The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-02-03

VIZ tdlh VI HeT SucCeSSlui eHuuIduCo ocfohu
the dissolution of the Ameri r. nion, we
but prove our want of thoughsA6Hd of care
full consideration of our true condition. 1t
is not to be denied that eresy means of i'm
provement in New England have been care
fully developed. Day bzE. our young
men are departing from pg away:
capital to large amount 2 At busi-1
ness in other sections of Our land; and q
material disturbance of the elements of our
present success can only prove disastrous.
But grant that we can survive the crush
influence of the separation of the States,
cannot the South do as we'll? BY reference
to the census of 1850 you will find valuable
aid in answering this question. Produc-
tions and manufactures have undoubtedly
increased since that date, but will present
substantially the same relative results
We have two millions seven hundred thou
sand people; they have nearly ten millions.
We have eighteen million acres of land -
they have one hundred and eighty-eight
millions of acres-one hundred and thirty
millions acres of which are yet uncultivat-
ed. We produce annually one million six
hundred thousand bushels of corn to State;
they produce annually twenty-three mil
lions of bushels to State. We produce
annually one million and ninety thousand
bushels of wheat they produce twenty
seven millions of bushels averaging to
each Southern State more than the entire
product of New England; and of rye, oats,
barley, peas, buckwheat, beans, Irish and
sweet potatoes, hemp, and fax, they alto
gether exceed US. Our crop of hay is more
than theirs. but we all well know that the
chief part of that product is necessarily re-
turned to the earth, to sustain the soil, and
requires great labor and expense to secure
and feed it to our animals.
The annual value of slaughtered animals
in New England is one million and seren
hundred thousand dollars to a State; and
in the southern States three millions fve
hundred thousand dollars to each State
The average product of wool in the slave
States is nearly thirds the average of
New England.
The average value to State of live
stock in New England is eight millions of
dollars, and in the slave States more than
sixteen millions of dollars to each State.
The cash value of farms in New England
averages sixty-two millions of dollars to a
State, and in the slave States seventy-four
millions of dollars. The average value of
real and personal estate to the New Eng
land States is one hundred and eighty eight
millions of dollars, and to the slave States
one hundred and ninety-eight millions, and
ton, which we cannot produce at all, the
slave States annually produce one hundred
and eighty millions of dollars. And while
we have little or no mineral wealth, the
bama are filled with coal, iron, and other
valuable minerals. Can any sane man,
then, say if New England can sustain her.
self under the blighting influences of disso-
we'll!
He who thinks so has lightly considered
the power, wealth, and resources of that
region of country. The foolish charge that
the South is wanting in industry and en-
terprise is as groungless as though made
against the inhabitants of any other agri-
cultural portion of our country.
New England purchases about one-sixth
+La nf tho South md bnr
annual manufactures from cotton are about
forty-two millions of dollars-but of little
more value, after deducting the cost of the
raw material, than the tobacco crop of the
South, and, including the raw material, not
one half the value of their cotton crop.
We sec, therefore, that the capital and
energies of the South are mainly directed
and involved in business of agriculture,
while New England, to very large extent,
relies upon manufacturing and mechanical
business to sustain herself.
Should the Union be divided, each State
will of course become an Independent
foreign nation to each other, and New Eng
land at once be forced into competition
with her great manufacturing rival, Eng
land; who has been in constant struggle for
the control of cotton ever since she declar-
ed the emancipation of her slaves.
We see already the germ of rivalry ex-
panding ten millions of dollars are now
invested in southern States in the manu-
facture of cotton, and when we properly
consider the immense water power South
and West, their now unworked coal fields,
and navigable rivers, and realize results
which antagonistic interests can and will
produce, who can believe in the successful
continuance of New England efforts, against
that resistance, which disunion would array
against US?
While we live in peace all is system and
harmony the business of the South conflicts
not with New England; and by maintain
ing friendly relations the interest of each
section is promoted and sustained.
The true men all over the nation ardent
" desire the continuance of the Union, and
the prosperity which now surround us.