Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-04-27
The diatribe on New England was doubt

Tha diatribe on New England was doubt
loss written on New England paper and with
New England ink. The cotton cloth con-
sumed in his family or worn upon his person,
s1as woven at Lowell or Manchester. His
boots. If not manufactured in New England,
ware made of Northern leather. Virginia
gives him a good horse, but for saddle and
bride be is indebted to the North. be chops
his wood with Yankee axe, scratches in his
Garden with Yankee hoe, and warns him
self in winter with Yankee stove. His wife
PLAYS on a Northern piano. and from music
printed at the North. He lights bis cigar with
q Yankee match. sits upon Yankee chair, re-
clines upon a Yankee sofa and his time Is
measured by Yankee clock. His children
are probably taught by Yankee schooimas-
ter, and they certainly cipher on ahkee
slates write on Yankee cOpy-books, ana study
from Yankee textbooks. His Bible and his
dictionary have been printed for him by an
KEGS. and his dictionary perhaps made. Ills
wifes shoes came from Lynn, her dress is IN
fated by a Yankee hoop, aud fastened by
Yankee hooks and eyes. he drinks from
Yankee tumbler, combs his head with an
kee comb, and brushes his teeth with an
kee brush. His house is not unlikely to have
been built by Yankee carpenter or bricklay-
er; but certainly not n nail, or screw, or
bolt, or a hinge put into it-not saw, or
chisel, or an adZe, or n hammer used In Its
but most of them came from the North The
list might be extended further, but we have
made il long enough to show that the editor
of the Richmond South. when he INDUCES IN
his decent and patriotic wish to have New
England cut OFF and thrown aside as useless
and noxiOus incumbrance, would fain bite OH
his nose to spite his own teeth
The above is passage from an article in
the Boston Courier, in reply TO suggestion by
the Richmond South, that New England be
cut of from the Union and annexed to Great
Britain. the Courier IS one of the ablest and
most conservative papers in the North, and
its answer to the suggestion of the South Is
proper enough. We have no sympathy with
the headlong ultrai,fns of the South, no more
than with those of the North. But the reply
of the Courier conveys the impression, which
indeed is a very common one throughout the
Northern States, that the Southern States
are dependent upon them for most OF
the convenience and ever nccessarles OF
life-that the South would find it exceed
ingly difficult to live without the North and
without a political union with the North.
This is doubtless the impression which sus-
tans much of the political fanaticism of the
North. Upon it they reason that the North
being the superior and the South dependent,
the former may dictate terms to the latter,
and the South will be compelled by the high
est law of our nature, selfpreservation, to
submit; and through this system of logic,
they often appear and really become naughty
and overbearing.
q DIT 81 an nd fol
lacy. While in the case put by the Courier,
1t is admitted that paper states the truth, yet
there is an equally great truth on the other
side, and that is, the South pays the full value
of all that she receives from the North. If it
is true that the cotton cloth consumed in our
families and worn upon our persons, is woven
at Lowell or Manchester it is equally true
that we pay the highest market price for it,
and il is true also, and a truth of much higher
importance than either of the others, that we
produce and place in their hands the raw cot
ton. We furnish the raw material for their
manufactures, and then furnish them mar
ket for their fabrics, by becoming their con-
sumers. If there is a difference of obliga-
tons, the North is in reality doubly DEEPEN
dent on the South.
Beyond any question. the slave-holding
States of this Union have more Of the ele-
ments of selfsustenance, of luxury, wealth
and commercial prosperity than any other
area of equal extent on the face of the globe.
They have consented to be the producers to
great extent for the world. They have waived
the active employment of their manufacture
ing powers, upon the ground that they could
realize more upon their investment by selling
the raw products of their industry, and buy
ing from others those manufactured articles
necessary to their comfort or luxury. When
ever they are forced, either by political ne
cessity, or by the exigencies or interest of
trade, to change this policy, they have all the
resources at hand, not only to sustain them,
but to make them equally successful and
prosperous as they have been in the past BY
nature they have all the facilities for mcchan-
zeal labor that the North has, and sra-coast
and ports amply sufficient TO carry on their
commerce with other nations If the gifts of
nature have been neglected, they have not
been destroy, d. They exist in all their grand
perfection now rs they have ever done, and
the South is better able at this moment than
ever before, to subject them to her dominion,
and make them the servitors of her growing
wealth. the hand-miids of her pleasures, aud
the mailed guards of her political and COM
mercial independence. An embargo on the
single export of cotton, stopping it on the
plantations, would strike halt the manufac-
tories of England with parayt;c, which
would reduce Great Britain To a kingdom of
starvelings while it would utterly d ISOLATE
the boosted cities of Lowell and Manchester.
together with the hundreds of other smaller
ones of New England. and the North. 1t
would not do 10 answer that such course
would he selrd struction To the South The
South could i'll afford it, under ordinary cir
cumstances but if put TO the necessity, she
would afford it with munidcence no less de-
votional than joyful.
II would be well if our Northern friends.
especially those who claim to be national and
conservative, should remember these facts
when they undertake to run parallel be-
tween the North and the South When the
North proposes mutiny against the South, |
it is one, it may be, of the head against the
heart.