Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-04-12

Of - hoaa nd BloB willis undG thsaex.
elusive mechanical system Of England the
labOrer becomes the adiuDes q a cotton ien.
ny orasten engine a.
To return; S5hthals 6natic havs kg
ysars argasa that I'd South's It's glory ~
ID It's being engaged In nothing but agricul-
ture. Such men as ElwOod Fisher have con-
tsnded-and With considerable acuteuessi
zsbat for the South to engage In manniRe-
tures or uommsrce would be a deviation from
her true aim, and derogate from her dignity.
Southern thinkers and planters have believed
this but sons Southern capitalists, in the
Border States more especially. haEs-mSyee
thereto more by what we may call the in
sensible inauahes d ius institutions than
hyany deep philosophical ssOniug=sOught
other Investments for tbSir money than corn,
cotton, tobacco, and sugar, and they have
consequently here and there put up a woolen
mill, 4 machine shop, or q Furnaces, paened
e mine or started a line OF packets. And it
Is intensely interesting to see how in all
such cases freedom has gained ioothOld, and
slaves have been driven out,
Yet in eli this exclusiVsness Of agriculture
there has been a variety Of crops cultivated.
Not even Elwood Fisher advised he South
to rely upon one article Of prodaos alone.
Though be would have than -agicdltaral
States, be would not have them solely cSaoh
States, Or exclusively tobacco States, or
wholly rice States. And in this fact that the
South had a variety Of products and the fur
thsr fact that Is an Integral portion Of he
Union she shared, to some extent in the
benefits Of the 4fmixed ystsn" Of the North
ern States is to be found the cause Of such
prosperity as she has attained.
But now the illumination of Southern po-
Iiheal economists has reached that point
where it is declared that all the energies Of
tbs new cOnfedsracy are To- be gf4en to the
staple Of cotton. Their nationality is forrest
upon cotton. As Stephens says, they will
extend to the civilized world not the olive
branch, but the cotton plant. They will
raise cotton for Others 10 manufacture, in
their cultivation viii use agricultural imple-
msnts made By others and win have it ear
ried to the place of Manufacture and back
in foreign bottoms. Utterly dependent on
other nations wiz be this Southern Confed-
sFaey. They cannot est ootton-they must
have wooden goods for Wear-theiF taste for
silks and inery is n~Ot-likely to diminish
they will drink IS much whisky under the
new regime as they do nOw-they will need
tea and cofee-and having no shipping nor
factories Of their own, they must needs get
the necessities and Injuries Of life through
those nations that have them. Such is hui
man nataro that these nations VIA not be
slow to press the advantage thus given them.
They win dictate the terms upon which they
viii buy they will be prompt in exaeting
payment Of the debts due them they will
force them gradually into a state far more abb
ject than colonial dependency. And in the
end the C~Onfederacy which set out with the
cotton plantas its sole product and the negro
slave as its sole lab0rer, will 6nd itself the
properly Of foreign capitalists and the prey
Of foreign greed It's capitalists who defend
ed as right and polite the euslavement Of
the negro, will find themselves the subjects
Of a p~ecuniary bondage to foreign capitalists.
Going out to shear, they viii return shorD,
and after a few years experience Of this
pleasant state Of sfairs they viii seek pro-
lection and the requirement Of some naiOh-
al Importance, by annexation to an outside
power. Already they talk Of allowing Eng
land and France to establish a protectorsts
over them. la,- 81
And it is for this that they have lef the
UnionI It Is for this that their public men
have broken oaths It is for this that they
have brought eternal infamy on themselves
BY their thsfts and streachsryl It Is for
this that United States Senators have pen.
jured themselves and States become
mobsi It is for this that Davis and
Stephens and Yancsy and Tcombs and
Rhett have written and spoken with slo-
quence and ability. Is is for this that these
and other men-their equals in-intelleet ana
oharacter-have used the influence Of their
natural talents and acquired strength It Is
for this that they have sacrificed present pO-
sition and future reputationl Its for this
that they have thrOwnlaway their manhood
It is for this that they have sold their birth
right And what a miserable mess oGpotage
it isl
They have exchanged consequence as parts
of the United States, sharers in the giorioas
career which this youngest Of the nations
has before it for inevitable insignihcancsa and
subsection. They have become vassals in
stead Of free men4provinces instead of
States.
Wesay they shave done this. Of course
their degradation is not complete yet. But
they hays taken the downward step and the
laws of political grayitstion are as i~nsvita-
bic as those Of physical g%ra7itation. And
when a mar jumps out the window, nothing
but a miracle wM prevent bis striking the
ground. 1t may be that there Is sound sense
enough left among the Southern people to
zee this goal to which tie course ef their
confederacy tends. But If there shohld not
be, if they should pHesist in their mad and
fatal career, the fault is theirs, and the res
possibility is upon their own heads. For
only a willtul blindness could prevent their
seeing that any attempt to establish s nation
upon a radical error in political economy
must end in disgrace and ruin.
~ the Reign Of Terror,
A Rochester gendeman-Ehc, blythe way,
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