The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-06-20

est. We have been selling goods and mer-
chandise to them, but cut off the importing
points of Boston, New York, and Philadel-
phia, and direct the trade to Charleston, Sa-
vannah, Mobile and New Orleans, could you
hope TO bring goods up the country to Nash
Vile and Louisville, and then sell them back
to the people of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi In the present
course of trade we bring goods as far
as our commercial points and sell them
below US. The present course of trade
is from the East to the West and South,
and passes through the upper Slave States
to the extensive section below them
Change the direction so that the cur
rent must flow upward, and the narrow
district north of Nashville would not main
tain US as an important commercial point,
while Louisville, on the upper border,
would be entirely unsupported. So far rs
the mercantile trade of Nashville is affected
this season, must be attributed mainly to
the failure of the Southern crops. Seces-
sion has incidentally affected our business
BY greatly embarrassing the monetary al
fairs Of the country. Here, then, is a SIM
pie problem for your reflection. If partial,
and what we had all hoped would be a
temporary, division of the country has re-
duced real estate over one-half, and negro
property fully one-half in value, what
would be the direful consequence of a gen
eraI disruption of the nation Undoubted-
ly hopeless bankruptcy to every interest in
the land. Our true interests, then, point to
the restoration of the Union as our only
hope of preservation. We must not Join
the Secession movement and give it success
full permanence. The seeded States desert
ed US (; we must leave them to the conse-
quences of their own folly. Their isolation
for one year, with fearful accumulation of
expense and Indebtedness, will make them
glad again to take shelter in the Union.
The damage will be Inevitably great to US
all, but then there will be some termination
to 1t, Join them and we will be the f
terers by losses of negro property, and
the Southern trade diverted from us,
and this order of things will be perpetual.
This subject is so immense in its scope
and widespread ramihcations that writer
becomes bewildered with the multitude of
thoughts, and has great difficulty in com
pressing in one general article a satisfactory
treatment of the many points involved. I
Will close, then, by counseling the Union
and Conservative men of the country to
stand steadfast and firm to your former pro-
tessions, and your plighted allegiance to
JOul COuAIy. heep tennessee and Ken
lucky true to the long line of precedents,
the sanctions of experience, and the memo
ries that call up the proud glories that range
along our nations course, back TO the Gms
when the great, wise and devoted Washing
ton committed the liberty he had won to
the keeping of his people. Stand firm to
the Union, as the palladium of that sacred
trust. We may counsel our Government to
deal as tenderly as possible with this per-
picking Southern embroglio, but we must
know no swerving from our duty in the day
of trial. We must prove ourselves men
worthy the example of our fathers, and
emuiating their disinterested and patriotic
ardor, hesitate not to pledge our lives, our
fortunes, and our sacred honors to the
union of these States and the perpetuity of
our government. H.F.
Nashville Tenn, april I6, 1861.