Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-08-02
RESOURCES OF THE SOUTH.

PARSONS between its sections showing the ability Of
one to take the lead ofthe other prosper
W and physical resources in the event of separation
have always been repugnant to of patriot
! ism, and we never them without pain. Every
right-minded citizen who debates the question &C
cording to his estimate of its value will to
the conclusion that there is possible equivalent
that be offered for its loss But the Union will
have its enemies, as Heaven had it's rebel angels,
and although we may not have the power to expel
them, yet there is and let hope always will be,
/ a sound conservative constitutional spirit in our
country, sufficiently powerful to mock and defy their
netarious efforts. At present they are madly bent
raising a storm at the North, which, they seem
to f1atter themselves with the hope will soon lay
PROSTATE the fair fabric of the Union The Adolf
ton papers are busily employed in augmentng the
breeze by the daily addition of every element of dis
cord and irritation and when not employed they
Calculate the value of the Union undertaking it of
course while they portray in tiightful coOrs the ca
lamtes which its dissolution would inflict on the
South. Some time ago the New York Tribune, one
of the leading journals Of that denominations nder-
took to show in series of articles the poverty of
the slave States, their decline, their dependence
the North &c. We do not remember whether their
arguments were deemed so far worthy Of examua-
ton to have drawn forth a reply to them from
any writer in this country but writer in the June
number of Backwood takes up the subject and very
efectually retutes the arguments and statements OF
the Tribune. The article in Blackwood is too long
for our space but we subjOin the following synopsis
of It. for which indebted to the New Orleans
Delta:
The writer in Blackwood shows that from 1921 to
1852 there has been increase of 5000 900 bales
i'll the growth of cotton, which has multiplied itself
during that period seven fold In 184950 the CEN
value of this product SIP, 1000; that its
cultivation and preparation for market employs $780,
600 agricultural laborers, So per cent of whom are
slaves, and the residue 1900 white citizens that
upwards of 100, 600 tons of steam shipping and at
least 1000 persons are engaged in transportation
from the interior to the Southern ports; and that
after remuncrating merchants, factors underwriters
md hos of nj hpPn nrOEt.hlp
freight for 100 900 tons of American shipping, and
5000 in the Gulf and Atlantic coasting
trade and for 100000 tons, and &c, 600 seamcn for
its transport to Europe and elsewhere.
Of this tonnage it would not be eXtravagant to es
innate that one million is owned at the North, of the
$4,000 seamen in the coasting trade that $4,000 be-
longs to the section of the Union, that at least
one-half 400, 900 tons and 30 600 Seamen employ
ed in the foreign transport trade also from the
North.
Commercially therefore, the North is dependent
on the single Southern product of cotton for the
ploymcnt OF
10000 seamen,
100000 Of its tonnage.
This is more than one-third of the whole tonnage
OF the United States, which, by the report issued
from the office of the Secretary of the Treasury,
amounted, in 1852, to i, 1873 40 II, and quar-
ter of the seamen employed in this shipping.
Exclude New Englan! vessel from Southern ports,
or cXtinguish the product of cotton, and here we
have the first result the destruction of one-thrd
ter home TO the New York Tribune. Suppose there
was sadden dimnuton tomorrow of the tonnage
OF New York city of one-third what effect would it
have upon the advertising receipts of this very
Journal which, at the very moment it is calumniat
ing and conspIring against the South actually draws
the greater part Of its profits from the capital which
is sustained by Southern industry.
SO much for the commercial dependence of the
North on the South in regard to single product
Now. let us see the extent of the dependence of
the A"rh on this product, in respect to manutac-
lures:
Number of cotton manufactures in the
United States, 1904 |
AMOUNT of capital invested, S74, ,G0l |
Bales of cotton used, 641 ,24O |
Nalue of raw material, S34, $50, U56 !
Number of hands employed (maleS &C.
159; females, SO, 1869 92,2S6 |
Entire wages per month (na!es, 653,77s
dollars females, 703, Ala lTs) 81 1857 1872 |
Value of entire products, $6l,S69,le |
Here we have the number of 90 295 persons males
and females who obtain conf rtahle subsistence at
The North, by the manufacture of cotton. Besides |
hese, there are the families of these laborers. 1t is
rom this source that thousands derive a sum sutt-
,ient to establish them farms. At least half the
arms in the Free States of the West purchased
with the proceeds of this industry
Here we present but two views Of this dependence
If the North the South. We take account of
he vast quantity of other articles Of manufacture
md products of mechanical skill and labor, which
ire supported entirely by the cotton planters-but
content ourselves by presenting these facts and pro-
pounding to writers like those ofthe New York Tri-
pune the query, what would become of the Northern
States of this nion it, for year, the cotton of
he South was cut off. their ships excluded from our
PORTS, and their manufactures that fed by
his product closed. Reverse the picture. Suppose
he tonnage of the North to the amount of 400 600
vas extnguished and all its cotton manufactures
stopped, would the South scarcely feel the effects of
uch deprvation-could it not fall back upon its
csources those Of other nations, and demonstrate
he invincble dependence Of cotton. NORFOLK Her.
''MARRIED YESTERDAY" Every day in the journal
hat with the first CLEAN of the is flung within
ur portals, read this little sentence Married yes