Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1860-11-21

The present Union, mas Oeen leu INTO
OF exaggerating thecOst Of dissoving it (though II
our rights and 6erties are in question that should
have no influence with brave people-did our faith
ers of the Revolution make these cacutions y what
must we think of the value of his statements and
arguments, when he says Immediately following his
estimate of twenty-five millions 1.-THE portion Of
[ North Carolina in this burthen could not he, less
than two millions of dollars, and would be raised
almost exclusively by direct taxation" Why raise,
this amount by direct taxation? Why, by South
ern Confederacy more than by the present govern
ment? Can it be possible that Mr. Moore thinks
us know some totally ignorant Of the trade and
resources of the South do think-the South unable
to pay for its own support Let US examine this
matter, and it is one which every citizen of the
South should at this critical period of her destiny,
examine for himself; it must exercise an important
influence in directing the des:inies of his country.
The ability of the fifteen Southern States to MAIN
tain themselves in Confederacy by government
worthy Of the dignity Of great country! Letthat
be the theme which the best citizens Of our State
now exercise themselves! Let them find out toheRce
comes this great prosperity and wealth that so as
tonisheS the old world, and what is it foundedY
Let them follow the course of trade and commerce,
and trace the great staples of the South they are
gathered from the broad fields of the Southern
planter to the great marts Of the world where they
are sold, giving wealth to the merchant employ
ment to the aborer, population to cities capital to
hanks, exchange to the nation, ard peace to the
country! FOLLOW them 10 the ueck OF the tall
admiral" that bears them to foreign nations eager
y waiting their arrival that by their traffic in them,
like benign results, will again follow. And what
is the part that these great staples play in the
economy of mankind? The great ship that bears
them in her bosom is maintained in her statenenes;
the captain owner and crew are fed by them; the
nation that receives them adds to its reyenue the
merchant to his wealth. the aborer who moves them,
to his necessity and the manufactures call IN, Tor
their working, the starving thousands of the I'M
happy wretches of the old world, whose very exls-
tence and all that have stated depend upon the
production Of your fields My fellow-citizens OF the
South it is yOu and your country which now con-
troll the great material interests Of the civilized
world! To tell you that you cannot. with all this
wealth of producton-with all the influence Of ma
teral Interest, support a government for your own
Selves-is TO count largely upon the depreSsire e.
tecLs on your minds of disuniOn Increment!
The revenue derived by England from the
impost on tobacco alone, is estimated at not less
than forty millions of dollars the rate Of duty is
enormously high. The revenue of France being de-
rived by Reggie, cannot be accurately arrived at,
but it is supposed to be quite as large as that
of England. The number of English subjects Deepen
dant more or less on the manufacture, &c, &c, OF
cotton is estimated at about five millions Of human
beings!
But let view this subject under the light Of sta
tstics and of trade and commerce, and we shall be
better able to arrive at correct opinion as to
whether Southern Confederacy is able to maintain
suitable government from its own resources and
to form more accurate idea of the real wealth and
power of the South, than seems TO he possessed by
some of our citizens.
II satisfied on these points and of the enormous
amount Of money drawn from the South TO the
North (by means of tariff navigation laws, pay
freight and commission cotton alone to amount
of over twenty millions of dollars, custom House
disbursements, fishing bounties, ETC., etc. by dis
abusing minds of the error that We any way
dependant upon the North shall be able more
clearly to Judge of those questions which we are
likely soon to be called on to decide.
The statistics Of the country q quote from page
81 of the last report of the Secretary of the Treas
ury on commerce and navigaton) show that the fol-
lowing were the values Of Southern produce export
ed, Saying nothing Of that used at the North y
Cotton Sl6l, 434, 900; Tobacco sol, U74,000; Rice
50 207 900; Naval Stores So 3S5 900; making $751;
100000 for these four articles alone. But to these
to be added the proportion of Breadstuffs s21-
100000; Slaves, Shingles, Lumber, &c, 81 G3S 000
which were shipped by the South. And also cSti-
mating the value of Southern produce-the cotton
consumed at the North, SIS, 000,0 600; Che whole
crop being GA, 400 bales at $40 per BALE is $685.
100000 alone; the sugar $4,000, 900; the hemp
etc, etc, making surplus production Of the
South land not one of the sapient Gov. Banks hay
cropestimates) OH which she draws specie or its
equivalent from the rest Of the world of not less
than 240 to S2500000OO per annum! (and this out
side of her gold mines)
Now, it is a we'll defined principle of political
economy one which Mr. Moore would be the last to
deny, that nation can always afford to import in
close approximation to her exports (this country
has almost always exceeded this rule) Our en-
ports, then of two hundred and forty to two hun
dred and fifty millions would enable 10 import
full two hundred and twenty millions per annum.-
The present tariff being about equivalent to hori
zontal duty Of about twenty-five per cent, this i'm
port would yield revenue to the South of not less
than fifty five millions of dollars per annum. But
suppose, would most probably be the case that
the South would desire tariff for only this
duty could be reduced to average of ten per cent
which would not be felt and yet yield the twenty
five millions dcspairingly spoken of by Mr.. Moore
and that too without a dollar of direct taxation
but on the contrary, with great relief to the South
from the heavy Indirect but not less felt taxation
by the present tariff.
In calculating, therefore, the evils resulting to the
South by a secession from the present Union, the
difficulty Of supporting suitable government need
not be included. We can least that shadow from
our brow"
The habit has been so long INDUCED in by super
fetal writer's Of decrying the character and resources
of the South aided they have BEEN by the false
hoods Of malicious maligners of England and OF the
North, and spread over the world by newspapers
books, and public speakers that many of us
have been mised and some really to believe it is So
Whereas the truth is that the history Of the world
does not show more prosperous and happy people,
since the Moorish Empire in Spain, than those of
the South, both bond and free, white and black
nor more complete change from the dismal swamps
and cancbrakes of our country to the existing rich
rice and cotton fields, and from their former savage
rovers to the present heightened intelligent, and
wellbred people, enjoying all the comforts and most
of the luxnres of life The results of the intelligent
energy and enterprise of the Southern people have
however, in the last ten or fifteen years, been so
wonderful have forced different conviction on
the minds Of the statesman and observer; and even
our enemies in England and at the North have been
compelled partially at least to confess the truth
And we see such statements, among others still
more to the point that have appeared in the past
few years, as the following from the London Times
that watchfu Cerberus of England, than which no
MINER has for many years abused and decried rs