The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-03-02
The Judicial Policy Of New England.

Hon. John s. Wells, one of the soundest
Democrats of the Granite State, and with
the exception of Franklin Pierce the best
stump speaker in New England, addressed
the gallant Democracy of Exter IN. H.,)
last week, on the present position of parties
We make ar extract: ~-+
"They have in the South a population of
about ten millions, nearly four millions of
whom ese>eepg ghey have ever been
our friends aud patrons, and the best Gus
toners which New England has ever had.
Not over one-sixth Of their cotton crop comes
10 us, and every intelligent man well knows
that England would gladly secure the mono
poly of that production, even at great sac.
rifce, and thereby silence forever the spin
dies of New England. English influence
has been potent in creating the, alienation
which now exists between New England
and the South, and if they can succeed in
producing an open rupture, their long cher
ished desire Of a manufacturing monopoly
will speedily be realized. Can we provoke
the South 10 withdraw their friendship and
patronage? Have not the opponents Of
the Democratic party done wonders already
in that directions Witness the crpping
of mechanical industry see our merchants
establishing agencies in New York, Phila.
delphia and Baltimore, for the avowed pur
pose of retaining the Southern trade, which
they arecoueasnt would be lost by retain
ing their sole establishments in New Eng
land. Consider the shoe interest, larger in
amount than our cotton productions, plain.
ly and palpably suffering year by year, by
the transfer of its Southern customers 10
New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
And still worse and more gloomy is the fu-
ture. Outside of agriculture and commerce
the great mass of our people require for
their employment, cotton, iron, leather, and
coal, none of which, save iron and leather,
and these TO very limited extent, have we
here. How is it with those who are so
loudly and necessarily denounced by New
England Republicans They are in reai-
ty an agricultural people, their lands are
rich and extensive, and their laboring pop.
ulation better fitted for that employment
than for mechanics and manufacturing hence
those branches have been freely and cheer.
fully yielded TO us. We have the best and
most extensive wster power, and for long
time it was considered that New England
had almost the exclusive hydraulic force !;
but now with the improvement in machin-
cry and the varied application of steam, the
power for propelling machinery is at every
coal bed in the land. Look then over the
Southren States, and realize the immense
and extensive deposits of minerals only TO
be wrought TO create new and successful
competition 10 our mechanics and manu-.
factures.
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
Arkansas, and Missouri, have each vast
deposits OF coal and iron, and many OF
them abound in copper, lead, zine, salt,
gypsum, granite and marble, and even
down 10 Georgia and North Carolina extern
sive deposits fcoal iron, limstone and mar
BILE abound. Open these now dormant mines,
and centre aound them the mechanical
skill and genils whi ch the patronage of ten
millions of people can call together, and
then we shall realize in its fullest extent
the suicidal policy OF northern fanaticism.
(cheers.l Already the genius of mechan-
ism is busy in that land their 1870 cotton
factories, SO wooien factories, 26s iron mills,
3474 Touring and grist mills, ,25Ss saw mills,
and 2l20 tanneres, are daily demonstrating
the self supplying ability of that section of
the country.