Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-06-10
From the Shelbyvillc (Tcnn.) Expositor.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TRADE.


CHARLESTON SOUTHERN TRADE.
The near completion Of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Rail Road, brings Charleston
in close proximity to our State, inseparably
uniting and blending our interests with theirs.
Charleston is one Of the most tiourishing
cities in the Union. From the circumstances
that surround it, it is bound to so on rapidly
increasing in wealth, population, influence
and Importance. 1t will, ere great while,
be the great mart, where Southern produce
will flow in one unbroken and increasing
flood, knowing no retiring ebb; and where
the South will depend entirely for their fab
rics that they consume, which they have been
purchasing at the North for the last fifty
years. East Tennessee Merchants, with
scarce an exception, already do their trad.
ing there; Middle Tennessee Merchants Are
beginning to be aroused to sense of their
interests and their duty to the South, and
they are directing their attention to that
place; while many of our sister States de-
pend almost entirely upon Charleston for
their goods. Let the Nashville and Chatta-
nooga Rail Road but be ompleted, and the
principal trade OF Middle Tennessee will be
done at Charleston. Many Of our Merchants
from this Division of the State-and some,
we are proud to say, from our own town,
have purchased their Goods there, and all
that have done so, are not only pleased with
their bargains and intend continuing their
trade with them, but they exert their utmost
influence in inducing others to do the same
thing. Let our Merchants once commence
trading in Charleston, and they will never
again 60 the North for Goods. They will
find the noble, generous and warm-hearted
sons of South Carolina the right kind oil
men--as different from the cold, calculating
and selfish Yankees, as the balmy breczes OF
of the South are from the cold and chilling
winds of the North. We have been bled
long enough by these designing and selfish
| Yankees.
A line of Steamers has been recently es.
tablished between Charleston and Liverpool.
This is the commencement OF an cnterprze
that must and will make Charleston the prn-
cipal importing city in the South. Let us
90 to work and complete our Southern At.
| lantic Rail Roads; let us invest some of our
surplus capital in manufacturing establish.
ments, and devote at least a portion of our
labors to the production of home supplies
let our Merchants purchase their Goods at
Charleston or Baltimore; let us do all OF
this, and "when lines Of steamers, those
railways of the sea'-shall connect South
ern sea-board cities with Europe and the
valley of the Amazon-then, and not until
then, may the South throw off the com
mercia vassalage to the North, which has
weighed her down to the dust, for moro than
ffty years." 1t is time we were building up
ourselves-we have been building up Yam
kee.dom long enough. Let us direct our
energies where they will be appreciated and
reciprocatcd by warm. hearted, high'toned
Southern gentlemen. Let us build up the
South let our charity commence at home
and extend abroad, and not exhaust it from
home before it gets to US. Lie, US establish
Independence Mt home.
1t is duty that every Southerner owes to
his country and to himself, to encourage and
support our Southern markets, our Southern
institutions and our Southern interests. We
have native resources and means sufficient
to make us the greatest people in the world
if we will but properly direct and apply
them. Upon these resources the North has
been, hycna like, feasting for the last hal
century; they have made themselves rich
and yet we are not poor, but amply able tc
enrich ourselves and elevate our section o.
the Union far above theirs in every respect
Shall we do it? Shall we go to work and
build up the South and make her the pride
and boast of the nation and admiration o
the world! To accomplish it, we have bu
to will it, and apply the energy, industry
talent, genius and enterprise that lie slum
bering in our midst, or when aroused, per
vcrted and directed in another channel.
1t is time we were becoming a little more
Southcrnized-to coin Il word for the occa
sion. As long as we are dependent upol
the North as long as our Southern Mer
chants continue ncglecting our Southern
markets and direct their trade to the North
so long will this eternal cry Of agitation b
heard; so long will we constantly be troubled
by fanatics, abolitionists and traitors. Gu
Southern trade at the North, manuiactur
more fanatics and abolitiouists; creates NOR
agitation than Slavery and all other cause
combined. Ninc.tcnths of the agitators a
the North, are agitators for the sake of ag
tation. They are eternally stirring up broil;
raising rows, creating Union Safety Com
mittees," and arousing and animating mob:
all in order to dupe Southern Merchants ii
to the belief that they are great friends to ii,
South, when the truth is, they are the wor
and greatest enemies to the South and to I'll
Union. Let Southern trade at the Mort
cease, and we will see agitation and abol
ton wauing-dyng out; the smoke whic
S obscures our horizon vanishing into nothing
ness and air; the noise and confusion hushe