New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-10

TRADE AND POLITICS.
We Judge that the prevalent apprehensions,
week or two ago, of our lords of traffic. that the
People of the Southern States would insist on 60
ing naked in case of LincOlnS election, have already
been measurably dissipated. The primitive cos
tune of Adam, though picturesque, doubtless, and
and permitting the utmost freedom of muscular
action, 10 not well adapted to our capricious eli
mate, whether in Summer or Winter, and is re-
pugnant to the prurient prudery of our diseased
civilization. The people of the South will con-
tinue in Difference to inveterate prejudice to wear
garments and will continue to buy them Tin the
main) where the required supply can be obtained
most readily and cheaply They may buy more
sparingly than they have done-we deem it the
permanent interest alike of producer aod consumer,
North and South, that they should; but if they
they now do, they would inevitably pay better for
what they had, and thus our manufacturers and
merchants though parting with fewer goods, viii
receive in return about the same amount Of pay
that they now do. We firmly believe that our City
sells in the average more goods annually, not to the
South only but to the West also, than the buyers
| can really afford to take, and that diminutiOn of
these sales is required by the true interest of all
parties 1t is natural for the creditor interest to
wax indignant over acts of practical reputation;
| but the jobbers and drummers who crowd off
$50, 900 worth of goods upon the green retailers
of neighborhood whose total exportable produce
will briog but $4,000, cannot throw all the blame
of the inevitable defacation upon the incohsderae
and misguided purchasers.
| But if is urged that the South will be impelled
| to produce for herself much that she now buys of
US. We trust this anticipation will be realized.
The South is now entirely too dependent on mpor-
tatiOn for most necessares and nearly every luxury
| Nearly every thing eaten in her dining rooms and
quite every thing worn in her parlors are exotcs
mainly bought at the North, with the clothing even
of her negroes. This is bad for her, and not good
even for us. We have not two diverse systems of
political economy one for home use, the O.her for
our neighbOrs; we do most unfeignedly believe in
Home Production or the planting of the consumer
by the side Of the producer. The Southern people
ought to make most of the clothes, hats, boots,
&c, worn by her people. They would be better
clad, more comfortable, more effective, more civil
lied, more wealthy, than they now are. Diversity
of occupation is the inevitable basis of industrial
progress as well as independence, and the emanci-
patton of the Laborng class, the peaceful and
gradual overthrow of serfdom has always resulted
from the growth and influence of Manufactures.
Why should the South send her cotton 10 either
old or New .EDgand to be there spun and woven
into clothing for her own people, 1t is barbarous
tbrifess policy and ought not to be persisted in.
And whenever the South shall have once tasted the
sweets and realized the profits of a diversified and
skilled industry, she will be weaned from her devo-
ton to the Ineffective, wasteful labor of stupid,
rude handed slaves.
But what will the North do How can NeD.
" York endure the change you so complacently an
" ticipate :" we are asked in alarm. We answer,
1t will benefit us all. Who can be ignorant that
Pennsylvania 10 a better customer to New-York
than Virginia, Ohio than Kentucky, Indiana than
Tennessee, Minnesota than Florida or Arkansas
| VITO does not know that Lowell buys more foreign
goods than Nashville! Home production increases
the capacity to buy abroad. The elder Pitts
policy of never allowing the American Colonies to
manufacture even a hobnaI, though dictated by
an undOubted zeal for the promotion of British
manufactures and trade, would not, if vigorously
maintained to this hour, have given so much nor so
profitable employment to British looms and work
shops as that which supplanted it has done. We
buy less prOpOrtiOnaLy but more absolutely of Great
Britain than we should have done after century
of Pitts policy. olive and let live " is q maxim
of wide application; and We shall be glad to hear
that the South is not merely building cotton and
wooden factories but opening mines, making and
rolling iron, fabricatng tools, manufacturing shoes,
hats, ready.made clothing, &C., &C., under the
inspiration Of alarm or resentmentment at the cleo
ton Of Lincoln. II size chooses to arm, let her
establish srmOries. though Colt should smile never
SO seductyely in proherDg his revolvers, and Sharp
offer to supply her with Kansas rifles Of the most
approved Beecher pattern at reduced price, The
impulse may be questionable and the frst lot Of
Southern-msde arms decidedly bad; but all will