New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-21
CHARLESTON IMPORTERS,

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/ highly cratitied to see similar ones appear from
| similar sonrccs in Savannah Mobile and New Or.
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lcais' a'u "ouiu pe o'eiJoyeu W "isneas an "i,i'
/ yersal susainment of the movement by the South
| crn people : and if the Legislatures of the Gulf
/ and ,tIa,+; Sotlor, ctatns would omit, oi,a on.
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| Soul"seiheh' " tie measure ~ ehacths uisoiihi
| mating local laws, without infringing any legal or
| constitutional provision of the Federal Compact.
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| piaced beyond lhe po5slbiilty OF doubt.
| The card to which we have referred is signed
! bv the Importers and Jobbers Of Charleston. In
| tho ,.t arc IN be found tbe names of wel.tnown
| - ~~M 80 - ~ - ~ ~ ~ A' = - y - l =,
| stauhch ana solVeM importers OF Dry GOODS
| of every description, of " Hardware of g Boots
| and Shoes of "Clothingr of "Groceries,'' of
:. .croclery and f,,ass,yara of 9. Drnos ord Nod;
| =. - r.,, :, :. " ~
| clhes, Vi oihs anu aicy "oous, oi Hats,
| Caps and Straw Goods, of Saddles and Sad
dlery Hardware" !" of Books and Stationery - of
! &c f,arno+s oi, f,,., ~, ,,-;, r.:,, =
| ra.at ~ !. - : ,' -
iapei Deaiels' Vi importers anu dealers IN
Wines, Liquors, Tobacco ETC., comprising nearly
every department of trade and prepared to s,nply
alrnst o,or,, wont r.
me- me- 80 ""i'' -
| WIN lhis ofel mehuoh we VIII submit that por-
ton Of the card published by the merchants of
cb.r,aston which ,,,aoolas +bo norma. o,,,>o,aa
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We the undersigned. importers and iobbers in
the city of Charleston, in view of the present ex-
cited state of the country deem it PROPER to bring
" ~ e,e @ o.lce u. " 'ne interior isfcants thg Claims
or;tv Of rs have haan Iong estabI;shad in business
and from our experience are well acquainted with
uie wants OF lhs secuon OF country. All OF us
noid sentiments IN common on the agitatlng ques-
loh OF tiie aay.slavery-and all OF US desire as
| iaf as pracucaDlc, 10 become commercially lnde-
Penueni 9l 1ne North We nave no 70, desire to tlll-
ueflate me energy ana enterprise OF the mefchahts
u aoflnerl cties. out we clam 10 De aDle 70 sup
| ply goods III our respective lines on as favorable
terms, po as TO price and credit as the merchants
VI any cits Ill ,he ohioi, we nave IacnlueS ior
optaililig goods from EUROPE not surpassed py
any, anu our hipoItatois from aDroaa are very
iarge; ho1",thstahdhg the Reports 10 the contrary
clrculated Dy 1hose VINO nave no knowledge OF
Milat they al1rhl, or whose interests prompt them
10 instead. American goods we obtain from the
| manufacturers on aS iaSoraDle terms as any JoD-
ps nieichailts Vi tie Nortiiern CLUES. ny. tneH,
should we not be able TO sell on as favorable terms
as 0tners we are aoe ana determined 10 DO so,
anu al we ASH OF you Is 10 Try thls nlafhet-lay
| your customers prefer goods from New York TO
those from Charleston, and build up and encourage
your own seaport ana your own merchants; Ii we
To vor, tt, ;nnonraonny ~ f no,,n;3;o
leaving by railway or steamer are offered every
twelve hours
oul stouhs VIII pe coliplete oy ISL fepruary
yho have hnratofora nnrcbasad ali their aoods in
Northern cities will give Charleston a trial this
spring.
The Charleston Mercury referring to the above
card, truthfuy observes
An imnortant card IN the interior traders oS
| South Carolina and other Southern States appears
IN the Mercury OF this morning. 1t SO well states
ftah,a thot n Gnu oua ' aaStnnt m ~ Ia ~ s,,ao f
itself. IF its terse and vporons lanpuaoe does nat
affect the mind and the pocket Of our country
merchants, nothlng VIII.
;+ .ha .bannnta o'a M ', rorutat;o, ~ W H. " srn,.
whose signatures are attached to the card is well
known To those who are unacquainted here, and
VINO care TO become so, we can only say that these
SornnI nsii;t;a tae" ea;nta 10 nharnat ~ ths
Charleston merchants of former times. By them
and such as they, our city has deservedly won the
designing sharners or cbarlatans are tolerated in
their circles and none ever will be- unless Charles
ton should chance to become so oyergrown as to
| oe heeoiess'
The city OF Charleston exports some five hun
| dred thousand bales OF cotton. At fifty dollars
per bale, this cotton is worth twenty-five millions
dollars. The Legislature of the State of South
Carolina is now in session. Let the Legislature pass
laws that will amount to practical non-intercourse,
commercially speaking, with the North. Let them
tax every article brought within their limits from
the North whether imported or manufactured, as
soon as exposed for sale, to the verge of absolute
prohibition, and Charleston will Immediately be-
come an importing city to the amount of her
ports. This is as certain as night follows day, or
that water seeks its own level Some inconveni-
ence and some loss might be experienced during
the trial of the experiment the first six months
but every loss and each Inconvenience would be a
hundred fold compensated by multiplicity of ad-
vantages before twelve months elapsed. Millions
would be saved by direct trade, and by doing away
with the huge profits which the brokers, and bank
ers, and importers, and jobbers, and shavers and
middlemen of the great Northern cities, how annl
ally make off the Southern trade, driven by Gov
ernmenta favor and other adventurous circum-
stances, into an unnatural channel.
Theorists without any practca, sense scmifree
soiers having Northern connections TO serve and
union at.anyprice individuals NAV lift their
hands IN holy horror at t,is nropositjon as thew
have and prate about Northern legislative retail.
iation. and the direful consequences such course
would bring upon the Southern State adopting it,
These men are either dots or worse. They would
become traitors profit and opportunity presented
itself-regular disciples of Ossawatomie Brown
They speak about Northern legislative retaliation.
How absurd The North furnishes us with nothing