The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-09

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much weight with them. A weaker case, we
repest, was Deyer made out by any great id
terest having talent and money TO back it, than
was presented to the committee on behalf Of
the monopoly. II with such case ii gets the
Assembly 10 reject Senator Spinola's bill, then
the thousands of underpaid artisans, seam
stresses and factory girls who reside in Brook
Ign for the chespness Of its rents will have no
difficulty In diyining the means by which mea
sure SO vital to their interests has been de-
featcd.
Meeting Of the shosma kers or New York.
The Trade Ruined by the Anti sia very
Agitation.
On Wednesday evening, as our readers saw
from yesterdays paper, a preliminary sympa
thy meeting Of the shoe trade was held in this
city, and great mass meeting is to take place
on Monday evening next for the purpose of
raising ''the sinews Of war" for the New Eng
lsnd strikers. Not only will all the trade attend,
but probably delegates from the other trades;
for when ones next neighbours house Is on fire,
he naturally looks after bis own. 1t is not the
shoe trade alone that is affected, and will be
still more affected, by the anti-savcry agitation,
but every other trade which derives consider
able portion Of its support from the custom of
the South. The shoe trade is the first to suffer;
but the other trades will participate in the COM
mon disaster, and therefore we may expect to
see them represented at the meeting on
Monday night, and perhaps soon call
ing separate meetings of their own.
sueh distress has the falling off in the Southern
shoe trade produced in New Hampshire that
the calamity has entered as an element into
the important State election which is to come
off there next week. The black republican
journals absurdly assert that the shoe business
has suddenly come down now in 1860 in copse-
queDce Of the financial crisis of 1857. But the
operatives know too well what the cause is'
There was no falling off till after it appeared
that John Browns raid and Helpers book were
endorsed in New England. Here are plainly
enough the cause and the effect.
The "strike" movement is not only spread
ing over all New England, but extending to
the other Northern States. Thus the first disas.
trous effect of the irrepressible conflict is not
ON the South, but the North. The design to
render the labor of the South unhappy and in.
surrectionary has failed; but it has had the
effect of making the labor of the North discon-
tented, disaffected and revolutionary. The
operatives of the North are beginning to see
that they have been used as mere instru-
ments by politicians for their own base
purposes, but that the result is now COM
ing home to the business and bosom of
every man at the North who earns his bread
by the sweat of his brow. The North and the
South seemed to be made for each other, and
the trade between them was profitable and con-
venient to both; but the insane conduct of
Northern politicians has inflicted on 1t a wound
which may soon terminate in its complete de-
struction.
Some Of the New England politicians are lay
Ing the fattering JUNCTION to their souls that the
South must buy from the North. But nothing
can be more ridiculous. There is nothing to
prevent the South manufacturing for itself, but,
on the contrary, everything to facilitate the
charge. There are new factories now in the
course of erection, and if skilled workmen are
wanted to teach and superintend the negroes,
they can be easily had from among the ''stsik-
ers' and discharged hands of the New England
factories. We expect there will soon be large
emigration from thence southwark of white
labor, if not of capital, and that the prosperity
of the Eastern States, which depended wholly
on their manufactures, will thus receive heavy
blow, from which it can never recover. 1t is GER
tain that the South is now taking the most active
measures to become Independent of Northero
manufactures, and that it will succeed there
cannot be shadow Of doubt.
And who can blame the South for pursuing
this course? Just suppose the case of q grocer
With whom wealthy family did very large
business, but who never lost an opportunity
of maligning and slandering that family in
public and in private, meddling with all its
domestic affairs and giving 1t very bad name.
Could any one blame the head of this family
for Withdrawing his custom and giving it to
some one more deserving Of it.
One Of the first results Of the falling off in
the Southern trade with New England will be
q temporary increase of it in New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. But its continuance
depends on circumstances The South regards
the political course of these three States not
quite 20 bad as the conduct ofthe people of New
England, and it will take from them what 1t
cannot help taking from some State, till they
become abolitionized, or till its own manufac.
lures are developed and brought to such matu-
rity that it can wholly dispense with the North
ern trade.
Nor ia it manufactures alone that will suffer.
The commerce and the dry goods business OF
our large cities will be damaged, and real
estate will be go deprecated in value that
houses in New York will cease to bring the
high prices now paid for them. Indeed, the
owners of real estate in New York never were