The Shasta courier., 1860-03-31
The Grand Mistake.

Oue luc members,
maker of COMBS is reported to have said
" Ifthe South don't want my combs, they may
go lousy"
This remark was doubtless Intended to cause
a hearty laugh on the part of the snob.ocrats of
the Convention. Doubtless they did laugh
But as the remark embodies the grand error
which underlies and supports the very general
| opinion in the New England States, to wit; that
the South is dependent upon them for all sorts
of manufactures-we propose to say word or
two about it.
/ Says this conceited snob-ocrat, I" If the South
don't wantI my combs, they may go lousy" That
| is to say " If they don't buy my combs, they
must 60 lousy, for they can't obtain them from
any other source" But what becomes of him if
the South his chief customer, does not buy his
combs9 His mandatory stops. He bursts up.
While the South still is supplied with combs by
foreign nations, or ty manufactsries established
within her own borders. Here, then, is the
great error of the Black Republican fanatics of
the North. They believe they essential to
the very existence of the Southern States-that
without their mills and ships the South will
anguish into non-existence. And that hence
they may continue to aid in running off millions
of the property of the South yearly-millions of
dollars worth of horses, cattle and negroes
without the possibility of destroying this Union
without the possibility of working up the people
of the South to do that which they, the Repub-
licans, have persuaded themselves to believe
would be pecuniary suicide to the Southern
States.
These people forget all about the number
wealth and power of the Southern States. They
forget that her resources are unbounded and
inexhaustble. They forget that the Southern
States, to quote the language Ex-senator Toombs,
one of her most eloquent sons
=" occupy eight hundred and fifty thousand
square miles of territory, stretching from Mason
and Dixon's line to the Mexican frontier-the
fairest, the most fertile, and the loveiest land
that God ever gave to man; with noble rivers,
bearing on their bosoms to the ocean the rarest
and richest products of the earth, with capaci-
GUS and commodious harbors, inviting the COM
merce of the world to take them to distant lands;
with noble mountains, containing the richest and
most useful ores and minerals of the earth; with
valleys and plains fertile and salubrous, invit-
ing and rewarding the hand of industry; with
forests unequalled in the beauty and value of
| their products; with more than twelve million
inhabitants, prosperous and attached and loyal
to their social system; a loyalty so devoted that
neither the treason nor seditious teachings to
which have referred, nor brute force have been
able since the Revolution to seduce one hun
dred men, of any class or condition of her So
cety, from their allegience to their homes and
social system"
These Black Republicans who think the
Southern people are too poor to support them
selves, and too mean-spirted to resist the en-
croachments ofthe coward Lords of the LOOM
who have grown rich by expressing the poor
white girls of the North are not aware of the
fact that pecuniariy the Southern States lose
millions of dollars yearly by being associated
with them under the same government. If the
Southern people were influenced alone by fnan-
cial considerations, in estimating the value of
the Union, they would break it up at once. With
the true men of the South, however, our past
history-the sufferings and the noble deeds of
our common ancestry-the glores that thickly
cluster around the American flag, and year after
year increase in effulgence-the fact that ours
is an experiment to test the capacity of a free
and enlightened people to govern themselves
these and like considerations, and not the base
and sordid motive of dollars and cents, impel
the Southern Democracy to battle for equality
inside Of the Union, until it is dishonorable for
them to remain-when the whole combined
force of all the devils in hell and all the Black
Republicans in and out of it, will be incapable of
controlling their movements
The man who really thinks that the Southern
States are too poor to support themselves out
side of the Union, and therefore will not with
draw from it, let what may happen, exhibits
gross ignorance. According to the Treasurer's
Report, the exports from the United States du-
ring the past fiscal year, exclusive of specie,
amounted to S278, 900, 900. OF this amount the
iSaUe States furnished, exclusively, S1s9, $685.
600; observe the figures closely. ye black
guard conteuners and underraters of your
Southern brethren the free States-how much?
-S5, ,2sl 900 land the two sections Jointly
$84,4l7,000. "Of this latter sum of S84, ,000,-
o0o," says Senator Clingman, of North Carolina,
the slave States probably furnished one third,
but certainly one fourth. A fourth added to
the amount exclusively furnished by them, makes
total of S2lO 100000 as the value of their ex-
ports to foreign countries. They also exported
large amount to the free States. New England
alone received about fifty millions of dollars
worth OF Southern productions; and to the rest
of the free States were sent, doubtless, more
The entire exports from the slayeholding States
to the free States, and to foreign countries COM
bined, must have greatly exceeded three hun
dred million dollars. As the South sells this
much, it, of course, can afford to buy like
amount. If, therefore, it constituted a separate
confedcracy, its Imports would exceed three hun
dred million dollars; duty of twenty per cent
this amount, which would be lower rate
than has generally been paid under our tariffs
heretofore, would yield revenue of $50, ,O00.-
O00." Sixty millions of dollars, it would seem,
should support very respectable government
But we do not anticipate a dissolution of the
Union. The Charleston nominee will be elected
President. The Democratic party-the only ma
tional party in the Union-wil retain control of
the Government and administer il in such