The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-11


Tie amount of Southern capital invested In Tho
branch Of commerce is perhaps far greater than q
supposed by any not Immediately interested. TIA
Of 100000 per year, which is, perhaps One-four2k
Of the trade OF the State. We feel CONFIDENT
we have moderated rather than overrated the
amount Of this trade in Richmond; and in aat-
ing It as fourth part Of the trade Of our 6tatss
which we are confident Is also under tho rate
II will show average Of about two millions 81 dol.
lars to the whole. or this amount there s perAapse
II the state say not aoo over
shoes made for u.s. and brought {, our doors and -
our markets. BY whom? Why, by those who f0g
the most part arc enemies both TO our great civil
compact nation, and who have for the last TWEEN
ty years been the most clamorous opponents a. our
social and political institutions boltionists 81 tha
most determined and untring stamp-ever watching
chance to do Ms an nury, and, like harpics. see-
to the Penobscot, ready to pounce upon our psapssy
and convey It beyond CHI TO shed d tloe9
Of those who by law would venture among them 70
claim Just rights
most part, the mechanical classes The mon md
who make the different articles Of trade, asd
who really constitute the larger part of the North
em community, are almost universally abotis.ea,sss
his purchases In Boston, Salem, Lynn, or any oehec
large trading town, Is surprised, that with I'll 10
clamor about aboltionism he fin In nearly evoEy
man with whom he trades an avowed enemy -
abolitionsts and to free sellers. Finding "a vits
whom he trades in sentiment with him, he II rather
disposed to sympathise with the Northern meruAAn>
than to blame him for the sins Of his communitn
But let the Southern trader look back htt1e 10
hind the curtain; he will see that the shelves and
the boxes the warehouses and the tonnage, caansS
be filled up with the labor of the hands al To mac
with whom he IL trading. He did not nahs II
case Of boots, or the box OF shoes. he eaey -
them for profit or a commission. Whe ~
them and where did they come FROM Aony, an4
by far the most part of them the labor sd tho
bread and meat Of the rankest sbolittonises-th0
very men who constitute the large meetings. who
hold conventions, and pay the wages Of the emis-
mIss Of thsir societies, apd give taeir sPix1)1ss
and political leaders the means TO devot4 6eE
selves to the work Of sIanderng the character and
stealing the property OF Southern mcn--the men and
women of the State Of Virginia. who, paying than
million and half Of dollars every year, rewardng
their labor feeding their mouths, and clothing theie
backs villifed and slandered for their political
and social institutions, and laughed at for thex IN
accountable stupidity.
And every man who reads this article Il one tha.
lends said TO horde Of abotionists, who, they
possessed the power to the extent Of their VIII
would In few hours upturn the social relation o.
master and slave, that he who now olatms property
In negroes would be held slave hy Tie baackest
negro in Virginia.
We are willing to admit that we have made >osr.
selves the subjects Of condition Of ahrs that caw
not in moment or day be enectually reveln-
tionzed but to be Indifferent, supine, or bllsGe
TO this condition, s anything but crs1itabs b IT,
much admired independence Of character claimed
byus as Southern people.