The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1860-12-12
CADlz OHIO "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1860.


The South owns only one fifth of the ton.
nlge ofthe country, the North four r-fifths yet
in 1850 we find the South paid in freights to
northern vessels S24,5OO,OOO, while the North
only paid S2,O0OOOO, and the West $1,000
500. In the 2900o miles OF railway of the u
ni'ed States the South. North and West holds
about the same amount each--or say 5000
miles; and to ascertain which section works its
roads to the best advantage, we have only to
turn to the pecun!ary position of each class of
roads. The North have repudisted to this date
in rail way debts $40 100000, the West $685.
10000 the South S2,025,000 only. The
North and the West sell the South $180,00N,.
600 per year in man ufactures, in addition to
her imports. New England buys OF the South
S50,OO0,0OO per year to keep her mills in oper-
alton, and TO supply her lack of -four, corn su.
gar, rice tobacco, lumber &c. Add. then, what
is received by Philadelphia, New York, Gin
cinnati, Pittsburgh, and the cities Of the Ohio
and Mississippi, and we have S20o,OoO,O0o.
II we take the amount Of sterling bills sent
North to sell, and add to them the produce
sent to export and that to be used up at home,
we find the sum to the credit Of the So nth in
this trade intercourse Of $462, $4,000 per
year, and this Is balanced in purchases BY the
South of domestic goods, $24o,OO0,C0O; i'm
ported goods $1O6 100000; interest and bro
kerage, $50, 100000, and in receipts from south
ern travellers over the North, $50, ,360,0 900, maxi
ing a vast aggregate tat least one thousand mil
lion doliars which cmae and go every year betaoee,l
the North and South. Now, we ask the COM
mercial man if he can contemplate the break
ing up of this trade interchange with feelings ot
independence, no matter what his political
views may be? But when the tact is known to
the Abolitionist Of the North, in contradistinc-
ton to him Of the West, that his section par
ticuIarly must be ruined by separation Of this
Union, which carries with it separation o.
commercial interests, and if one takes place the
other will eventually result he must be
besotted and stupid to o degree bordering upon
idiocy, not to open his eyes to the error he has
labored under in aiding to produce so terrible
calamity by blind devotion to false politica
principles. New York, New Jersey, and tn,
New England States particularly, would sufel
to far more fearful degree than the West, BY
this secession. The South raises a surplus o
food, and supplies the world with raw meteri
ais. Lumber, hides, cotton, wool, indigo--a al
that the manufacturer requires-aae within it
own circle ani the capital would naturally, il
case OF a rapture, 60 there to seek invest
ment. ..
The North, on the other hand, will have tooC
and raw material to buy, in order to employ it
labor; but where is its market for goods?-
England does not want them. The West will
soon be able to supply herself from her owl
resources. The South will get her supple
abroad at free trade rates.. till she can furnisl
herself with has own hands. But the North
which lives on the trade Of other people, hav
ing driven that people from her shops and ware
houses, must become an insignificant section
and the State OF Massachusetts, take to tn
trade of granite and ice, and dwindle into a
obscure locality, whose commercial glory wi
belong to the past, forever.