New-York daily tribune., 1859-12-23
ICE FOR FIgE.RATERs.

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| We have all along, as our readers can testify,
been cordially in favor of the cause of Southern
Manufactures So far from being alarmed By the
threats of our Southern brethren to stop buyisg
our Northern fabrics, and setting up workshops OF
their own, We look upon them as hopeful symptoms
of an occasional lucid interval in the chronic unacy
with which they seem to be visited. We belieTe
that such a TRANSMISSION Of wholesome blood INTO
the veins of their paralytc industry would strength
en- its constitution to the point OF throwing on the
| black disease of Slavery which is eating out the
marrow of its bones This restoration Of the
healthy and natural relations of labor and capital,
which must result sooner or later from directing
them into greater variety of industries, would be
blessing, material and financial, % well as moral
and political, to the whole country. We should al
be the richer, as well as the freer and the happier
for it. As for the diversion oftrade ont Of its nat
ural channels and lie consequent leaving high and
dry Of New-York and Boston, We feel entirely at
ease in our ,uiuds in that regard. Ii any admircr
of our opinions shourt feel moved and leave US q
large sum of money, as Sir William Pynsent did to
Lord Chatham, as slight mark of nis sense OF our
public services, We should, as at present advised,
prefer n1 estng it in ncOnerlois on Broadway rather
than in Charleston OF Norfolk or any other emporium
of Southern commerce. When the resolutions
Southern Conventions can make the Mississippi rol
NJ stream, and forbid the tide from flowing into
New-York harboT, we shall apprehend their dis
turbino the normal distribution Of the objects
commerce.
But so far a. Manufactures are concerned, the
Southern Conventions have our hearty good wishes
aud good word. And we are happy to see that
beginning has been made in a direction which VIC
confess We had regarded as ON almost hopeless one
While we were willing to believe that Southern
brethren might by vigorous effort learn to make
their own slaye.whps, brandmg.irons, handouts,
reyolyers and bowie. knives ard thus by degrees
cend to the making of the appliances of civilized
life, and so transcend in time the condition which
makes those instruments of barbarsm essential
elements Of their existence He had not hoped that
they would ever be able to dispense with the assis
tance of the North in the matter OF Ice. Bat it
was on, the other day that we Informed our read
ers on the uquestiouable authority of Tie Charles
ton Mercury, that " lee had been made" in that
fery little city this Winter. at tue first blush OF
cur surprise We were inclined TO eJelam with
Theseua, in the Midsummer Nights Dream:
."Th.t Is, hot ice and sondrous sssssgs snow.
But, on second thoughts, we commended the fore
east and prudence displayed in tbs beginning Of
the Southern Manufacturing System. The necessa-
ries of life should be first of all provided for ia
such plan of selfprosison, and NO one, We think,
will deny that Ice is prime necessary ia those
leyeEish attitudes. We could pictRFe TO ourselves
cur Southern friends covering their nakedness with
homespun cloth and going without shoes rather
than feed fat the Abolitionists of Lynn BY their
custom; bat it was beyond the highest fight of
eur imagination to conceive how ,sHt-juleps and
sherry-cobblers could survive the embargo which
should shut the BOSTON Ice-ships cltof the harbors
Of the South We trcmbed TO think on the incan-
descent point TO which the too sbrilo tempen-
ments of our Sozihern brethren rigat be raised By
an uninterrupted continuance Of h0a drinks.
Now hat our questioning spli. has been thus.
happily laid, we can honor tho earlestness of ths
purpose which Aas made this Beginning at the right
eud We may lament indee /, the ruin which H.
pends over the fortunes Of lir Frederick Tudor OF
Boaton the Nqst0r the Ice Trade, the Inventor in
fact Of the Article far astrsPca latitudes are oen
eerned Ana ihs, notwithstanding that his rano
standsproniRsnt on the LET Of Vice Presidents of
the Boston ! mon saving useetiDg. Butwe mo2that
partial eva must always be mixed up with general
good, and that such rs7onl0n in southern habi-
tudcs as 5 implied in hsir inhabitants taking care
OF themselves in any degree, eanbc run -
withOg. damaging sonsbody8 toes. In ccasdera-
ton Vf the interest We haze always iet and ex
pressed in tie schsme OF Southern Manufactures,
va bore We Hay bs permi!tcd somake q single sug-
sesiion as TO cresse that might be PTGGtably made
ef tbs new article Of home production. We would
by 20 means sd'ise against the natural and usual
exhibition OF this article Of diet. We are aware
that Eiretaters must be Ice-drinkers, or ran tie
risk cis fearful Spontaneous eOGbaatiCn Wewcald
merely sugges; ttat The application Of this refrser'
strg :sdatiye should net be .aEde internally, sQpe