Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-04-16
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abandon your position at once /; giving
: il up altogether, or, 10 cease purchasing
: free labor produce, and manufactured ar
= ticles, ~persuading your peop'e to abandon
. their use. The latter you cannot ac-
, complish any more easily than we could
. persuade the people of the north to
abandon Il e use of the products Of slave
= labor, and the effort on both sides would
4 be worse than in vain. But, perhaps,
you will employ agents here who will
select Cincinnati manufactured articles,
at least, that bear no defling impress
) of tho hand Of an abolitionist. Please
be assured that his would be a truly
!. Herculcan task, for most of our best
manufacturers are Eastern and Northern
men-some of them Englishmen and
NEARLY all entertain sentiments more or
less hostile to that institution which is
calculated, in its very nature, above all
others, to bring free labor into d~iSrespect.
"The efforts that are being made by a
few Southern editors and politicians Of
the -Arkansas Legislature School, to turn
away the trade Of intelligent Southern
merchants from the North in general,
and Cincinnati in particular, will soon
be abandoned for hobbies less impracti-
cable and more likely 10 increase their
popularity with sensible Southern peo-
pie.
Should a kind Providence continue TO
bless Jul industry and enterprise, but a
very brief period viii have elapsed be-
fore all our cities, and even villages Of
any Importance, north and south, will be
81 intimately connected by Railroads, that
a Chinese wall frem'lhc Atlantic to the
Pacific, running between the free and
slave States, would prove only a mo-
mentary barrier to the constant inter-
mingling of the vast mercantile interests
of our country. The truth is, this starv-
ing-out patriotism-this meanest, most
narrow s~ectionalism, will never win to
any extent. Some few Of the Southern
dealers, who are not above the influence
of demagogues, may pay their more en-
lightened or liberal ueighbors a hand
some profit on goods, rather than
order direct from US and this is all
right. We sell as many goods at the
same prices, and our Southern friends
who have sense enough to buy where
they can buy cheapest, make the i'm
porter's profit. Our Queen City of the
West beihg the great distributing point
of a "a population and highly pro-
ductive country ; and destined as many
BELIEVED TO become the greatest manu-
factoring city in America, our Southern
friends will find it greatly to their inter
est TO sell US the products of their soil,
and buy of US the products of ours, and
also our manufactured articles of almost
every description. We, hard and cheap
working Yankees, offer both on profits
so small hat purchasers cannot consis-
tently ask US to throw in our principles.
That our goods are for sale and not
our principles we wish distinctly un-
derstood in all our business transac-
tons" Respectfully, &c.
S. STRAIGHT.
The Commercial in commenting on the
above, says:
Let us know how much of our princi-
Piles We will be required to lay down in
order to retain the trade of cheese, how
much for the whisky traffic, how much
for tubs, pals, brooms, plows and steam
engines. Let us have a doctrinal tariff
at once, with reports of the condition of
tie "sensitive nerve" in the columns of
the daily journals. To do so, would
perhaps cut of the necessity of business
circulars like the following:
QUEEN CRY, April 1, 1856.
Messrs. Il. B., C. d., and Southern
Merchants general y-Gendemen: We
cannot too highly approve the noble
stand you have taken in behalf Of SOUTH
ERIN PRINCIPLES, by closing your business
relations with those malignant fanatics
and abolitionist incendiaries, Messrs. S.
D. d Co. We doubt not a continuance
of your correspondence would have been
frightfully injurious to the interests of
the South, if not to the durability of our
sacred bond of union. In consequence
of your reputation of the aforesaid firm.
we have thought proper TO establish a
house upon a platform especially adapted
TO the Southern trade. Our opinions in
regard TO the institutions of the South
are yours, and we do not hesitate to as
sure you that yours, SO long as you see
fit to trade with us, shall be ours. We
therefore await your orders with conf
dence. As Messrs. S. D. d Co., with a
perfdy unparalleled in the history of
commerce, have monopolized the entire
production of Goshen, VIC shall be sup
ply you with that article /; our arrange
ments, however, with the Skim-miik
Plains are perfect, and we have no
doubt your customers will soon learn to
prefer the "Skim -milk'-untainted as it
is with abolilionism-to the Reserve"
manufactured in the very hot-bed of anti
slavery.
With distinguished consideration, we
remain most obsequiously, your humble
servants, HUNBUG.& DoUGHFAcE.
Moonshine.
We recpiye reUularlv ono of the nuperest