The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-02-18
Secession Ruins Trade.

the commercial classes of the Southern |
States must inevitably cause re-actionary |
movements. Business men will not sit idly |
by and witness the total destruction of their |
prospects, and the utter extinction OF their
earnings accumulated through long years of
toll and anxiety, without word of remon-
STRANGE. 1t is not in human nature to
sacrifice every real comfort and happiness
for an imaginary state of independence or on
account of imaginary wrongs. The prop
erty of the Southern people is real they
handle it-they enjoy it. Their wrongs are
altogether imaginary and require constant
nursing to prevent them from vanishing
into thin air. An incessant hue and cry
about the terrible things that Lincoln and
the Republican party intend Going, will
hardly satisfy men who are daily witnessing
the destruction of their business and the
gradual absorption of their property by ex-
cessive taxation. They will yet consider
the difference between a government which
gave them voice in making its laws and
the selection of its rulers, and self-eon-
stituted aristocracy-li that put in opera
ton Mt Montgomery-whichd does not grant
to the people the privilege OF accepting or
rejecting the Constitution adopted, nor give
them a voice in the selection of their
rulers Notwithstanding the madness that
rules the hour in the Gulf States, the people
have not all lost their senses, and we pre-
diet day of fearful retribution for those
traitors who have precipitated these States
into rebellion and revolution.
The leaders of the rebellion dare not trust
the sober second thought of the people, and
hence their every movement has been push
ed forward under whip and spur-affording
no time for reflection or discussion. But
some things they can not prevent the peo-
pie from seeing. They cannot prevent the
business men of Charleston from making
the discovery that their harbor is ruined,
their trade demolished, and cir business
prospects annihilated whilst their stocks
on hand are being eaten up by taxation
They cannot prevent the citizens of New
Orleans from seeing that they are likely to
be financially ruined in the course pursued
by their State. They can understand figures
and collector Coleock--in his official Gus
tom House report-has furnished them
with some that will afford food for
many are hours bitter reflection. From
his report they learn that the shipping at
that port, from Dec. 90, 1859, to Jan. 81,
1861, was only l41, against 269 same pc
Rod in the preceding year the cash du-
ties received at the port have declined from
$4,000 TO $4,000, and the value of foreign
export from So, 600, 900 to $4,000 900.
No wonder some of the corn factors are
preparing to remove their business to other
ports, and the minds of the people are filed
with gloom and dismay. They turn their
eyes up the Mississippi and they see the cot
ton which has always, heretofore, found its
way to their city for re-shipm
affording employment to thousands-unnat-
urally turning its course up stream and 60
ing off to enrich the carriers of the detested
North. More than that. To their. sore dis
tress, they turn their melancholy gaze to
Washington and they there witness the in
PRODUCTION of bills for stopping the mails,
and lutte beyond looms the dread pros
pect of an abrogation of the tariff on Sugar.
In contrasting this dreadful state of affairs
with their fermer prosperity, the people will
naturally ask themselves what have we
gained by these immense sacrifices Are
we more happy 2 Are we more independ-
ent2 Are we likely to lose any the less
negroes? What have we gained Their
hearts and consciences plainly answer, you
have gained nothing. You have demon
strated your ability to pass ordinances of
secession, to seize arsenas and revenue cut
tiers, to steal money from the United States
minis, and degrade yourselves immeasura-
bly, in the good opinions of the nations of
the world, and that is the result, and sole
result, of your mighty undertaking and i'm
mense sacrifices. The picture is not likely
to prove pleasant one; and, a. practical
men, they will go to work to restore them
selves to their former position. We antic-
iDate that the voice of the Southern prod
igals retur ned" Father, we have sinned,
will soon be heard, and Uncle Samuel will
greet them, we doubt not, with the fatted
calf and the best robes .---r
Mr.. Iincoln's administration will have TO
be patient and conciliatory-but firm. This
government rests on public opinion-but
not a public opinion forged by political
counterfeiters and gamblers. The election
in Tennessee demonstrates that Il the peo-
pie have the opportunity they will make
themselves heard ,nd that, too, in behalf of
the Union.
gsy@ We suggest to the attorneys of the
next batch of criminals before the Circuit
Court that they ask the discharge of their
clients on the ground that it is not right or
proper for the State to coerce any part of
its citizens. We do not see how Judge
Parrett, in the light Of rranspiring events,
could set the plea aside.
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