Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-07-29

III other places s............... 500 Qo9'2ll
We thus find that the Southern States
exported in 1871 and 1858, $lj5,9l ISL, out
Of total, exclusive Of gold and silver, oi
S2jl ,35l ,Gi3, showing 1 great excess III behalf
Of the South.
New York with its 700, 900 people, imported
$40, o,so7, of which probably more than
onc.llalf was for distribution for consumption
in tie slave States, or $50, 10000. In this
southern traffic, Northern ships get freightS
out 10 Southern ports, and again thence to the
Northern or to European ports. From Europe
they return with goods TO Northern ports Tor
distribution TO the South. From data not lie
ccssary to giyc in detail, We are satisfied Tia,
the North does not annually derive less clear
profit from the South than from so, 0Oo,o"o
10 $50, 900. 0oc. And not less than about
%2o,1Do, ooo or more cnured to the benefit of
this city and State. Yet thi, same city :s dis.
graccd bv senator who represents /; in the
Congress of the Unitcd States, and proclains
that the people of "thc South and Of the North
are at war with each o'l,eT. and that II will not
end until one or the other has conquered.
Fanatical dc'aa:psGc+, clcrgymen and foreign
enigrantS, untausht in political economy, X
more all figures and reason alone upon one ab-
s;ract idea; and should one Of their number
noun; black board on his shoulder, with the
word liberty chalNcd on il, as in former days,
they would follow it in the commission of any
and all crimes, perpctratcd in its name. They
would follow it 10 the tramping under loot Of
the Constitution of the United States and,
with it. 10 the extinction of all State rights
the RUN Of commerce. the deSolation Of North
crn cities into civil war and Notwithstanding
in the extinction of liberty itself and the es.
tablishmcnt of centralized dcspotism And
nj, done, too, in the name Of Liberty and re-
ligion."
Fanatics NAV drive the States into separa-
tior. The puritancal New England Seward
element in the interior of this State, with New
rn:,,,d and portions Of Ohio and Pcnnsy!va-
ma. NAV. in innatical madness, prccipitatc the
ralamatles of dlsunion upon the country; but
they must remember one thing; that this city.
with It's 700 900, or including its vicinity OF
| .OO0. 900 OF souls, when il comes TO the pinch
of choosing between them and ruin, or to save
themselves. they will feel compelled to 20 with
the South. which alternative, We trust IL God.
will never be forced upon them.
Still, Notwithstanding all these considcra.
tons the Black Republicans have determined
10 90 into the next Presidential canvass upon
the negro question alone. and to fight the bat
tie alone on anti.slavery and sectional grounds.
This. of course, will tend 10 sectionaze the
Opposition at the South.
i Grand Rriaiblico.A Abolition Anti.slavery
Convention is to be held soon in Ohio at which
it is proposed to have all the free States of the
North represented. This, Of course, is move.
men, in behalf of an ant-slavery and sectional
candidate for the Presidency. While this sec
tional madness is III progress, the Democratic
par,y at the North remains divided, having
been disorganized by Administration dic'ation
commenced by Mr. Pierce and kept up BY thl
present Executive power. lad not Mr.. Buch
a,mm attempted, Ly dctation, making the fri
volals anI unnecessary abstraction OF lie
comptoni>m the test Of Democratic faith, tho
party would have recovered from the dictatcr
Of Pierce in the Bronson affair, and in Other
cases, and would to-day have been . strong and
powerful unit. irDoh