New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-12-08
Nt6 Orleans Dailp Grtstent
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 8, 1853.
sNGN INTERCOURSE THE FIRST
EEEIEDY.,, 3,

ing artcle, which, enanatlng as II does froIn the
chief exponent of public opinion in the first of
slaveholding States, is cmincntly worthy serious
consideration. Viewing it in this light, we shall
extract liberally, and accompany the extracts with
such quotations as we may deem appropriate.
The main argument of the Enquirer is, as mat
ter of course, based upon the wrongs and out
RACES committed during long series of years by
the North upon the South, and which, according
to all indications, are to increase in strength and
| malignity as days and years wax and wane, until
the evils and expressions become too ntolerable |
to be borne. To bring the people of the North to |
their senses; to revive anew spirit Of loyalty to
| the Constitution and laws; to superindnce return
of fraternal feeling and good fellowship between
| the sections, if such thing be possible, and if
impossible, to prepare the South for the final alter
native which sooner or later will force itself upon
her, our Virginia contemporary proposes remedy
in its own words, " Non Intercourse the First
| Remedy
| The " non-intercourse" spoken of is " non-inter
course in trade with the North by State compul-
sorry process, and an opening of direct trade with
| Europe to supply us with whatever articles we
need, the Europeans taking our staple products in
| return. In a pecuniary point of view this would
| be vastly advantageous to the South, while it could
not fail to prove emnently disastrous to the North
| anu IL nOull, illc sdiilc uHic, tShCh
chants, manufacturers, capitalists, sMpowners and
builders, property holders and Others Of that
ton, a lesson they would notforget during the term
of their natural lives. With these preliminary re-
marks we will proceed to submit some extracts
from the En1urer's article. Here is one:
Full and complete non-intercour,se, enforced by
fines and penalties that will keep out Of our borders
every article Of Northern manufacture, or importa
ton, will teach Northern merchants and manufact
" | that a npoDle Slanlfrp1 nv their nil
aged by their citizens. and murdered by their ruff
fans may be for while still longer enslayed by
the Constitution, but that every moral cord having
been sundered by their fanaticism, the last liga-
ment, that Of tnde we will sever, and make the
Union as worthless to the North as it has become
Odous to the South.
True, a terrible lesson would be taught, and very
likely it would eventuate in the total ruin and dis
organization Of the Abolition Black Republican
party; for there people on the surface Of
GoD's footstool susceptible in the region of the
pocket nerve as the Northern people, and as their
whole commercial, financial maritime and manu-
featuring fabric depends exclusively upon South
ern support the withdrawal of that support in the
manner and form indicated, or in any other way,
would inevitably superinduce its downfall, and
with it the bankruptcy beggary and impoversh-
| nent of the North For instance: Let the cotton
crop of the South fail for single year, and there
would not be solvent bank, capitalist importer,
, manufacturer shp-builder or owner in the North.
To this ndisputable fact add what is more than
equivalent, an entire and permanent diversion of
the cotton trade and all the incidents and advant-
ages appertaning thereto into rival channels, the
course of importation would be reversed, the
center of exchanges would be changed, and the
patronage of wealthy millions would inevitably go
along with the different tendency of affairs. Where
would the North be then? The North, that ex-
ports comparatively nothing, and imports nearly
= everything Why, the North would only be able
to import in proportion to her exports proper
while the South, being the great exporting section
of the country, would necessarily become the great
importing section of the country-as she alone, as
it were, would have the material wherewith to pay
for large imports with her vast exportabe staple
products.
Further along, after advising the '' merchants o.
10 Southern cities to treat every Northern drenan,e,
(for business) with poteness, but to decline al
transactions of business character with him. the
Enquirer says:
= The still small roice of a repulsed drummer vii
act most potently upon Northern sentiments. By
successfully defeating Northern trade with tht
% Southern States, we may, if desired see negroes
bought and sold in Boston Common as in days gon,
/ by. Manufactures and commerce, the twin idol
OF Northern religion once thrown down, shou
Of condemnation will rise from the penniless EN-
ployes of motoniess manufacturers, from th
starving owners of ships rotting at their wharves
that will silence the saturnalian howl that nov
reigns throughout the North over John Brown.
The Enquirer then relates bit of experience
which amounts to a strong hit at the people of tn
Northwest:
To show how much the North is in the power o
rs, the South, we may cite an instance within our ow
Die experience When about establishing our g Advel
tsing Supplement- we visited New York an
Boston to consult with the large houses in thos
Ia cities as to the propriety of embracing the North
western States in the gratitous circulation of tn
Advertising Supplement- Without an exception
every Northern house consulted by us advise
omitting the Misunderstanding that it was bank
rupt, and that it would be many years, if evel
!, before New York recovered the losses of her mel
chants in the Northwest prior to the late inanci;
revulsion. These houses wished to deal with til
South, desired their advertisements to go before tn
Southern people, whose staples brought the read
- cash, and whose merchants the most punctu;
s. customers of the Northern houses.
We will now quote some of the concluding pars
graphs of the Enquirers article, and bring our e,
M tracts to a close:
the The pocket ne'ue, the most sensitive nerve in til
49, organiZism of the Northern people, can be s
St touched as to produce lOck7id1c at least upon til
the press. Every enactment of our Legislature,
iul well-sustaned resolution of our people for no1
intercourse tnglcs along this nerue, and produce
spasms more or less violent, according as the o.
~ casion is stringent.
we nope nOll-lntefcOurSe laws VIII De auOpte
by every Southern State Once let these Law
stand upon statute books, showing to IL
foreign world that their goods will find prefe
ence in the Southern markets, that our tobacc
cotton, flour, rice, sugar and corn are at hand
make the return cargo, and we will no longer
tributary to the North. We will then have tn
poor barren, bleak manipulating non-producir
I'M section, laid suppant at the feet of the South
in the cry of Abolitionsm will have potent
$ of than puppys whine But our peace will not on
be attained an impetus will be given to Southe
manufactures. that will place us independent of tt
will world. While the factories Of Lowell, Lynn al
If Springfield will become the haunts of bats al
- owls, those of Southern States will be vocal wi
the hum of lite-giving trade.
Let non-intercOWse be enforced by fines a
& penalties that shall make it tiM, perfect md co,
- plete. Let the State send a commission of two
her ablest and most talented citizens to the Exec
eed tves and Legislatures of the Southern States
urge the adoption of similar laws as well as
ana confer with those States to the propriey of
,om- medntely summoning convention of the Southe
and States to decide upon the future course of t
united South.
The Union, as it aras established, is the great
object of veneration and love to the Southern pt
el. ct ple: but it at present exists in the laws a
public sentiment of the Northern States and as
are threatened even by the most conservat
TEL. Journals in the event of John Browns execute
that it will become even worse than it is, we C
pub but consider the Legislature criminally indfert
and to the welfare of the State if they longer hesit
ERs, to put the State in complete defence and to s
lords. mon the South to consultation.