Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-21
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e Panic-Dlsunion Merchants Of New

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AL York.
m Previous to the election a number OF New
Ais York merchants formed themselves into a re
Ike aa,kable Association-remarkable for lis
p oil eapne 3 and undetermined uscaity. Its OBJ
p We let was to defeat the election by the people
'n' s7 Abraham Lincoln and for the accomplish
bent of this object it used, not brlin3 but
|. .Jhat it had more Of money and market in
uence. Hundreds of thousands Of dollars
bot tere subscribed to be used in buying and
n oribing voters. Lists of Republican mer-
h chants were sent to the South and the slavery
Panaterests preiudice5 against them. Other
wits were sent Of the d~oughacc merchants
eedfho were sound on the Southern question,
Weld therefore worthy of Southern custom.
IN this, and much more, was instigated by
be infamous James Gordon Bennett; Panic
imors and disunion cries were published
Il nd circulated TO the effect that the cleo
on Of Lincoln, even by a fair and Con-
! II i%tutional majority, would result in the dis
iemberment of the Confederaey and the
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the state of feeling at the South were set
AAOat. The Association sympathized with
bsie Southern seressionists in their plans for
noe dissolution Of the Union in tho event OF
lncoln's election; and finally the endeavOr
actas made to create amOnetary panic for the
silarpose of influencing the election, by charg-
4aig that it was but a foreruuner Of the still
Sweater panic which would follow a Republic
Nsn victory.
q AZ The Detroit Advertiser, Of a few days
nee, in noticing these operations Of the dis
aion merchants, calls upon the New York
tibune and Times to publish the names of
members composing that Association,
E5at Western merchants may withdraw their
1stom from men who will thus lend them
lives to the work OF endeavoring to produce
financial revolution. While we have a
vereign contempt for these merchants, and
sink them deserving the condemnation Of
lbrthern men, we would not thus prescribe
EN- this time. We have won a glorious
&2ctory over then and theii -O-workers and,
"a the hour of our triumph, would not entire
"a cut them Of, but they will do well to take
flaming by the rising storm Of indignation
AID have a care for the future. They must
Jar in mind that there is a Great West,
hose trade they cannot ignore, for it is
birth double that Of the South, and that the
amy of Western merchants will not brook a
iIpititon of such transactions.
A5The New York Evening Post comments as
lows:
fEThE COMMERCIAL NEMEsIs.-The time is at
md when the knot of New York shop
@epers who, in the capacity OF intormers,
lid up "A business in the Southern States at
E expense of their more manly rivals, will
Ays an opportunity OF tasting some OF The
emitted to go about among the Southern
pple, poisoning their minds against Repub-
az merchants much longer, with IMMUNITY,
Asd already swift vengeance is on their track.
le West now our principal American mar
naturally enough resents the attempt TO
frlhce her interests and her political hopes
darely to secure the Southern trade, and there
those who now recommend r~eprisals. We
in the Detroit Advertiser an article which
be said to express a very general feeling
the Western States in reference to the late
pic, and which suggests that what is called
2 Dry Goods party-the men who got up
Is Of merchants whom the South could safe
patronize, and circulated newspaper pulls
hbels at other merchants expense
5uld be required to take some of their W
tdicine. We quote the article, not that we
ire to see the tactics it recommends gener-
adopted, nor that W can ourselves take
part in the prescription OF any class Of
p engaged in lawful industry, because OF
n%r political opinions, but that those engage
On the dirty busines Of informing against
z neighbOrs may learn, from what is evil
lily in preparation for them, to eschew
nness, simply because it is Improbable,
they have justified US in fearing, they
incapable Of acting from a higher motive.