Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-07-27

As have more tUan once eiaNfdt INV
sion of Mr. Preston TO Europe. in behalf OF the
interests of Southern commerce, seems TO have
given our Northern neighhors unusual concern.
And well it may-for, notwithstanding The nu-
merous Southern Commercial Conventions we
have held. and the vast array of words we have
heretofore paraded We have, until the present
tine. made no deliberate effort TO accomplish
any practical result
Since the Bristol Convention, the people Of
III. South begin to realize a well defined prospect
of what was before unsubstautlal vision. The
establishment Of Southern comm 'rce with foreign
ports is no longer an unattainable prizs which we
may survey from distance. but dare not APP
proach. 1t is. in point OF fact, almost present
reali,y-for, 90 practical and integen, states
man as Mr. Preston is NJ, g'ine to Europe in
pursuit of mere chimera. Fully impressed
with the importance Of his mission, confident Of
its success and knowing that the people Of tho
entire South await his return withinense interest
he will leave no effort un,ried TO realize their
fullest expectations. For this reason We feel an
abiding confidence in he successful issue Of hs
enterprise The commercial independence Of
the South, Of which few months ago the pros
pect was SO remote. i now almost fat &c
eomph-
The people Of the North, always segaoiou' IN
any matter affecting their pccuniary interests.
anticipate the resut--and hence their alarm
They know that the exports OF the country,
which Of necessity constitute the basls OF us
for egn commerce. are almost exclusively the
product of Southern soil. They know tina; the
South has the enterprise. well as the means,
Of effeotng its commercial disenhralmcnt. They
begin to that the day OF empty saporing and
idle boasi is past-and that the tribute which
has long been paid them by the unequal ad-
jusimeut Of foreign commerce, is about to be
withdrawn.
The rdcule with which they greet Mr.. Pros.
tons proposition is an indication Of deep alarm
on the part OF the more sngacous of them, and of
profound ignorance on the part of the remainder.
Doubtless, they would be glad to persuade them
selves that there is no prospect of the diversion
of foreign commerce from North to South. But
the concern they feel about it n, the present time
is the best evidence of the importance they at
tach to the movement. The hutering of the
wounded pigeons is always the hes, evidence of
the efficacy Of the shot.
On these points the Petersburg Express holds
the following encouraging language
MrPrcs.on,. Mission 10 Europe.
The Hon. WILLIAM BALLAD PRfsfok has made
we learn, the fullest preparations for his departure
early in August ON the important AMI honorable
mission for which be has been selected 10y the com
mercia representative Of the south. We perceive
that the ready sncers AT the ideio trans
atlantic connection OF the Southern Staes with Bur
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dulge, giving place TO something Of aPprehens
lest accomplished diplomati-t may succeed in
his negotiations and il is beginning 10 be hinied that
perhaps 1t would be well for New York To despatch
TO London representatives, oftheir respective in
terests 10 invoke the Gre1f EafsHs prapfiet0rs 10
send that Leviahsn 10 Portland or 10 tAe last Riy.
In spite Of the assurance thai tie Rhole prod ucc
Of Virginia woHld not keep The ship ia freight; ia
spite Of the confident opinion that 1t ~oul be simply
impossible for the sci l. get into Norfolk over ID,
bars OF the Rip-kaps III Hampton kaads 10 spite o
the prevailing belief that there is absolutely uo,hiuq
like business energy in the Old Dominion, the North.
ern papers are seriously alarmed at Tie movement,
of FIX Secretary Preston. and the hopeful feeling tl
which that eminent gentleman has entered upon hIs
trust. He may, perhaps, make II appear after all
willy and pracced nego,iator as he admitted TO be
that there is plenty Of produce wherewh 10 load the
Grtat Eastern Norfolk, that trade with the grea
tobacco growing, wheat-rasing cotton planting
ton of the United States, carried on directly tt
there is a sufficient depth OF water at Old Point Com
iort-we say it is just possible that Mr.. Preston will
be able by the help OF documents in his possession lC
prove all this aud then what Why Ia,
South will have taken the initiative in establishn,
commercial independence for herself and ioreye
thereafter will conduct direct relations with the port
OF Europe to her own great advantage. aud the re
duetion Of the profits of Northern bottomry and nav
igalion companies. Once let the experiment be sue
cessful and the sum is worked out for all time. {
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Predictions against the probNble success Of III
enterprise based npon the laws of trade scientf
dedication, do not weigh wi tt AZ all. All sort
of things have been pronounced mpraetcpble before
hand, and made to by perfect demonstration
1t was impossible that steamers could cross the A
lantic. II was impossible that electricity could ev,
be safely brought down lightning rods or made
flash intelligence across a continent or an ocean
was impossible that gas could ever be employed f,
purposes of illumination, or that the discovery
Jenner could save mankind from the horrors of II
small pox. Even Lord Byron set these down in OF
line of satirical verse as humbugs-
Cow.pox tractors galyanism, gas
and yet all of US us ia town use gashghts eyerybot
now a-days is vaccnated, weekly lines of steamc
traverse the deep, and the telegraph brings us o.
regular breakfast intelligence OF the state of the ma
ksts, and the condition of the world. Stiang
things have happened by far than line of Gre
Easterns from Norfolk TO Milford Haven to Bordea
and to Rio de Janeiro. What will the Old Poi
Convention say about it,.
The Northern Dem ocracy Again
In further Illustration OF our views relative