The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-03-21
THE SPRING BUSINESS.

THE SPRING BUSINESS.
From the Chicago Times.
The indications of n large and active
spring business arc very promising. Navi-
cation will soon be opened sufficiently TO
admit of intercourse with ports on Lake
Michigan; the straits in all probability
will be passed this season at least four
weeks earlier than usual But in addi-
ton TO these favorable indications there
has grown up, and is fast growing up, a
new and extensive trade with the south.
The election Of John Wentworth, with
his ultra doctrines and his open approvals
Of John Browns invasion was calculated
TO keep alive the prcjudiccs which exist
at the south against this city. But the
recent vindication of law and justice in
the United States court will go far, very
far, 10 outweigh the evil effects of the pro-
fame and brutal individual chosen to be
mayor.
The indications Of heavy crop Of good
wheat are also encouraging; from every
section the farmers have strong hopes
of n harvest far exceeding in value that Of
last year.
Never before, at this early period of
the season, has trade commenced so well
in Chicago. The wholesale houses are
doing n good business, and if proper
means arc taken TO encourage and foster
the new trade with the southern states,
millions of dollars, heretofore taken to
Cincinnati, Louisville, and st. Louis, will
be poured into the lap of Chicago. We
know of no more deserving city. We be-
long to the political minority; we depre.
cato and denounce the intolerance and
bigotry displayed by some of her politi-
cal leaders, but we are for Chicago-al
the time, right or wrong. The trade
with Tennessee, Arkansas, western Mis-
souri,, and points on the lower Mississip
pi, is very large one. 1t may as wei
be secured as not; the man who would
wantonly drive it away is fool or al
enemy TO Chicago. Let il be encouraged
The coming summer is to be the peri
oil of a political contest of unusua
warmth. While we ask no man to abat'
one jot or title of his political ardor eth
or for one party or another, we, having
no interest rs great rs that of serving
Chicago, earnestly hope that tho mel
who arc so deeply interested in the com
merce and trade of Chicago, will do N,
act, having for its purpose or effect, tn
damaging to Chicago abroad. Let us b
Republicans and Democrats; let us asser
and maintain our respective political sen
timents TO the best of our ability, bu
let us have no exhibition here of Adolf
ton frenzy, Abolition crazincss, Abolitio
mobs, or Abolition stupidity. Let GU
merchants remember that this city ough
10 be the great center of all the trade Q
the northwest and southwest; and tina
while the grain of the northwest will com
here anyhow, Chicago can afford TO nvit
and welcome the merchants aud trader
who bring their gold and silver, as well a
those who bring their wheat and corn.-
Let, therefore, all attempts to hold Chica
90 up To the world as an Abolition city b
rebuked and denounced; and let the me
Of the valley of the Mississippi, slavehold
ers rs well rs non-slayeholders, be invite
to come hither to make purchases, wit
an assurance that they will be as free fror
insult and assaults as they would be i
CincinDatti or st. Louis.
With some little attention to thse
matters, the spring and summer of 1850
will DO an era in n new and an unequalle
prosperity in tho commercial history c
this city. With renewal Of that pros
perity, will como confidence and sta
bility in all classes of society. One SEE
son of commercial prosperity, with q GRO
such rs we have reason 10 expect tn
year, will place Chicago and her res
estate in q position of permanent success
that no revulsion such as that Of 1856
can ever seriously disturb.
Lot those who would profit by the n
turning waves remember that this is Oh
age of newspaper readers, and that b
that adeertiscs the first and most extei
sively, viii secure for himsclfthe best Of
pcrtnnities of turning events TO his ow
advantage
LEAVING BLACK REpuBLIcANIsM.-
We acarly every week hear persons j
difierent portions of this county, VIII
have alWavs acied with tho ranuhIica