The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1856-10-23
A NOrtherner'S Defence of the South

A NOrtherner'S Defence of the South
Samuel B. Ruggles, Esq, of New York
gentleman long and intimately connect
ed with the internal and external commerce
o. the United States, has, AT the request of
several prominent merchants Of that city
reviewed the speech Of Mr. Speaker Banks,
lately delivered from the steps Of the Mer
chants Exchange.
lhe review Is an ably written paper. and
we suhJoin few extracts After referfinr
to statement made bv Mr.. Banks THAI
the people Of tue United States. in IL, wear
1896, VIII give TO the world rs their norton
oi the industrial product of the human race
.torfy:frc h"ndred millions Of dollars"
Mr.. Ruggles proceeds:
/! the North produced the whole forty.
live hundred millions, and the South did
noiu'ng whatever but keep the blacl, race
III sueJecllon, il would not follow tha, the
South should be excluded from all partici.
patton IN the government; for it, as some
contend, the black race be nothing but p
ourthen on the community which contains
II, the ifeemcn Of the North should be
thankful 10 the South for bearing the whole
OF the burthcn, and thus leaving them un.
feliered to accumulate tb,, fo,,v f,o ,,,n
drel millions, annually
B"t, unhappiIy for Mr. Banks and his AL
m'rng auditors, it i not true tha, the mn
uon annually produces the 1900 millions:
Tor look at It,S own ANALYSIS: Fifteen hun
dfed millions, say, hc. are produced by
manufacturing and mcchamca Industry.
sixteen hundred by agriculture. This
makes thirty one-unl the re,iJna FAM.
teen hundred millions. where docs !, come
from. Let the commiuglcd rhe,o,i, an
statistics OF Mir Banks answer: "Thc ~nus
that are whileu-d with the rar, Of the c,,n.
merce O. New York, each ,iDua,izin,, the
name, lie character. the ailluence thn Lnsi
ness, tic influence of its merchant princes
contribute 10 this great product Of 4 500
millions, fourteen hundred million, rs the
share O! commerce
Now, gentlemen, wha, do the seas inns
rhetouc.Aiy whjeued, in fact. produce,
That Is to say what article Of commercial
value! Iney produce u good many cod.
fish, many macScrcl and here and there =
whale the total value whereof when
caught, Oauc.cd and landed IN the United
States hardly exceeds thirty million, annu.
ally, If It amounts to that The portion Of
these products exported in the wear ls55
wa less than four millions. The remand
er then of Mr.. Banks imaginary fourteen
hundred millions consist wholly of the very
products OF agricultural, manufacturing and
mechanical industry which commerce had
placed on tie seas, but which had been
previously computed and embraced in the
hrSi two items ot fifteen and sixteen hun.
dred Millions. And lhus We behold the
Speaker III his very first plunge into the
sc" OF tSufeS, going a>iray to the tune of
ltiIicen hdnI'cd and uinely.Six millions
IL IhiS be the music of the Uuion' which
Mr. h""kN describes the Northern plough
"oy rs "h'si.'nS, las political psaImody, 10
say lHe ie't>', Is capable q; Improvement.
b"I again: he speaker asserts that of the
.'ooo ml"Ions produced by agriculture, the
h''eeh slave States contribute but 45 per
cent 10" thls assertion Is proved does
not appear bat II II be true 1t does no.
S"o" 'he s'a'" States to fall short Of their
JuS' P'oPo'uon' Tor they have less than for
y per cent. OF the total population, and on
y '"e"'E,n'e per cent. Of The white po9u
'""on' "hy' then, ShonId their agricul-
'"'o DC required 10 produce even iouy-h'e
per eo"'
""' '"o RUIN "i The statement must be
more Una" doubtful. The very sun of the
'ou'"' 50 uhi"'oiabIe to white labor a. TO