Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-19

1t will be seen that no State is mentioned
in this report, which has not a seaport, or
Lake harbor, and, of course. the exports oil
such States must be classed with those of the
States whence they are shipped, and this
makes it impracticable TO designate the pre-
else amount that should be credited to each
individual State. New Orleans, for instance,
exports much for the Northwest, and New
York as much, or more. for slave States; and
all that can be expected in such a report, Is
an approximation to the aggregate amount OF
the two sections. Then, how stands the &C
count with the South? The entire export of
American products, for 1859, was 1886. 1874 :
1856. OF this amount, the South is entitled
10 a credit of S1S2 $685. COL, for the two items
of cotton aud tobacco. And when to this
amount is added the sugar, rice and cotton
all of which will, henceforth, come under the
head of exports-that are consumed by the
North, it is not extravaganza to estimate the
export of the South at two hundred and
twenty millions OF dollars. And when it is
remembered that the production of these sta
pie articles is rapidly increasing, and can be
made to keep pace with the growing demand,
and that not one OF them can be seriously de-
preciated by competition, it will be seen how
bright is the future of the South when con-
trasted with that of the North. In the pro-
duction of breadstuffs, the yankees have a
competitor in every nation on earth, and In
manufactures. rivals in all the powers OF Eu-
rope. Sugar and cotton are monopolles gran
ted by nature, and are beyond the reach of
competition by art; and the North, in making
war upon slavery. has aimed blow at inter
ests which the government should have los
tered; but instead of inflcting the contem-
plated injury. it will itself be Frustrated by
the terrible recoil.
The North boasts of its wealth and power,
but is strangely blind to the fact, that II
owes both TO its union with the South. 1t
laughs at the imagined poverty and depen-
dence of the slave States, and shuts its eyes
to the figures that foreshow the aanihilation
of both wealth and power, and will soon turn
The laugh against itself Let the ankees
look at this table, and learn that the single
State of Alabama exports more, by hearty
half million, than the six New EAsland
States, PENNSYLVANIA, New Jersey, Dei@ktSre,
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oregon and Nasz
ingtOn-tourteen northern States not equal
to- the single State of Alabama Look at
the figures furnished by the Secret8ty OF the
Treasury, and see that our statement is cor
rect. These figures do not, OF course, show
that the value of the products OF the four
teen States, but that the former exports more
than all of them, whilst their surplus Is con-
Sumed, mainly. by this section which Will
hereafter, need it not.
Another look at the table will show tina
Georgia exports nearly three times, and
South Carolina more than three times, as
much as the great State of Pennsylv ania;
that Louisiana falls ohly fcur millions short
of New York. and that little Florida beats
New UarrpshiFe. Rhode Island, Vermont 4
and nearly half Of Maine. But
here is no use in running the parallel any
farther; enough has been said TO prove that
the South has the elements of great nation,
that without the products of the slave States,
the granite hills of the northern Atlantic
States are not more barren and desOlale
than the future prospects OF the fanatics who
have madly cut themselves OF from the
source of their past prosperity. 1t Is the
knowledge OF this fact-acquir- d too late
which now prompts them TO put the money
value upon the old Union, and stimulates
them to attempt its preservation by cement
ing it with blood. The wealth and talents
of The South were the liie-bloOd of the Union,
and the northern vampires who have So long
lattened upon it ALREADY feel the Cravings OF
hunger-a craving for the food which-lfke
the dog of the faDle-they have sacrificed to
their grasping avarice and WITHDRAWING ~
They once got their supplies OF
cotton free of duty, aud were thereby en-
abled to compete with foreign manufactar-
ers; but to compete successfully, hereafter,
they must put their laborers upon psuper
waL es and having lost their best customer,
must seek other markets, with all the disad-
of a duty upon the raw material as
we'll as upon the CldrksUiue Chronicle.