Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-01-12

facts and 6gnres viii prodncc the sIighe<t e.
feel 10 aveFfine the tendency Of that auda-
cious spirit of aggression which has culmDa-
ted to the point of open warfare against the
South. among the Abolition classes of the
people of the Northern States But for The
benefit Of our people-to open their eyes to a
lust perception and full estimation of the
great wealth and power OF the Southern scc-
ton of this Union-to convince them OF their
commercial self d. pendeace and Resources,
we desire to refer to certain statistics recent
ly published by the Treasury Department at
Washington. These Constitute the statement
of our exports for the last fiscal year. Ac-
c0rdiDg TO these tables. the amount of produce
exported from the United States for the last
fiscal year amounts 10 S27S, 1892 $50. not in
ending specie, which amounted to $57 ,502.-
sos, making a total OF $685., s94. 3s5. The
free States furnished of these exports of their
own products exclusively, 1921 ,09l, as fol-
lows: fisheries and oils, 81, 462 1913; coal,
S653,536 ice, Sl64, 5Sl. Free and slave
States, of productions common TO both, SS4.-
All .493; as follows: products of the forest,
Sl2.099, 1867; products of agriculture-ani-
NAL food, s13,549S17; vegetable food, S22.-
437 ,578; miscellaneous and manufactured,
$50, 1871 PA, manufactured, not enumerated
81, 274.652 raw produce, 81 ,S5S. POS. The
slave States exported, exclusively oil their
own productions, SlSS go, 1876, as follows:
cotton, S161,434 923; tobacco, S2l ,074 OBS;
rosin and turpentine, S3,554. 416; rice, So
207 ,14S; tar aud pitch, Sal 04S; brown
gar, Sl96, 935; molasser, SIS, 599; hemp,
S9,279. These figures, which are just furn-
ished from official sources and published in
The Washing ton Constitution, show that of
the entire expectation of The country. the free
States furnish exclusively. So Isl ,09I: free
aud slave States, Ss4.4l7 1893; and slave
States exclusively, SlSS, 693, 1876. Out of
those furnished by slave and free States in
common, one-tbird is estimated as belonging
to the products OF slave labor, making the
entire amount of $500, 900 out of S278,-
49,, O84, as the products of slave labor.
1t is with these products of the South that
we shall be able to pay for the enormous inn
ports which are filling the stores and ware
houses OF the North. Cut off this resource, or
transfer 1t 10 any other nation or people, and
history has no record of SO total aud disas-
trous bankruptcy, such widespread ruin
and desolation a. will be sprend through the
whole extent OF the Nor bern and Western
free States. 1t would produce a sudden pa
ralysls, collapse such the world never
before witnessed. There was never so de-
pendent people as those OF New England.
nor independent a community as that OF
the South. If blockaded. cut off from all in
toTcourac with the cxt,rnal world there is
nothing essential 10 the comiert, happiness
aud growth OF a people, which the South
could not produce. The very exist nee of
New York depends upon her commerce, her
intercourse with The world. Hemmed in,
and she would shrink and wither in few
years her population would abandon her
hills aud seacoa-ts to their original bl, ak ness
and desoiatiou the poverty, hardships and
misery OF the original Pilgrim Fathers would
be enjOymenis aud comforts compared with
tue condition OF their descendants of the pre-
sent gen, ration, when deprived OF The COM
merce and Trade of the South were her ships
forbidden 10 enter our ports, aud her manu-
Della.