Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-08-23
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Friday, August S3rd, 1851.

Friday, August S3rd, 1851.
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Bea- Every step hitherto taken by the
infatuated fools at Washington, has tended
to compicate their difficulties, and every
change of policy is a mistaken effort to es-
cape the consequences Of prior folly. For
months they have been striving to make
their blockade effective, and have constant
ly proclaimed tito be so but finding that
England and France are not likely to re-
spect the blockade, and that war with them
may result from it, the Lincoln organs
the n. Y. Post amongst them-now argue
that there has been no blockade. They
have discovered that no nation has right
to close its own ports against those powers
with which it has commercial treaties, and
that "a "blockade is an international act
unauthorized as between different sections
of the same nation All that is intended
is the collection of duties out at sea but
the Wiseacrcs at Washington seem to for
get that there is no international authority
for such proceeding, and that no Euro
pean power will submit to the boarding Of
their merchant ships on the high seas, even
if they were willing that the same cargo
should pay duty twice-before and after
entering port.
The object of this new dodge is to make
il appear that foreign nations have no right
to complain because the Southern ports are
closed-not Observation-Disclosures the North
ern ports remain open. 1t is hoped, too,
that, in this way, the South will be forced
To ship its cotton, sugar, rice and tobacco
ON New York, and thus be made to con-
tribute to the Northern means for prosecu-
ting the war. Now, as an answer to these
ingenious suggestions, we tell the North
that no Southern products will ever be
shipped from Northern ports. The Con-
fcderate States Government will trade with
no power that does not recognize its indie
pendence, and if all its ports were opened
tomorrow, neither the abolition Govern
ment nor any in Europe could bargain for
Southern productions on any terms, prece-
dpnt, than an unconditional recognition OF
our status as an Independent power. II
the game be one of endurance, the South
can hold out as long as any other country,
and the longer the game the more indie
pendent we shall become of other people
There is not solitary article essential to
comfort that we cannot produce in abun-
dance, and the more prolonged the effort to
subdue us, the more fully will our ample
resources be developed We have the soil
climate, genius and energy to make us the
richest and most Independent people on
earth, and we have the nerve and pride and
perseverance and free spirit that will ena.
bic us to successfully resist any and every
effort to subdue us. For the sake of hu.
manity, We want the war ended for the
sake of our own pecuniary interests, We
want the ports opened and commerce re.
sumed but for the sake of our rights
honor and liberty we will endure all thai
man can suffer sooner than make thC
slightest concession to the arrogant anG
unnatural foe who now wages war,upon us
Independence first, and trade afterwards, i,
the policy of the South, and if the Nortl
and the nations of Europe calculate upor
any other, they "reckon without their host
With such feelings and dete rmination, tn,
blockade is matter of no great conse
quence to us, and we suffer from it far les
than those who impose, or those who rec
Ognizeit. When England and France wan
to trade with us, they must recognize our in
dependence, That is the condition, anC
they may as well understand it at once.