Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-01-26

The souTH's REMEDY .-Thoughtful and right.
minded persons throughout the South are panied,
indeed, by the course being pursued by individ-
ual sPeculators on the political condition Of the
times, in their midst We refer to the current
efforts Of such parties to black mail northern
business houses by publishing getting up for
private exhibition alleged lists OF abolition bust
ness houses on the one hand and an:i-abolition
business houses on the other, at the North. Those
who know the tricks Of trade are well aware that
In most such cases fee will cause the insertion
OF the name or card Of any house pretty much
where It's conductors Others Please in such lists;
ana 'na' therefore no earthly dependence is to be
placed upon them. We regard such transactions
one and all, as being akin to knavery: and at the
South, those who put their trust In them. will in
the end write themselves down Is being akin to
fools
The proper medicine Is already working well
indeed. That medicine is southern dete.min.
alton to use as little possible in the way of goods
wares and merchandise manufactured in any nom
slaveho ding State.
nder our repeated immediate observati on there
IS case in point that forcihly illustrates how it is
working. We refer to the altered condition of
trade at Villages OF Virginia near which We re-
side. That village, Of Zoo or 200 souls, is the
business point for Culpeper and Rappahannock
counties, Va, for much Of Madison county, and
small portions Of Fauquier and Orange counties
Now 1t is already becoming evident that though
the aggregate value of the goods sold by its
merchants is steadily and heavily increasing the
aggregate Of northern made goods and wares sold
there is falling off; perhaps to the extent Of fifty
thousand dollars Per annuIn. Thus Virginia and
Maryland made cloths cassimercs, cotton domes-
tics, &c are coming rapidly in demand there: to
30 great an extent s that the neighboring wooden
mills are unable to supply half the demand upon
them: and the farmers ustonn themselves
to do without many articles that We're No: long
since regarded Is being almost indispensable, is
yet only obtainable Of northern manufacture
Now. if in Il village of thousand souls the
existing state Of political affairs decrease the sale
of northern manufactures S5o:GO0 per annrm what
will be the ration of that decrease throughout the
whole South-the Of the decrease being
every where in the South as operative as there!
Surely the aggregate cannot be less than fifty mil
lions Of dollars
The s:imulus to southern manu- featuring which
this state Of things has SO generated in the
Virginia and Maryland WOODEN and cotton goods
ard shoe trade, must inevitably show tselfin
the increased production Of other necessary wares
at home On all hands in the region Of Virginia
Of which We write above, preparation to meet the
new state Of things are being made in the way OF
manufacturing varieties o. articles in small way
That is, by the employment Of little capital and
few Eands-in half manufacturing and half me.
cha!ical shops.
Southern commercial independence has thus re.
ceived ali impetus which bids fair to benefit til.
South pecuniarily beyond present calculation and
to cure aboliti"nism by, literally, starving it to
deatl-by making the millions who toll at tn.
North comprehend that their worst enemies are
Il Ose in their midst whose social religious
and political teachings force the South to ceass
consuming. northern made fabrics and wares and
to manufacture fer themselves, instead.