New Orleans daily crescent., 1856-12-29
THE NORTH AND THE SoUTH-NECES-
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described in scripture" Jeshurun waxed fat and
kickedn-thoge who had generously fed him to reple
ton, it is legitimate to presume. The North has
waxed rich, fat and strong by the profits derived,
directly or indirectly, from the manufacture trans
portation use, SALE etc. ETC., of Southern products,
and now proposes to kick from under her the ladder
by which she has been enabled to mount to heighh
of unparalleled afluence She may yet realize, to
her terrible discontinue the fate Of the poor avar
cous fool as illustrated in the fable, who killed the
goose that laid the golden eggs. Transfer to rival and
inirnical hands the annual one hundred million dol
lars of Southern exports, and what would become of
her importers, wholesale merchant princes her auto
Gratis of navigation, her carrying trade, ship yards
bankers, manufacturers, etc. etc? She would, per
force be compelled to pay her foreign debts in coin
as she has little else wherewtf to pay them, and
she couldn't supply the drain of coin for single
SON rs matter of course universal bankruptcy would
overtake her.
The event at which we have hinted is nearer reali-
zation than many men suppose. There must be a
radical as well permanent revusion in Northern
sentiment Or else the years are not many in the cal
endar Of time before the occurrence will actually he
known and felt. We speak canddIy and we speak
knowingly It is impossible the Union can last any
great length Of time unless the North ceases its
Tanton, cruel, causeless, insulting and injurious
course towards the South We can obtain a better
union and Oh better terms, from comparative srTn-
gers, if we wish it.
In late number of the Charleston Mercury we
found an interesting article, bearing indirectly upon
this subject. We quote
The sssrSa[y a st. the ] gesy M in his 5sss4 spo % Gon
Fos ,h sTs a at oven % and % Te eHie ss
me axe@e o. Hut M az v ' Pr Gent "h.c IS 70" este,
during that period This vast the or the like
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those thirty and that the value e forty
s240600oOO the Sonth, by single
oln; Of tfst commerce Tais Export
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during the thirty years were contributed exclusively by the
n | from oe ] Sse d poS ton 's not have s
made as the means Of were produced by no other art
system, during period has
sis s % ] sSf5ss 1 wf 5o
the fseli Of hGn'a MARKET which was exclusively for the
Admitting, for the sake Of argument, that the
propositions and conclusions Of Charleston CO.
temporary not wide of the mark still there is one
material point left untouched, and to that point we
would draw the attention Of our readers and the
Southern public for, according to deliberate
belief, there is not, can there be, any hope for
real, tangible Southern independence, until of
ample and thorough reform is inaugurated. To inaug
urate that reform we must stimulate and create a
spirit OF home enterprise amongst our own people,
which has been wofully wanting so long. Here is
the source Of industrial and commercial nteriority
the lack Of enterprise and public spirit among our
selves. Here is the rock upon which we have split,
and to our shame be it said. We have right to
reproach our Northern brethren because they have
been enterprising enough, and industrious enough,
and shrewd enough, ard public-spilited enough, to
take advantage Of the revenue laws of the govern
ment. and build up for themselves profitable fabric
Of manufacturing and mercantile supremacy. They
deserve praise instead Of cersvre The modification
and the justly attaches to u.s. if it attaches to
anybody. We had exactly the same chance, the same
privilege, the same protection, that Northern
neighbors had. In addition, We enjoyed advantages,
profared by the unsparing hand of nature, worth
fully twenty per cent. But having failed to improve
either the protection afforded by the government. or
the still more valuable benefits youchsaed us by Il
prolific soil and genial climate, it does not become us
to arraign the laws of the land the skill and perso
yerance Of Others, because re have neglected our
duty to ourselves or our section Had the South been
as liberal and cnteprisng as the North, she should
have been, the statistics brought forward by the
| Charleston Mercury would have told on or side
instead of on the side of those whose daily walk in
life demonstrates that they cherish yindictve feelings
towards us. The law is not to be bamed-the policy
pursued has been sufficiently correct-the fault com
| planned Of is to he sought for esewhere As well
might the Mercury charge fraud upon an industrious
man because he became rich while his lazy, shittless
neishbor, became poor, as to endeayor to eXtrcate
the South from the natural consequences of nonenter
prise by alleging that the revenue laws of the country
| fprr +,n IN 1atri of
Genial, fertile, pleasant South Carolina, ought at
this moment to be larger manufacturing State than
cold bleak inhospitable Massachusetts. The natural
advantages are all in favor of the Palmetto State, and
tile tariff operates with unyaryng exactituIe in
Massachusetts and South Carolina. Yet Massachu
sets makes more money by manufacturing slave
grown cotton than South Carolina does by cultvating
cotton. Here is a stupendous fact, worth million
million theories. The statutes as We intimated above
are not to bame-thc climate is not to blanchard
the Massachusetts, people deserve credit instead Of
reproach for their skill and enterprise, Who them is
| to blame! Somebody must be. That's an undenab,e
truth We opne if our contemporaries Of the Charles
ton Mercury will look at home, and where else.
they will lie enabled 10 make valuable discovery.
Welay down as an incontrovertible proposition that
no section can ever become independent, in the lac
tica sense OF the term untit becomes selislsaining
in all the leading departments OF production and in
dustry. We, Of the South, have passed over this
mighty fact with supreme Indifference; and that
it is brought home to lis in manner that we cannot
help recognizing, instead Of grUmblng against the
laws, or Quarreing because tile superior energy of
others has enabled them to outsiip Us, should 90
to work to remedy deficiencies right at home,
and the sooner the better All the laws tile genius of
CALHOUN could devise would not suffice to bud up
sytem Of Southern industry without the Southern
people encouraged the good task literally and pelse
yerngly. It is all folly 10 talk about getting up
steamship lines and packet lines to connect directly
with the ports Of the world without the groundwork
is laid in advance to support those lines. We have
had too many displays of this nonsense already, and
it has only resulted in making the laughing stock
Of the world. And if we don't stop it, we shall de-
serve the ieers and sneers of Christendom.
AS opposite to the subject we append !. portion of
the conclusion OF the Aercury's article:
All tl world have need Of We keep alive workshops
Without labor, millions would prFist daily
Without labor, cities, hQt the Old aud New World
would become UlhaEbted We GTr. material
the comfortable cuthns Of nearly all GrisieiIun, and
pablo q managing t.H. And ihvIt
ourselves who yield NuIIltri
and British donOt whether Itysc Erowng
SHttS. which control the A Eoi
drstinies millions be, hegn hnis
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