Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1854-10-05
Resources Of the Sontb.


Union, and comparisons between its
sections, showing the ability one to
| take the lead of the other in COM
mercial prosperity and physical r.
sources in the event Of a separation,
have always been repugnant to our
sense of patriotism, and we never
see them without. pain. Every
rightminded citizen who debates the
question according to his own esti-
mate of its value, will come to the
conclusion that there is no possible
equivalent that can be offered for its
loss. But the Union will have its
enemies, as Heaven had its rebel an
Egels, and although We may not have
the power to expel them, yet there
| is, and let US hope always will be, a
sound conservative constitutional
spirit in our country, sufficiently
powerful to mock and defy their ne
farious efforts At present they are
madly bent on raising storm at the
North, which, they seem to flatter
themselves with the hope, will soon
lay PROSTATE the, fair fabric of the
Union, The abolition papers are
busily employed iasssgssAingsthe
breeze by the daily addition of every
element Of discord and irritation,
and when not SO employed they "cal-
culate the value Of the Union," un-
derr Ating it of course, while they
portray in frightful colors, the ca
Iamities which its dissolution would
inAict on the South. Some time ago,
the New York Tribune, one of the
leading journals of that denomina-
ton, undertook to show in a series Of
articles, the poverty of the slave
States, their decline, their depend
ence Oh the North, etc. We do not
remember whether the arguments
were deemed SO far worthy of ex-
animation as to have drawn forth
a reply to them from any writer in
this county; but a writer in the
June number Of Blackwood takes up
the subject and very effect ually re-
flutes 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 we are indebted to
the New Orleans Delta:
The writer in Blackwood shows
that from 1921 to 1851 there has
been an increase of 100000 bales
in the growth Of cotton, which has
multiplied itself during that period
seven fold. In 1919 and 1850 the
census value Of this product was
S112.000.OO0; that iss cultivation
and preparation for market employs
100000 agricultural laborers, So
per cent. of whom are slaves, and the
residue 100, 900 white citizens, that
upwards of 10000 tons of steam
shipping, and at least 1000 persons
are engaged in transportation from
the interior to the Southern ports,
and. that, after remunerating mer-
chants, factors, underwriters. and a |
host Of other persons, it furnishes
profitable freight for 100000 tons
Of American Shipping, and $4,000
seamen in the Gulf and Atlantic
eoasting trade, and for 100000 tons,
and 10000 seamen for its transport
to Europe and elsewhere.
Of this tonnage it would not be
extravagant to estimate that one
million is owned at the North, Of. the
$4,000 seamen in the coasting trade
that $4,000 belongs to the same
section of the Union, that at least
Dne-half or 100000 tons, and 3d.
BOO seamen employed in the foreign
trade are also from the
North. II,
Commercially, therefore, the North !
9 dependent on the single Southern
product of cotton for the employ
nent of
10000 seamen,
100000 of its tonnage. l.
This ia more than one-third of the l