The Oxford intelligencer. (Oxford, Miss.) 1860-18??, 1860-11-21
secession of the Cotton states.

| ork, contains ihuch ioou ior thought, anu
its reasoning is well worth the serious con-
sideration of every Southern man in the pres
ent ''ticklish'' crisis:
"The secession Of these States must nec-
essarily be a peaceful one, because England,
France, the rest of commercial Europe, and
the Western and Northwestern States of the
Union, require that it should be.
''The programme of secession would be
inaugurated by proceedings deliberate, digni-
| fed and determined.
''The Legislatures of the several States re-
solved upon secession, would authorize dele
gates TO be chosen from those States to meet
in general convention or Congress, at some
central point, as at Montgomery, Alabama.
This Convention, meeting and organizing,
would proceed 10 declare the absolute sepa-
ration of the States assembled in Convention
from the Union-the basis upon which the
Constitution of the new Conlcdcracy should
be formed, and the policy governing 1.-THE
entire freedom of trade with the whole world;
and friendly relations with all nations and
States, but entangling alliance with none.
'This great revolution would be duly an
nounccd in advance Of the overt act, so that
England and France especially, aud the Wes-
tern States, should be made a quIinted with
lis nature, and with the great commercial
tl,ot IN hXr Ne 10
velopment.
"The nature of the revolution would be
due 10 radical change in the political and
commercial relations of the seeding States
with the commercial world at home and
abroad; by which free market would be
opened to general commerce; BY which the
great West would be relieved of duties rang
ing up TO thirty per cent. on foreign articles
consumed by its inhabitants and by which
their own great staples would flow freely
through the rivers and railways to Southern
ports and inland sections and there, in COM
bination with the cotton, sugar, rice and to-
bacco of those sections, form the b~sis of
exchanges with the world.
"The benefits to be derived TO the COM
mercal nations, at home and abroad, would
be: First, the products ofthc great West, as
well as of the South, whose chief interests
lie in agriculture, would be transported to the
home aud foreign markets at cheaper rates
than many of them now are, because the
lines of railways to the Southern ports would
transport freight every day in the year unim-
peded by the snow Of winter; Gn,, second,
the foreign ships being placed under free
trade principles, would SO powerfully com
pete with the Northern ships, rs 10 reduce
freights f.cm It's Southern poits to the low
est living rates. England and France, thus
stimulated, would especially Increase their
steam commercial r,agines, and, in very
short time, relieved Of the greet burdens
now imposed in discriminating duties by the
government of the Union, tLey would be-
come the chief carriers Of American products
and supplies. Their vessels eould come
loaded with the products OF every nation,
and delivering them al Norfolk, Charleston,
Savannah, Fernandina, Pensacola, Mobile
and New Orleans. would be reloaded with
the rich products Of the South and West.
| In less than six months from tliiS ,ima, every
one of TIE above named ports will have been
connected directly by railways with the val
lcys of TIE Mississippi aud Missouri, and
with the vast iegions lying TO The North, the
South, the East and IL, West. Nor are
these facilities of inter-communiceiion of the
South with the West necessary 10 be men,
toned in order 10 demonstrate the great po-
lit;cal aud commercial advantages which
would be due to the secession Of Ike cotton
States; and which would be enjoyed by them
and all countries trading with them.
demonstrations already made, SO potent
to The mind OF the Statesman, viewing them
either in their political ard commercial, OF
in their national and international aspects
will be keealy perceived and vigilantly OBJ
served as their resultants are disclosed. Aud
so important-alnost vitally so-will they
be 10 the interests Of the observers, that the
men Of the West and the East viii pause in
their threatened hostility 20 the revolution
,cbile EaqLand and France ,cogld Seld 0OrCer
fh fleets to e..saie as poocg,l 0s0'aicia0nce
The men Of The West would not o1ls instant
" pause in any hostile course towards it
bnt they would demand that their great sec
ton should be united politically, as they
would be commercially, 30 the new coufede
racv. In this movement they would be Joined
by such of the slave States as had kept aloot
from the first movement Of secession. And
thus that great movement would have led
directly, and in brief time, TO a more per
feet union among twen;y-fOur S,ates-leaying
the sLiop;ag .Sta;e of Main and the CONNER
cial and manufacturing States of Massachu-
sets. Vermont, New Hampshire, Connect
cut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania to work out their salvation in their own
way. They would have clear field to work
in, for their present basis Of trade, navigation
and manufactures would have been entirely
swent away. Indeed. all the great and glori-