The true Democrat., 1857-04-07
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Southern Trade with Abolition Merchants. The North Carolina Courier republishes our list of pro-savery and abolition merchants, and urges upon southern merchants the necessity of refusing their support to those who are using the profits of their trade to subvert the institutions and destroy the property of the south. One would suppose that such caution was unnecessary, as the course of the aboll- tionists and their papers in the north is so di- rectly hostile, not only to the peace, prosperity and interest of the south, but to its very exs- tence, that no merchant with one spark of pa triotism in his breast would ever throw soll- tary dime into the hands of one of this detes- table class But merchants merchants the world over, and from the days of Solomon have been proverbial for seeking their own in. terest in preference to a true regard for that of their country.
 To "get trade" they will stretch their con- sciences Cf they have anv) good deal. The only way to guard entirely against giving pow CT to the aboltionists is to make 1t for the interest of the merchants to withhold their pa tronage from them. This the southern planter and mechanic can do by stunning those who purchase goods of their enemies.
 It is believed throughout the south that the merchants in the northern cities are emlnently sound on the slavery question; and the large democratic vote in New York and Philadel- phia are pointed to as evidence of this. Mo- thing could be more erroneous than this opin. ion The democratic vote came from the me- chancs and working men, not from the mer- chants-from those who saw instnctively that the efforts of the black republicans were to put them, not the merchants on level with negroes.
 No one here ever expects free negroes to be merchants or to crowd themselves into the first class or respectable class of society, not even the rankest abolitionsts themselves eX- pect that but they aim to set them free and give them equal privileges with the working or lower classes. This our working men un- deIstand, hence their voting against them.
 A much better evidence of the political sen timents of the merchants is to be found in their support of the newspapers. Look, for instance, to the success of those papers in this city that advocate the republican and abolition cause and compare 1t with those who oppose them. Laying aside the Herald, Tribune, and Times, which get their support from all classes in and out of the city, let us look for moment to those that are supported almost exclusively by the merchants
 The Courier and Enquirer, a strong anti slavery paper, has a mercantile advertising patronage equal to $50,O0O per year. The Commercial Advertiser, paper that gives its sympathy and support to every practical scheme for emancipating the slave, has mer cantile advertising patronage of not less than S3OO0O per annum; and the Evening Post, one of the most rabd abolition papers amongst us, and at the same time the most abusive of the south as well as the most lying, has mer- cantlle advertising patronage of more than S2O, II Il. dent Henry Ward Beacher's paper, started owned, and supported by merchants, has an advertising patronage worth S25, 900 year. Besides these, there is the Express, Know Nothing paper crowded with mercantile ad- vertisng made rich by those who hate foreign CTS and negroes alike, and wonld put them on a level, which practically is just what the black republicans aiming at
 Now, compare this with the mercantile ad- vertising patronage of the DAY BOOK, which never has been over $3OOO year, and last year was less than one thousand dollars We are aware that those merchants who court the suthern trade, when askel why this Is so, say that the Day Book is but little known and they, indivually, do not adyerti-e at all, or tha, they do so in papers that more generally read. It is, of course, needless to say to our southern friends that this is mere subterfuge for they know that throughout the entire south and west the Day Book is seen and read more than all other New York papers put together and that an advertisement in its columns 0lt time, would be seen by more people, and more of these merchants customers, than if 1t were in the Post and Courier every day for one whole year.
 The truth is, and it is a truth that cannot bt denied, these men, though wanting and court ing the southern trade, at heart desire the sue cess of the abolition papers. "Actons speak louder than words," and when man refuses tt do that which is plainly for his interest in or der to assist political party or political paper 1t is sheer nonsense for him to pretend that al heart he is not with that party. Let us, for moment, compare the circulation of these va irons papers and their advertising patronage with the DAY BOOK: