The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1861-01-10
Commercial Aspects of Secession.
Special Correspondent OF The Tribune.

The South Carolina movement and
the execution Of the designs OF the other
seeding States is going to be Of vast ad
vantage to Northern trade aud CONN
The secession ordinances will at ouce close
all their direct trade with foreign couD
tries, and their whole business must be
transacted through the coastwise chan
nels. New-Yo City will thus receive a
large accession to her coastwise and for
eign shipments, and New-England ship
ping acquire an extraordinary stimulus.
No cotton, rice, sugar, or tobacco, csn go
direct to Europe from Southern ports, af.
ter secession, but every bale, tierce, and
bogshead. must 6ud its way to market
through the coasting trade. and be tran
shipped at Northern ports for its markets
abroad. Commerce is peace. No ship
owner bent on profitable business, AZ all
ore, will take any risk of the dcte ntion,
seizure or con6scaton Of his ship. He
will only send or 20, where be is safc.-
No vessel is therefore going South to EN- +.
bark in trade which is either obstructed
or dangerous The foreign trade will be.
The coastiDg trade will not be- The in
evitsble consequence will be largely iu-
creased demand for coasting tuunage to
convey Southern products North, and a
large and unwonted influx Of foreign and
domestic shipping at the Northern ports,
especially at New York, to receive and
transport the coastwise cargoes. This
double transportation will require an in
creased number of vessels, ond thus it is
inevitable that these Southern Secession
movements should give a great impulse
to the shipping interest. If Nary and
should join the Seceders, Baltimore aud
the Chesapeake Bay would be thrown out
of all participation in these advantages,
and the New York and New England
harvest be all the greater. But. the i'm
pulse is going to be very seDsihly felt by
American tunnage, whether the Chesa
peake Bay shipping participates in 1T or
not. For all the direct carrying trade 10
foreign bottoms now conducted from the
Southern shipping ports, will be forced
into American coastwise vessels. since
the foreign vessels cannot participate in
the coasting trade, and it will be difficult
under any circumstances, to get coastiDg
vessels to transact the new business that
will be thrown upon them. We look,
therefore, for decided advance in coast
wise freight all through the coming Spring
months.
Another mode by which the Secession
movement is going to stimulate Northern
trade aud industry, ia By diverting an in
creased quantity of the produce of the
Mississippi Valley northward and east
ward over the railroads. This reversal
of the original mode of transactin2 the
business of that valley BY sending its pro
ducts to New Orleans and Mobile, has
been going on and gaining strength these
ten years, till even in the ordinary course
of trade, the Cotton of NortherD MisSis
sippi and Alabama has been finding Its
way to Northern shipping ports overland
The least additional obstruction at those
ports will widen and increase that diver
sion, until the main current of trade may
be soon found to be oberlaBd, northward
and eastward, to Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York. Or, if Baltimore should
become seeding port, then. of course,
she must relinquish all her existing ad
vantsges of position.
This whole Secession movement is thus
sure means of developing and increas-
ing Northern trade and commerce, to a
remarkable degree. And its CONNER
eial aspects are alone amply sufficient to
put i. under control. If the Republicans
stand firm, the whole movement is just
as sure to collapse as time is to roll
round The pressure and ruin arising
from the suspension and reversal of trade
at the Gulf and other Southern ports, and
the apprehension Of negro iusurrectioo
and lawless invasion in the border Slave
States, will force overheard the leading
political revolutioDists and cover the IN
with obloquy and disgrace. Better men
will arise to fill their places, aud patriot
ism will resume its sway over faction and
treason.
The power of the Federal Government
is omnipotent in this emergency, aud y
can control events with perfect ease. and
) without any application Of force. exeep
} that of uegatire aud defensive charas
ter The amazing thing 10 the case, is tc
see how Executive imbeeility abdioate'
! its iust functions, and allows itself to be
blufFed and drasooned by the buster o.
, the revolutionists. 1t is painful to be un
willing witness OF such incspaclty. Ant
it is mortifyipg to know that the who'll
J world must look upon the men Who hav'
, been chosen to fill the chief places Of the
t Republic. With contempt and derisioD.
These considerations increase the im
patence with which the efforts of th
compromisers to break the Republica,
line. and force the Government to sue
cumb to Slavery dictatiou, are regarded
The whole question involved is whetbe
thi. Government ehall control Slavery o
whether Slavery shall control tho GOV
e ernment. Oue would think the eomPro
: misers might By this time see the issue
. The slaysbolders assert their royal pre-
. rogatiye to govern this country BY dc