The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-10-24
Who Supplies the Means?

Who Supplies the Means!
Upon a review of the subject which has
lately created such sensation in this State
and all over the countryside subject OF the
Harp,.'s Ferry Insurrection-we have been
led to ask, who supplies the means to these
reckless, half crazy, fauatical dared evils
..xno have thus commenced the guerrilla
warfare upoa the institution OF slavery
We have seen it stated that 0ssawatamle
Brown, the Kansas shrisker, obtained his
means from some Of the Northern aoohtion-
;sts We have no doubt he did, directly;
hut our way of thinking teaches US that IN
directly, the people Of the South furnished
tie means. Need we point to the fact direct
w, to conviace our readers OF the truth oil
what we say. Need we remind them that the
South is shsiaad ofpromise-the laad OF de-
penaeace for the grudging yeof the Norris;
and that from the South the North draws
nea all Of those products which so enf'cnes
he sad impoverishes the South; that her
tboasauds Of manufactures and millions OF
operatives are directly sustained oy the
South; whilst the people of the South by
f5eir own apathy are kept in state otaimost
.se.v;,e dependence on the North tor waat.hey
have it ia their power to produce az home'
The very money which is thus used to throw
stumbling blsc4s in the way OF the South
AMI 70 Break up ths institution of slavery,
is money made by the North from Ma"9aot"-
-;nq tie products Of the earth raise at the
tSo.ta and sent back to the South for con-
sumption. The manufacturers and trades
snen Of the North Become bloated with the
wea,ta the South affords them. lew years
manipulating their "green" customers aforoS
them saca "a abundance of spare clsh tnat
they are prepared to retire from business
and devote their pious latter days to aboii-
tio,ism. Not Content with having skinned
the master while dealing with him. but by
ga7 Of atouema nt, probably, they wish to
cheat the slave OFT o. his comfortable nome
it'll that master.
The remedy is in the power OF the SCUM
Let every Southern maa and every South
erp woman hencef9rsd pledge themselves to
supno,t none but Soashern Manufact"es,a land
"a. eva will no longer exist. Let them
Aeacefor wacd ,,e1r nothing or use nothing
tie: 10 not manufactured at TIE South and
Instantly will car cities and their suburbs De
popalatei by operatives who will supply all
of our wants, and thus enrich land when
MAUI, us blessed, bat man has cursed al
mos. By his blindness in sending abroad
for every Article used in his ordinary pur-
sa'ts. The drain on the resources OF the
South, caused by her people not manulactu-
,iog what they need, keeps her impoverish-
"a, 40. gtastaaiins her great productive
wea,ta. Stop this d,ain, and you at once en-
rich herpeople and impoverisa those VINO
are 50 ready at all times to lend their aid
and comfort to those who are willing to risk
tlei. necks to break up the "peculiar insu
tati,o the hired cut-throats an! aSSas-
81 a. o. the abb itionists
Once let the Southern slave-owner
vowathlt neither himself or his family, or
his slaves, shall wear rag of clothes manu-
facta-ea at tae North; and instantly looms
ana manafactories will spring up next door
TO bin. Let him so yet further, and use
nothing in his household and other depart
,pents whatever, either chairs, brooms, ia
bles. carpets, buckets, tubs, cooking uten-
lis, or anything else, that is not manutac-
med at the South. We mention the slave
,cner in particular, because we think he
Of all others shou d be prepared to stand out
boldy for the protection Of his own interests;
and Il there ID any sacrifice to be made in
the staod, he should be willing to show the
cad at least, while others not so much inter-
estea are willing to follow. WHAT if the
Thousands of slave owners in the South, with
tbei- families, aad their saves, forming alto
gether millions Of persons, were to stop their
patronage of Northern manufactures and be-
stow it solely on Southern manufac tories
what, we ask, would be the result to the
North2 Would it not, in the course of few
wars, 50 deplete the pockets Of the Nsrtf ern
manufacturers and tradesmen, that they
would no longer find it possible to give aid
ana assistance to abolitioaism. Starve the
abolitionists out, gentlemen, instead, as you
do at present, starving yoar own mechanics
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