Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1860-12-26

publican journals 0Io TnH1fllur iu The
"tca ol uoAblcR" rn which they aro toe.
scd furecst DE image OF drowning mon
grospineot slnNs Ono of thrm, prclcn.
ding TO bc an organ ol commerce assert.
od yesterday that cotton is not king,
because somo povucosDcr aoys hc has dis
covered a substitute for it in Canadian
0aN, from which hc manufactures what ho
calls "Hbnlla' Just as it the fibre OF IlaN
will not always mako linen, no matter to
what process il is subjected. 1t may
prove to bca very good article, ont it
mny turnout shamj hnt it will be no
substitute for cotton, which is deaincd to
rcirn king Of American commerce for
some time to come, Notwithstanding the
ingenious Yankee invention.
Another republican journal or ibis clty,
Hong Leloggcd in the midst OF Minc.o's ell
bows, lahore yesterday 10 show in long
article that the South is Of little or no
value to the Union, and That tive Low
oils are Of greater moment than South
Carolina in commercial al.airs. and Phil
adelphia is a dozen South CaroIin0s roll
ed into one" We would ask what would
Lowell and Philadelphia be Today but for
South Carolina and the other cotton
States? Because Lowell produces fabrics
exceeding in value half the whole exports
of South Carolina, ergo, Lowell is double
the value Of that State to the country.
Now the difference isjust this, that the
threatened loss Of South Carolina has sha.
ken the Union to its centre, and Europl
Itself mas felt the shCGb whereas, if Low
ell were swallowed up by an earthquake
and all New England and her manutpcto
ries with it, the loss to the rest Of the
Union would amount TO nothing. Indeed,
on the contrary,a large majority Of the
people would consider the absence Of the
New England States FROM the confedera.
tion n very great gain. Just let Massachu-
sets propose to seccde from the Union7
and she will see whether any Of the mid
die or Southern Stutc5 will ask her TO re-
main. They could get every description
Of fabric cheaper from Europe than from
Massachusetts,, and they would get rid OF
the distur bing element OF iser Puritan
ism,
There is ne dagger cf Revolution and
civil conyulson from any of the New
England States going out Of the Union,
whatever may arise from their remaining
in. The Massachusetts, factories, with the
aid of the South, merely give living to
their OWE population far inforor to ;hat
which South Carolina gives her slaves
There are ne paupers in South Carolina,
whose products not only support her own
people r comfort, but coatr5u to p9atcri-
ally TO the eustenance OF tho white slaves
of Lowell. From 4 pound OF iron, worth
/ few cents, watch springs may be manu-
featured worth thousands of dollars. But
without lhe iron to manufacture where
would be the watch springs and their ma
lers Without cotton what would Low.
ell be- and the other towns Of New Eng
land where it is nufactured? Whcr
the South, in exchange for her cotton
takes the goods of Old England instcoc
,of those of New England, and at the same
time manufactures extensively for hersel
what will become Of the prosperity o
Lowell and the wealth Of the gCld mer
of Boston, 1t is only persons wheso Nit.
arc affected by their desperate situation
that can resort to such h;msy logic as tha
which constitutes the staple Of the repub
lican ioErnals Of New York,--IictaM.
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