The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-06
The imports IN 1870 were sss 900 $780, while In 1880

progress and prosperity clearer, Lot us take re-
Prospective glance at the peaceful period Of our
history Of thirty-seyen years extending from 1871
TO 1868. Let us see during this long term Of years
what were the value of the material exports of do
n,estio produce Of the North and the South.
In these thirty years referred to the exports
Of the articles Of domestic produce named below
were % follows
From he South.
Cotton value. o92 6l3
Tobacco do.............. .,........... Sls zooss2
Rico, do. Observation-Disclosures. s397e 864
i'''i Nom re- Nr4h
Vslue Of breadstufs and provisions exported
within the same period OF thirty. sevea
years. Ssoo'otoSs
balance in favor Of tho South 81 ess, as9. es5
In the same period We exported $3.50, 2,95S in
coin and money, and ported sS25 ,2s2aSS, show
ing an excess Of expectation over Importation
less excess Of imports--of 345 1892 ,465. And the
total exports Of foreign merchandise in the same
time amounted to $525 ,2es, 765. The total imports
into the United States in those thirtyseyeD years
reached the large of IS 500 4l6 44o ia payment
of which the South supplied In the articles
named above over 1000 millions Of dollars and
the North only about 923 millions OF dollars,
giving an aggregate OF domestic produce Of
$3,s46, 246 ,353-the balance being maialy made up
of coin and bullion and exports of foreign mer-
chandise. (see Treasury Report on the Finances,
published in 1852
During all those thirty seven years in spite Of
temporary overtrading and reyulsion, the coun.
try went on under the Union Of the States as
great whole. The panics that now aud then ap
peared had no more permanent effect upon the
49, tr,J 80 tyn,~ 4ta tinu,
Of yesuyius CT Etna upon the diurnai and annual
revolutions Of the globe. The North and the
South worked on tremendously together. There
was conflict. The negroes labored where the
white man could not, and the white man where
negroes would be out Of place. And their products
were exchanged, and united to swell the exports
Of the country. The bulky Southern products
built up and sustained powerful mercantile ma
rine, and supplied an extensive market for do.
nestle manufactured goods. But, brethren Of
the same revolutionary struggle, of the
same faith, and Of the same hopes, had
a tanatcal, irrepressibio conflict preached
to them. Aboltionists, like 80 many devils, en-
tered this Garden Of Eden and planted it with the
dragons teeth of discord. These were watorea
and nursed by political demagogues and fanatics
until Of sufficient strength TO be welded in Sec
tional warfare for the overthrow Of the Union.
THE FUTURE UNDER SUPPOSED PERMANENT sEPARA-
TON.
And now, what is the prospect ahcaR While
the Union held together when corn failed cotton
succeeded; and when the cotton crop was short
or depressed, corn crops were good, and the pro-
gress and prosperity Of the country was uninter-
rupted. Crops at the West failed in 1853 and in
1859, while the produce Of cotton was large and
prices high, thus keeping down foreign exchange,
lessening the foreign demand for bullion, and thus
sustaining the commercial and industrial interests
OF the country.
Surprising the Southern confederacy to be perma-
nently formed, and the separation Of the States
complete, let MS look at the future, 80 far as tho
country and the North are concerned, and see the
fruits to be gathered from the triumphs Of alb
sract fanatical ideas over the common sense, COM
mon honesty and common regard for the material
progress, peace and Happiness OF the American
people.
In state Of separation, If crops OF grain fail in
the North or West, thai sec'on will be unaidsi By
the support Of the cotton exchanges and the ini-
portation OF goods for Southern markets. The
North will be compelled 10 bear the effects of its
sectional failures in crops on its sectional trade.
And when cotton fails at the Soath it. too viii be
compelled to bear the sectional difficulties IL may
entail.
Still worse consequences will be reserved for the
North; and the victim, Of fanatcism will, sooner
or later, be brought to realize that there il 81 in
fnitely greater evil in the world than African
slavery and that is the cnslayement Of the whites
The tendency ofruling political views at the North
is towards consoldation--tho abrogation Of State
rights induced by the fear of agrarianism and
anarchy on the other hand. Had the North
scrupulously observed the obligations due to the
equality and rights Of the States under the strict
construction of the constitution the Union could
never have been severed. II was tho utter dire-
gard Of State rights which worked tho destruc-
ton Of the Union, and especially in regard to the
institutions Of one half the Statcs. The SOUTH in
going out, have formed confederacy
Of sovereign States, while the tendency Of
the Northern States, left alone. will be to-
wards more speedy consolidation, until the con.
trolling power viii fall into the hands Of single
man, acquired, perhaps. through popular military
achievements. The wonder of Europeans at our
preservation OF peace, and Tie facility with which
seven States have formed new government, Ia
very great. They must recoect that there il an
innate feeling Of utter dislike to civil war in the
American mind; that while there were in opera
ton prior 70 the separation seven distinct and regu
lar governments in The seeded Siatos, and that
while those governments were continued, il was =
very simple matter to unite them into ceassde-
racy. There was no reconstruction OF govern.
ment within the States necessary; whereas in the
European forms of government the overthrow Of
the central power is the demolition Of the whole,
and the formation Of al entire new government
becomes necessary, in the accomplishment Of
which sanguinary civil war may prevail.
IMPORTANCE AND STRENGTH or the STATE GOV.