The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1861-01-23
A southern Writer.

Nashville, bearing the title of Common
Sense" 1t is addressed to the South and
cannot fail to do much good in alaying the
strife that is now heating up all the bad
blood of that section. We cannot give the
whole of the pamphlet, but the opening
page is so Illustrative of the course Of com.
mercial trade, that to the exclusion of other
ma r we must put it in type. The North
can draw good lessons out of Common
Sense;" her prosperity is shown to be
derivable in large measure from her inter-
course with the South The writer begins
his little book with this text: 1.-THE Frozen
Drop Of Water, The Wisp of Cotton, and
The Gold Dollar"
The good Ship of State, after so many
noble exploits-after so long and glorious .
voyage-at last lies amongst the breakers.
The tempest is thckening overhead, and the
alarmed crew, Thoroughly cognizant Of the
danger at length, are now clanoring for or
dcrs, or asking, What shall be done ? The
equity old Captain lies asleep or doing in his
cabin; the fair. weather Lieutenant, whom
so many trusted, is paral, zed and can do
nothing; and under these untoward cir
cnm>tances mayhap a mere Buatsw aims
whistle, from the forecastle, may do some-.
thing to restt re order and to save the good
ship, freighted with all our hopes-with air
| our fears
To drop allegory. You men Of the
Southland the demagogues--not the poll.
teal tricksters-d you know the secret Of
that mighty power, North, which now
threatens your destruction? 1t may be
illustrated by a drop IF frozen oater ..
Listen.
The gold mine Of Massachusetts-tha
which has been, amongst other resources,
the origin of its weiehty influence upon the
great Confederacy Of States--is "WCnham
Pond" A drop from this, frozen, is ship
ped, at the proper time, from Boston TO-
arrival, it is "Swapp,d off" for small wisp
of cotton. The recipient thereof hurrivs
aboard Of his ship as if he had ''swapped"
for Aladdin's Lamp He goes back t. Bos-
ton, and this same ship owner has, lnayhap,
share in cotton factory at Lowell. He
has the wisp manufactured into bit of
calico or domeStics. He puts the fabric
aboard of the same ship, this time for .
voyage around Cape Horn; and on tho
coast of Chill, may be, he swaps again to
some miner, and this time he gets in return
little piece Of Of silver Then he sails
for Canton or Calcutta. Here he swaps
again. lie gcts a big piece Of silk. He
now speeds homcward. He lands his silk
at New York, or Boston, or Philadelphia.
and along comes the Charleston, or Mobile,
or New ORLEANS man, the vesy on, perhaps
who in the first instance snapped him the
wisp Of cotton for the drop of frozen water.
the ace-and this time gives him gold
dollar for it. And now, you will conf, c.
ture, t.e tran 'nutaton is complete Tho
drop Of ,cater has become a golden dollar.
| But listen furth r. lie is the modern
Rosicrucian-this Boston man. H.. will
not stop at that. He will put the gold dol
lar away in some corner. and upon that
basis he will constitute himself an insurer
against fire. or the sinking of ships laden
| with other wisuHof Cotton, bound from
| Charl ston or Other Southern cities for
Europe.
The dollar aforesaid is now lying in his
peck t, awaiting company, an:l it soon gets =,
| it. The Southerner is naturally afraid Of
| losing his other precious wispS of cotton,
AMI whilst the gold dollar is pledged for
their safety, nothing happening to jcopar-
| dizc them, other dollars ia the shape If ''in.
Surancc fees" wend their way to the bcforei
| this process goes on. Like avalanchcs Of
snow that gather as they roll adown his
| own frUz n hills, treasure aecumuates trea.
sure. He builds palaces and furnishes
them. lie makes Nahant small Paradise;
and after while, thu very man who ate or
| drank the drop of troz u water, and gave
his gold dollar in the roundabout way there
| for. goes some fine summer day to look at
and enjoy this new ElySium Of Nahant, and
| tn re be pays tribute once more. by leaving
some more of his & III dollars. But now
| ALA k he sees how this thing was dome
| secs how the palaces were built-that he
| was an involuntary contributor from tho
first to their erection, and he grows first
| envious, then angry. 1t is natural He
has been Gre IN n. on q summer's day.
half asleep under the shade of "A Palmetto,
| and he has suffered his pocket to be picked.
| The grievance lies within the compass of q
nutshell! Don't you see it!
But the Palmetto n,an-,hc ice eater
now wakes up, thoroughly. He will drop
all dealings hereafter with so shrewd Gus
| toner, and all his relatives and friends shall
do tn too. And if they won't, h. will quit
them, will have no more dealings with them.
even if no one else follows He will get
sword and gun to keep any Of his kith or
| kin from keeping up a"y resemblance Of
trade or partnership with those who so
ovelreach him, so he wrathiully considers
| it. forgetting that this is a world of COM
pcnSations. Listen to friends advice,
. Palmetto man! You have been dealt
sharply with-is too trne. But let me
| show you trick or two" worth all tho
swords and guns you will ever muster (un-
DIR present circumstances wher. with to
fully compensate yourself This trade Of
transmitting bits of ice. and then wisps of
| cotton into gold dollars, has become enor.
| mans. And so it happens, at last, that this
| Shrewd Massachusetts chemist, this gold
maker, is at length at gear mercy-if you :
knew it. lie has come ut last to manulac-
turing forty Millions of dollars worth of
yours and your NJ ighlo. 5 cotton in year,
into various fabrics; and to pay for this i'm
mense amount of raw material what is he
| compelled to do? This ice-much as he
| makes out of it is comparat. vely nothing.
| So he gathers up hay, and butter, and
cheese, and fish, and lumber; he makes
| ploughs, and hoes, and carriages, and shoes,
and hats; he goes forth to ''swap" But
with all his shrewtlness. he does not like
to have too many gold dollars lying idle in
| his vaults; so, less than eight millions of
specie represents his banking capital. You
STE he has been expanding aS well as your
self o! Palmetto man. lie bought ships,
built factories, palaces, and the outside
world had to be paid. Silks and satins
from England and France; spices from In
dia; precious woods from Brazil; all have.
distracted his gold and silver; and now,
yeu have cotton him-if you know it.
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