his detailed estimates of rev.
enues for the new treasury of the Northern
Union, and it will be instructive to examine it
infinitely.