Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-06-22
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We alluded on Saturday t. the alarm produc-
ed in certain portions Of the North by the no
ton Of the Bristol Convention in appointing Hon.
VIM Ballard Preston Commissioner TO Europe
on behalf of the interests of Southern commerce.
The fright of the Northern journals is amusing
as well as instructive. The Portland paper. for
instance. takes it in high dudgeon that Virginia
should presume 10 aspire to foreign commerce.
The North has 20 long had monopoly Of the bus
mess tina, our Portland cotemporary is evidently
staggered at the cool assurance of the old Do
minion in daring TO enter the lists as eontes-
,ant for tho prize. Fearful, however that there
is really something in it, our Portland phlloso-
pber proposes to block Mr. Preston's game by
sending rival Commissioner.
Virginia has no objection. Let us suppose
that these two Commissioners APPEAR slmnitane
ousy before the British public aud the owners
of the Great Eastern. When Mr. Preston is
asked what cargo he can furnish for the return
trip Of the vessel no will have difficulty in an
swering. He will say that we have cotton, to.
bacco, -four, wheat, corn, hemp, tnr turpentine,
rice, &c. all the productions Of Southern coil
aud all, articles for which there is foreign dc
mand. But when tho Portland Commissioner Is
asked what return cargo he can furnish, what re
ply can he makel What has Portland TO expert
A few kits of mackerel and few barrels of cod
fish will be all. She has, perhaps some lime
and bay-but these are not wanted in Europe.
Indeed, doubt if there is any market there for
Goldfish aud mackerel. How then does Portland
expect to load the Great EASTERN II can't be
done.
But the alarm casioned In New York city is
the most gratifying circumstance Of oil. The
Herald and Tribune have heretofore been Excess
sively facetious on the subject Of SGahern Com
mercial Conversations evidently considering them
as capital good jokes. They have repeatedly
denomnated Southern Commercial conventions
Southern Commercial humbugs." Aud we'll
they might. For, up TO the time Of the Bristol
Convention, none of them had done more than
pass string Of empty resolutions, oil sound aud
fury sgnfying nothing. But the Bristol Con
vention was composed of different material from
the others. 1t did not abound in windy poti
CLANS and gas bags. 1t was composed of few
practical, determined. earnest men, who went
quietly to work in practical way, without ma
king speeches for Buncombe. or mixing up Fed
eral politics with the grand idea they had met to
consider 1t is for this reason that the New
York journals are disturbed. They see at last
that the people of the South are in earnest. In
stead of sharpening their wit, and cracking their
Jokes at our expense. they now appear grave
as owls, and feel a decided sensation of sinking
in the region of their pericardium And we re
loce to observe it.
While it would be almost impossible for Port
land to load the Great Eastern, it must be con
fessed on the other hand that New York could
easily do it. But howl Not with the produo.
tions of any Northern State all of them com
bined. She would have to send South for the
cargo. Why not then let the Great Eastern
come to a Southern port at once. instead Of
dergoing the expense and delay of tranship-
ment of Southern articles of production to New
York ethyl Answer us that, Master Brooke :"
1t will be a sweet revenge for the South-uf
ter all the indignites that have been put upon
u.s. the robbery of our property and the abuse
OF our people and nsti,utions-it will be sweet
revenge for US to abstract from these men the
lie-oiood Vt their prosperity Humane as we
are disposed to be, w don't know that We ought
to leave them drop, even if they were ia ar
tiento morris, and gasping for breath. 1t may
take years for the South to accpmpIi sb this for
II requires long time to diver. commerce into
new channels. Blu, that it will be done ev,.utn.
ally. we have not a shadow of u doubt. Speed
the suspicious day,
The New Tariff.
a. Al.