Arkansas true Democrat., 1860-02-22
From the Conservative. First signs of Breaking up the Confed-

These signs are now visible-they are plain; and business men who are in con- stant and ultimate relations with the south know it, and they will feel it more and more every day.
 What are the signs?
 1st Southern merchants of large busi- ness find that they must stop buying their European goods at the North. No retail CT in the South would to-day buy of southern jobber dollars worth of goods made at the North, or imported by the North, if he could help it.
 You say he cannot help it. He may not be able to i'll a moment but he knoms that the products of the soil in the south must pay for all the goods the south con sumes, and he can hire, or build, or buy all the ships he wants to send his products to the European market, and save expen-l ses on his bills of exchange, commissions and per centages- and, above all, he can save himself from a sense of humiliation which he now feels ill doing his business with people who send armed einissaries to steal his property and cut his throat!
 2d. There are many fields of labor, en- terprise, adventure and capital, which are now filled by northern men, which could be just as we'll filled by the South. She need not keep 40, coo of her youth in our northern colleges and schools, for she csn more economically and safely educate them at home-she need not consign her cotton, b or sugar, CT tobacco, or rice, or flour, or hemp, to northern cities. or northern men, for she can send her own agents to do her. .la ,,oo1 l,t,- k goods here, for she can buy them cheaper and import them cheaper from Europe Gi- rect to her own ports--She need not get $ dollar of her property insured in N. York, or Hartford or Boston, for she can insure it herself-she need not support our pala- tial hotels in cities and watering piaces--- she can do what our own classes of wealth and leisure are doing-spending their sum mers in Europe. She can do what the thirteen colonies did when England drove them into secession and independence stop importing or using the goods or man. ufactures of an unfriendly people, and goto work and produce them herself.
 Georgia has done this successfully with her newly established cotton mills, and driven the coarse Lowell fabrics from her markets, Maryland has never been depen- dent on the ships or exchanges of the North.
 It has been common impression even at the South that the slave States were, Of necessity, dependent on the North--but there never was a greater mistake. Ike South is dependent on nobody but herself. Her resources are too mighty to De ex- hausted-she is too rich to be dependent. England is thousand times more depen- dent on the South, than the South ever wss on the North.
 3rd. This fact the southern people have just discovered, and this discovery, is be- ing followed by action. Southern men are just like other men-they won't deal with their enehlies-they will resent insults by turning their backs on communities with whom they connot live in peace--and thus, by peaeeably suspending all commer cial intercourse with men and business houses, and institutions at the North, that are unfriendly, they, will very shortly find that the north will come to terms and do all the South ever asked of them-viz-to let Hem alone, and ollow Mem 10 monoqe Meir o'cn qtfoirs, mithom inte,rention-@th- oM M0teStdtOn--dRd, 00Ore dN, UtfhOW sH- suH. If this cannot be done, the South must withdraw--there IS nothing else letffor Ter 10 do.
 4th. First suspend commercial and so- cial relations with the north. This virtu- ally ends the confederation. Second will follow political relation, which winds up the history of the UNION OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA.
 To this point we are now drifting The only question now Is it too late to tack?-- We believe not, and we shall put forth our last effort in connection with the friends of this Union to save what has cost so much.