Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-03-21

The Southern Government, it will b
seen, is making active preparations to streng
then itself in case a difficulty should arise
with the Northern administration. Al
army is now being rapidly organized and
equipped. By the adoption of the old and
somewhat equitable tariff of the United
States, the South has gained an immense
advantage over the North, as many arti
cles of foreign merchandise will be exclu
ded from our ports by the exorbitant and
in some cases prohibitory duties imposed
by the Morrill, tariff and thus, while i'm.
portations will fall away in the Northern
cities, they will increase and are even now
increasing in the ports Of Savannah, Mo.
bile, Nov Orleans and Charleston. At the
same time that foreign nations are seeking
more friendly ports with their goods, the
products aud manufactures of the Northern
States will be subjected to an equal duty
with foreign manufactures on the Southern
border "a measure which will prove pro-
tective of Southern industry and enterprise,
as we'll as productive of considerable reve-
nue. to the South.
Again, in the matter of expansion, the
Southern Confederacy has much the advan-
tage over the Northern. There are the
cotton lands of Mexico, which, in the ordi-
nary course Of things, may probably be alb
sorbed by the Southern section, and ulti-
mately, no doubt, Cuba also may be annex
ed to the adjoining free States on this con-
tinent, and thus enjoy that independence,
as member of self governed empire, for
which her people have been so long piniug i;
10 which event the Gulf of Mexico will be
transformed, as it were, into an inland lake,
and the commerce Of the tropical States of
both North and South America will find a
ready and profitable mart for their products
ip the various ports on the Gulf. The rich
resources of Mexico and the South Ameri-
can States can thus be developed for the
benefit of the Southern Confederacy, in
stead of being converted, as they are now,
to the profit Of England and France, BY
means of the regular steam communication
kept up between them and these latter
countries. The statesmen of the South are
not blind to the importance of a closer in
timacy with Mexico and the republics of
Central and South America, which has
been restricted heretofore by the selfish
policy of Northern politicians; and now
that they are at liberty to act for them
selves they will no doubt endeavor TO d.
vert the trade of those countries from Eu-
ropean channels into their own ports, even
if their policy should not involve immedi-
ately measures of annexation.
And to counterbalance this adhesion of
commercial or territorial strength to the
Southern Confederacy, what has the North
ern Confederacy to fall back upon? Moth
ing but the annexation of the British
provinces. And what reason is there to
expect that anything short of annexation
will increase the advantages which our con-
tiguity to British America now insuros US ?
We cannot hope for any iuordinate growth
of inter-trade with the British possessions.
Unlike the Southern Government, we at
the North can open up no new fields of en-
terprise such as the unfallowed fields of
Mexico, Central America and the South
American Republics afford to the sagacity
of the Southern States. Wanting conve-
nient market for their products, much OF
the most valuable resources of these tropi,
cal countries, both in mineral and agricul-
tural wealth, have been neglected but
with the adoption Of a liberal policy and