Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-07-13
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY ~, 1858.
NoN-INrERCOURSE WITH NEW ENGLAND.


ancestors, just before the revolution to deal little
as possible with England and to give preference to
coarse domestic products and homespun fabrics over
the better and cheaper products aud fabrics with
which English commerce and English workshops
had been wontto supply US. Again, before the latc
war, when England was depredating on our COM
merce and violating our rights Of neutrality Oh
every sea, Jefferson and Taylor, and Ritchie' anu
their illustrious conpeers encouraged ny ''o'' p'
cepts as well as by their example, the dsuse oi Ely
sh manufactures and the growth OF domestic 'hu0'
trial interests which should render us independent
our oppressor. They never dreamed tiat ireo 'f"e'
with al enemy and all oppressor' was par. Vi ."'
free trade doctrines of American patriots. Noi'','
tercour.e, as measure of precaution ana uee'ee'
sanctioned by reason and sancticd by precedent
,r, o.,s;o, c,r tbs exercse sf such measure, Is
more urgent and more imminent now than II ever
WAS before, or probably ever can oc aea''' 1,o NO.
finn aver arrayed itself in attitude OF such hehd
like and dabolical hostility TO ahotler' as uoes t>e"
England now present to the South.
A whole people have become infected win the
vilest passions, and the viest purposes that ever
damned to Immortality the worst Of mankind; ana
C.tberus and Cataline, and Spartacus, breathing
carnugc inceudiarism and seryie war; have found III
impersonstions, ,n the little hucksterng States OF Nc"
England. The religious prosecutions IN ~hch tney
INDUCED and gloated in the early annals OF he'r CO.
lonsl history show them capable OF any outrage
Indeed less is to be hoped fromthe superstions anu
infid,lities of modern New England, than from tne
birotry and fanaticsm Of their ancestors.
ENGLAND. too incites and encourages New England
in her rrstricdal purposes and warns the South 10
nre,ars for the onset Should the alliance of France
and England result successfully i'll the war with kus-
sia flushed and elaed with victory, is not improoa-
ble that they will he ready to enter on a crusade
against u.s. 1t has already been suggested from hEll
Sources that as the affairs oi the East
tled the allies will turn their attention u 'ae
Under such circumstances it becomes our du'y u
adopt all defensive and precautionary measures h"'
will weaken adversarics or that VIII s'rens'ie
ourselves. We can stop every loom in Old England
and New England; We can transfer the capita ana Tue
machinery, and the operatives employed In Inc pur-
chase and manufacture of cotton, to the South; we
can add the profits of manufacturing cotton 10 the
profits of growing it, land the former are tcu times
the latter simply by prohibiting the export from the
Sou,h of cotton in the raw state. TO get-a living,
thcn those engaged in manufactures In Europe anu the
North must follow the manufactures, and hr'nG ther
.oni,ol themselves and their machinery to the
South.
Sncb restricted intercourse would not induce one
mopept's suffering nt the South, but would starve
millions Of our enemies. little legislative enact
mcut such rs this, would he more terrible IN s raw
ages than the invading armies OF Bonapare' o' teA
suder and of Xerxes. The whole surplus Srnin OF the
world does not now suffice tosupply tho dehct o o'a
England and New England; for starving operatives
rob stores in Liverpool, and Yankees put UP VIII"
goldfish and potatoes. Let the South CONSUME
her own grain, or let it rot in her granaries'
and scene of horror presented to the mnd IN inc
suffering and starving North and i'll Europe, ten
thousand times more appalling than the vivid iniag
nation OF Cicero conured up. when Romc should to'
ter and fall mid servile insurrection and nocturnal
flames. Two little laws will effect all this Two lit
tie laws will bring to the South the SURVIVORS OF the
ruin We have depicted, with all their wealth. Two
little acts will decnate our adversaries, increase our
numbers, and multiply our wealth. The Cons'ltu-
,on Of tho United States we revere so long as that
Constitution is observed in its spirit, but when the
HIGHER Law is preferred at the North and domestic
tranquility, instead of being ensured" by the Con-
titution is invaded under its cover by peured mei'
sworn to observe it, in our very Halls OF Congress
We too, in necessary sef-detence, will appeal to the
U;ober Law and take care OF ourselves. J" DO not
wish TO transfer to the South the operatives OF Eu'
ro,c and the North, not when accompanied with
their masters the capitalists for the hundreds {" re-
ports to the British Parliament show that such p"pu
ation and such pursuits are far less desirable than
those we now have, or arc now engaged H. ie''
desperate cases may require desperate remedies anu
to avert ruin, we might be willing to take Lynn ana
low.u birmingham and Manchester. The depen'
don, precarous existence of States, relying chiefly on
commerce and manufactures, shows that We nave
taken the wiser part Non.intercourse we may oc
driven to; we may be forced to trade and manu'ac-
ture for ourselves, but never will the proud sou'h
consent, like Engshnen and Yankees, to become the
HucKSrERs and CoHBLERS for MANKIND.
Nature conferred her choicest blessing the South
when she made her agricultural. Let us encourage
and diversity her pursuits only as auxiliary TO ngri-
culture or promotive Of intelligence, refinement and
| independence.
| The time has not arrived-we devoutly hope it
never may-fur adopting such measures as We have
suggested But is we'll to display the strength OF
our position to friends, as we'll as to enemies. 1t
may give encouragement and confidence to the form
or, and deter the latter; and thus prevent collision
and preserve peace. When Old England and New Eng
land See that never did people heretofore hold
such power the destinies, the happiness, tho
very lives Of another people, we hold over them,
they may pause in their career and calculate the
costs of victory well as its consequences. single
failure of the grain and cotton crop Of the South,
which collision with them would certainly produce,
must result in IN amount of human suffering which
dclies calculation, and staggcrs the Imagination. Yet
such failure could never be such in the slightest
degree to affect or inure the physical webeng the
South. Nature, unaided almost supplies the nccessa-
ries of life for sparse population, and renders
want or famine impossible.
Our object is peace, and we do hope that when the
abolitionsts reflect what victory will cost, as well as
what it will result in, they will desst from their pIr-
poses. They know that the white laborers Of Europe
ara as vastly inferior in morality, and religious in-
struction to our negroes, as they are in physical
fort The numerous carefully prepared reports made to
the British Parliament and the action ON those reports
leave not the least to doubt that our slaves arc
oil respects better situated than tho laborers Of
England.
With the North, except New England and possibly
Ohio, there is nothing that indicates the increase OF
abolition threatens the severance of amcable re-
lat'0ns. Fanatics enough they have amonFshem' but
common Sense, conservatism and patriotism prepon-
uera'e' and will give complexion to their policy
tnose VINO could live, if not prosper, independently
ol U.s. are comparatively friendly, whilst Now Eng
iano' "hom We feed and clothe, and who, severed
from US, must 90 unfsd and unclad, makes war upon
u.s. Her cruel unfeoliRg conduct to tho poor white
emigrapts from Europe, whom she would exclude and
drive from her shores, shows that it i, not love for the
negro, but hatred to us, that ncites her The New