Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-03-15


might live, aud by whose atonemeut |
hope for blessed immortality.
am, with great respect, your friend
and tc!ow-citizen,
ANDREW JACKSON.
70 Hon. J. ID. ELLIOTT, L. ). Ndcy.
Meeting Of the ShOcmakers OF New OK
The Trade Ruined BY the Anti.SSave-
" Agitation.
On Wednesday evening aPrelinnnary
sympathy meeting OF the shoe TRADE was
held in this city, aud q great mass meet
Ing is to take place on Monday evening
next, for the purpose of raising 1.-THE SIN
ews Of war for the New England strlk-
err. Not only will all the trade attend,
but probably delegates from the other
trades; for when ones next nelghbors
house is on fire, he naturally looks after
his own. 1t 10 not the shoe trade alone
that is affected, and will be still more
affected, by the anti-slavery agitation,
but every other trade which derives
considerable portion of its support flom
the custom Of the South. The shoe trade
is the first to suffer; but the other trades
will participate in the common disaster,
and therefore we may expect to see them
represented at the meeting on Monday
night, and perhaps soon calling separate
meetings OF their own. Such distress
has the falling off in the Southern shoe
trade produced in New Hampshire
that the calamity has entered as an Gle
-. ;,,to @ba i,nDortout State olact;op
which is to come of there next week.
The Black Republican journals absurdIy
assert that the shoe business has sud
denly come down now in 1860, in conse
qucnce of the financial crisis of 1851
But the operatives know too well what
the cause is. There was no falling of
till alter it appeared that John Browns
raid and Helpers book we're endorsed n
New England. Here are plainly enough
the cause and the effect.
The strike" movement is not only
spreading over all New England, but cx-
tending to the other Northern States
Thus the first disastrous effect of the cir
rcpres.ible conflict" is not on the South,
but the North. The desig to render
the labor of the South unhappy and
insurrectionary, has failed; but it has
had the effect of making the labor of the
North discontented, disatfccted and rev.
dictionary. The operatives Of the North
are beginning to see that they have been
used as mere instruments by politicians
for their own base purposes, but that tho
result is now coming home to the bust
ness and bosom OF every man at the
North who earns his bread by the sweat
of his brow. The North and the South
seemed to be made for each other, and
the trade between them was profitable
and convenient to both but the insane
conduct of Northern politicians has in
tlicted on it wound which may soon
terminate in its complete destruction.
Some of the New England politicians
are laying the flattcring JUNCTION to their
souls that the Solth must buy from the
North. But nothing can be moro ridic-
ulous. There is nothing to prevent the
South manufacturing for itself, but, OH
the cor trary, everything to facilitate the
change. There are new factories now
in the course Of erection, and if skilled
workmen are wanted to teach and su-
perintend the negroes, they can be cast
ly had from AL. ong the strikers" and
discharged hands Of the New England
factories. We expect there will soon
be large emigration from thence south
ward OF white labor, if not of capital,
and that the prosperity of the Eastern
States which depend wholly on their
manufactures, will thus receive a heavy
blow, from which it can never recover.
1t is certain that the South is now TAX
ing the most active measures to become
Independent of Northern manufactures,
and that it will succeed there cannot be
a shadow of doubt.
And who can blame the South for
purs uing this course! Just suppose the
case of a grocer with whom a wealthy
family did very large business, but
who never lost an opportunity Of ma
ligning and slandering that family in
public and in private, meddling with all
its domestic affairs and giving it a very
bad name. Could any one blame the
head Of this family for Withdrawing his
custom and giving 1t to some one more
deserving of it.
One of the first results of the falling
off in Southern trade with New Eng
land will be temporary increase Of it
in New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania. But its continuance depends
upon circumstances. The South regards
tue political course of these three States
not quite so bad as tho conduct of the
people of New England, and it will take
from them what it cannot help taking
from some State, till they become aboli-
tionized, or till its own manufactures are
developed and brought to such maturity
that it can wholly dispense with the
Northern trade.
Nor is it manufactures alone that will
suffer. The commerce and the dry
goods business of our large cities will
be damaged, and real estate will be 80
deprecated in value that houses in New
York will cease to bring tho high prices
now paid for them. Indeed, the owners
of real estate in New York never were
60 anxious to get that kind of property
off their hands. The have = p.esenti-
ment Of What is to come, and hence, in
stead Of bills, "tolet," you will see every
where overy the city bills, Ito be sold"
RoDMAN's MONSTER CANSoS.-The