The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-10-15

= AC = GO anu Sk0v y SaatCSs IN
The North is the Mecca OF our merchants
and to it they must and doimake two pilgrim.
ages per annum--one in ths spring and one in
the fall. All our commercial, mechanical
manafactnrai, and literary supplies come from
there. Wew Bibles, brooms, buckets and
books, and we go to the North; we want pens
ink, paper, waters and envelopes, and we &c
to the North; we want shoes, hats, handker-
chiefs, umbrellas and pocket knives, and we
go to the North; we want Furniture, crockery,
glassware aud pianos, and we go to the North;
we want toys, primers. school books, fashion
able apparel, machinery, medicines, tombstones
and a thousand other things, and we 20 to the
North for them al. Instead of keeping our
money iu circulation at home, by patronizing
our own mechanics, manufacturers, and labor
ers, we send It all away to the North, and
there it remains; it never falls into our hands
again.
In one way or another we are more or less
subservient to the North every day of oar
lives. In infancy we are swaddled in North
ern muslin; in childhood we are humored with
Northern gewgaws; in youth we are instruct.
ed out Of Northern books; at the age of matu-
rity we sow our "wild oatso on Northern soil;
in middle-life we exhaust our wealth, ener-
ergies and talents in the dishonorable voca-
ton Of entaling our dependence on our chill
dren and our children's children, and, to the
neglect of our own interests and the interests
OF those around US, in giving aid and sucoor
to every department Of Northern power; in
the decline Of life we remedy our eye-sight
with Northern spectacles, and support our in
firmities with Northern canes; In old age we
are drugged with Nor,hera physic; and, final
~, when we die, our inanimate bodies. shroud-
ed in Northern cambrie, are stretched upon
:he bier, borne to the grave in Northern car
riage. entombed with Northern spade, and
memorized with Northern slab!
Why THE NORTH HAS sURPAssED THE
SoUrH And now that we have come to the
very heart and soul Of our subject, we feel no
disposition to mince matters, but mean to
speak plainly, and to the point, without sny
equivocation, mental reservation. or secret eva
sion whatever. The son Of venerated pa
rent, who, while he lived, was .. considerate
and merciful Shareholder, a native Of the South
born and bred in North Carolina, Of family
whose home has been in the valley Of the
Yadkin for nearly ceptury and a hail., a
Southeruer By instinct and by all the inAaen-
ces Of thought, habits, and kindred, snd with
the desire and fixed purpose TO reside .perma-
nently within the limits Of the South, and
with the expectation Of dying there also---ws
feel that we have the right to express our
opinion, however humble or unimportant It
may be. on any and every question that affects
the public good; and, SO help us God, sssink or
swim, live or die, survive or perish" we are
determined to exercise that right with manly
frmness, and without fear, favor or affsc.
tion. ng9 aga
And now to the point. In our opinion, an
opinioa which has been formed from data OBJ
tanned by assiduous researches, and compayl-
sons, from lsborious invsstie eation, logical rea-
soning, and earnest reflection, the causes
which have. impedsd the progress and pros
PciNy ~ Mc OOuui3 WAtSu uev0 uWuauaeu our
commerce, and other similar pursoits, into the
most contemplate insigni6csnce; sunk = large
majority Of our people in CALLING poverty and
ignorance, rendered small minority conceit-
ed and tyranical, and driven the rest away
from their homes; entailed upon u q Hmiliat-
ing dependence on the Free States; disgrsced
us in the recesses of our own souls, and
brought US under reproaeh In the eyes u oil
civilized and enlightened nations may alibe
traced to one common source, and there find
solution In the most hateful and horrible word,
that was ever incorporated into the vocabula-
ry Of human economy Sassry. ,.s..l.s
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In estimating the value oe the various agri-
cultural products Of the two great sections OF
the country, we have been guided by prices
emlnating from the Bureau Of Agriculture in
Washington; and in q catalogue of those psi
ces now before US, ws perceive tut the aver
age value Of hay throushout the nation is sup
posed to be rot more than half a cent per
pound-$ii, 20 per ton--which, sss va have
seen above, 10 ceasiderably less than hak u 9
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