Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-15

ted States within the three years IS stated rs ioi
lows:
New York, .s ~ ,7 75S,4o7 oi,525,l4l si,l6zs54
Boston 26327,s74 2a,647,707 3i417oos
Other Northern ports ,7l6o5o l42ooo4S lI,loi,"e
Total north 1885, 7sos61 137,s7389l l29 SOC OF
New Orleans, so139l0 95s2'553 30 20
Charleston, ... ,3l0,59l 1,4o3,299 l,9so,ooe
Other southern ports 4,6s8,5T 6,160,296 5,934,9le
Total south. ....I4,o77,o78 l7,626,o36 16,7ss,6os
'sHere it will be seen that the aggregate value
of all the imports into the North $400, $50,
279 while the total value of the imports into the
South was only S48, AL ,719i Yet, within this
PERIOD the South furnished of the exports, values
to the amount of 1918, 277.294!'
Let us now glance at some of the disadvantages
which the North derives from its connection with
the South and see what would be the injury
accruing to our Northern brethren, in case they
should by their intolerant and proscrptiye laws,
force the South out of the Union
"Owing to the operation of certain laws OF the
Federal Government, the Northern States have now
the entire monopoly of the southern market for a
a large amount of the articles which they manutac-
ture and upon which hundreds of thousands OF
their citizens depend for support They enjoy,
Also 6ounties upon another large class of their ma
nufactures, upon which millions more of their clI-
zens depend, and which bounties secure to them
great advantages over their foreign rivals III our
southern markets. These bounties, in the form of
revenue duties, are SO high as to exclude foreign
nations from competing with these Northern States
for ourcustom IN many articles whilst in all 9TH
er articles they enjoy an advantage over their fo
reign rivals equivalent to their receiving present
from the Federal Government of from fifteen to
thirty five dollars upon every hundred dollars
worth of goods which they manufacture and sell at
the South. To estimate properly the immense i'm
portance of these advantages to the Northern States
1t must be borne III mind that the customer is no in
significant one; but numbers now, perhaps, bythe
present census, nine millions Of populati0R, and
that manufacturing at present little among them
shlyes, they almost entirely buyers, and not
sellers of those articles which the Northern States
and foreign nations send to them.
''Now these things being promised, let any man
ask himself what would be the effect if these boun
ties of the Federal Government were taken away
and not only taken away, but the burden of i'm
port duty added to the cost of manufacturing. The
separation ofthe Southern from the Northern States
would render it necessary for US to have revenue
of our own, which, on peace establishment, may
be assumed to be about 90 per cent at an average.
We will also assume that the average amount of
bounty which the northern manufactures now re-
ceive, under our present revenue laws, is also 90
per cent. 1t is in reality much more. The ac-
count then will stand thus. liz the Union they
have a present made them of $50 for every
hundred dollars worth of goods which they manu-
facture; which adds just SO much to the profits of
their labor Separated from us, they lose, first,
the government present of 90 per cent and have,
secondly to add to the loss 90 per cent more, in
the form of revenue duty, to be paid to the South
ern United States making difference to them,
in the profit of their industry, of 40 per cent Can
any sane man believe for a moment that manllsre-
lures which are now fostercd by bountes OF 20 per
cent and their advocates tell us, scarcely thrive
at that, can exist for year, when 40, or even 90
per cent. of their profits distracted from them
1t would be absurd to suppose so.
at may be confidently assumed, then, that the
separation of the Northern States from US, which
would be followed by the loss fthcr present boun
ties, and the additions of new burdens on their la
bor would bankrupt almost every manufacturing
establishment at the North and would throw out
of employment hundreds of thousands of their CT
tzens, who would have to throng in their other de-
partments of industry to seek livelihood. But
what other department of their industry would be
in better condition, or could receive them Ger
tainly not their agricultural which cannot compete
now with the South and West in any article which
they grow to profit. Not their navigation in
terests, for, under the state of things which are
supposng, the tonnage bounties being taken from
them, and duties of our own burdered upon them
instead, and freights being given to our foreign
customers, or perhaps only small share given to
northern ship-owners, their navigation interest
would dwindle, and their sailors would have to
seek employment elsewhere Their commercial
department could not receive them since, export
ing agricultural products in vessels of our TO-
reign customers, and establishing a direct trade be-
tween our own ports and those countries, we not
only shall have no need for Northern merchants to
do our business, but, being deprived of the i'm
mense capital which they now have the use of, in
exporting so large portion of rich agricultural
staples, they would be deprived of the chief sup
port upon which their foreign commerce is now
kept prosperous, and without which it must drag
on, in a feeble and sickly existence.
every department of Northern industry being
doomed to heavy injury, diminishment and decay,
by this withdrawal of the bounties which they now
enjoy in the Union, and the competition which they
will have to encounter out of it from other nations
and millions of their citizens thrown out of employ
ment to seek for it elsewhere but which cannot be
found at home-for the first effects of our sepera
ton from them will be incalcuable distress amono
their citizens; and the next the emigration of their
citizens, with their capital to other States, where
1t can be made to be more profitable The South
ern United States will offer the strongest tempta
uons to them for such emigration and ayestment
OF capital 1t will be necessary only to cross the
line, and settle within her borders, to renew the
privileges which they formerly enjoyed under the
Old Union; and who doubts but that it will be ca |
gerry embraced, and thousands distracted from |
the population, and millions from the capital of the
North - WY |
But it is not merely in the widespread iniurv
which will be inflicted upon every department Of
industry at the North that the effects of sepera
ton from us will be felt by their citizens We are
infinitely profitable to them in another way. We
are the TAG payers whilst they the tax receirers