The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-04-30

II will be seen that the PLATFORMS "e'
rorfad have been recommitted TO the commit
1es. and Others reported In theft s'eNo. q copy
of the ucwly.reportcd platsorms !" gwen !"
the tel~xraph.c report Correspondence OF
Northern papers speaks hopefa'iy OF o@iioune
to-day; but rs the Convention has 70 consider
tho platform this morning, it 10 very unlikely.
The shoe NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and she
South.
II seems almost inconceivable that the South
having so long had the power in its hands
should permit the shosmaking State Of Massa-
chusct;s to carry on its insane crusade against
southern property. not only without single
cnror, to retaliate, but absolutely encouraging
II. year after year, by the most liberal pat
ronage.
Fair sir. you spit on me on "Wednesday last;
You spurn'd me such day smother .,me
You call d me dcs and for these courtesles
I'll lend YOU thus much moneys
This has been the course Of the South to
Massachusetts, until comparatively late pc
Rod, and it is likely to be the same hereafter,
unless the measures for manufacturing shoes
in the South are systematically and energetic
caiIy carried into effect.
or all the branches Of Northern business
and manufactures for which the South has
been dependent on the North, there is not one
in which the fanatics of the North are so uni
yersaily and vitality interested, not one in
which the South can be so sure of her Ven-
gcance falling upon lhs guilty parties, as the
shoe trade. II is dihicult in some other de-
partments Of Northern industry, to single out
the enemies of the South. and there is some
times danger Of involving friends in the same
punishment with adversaries. For, in the mid
die and some of the New England States, there
are multitudes Of men who are as true to the
requirements Of the Constitution rs any one
South Of Mason's and Dixon's line But in the
shoe business 1t Is impossible for the South to
go wroEg-Massachusett is the great shoe
mandatory OF the Union. Every other man
IN Massachusetts is n shoemaker, and more
than every other man is an abolitiOnist.
If the South should relinquish all efforts at
independence in other departments Of bust
ness, absurd aud suicidal such a rclin-
punishment would be. she might yet strike a
blow that would make every nerve of her
worst enemies culver, if she would only re-
solve never again to purchase a shoe Of Mas
sachusetts manufacture. We pass by the inf
mite cheateries in that trade-the brown paper
heels and the chip and brown paper soles.-
All these We could put up with, If Massachu-
sets were only content with the regular and
recognized modes Of swindling and robbery.
But she is not content with these. She must
not only force her worthless wares upon the
Southern market, but employ the money she
receives for them in making war upon the
labor by which the South is enabled to pur-
chase those wares. We venture to say that
the annals Of nations and their commerce do
not present such an instance as Massachusetts
has presented, Of a manufacturing community
making war upon its best customers, cheat
ing, abusing, and despoiling them of their
property in every possible way, whilst the
customers, good, easy souls. rather than take
the trouble to manufacture their own goods,
continue to throng the shops and counters of
the men who take their money and use it IN
supporting PARKER chapels, Tribune newspa-
pers, SHARP's rifles, and JOHE BROWN pixies.
We do NO injustice to Massachusetts in say
ing that Of all the States in the Union, she is
the most fanatical. the most malevolent and
vindictive towards the South, the nursing
mother of abclitionism in all parts of the
North, the most pharisaical, intelerant and
hollow hearted Of ali the abolition Common
wealths. She has over and over again nulli-
fled the Constitution and the laws Of Congress
by her personal liberty laws her people have
over and over again resisted the execution OF
the law, and shed the blood of its officers her
pulpits have continually resOunded with
praises of treason and murder, her editors and
her lecturers are the bitterest, the most denun.
ciatory and the most interruptions of all the
enemies Of the Southern States She has led
the van, she is now the acknowledged leader.
She considers it her greatest glory to be the
acknowledged leader Of every enterprise hos
tile 10 the institutions, the interests and the
rights Of the Southern people. Whilst deny
ing the divinity Of Jesus Christ in her own
pulpits, she sets herself up as a model of Chris
tan faith, and whilst stigmatizing as robbery
and plumber the money which is ''coined from
the sweat and blood of the poor slave,'' she
hesitates not to put as much of that stolen
goods as she can clutch in her own spotles.
and sanctifled pockets. Every branch of trade
she has is supported by this very money this
is the motive power that keeps all her facto-
ries in motion, supplies all her people with
bread, and pays the stipends of the abolition
parsons who, Sunday after Sunday, thank God
that they are not as other men, especially those
Shareholders, who furnish the means to keep the
breath in their worthless bodies. Above all, as
we have before said, it is this same money.
s'coined from the sweat and blood Of the poor
slave" which keeps alive and fourshing the
the South never forget that srery other man in
Massachusetts, is a shoemaker, and ersry shoe
maker an abolisionist. There is not one of
them, from Senator WILSON down-who is
himself better shoemaker than Senator-who
does not hate the South with a hatred only
surpassed by their contempt for people who
continued to buy Of them, knowing that they
nre their most unforgiying and implacable
enemies.
Again we say. If the South manufactures
nothing else tor itself, let it expend hereafter
the millions upon millions which it has poured
into the laps Of Massachusetts abolition shoe
makers within its own borders. Or, il it
cannot, or will not make its own shoes, let it
buy them of France or England, or any other
country on the face of the earth save that by
which it is at once despoiled and despised
Through the shoe trade we can reach the very
heart of Massachusetts, and make every nerve
IN her whole system culver, il we will be but
true to ourselves, and Danish hereafter and
forever her wares from our markets-get them
anywhere in America or Europe, SO we be
sure that they are not made in the great
inanuisctory OF treason, stratagems, spoils,
SHARP's rifles and JOHN Brown pixies.
Pictorial Illustrations.
The last number Of one of the Northern
"eekiies contains. among other attractive il.
ius'saoons' an engraving Of 1.-THE steamship s.
H. Spau'ding,' in which the New England
oe'sehiioa lives at Charleston" This novel
ana remarkable engraving occupies about one.
Ia'lo OF page. II Is 80 spirited and life- like
thai you can even see the smoke coming ont
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