New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-12-04
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and orators Of the North to assert that the South
il not selfsustafning in the matter Of breadstaGs
and the other necessaries of life. They declare
Ghat il the South withdraw from the Union, her
people will starye if the Northern and Western
States choose to withhold their corn, wheat, po
tatoes and other agricultural productions which
constitute the food upon which they live
This assertion any rejecting and intelligent man
viii know to be Incorrect. But, if there be any
doubt upon the subject, it is only necessary to
refer to the official statistics embodied in the
returns for 1850, to place the question beyond
all dispute or eayil.
We have before us q table of the productions of
the fifteen Southern States for the year 1s49 in
the two articles of Indian corn and wheat, which
shows that these States produced, at that time,
more of these than was needed for their own con
sumption. According to this table, the production
Of Indian corn in the fifteen Southern States was
nearly three hundred millions Of bushels-which
would allow to every man. woman and child in
the South, white and black, an average of about
thirty bushels Of corn year. This is more than
enough to supply breadstufs to all. Bat, in ad-
dition, the South produces over fifty millions of
bushels of wheat. She produces rice, fruits, po-
tatoes sugar. and other valuable articles Of food.
And this, too, when her production in cotton, to-
baceo, hemp, and other articles not necessary for
the sustenance of life, are worth to her, in the
markets of the world, hundreds of millions of dol
lars besides.
The South, even at the present day, raises more
cereals than are required to feed her people. If
necessary, she could produce Eve times as much as
il needed. It is true some of the Southern States
Of the Mississippi valley draw some of their sup
plies of breadstu from the Northern States of the
same valley-but we undertake to say that the
amount is less in quantity than is annually ex-
| ported to New England and New York, from the
Southern States of Maryland, Virginia and North
Carolina. to say nothing of the export from these
same States to South America, to Cuba, and to the
markets Of the old world. in England and France.
Equally capable is she of providing beef pork,
and everything else that constitutes the principal
food Of her population, outside of bread. The
States of Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri,
Arkansas and Texas could supply, if necessary,
enough to feed the whole South, if not another
State were to raise bushel of breadstuffs or a
pound Of meat. And the idea that we are depend
ent for these things upon Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
etc., is simply preposterous. If we have bought
such things there before, twas merely matter of
convenience. We preferred to concentrate our
labor in the production of cotton and sugar-but,
if it were necessary, only small portion Of that
labor would be required to produce everything we
might need for the support of life and in the most
abundant quantities.
The tables we have referred to are from the CEN
sus returns Of 1850. The returns for the present
year will show vast increase, within the last ten
years, of our product of breadstufs. We might
increase it, if we chose, almost indefinitely.
| Thus, then, while we produce plenty to live
| on, within ourselves, we have cotton, tobacco,
hemp and other things to spare; and the whole
world-not the North alone-for market The
prosperity Of q nation, like the prosperity of an
individual, depends upon what is saved at the end
of the year, after supplying alI wants. This it is
which gives the South SO great an advantage,
What has the North to export? Some breadstutfs,
1t il true-thongh in the South American and Cuban
markets, and in Australia, it is notorious fact that
Virginia -four will fetch from dollar to two dol
lars barrel more than -four made in Ohio or West
ern New York. Cut off the South from the North
as market for manufactured goods, and let the
cotton States buy hreadstutfs from Tennessee. Ken
lucky, Missouri and Virginia and what wonld be-
come Of the boasted power and wealth Of the
| North?
We do not exult over the prospect of these
| things coming to pass. We are sorry only, that
Northern fanaticism has forced the South 10 take
care Of herself commercially as well as politically.
The spectacle of the prostratien of the manufac-
tnring and shipping interests Of the North is one
which the South will not willingly look upon--but
if they choose to bring it on themselves by ia.
natical warfare upon an institution of the South
which in no respect concerns them, it is their own
business, and we presume they are ready for the
consequences. The South is able 10 feed her own
people and to clothe them besides, without going
beyond her limts--and, if the occasion arise, is
just as ready to take care of herself in any other
respect as In these.
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M~Removal-The Office of Singers Sew.
ing Machine Is removed to 56 Canal street. doors from Ba
street, and nearly opposite D. H. Holmes
The price Singers Letter A. Machine $50
s55 and the Family Machine reduced 10 s55 Needles Il
CENTS Dozen
With recent great improvements Singers Manufacturing Ma
chimes (So. q far SUPERIOR TO OTHERS for flu
sewing, and they made very
Their universal has paeed them far be, ond all
| petition. WALTER BENNETT, Agent,
MA 2ptf 1b6 Canal street
Southern Rights .ass0ciatson
OF LOUISIANA,
signaies the Constitution of the above
citation open temporarily the Office The Of Health
| No. 50 St Charles street.
AL citizens Louisiana who favor the objects of the aboy
Association respectfully to call and register the
names. BY order
WM. G. c. CLAIBORNE. President.
| EDMUND q. KEtI.y, Secretary n27 2pf