Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-02-21

The Trarsisr gives history Of this trade, from
small beginning up to its present prosperity ana magn'
tudc. aud informs us, that:
Commission houses, agencies, manufacturing hrms
have increased and there to-day over Two huuufeu
W oesae aud iOhbing boot shoe aud leather deaeFsahu
over hundred hide aud leather dealers IN b aston
transactug business amounting tOthe enormous Ayr
gaze Of about Sirty millions Of dollars d'hd!g- AHe
manufactures Of single city within seven miles OF
Boston are in value between four and i've mhons Oh
dollars annually more than the entire produce oil the
State twenty-five thirty years ago; and that city! win
others Ike it, is pouring its wealth OF home manu'C
ture, into Boston for a market E.gg thousand people
p Hs Commonwealth Of Massachusetts are occupied d"
tss .uHalacte Of boots shoes and leather, OF every
conceivable and desirable variety style, anu m''e'a
and from their workshops and their factories there Is au
1ceSant transit TO the metropolis of hundreds oil thoh
sands Of boxes and cases of boots and shoes
The journal making these statements Is one OF the
most rancorous and unprinciped assaiants the South
has The State eighty thousand Of whose citizens are
engaged I'm this manufacture is the State Of NasSachu-
sets, that sends Henry Wilson and Charles Sumner to
Representa- in the Senate ofthe United States The CITY,
20 whose trade bs manufacture contributes "the enor-
nous aggregate OF about sixty millions Of dollars annual
Is is city Of Boston, whose patriarch and prophet Is
Theodore Parker, whose philosopher is Waldo Emmer-
son. whose orator is Wendell Phillips aud whose law
maker is Arson Blrlngame-a State in whose Les's.a-
tue, WAS seriously considered wleberh day on which
Jshu Brovuws hung should not be made by the ADJOURN
ueu OF .hl, body DAY of public mourning; and city
IN whose limits men have been murdered for attempting
oezecue the law and obey the Constiuonby surrender
u TO their master fugitive slaves andyct it is the South
b,t affords the principal market in which these manu-
PICTURES are sold Il is the South that pays the
greater portion Of these "sjx.y millions OF dollars
{, is the South that mainly feeds and clothes these
eighty thousand people and Yields the magic wand
b1. has made this State TEEN with happy homes and
5sv =lops and warehouses" This being so, is it not in
credible first. that Massachusetts, should be perpetuay
r,rny aud swapping q, aud biting the hand that feeds
b and second that the South should continue 70 feed
.5 uarrstefll and vicious brute Certainly the South
can manufacture the boots and shoes her people wear
Certainly she can withdraw her flvors from State IDIOT
.lv inssnsf5ls Of the source from which they
Certainly she ought not continue plronize and pam
1s- pso1l, basslv false 10 the obligations Of the com
nae, that unes thcua venomousy inimical TO her in
ceiling Certainly the refusal of the South any longer to
have intercourse commercial and social with State so
utterly unworthy oft viii bring her people to poyerty,w
,e with desoatou their happy homes and prosperous
cities and will Ike the curses visited old Egypt by
the Almighty bring them if any thing can to their senses
TO the perception and practice Of right and justice and
fair dealing. The remedy may be terrible but the dis
ease is vet more 80.