Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-11-10
THE DEM OCR
The South's Power Of Self Protection.

! we take the following extract from
| all article under the above heading in
! the November number of De Bows Re.
view:
by two ways we may break up the
Black Republican party, and preserve
and perpetuate our present system OF
| government i'll its pristine purity. Which
mode will be most expedient will depend
upon future events, which we cannot
loresce. Texas, Louisiana, Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South
Carolina, have seaport cities which are
natural outlets to export, SO necessary
to millions Of people, that they cannot
be hIockaded by the Black Republican
party without the overthrow Of that par
ty. These States may be justified, under
certain circumstances, in taking posses
sion OF their ports, and holding them
against that party and certain States
fully committed to their policy, until
they are fully assured that our govern
ment is not to be broken up or changed
by that party. Should they be under
the necessity of taking that course, they
would continue the Union with all the
States willing to abide in good faith by
a!I'the Fundamental principles Of our po-
lltical compact, and leave the labvr
question as free as the question of re-
ligion. A proper regard tor all parts OF
the Union, with the hope that a return
ing sense of justice, on the part of a ma
jority Of the Northern peoples would
induce this sectional Republican party
to cease its warfare on the domestic
policy Of the South, has, up to tliis time,
caused her people to carry on the con
test with words alone. From the great
amount Of sympathy manifested ter John
Brown and his followers in New York
aud the New England States-from the
fact that every one of these States have
clear majorities in favor Of the Black
Republican party, and persist in retain
ing upon their statute books laws nulli-
flying plain constitutional enactmcnts Of
Congress, OF laws violating the usual
comfy between States-the South has
lost all hope Of the peoples Of these
States complying in good tYith with the
requirements of the Constitution, short
OF strong, coercive measures.
AS the last peace measure which one
people can offer another, to induce them
to d friendly settlement Of political diff
1erences, we propose mon intercourse,
Though State tax laws. What effect
such laws may have, depends upon the
situation of the parties, the nature of
the trade between them, and the power
of the South to change that trade with
out injury to her own people. TO illus
trate: if a merchant, anywhere in our
country, had twenty-five customers, and
the least valuable one of them ceased to
trade with him, he well might sneer at
his loss; if five of the BEST left him, the
loss would be heavy; if, however, fifteen
Of them broke off, and more than half his
sales had been to them, and he could not
find a profitable market anywhere else
for that part of his stock, the loss would
be sorely felt. If these customers could,
by making other trade arrangements,
not only obtain their supplies on fully
as good terms, but, by changing their
place Of trade, could benefit all their
neighbors. they should lose no time in
making the change We propose now
to show to the consumers of goods in
the Southern States, that, by changing
their trade in the purchase of foreign
and domestic goods from New York and
the New England States to the purchase
Of such articles in their own States, to.
gether with New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania and the Northwest, they will not
only get their goods on as good terms
as they now do, but on better, and at the
same time the change will benefit all
classes Of our people. About one-sixth
IF the cotton is manufactured in the
United States: about one-half Of this, or
eight per cent, is manufactured in New
York and the New England States. A
much less proportion of woollens, silks,
inens, hardware, cutlery, glass, and
is made i'll the United
States. 1t is we'll known that, from
natural and other drawbacks, New Eng
and, compared to parts of Europe, for
manufacturing purposes, after thirty-five
ears of protection, during which time
lntold millions of dollars have been
transferred from the South and West to
Iphola their manufacturing interests,
heir leading public men yet tell US that
hey cannot stand the open competition
f Europe. 1t is also well known that
he only limit, within reasonable bounds,
0 manufacturing in Europe, is a market
Or their goods. It is known that if all
he manufacturing establishments Of
'ew. York and New England were closed
nd should entirely cease, that Europe,
nd the other States of our confederacy,
would soon fill up the vacuum, without
'aking any addition to the price of
.oods, except in few small articles not