The Placer herald., 1861-01-26
NUMBER o.
Wise Men of the East on Cotton,


5 and laboring men, proposes, saws the Boston
Post that the North should not send to buv
any more cotton of the South, but wait Tor
the cotton to come to them! 1t thinks that
this will operate upon the South, who will
be troubled if they can't sell their cotton to
New England manufacturers.
But how about the New England opera.
tees who have followed their blind leaders
in this war on the South? The Journal ad-
mits that manufacturing will be less profita-
bic this winter, so that of course the mills
must run slow, or stop, and the aboring
men are to be the mourners to 90 about the
streets crying glory to the politicians who
get their votes under false pretenses, and
have brought this destituton upon them and
their wives and children. Dividends, in the
meantime, must be reduced or cut of, and
those who depend on this aid are to be
cramped if not rendered destitute of ordin-
ary comforts.
And this is the beginning of the end of
this wretched agitation about Southern sla-
very, which has resulted in forming that ge-
ographica party which Washington, in his
Farewell Address, torewarned posterity
would whenever it prevailed, be the gravo Of
the Union. But what is the wisdom Of
Washington and Webster to the sacacity of
the Summers and Wilson's and Lincolns who
have seduceG the people of the North into
their own ruin, and that of their country.
by preaching up this ".acred anmosty" Of
hatred to the South. They have been per-
mitied to SOW the wind, and their followers
are reaping the whirlwind. They have rails
ed the storm which they have no capacity
to govern nor aIlay, and the only hope of
the country and Of the very men who have
elected sectional President is, that, after
all, Mr.. Lincoln will not turn out to be a
Black Republicans; that he will believe his
professions Of an 'irrepressble conflict"
and admit that he was chosen under false
pretences 10y turning his back upon the very
men whose appeals to the deluded consci-
ences of slave hating men and women have
made him President?
And then, again, how feeble is this inan-
cia sagacity OF the Boston Journal and its
associates, who fancy they can coerce the
South by not buying their cotton? Why,
statistics show that five sevenths Of the cot
ton that runs the thirty millions of spindes
in Great Britain, and feeds five millions of
her population, is the slave cotton Of the
of spindles to her manufactures within three
years. The whole North consumes but one
fifth of the cotton crop of the slave States,
and this one-fifLh England and France need
for their new machinery. While the con-
sumption is increasing there, every week,
and nowhere in the world is there any in.
crease of the growth of cotton except in
the Slave States, and that only in proper.
ton to the natural increase there Of slave la
Dor, which these wise men. of the East have
so long abored to destroy
And now, after the mischief has been
done, the value of property and labor re-.
duced everywhere at the North, hard win.
ter at hand, and bank and mill suspension
staring every body in the face, we are told
that the grand remedy is to send after no
more cotton, but wait for cotton to come TO
us.
Why not go one step further and do the
true thing, the only honest thing, if there is
amy truth in Republican politics and morals;
and that is stop all cotton mills, sell no,
stop slave labor by no longer encouraging
and supporting it as they have done and are
doing.
What spectacle in this monstrous hypo.
crsy of the North Railing at the sin Of
the South in keeping and working slaves
while the North lives upon manufacturing
the produce of slave labor, and Massachu-
setts alone works 20O,OO0 slaves to keep her
cotton mills going. And now when the sup
ply of the staple and the markets of the
South are barely interrupted by this 'battle
of the States" which the Abolitionlsts have
raised up with their war cries of ''five head.
ell barbarsm" and "sacred animosity" and
''heeIs on the neck of the slave power"
everybody is wondering and fearing and
doubling whether we shall be able to get
through all this without general and finan-
cial crash and break up 'Hl'
What has mainly produced this but thfs
mad war of the North on the South, cul-
minating in the first election ever made by
a geographical party Of sectional Presi.
dent.
What is the remedy? Not this miserable
little subterfuge of waiting fYr cotton to
come North, which can better be sold BY
the South to England and France, and in
the meantime pinching laboring men and
the failing of men of business. Not at ALL
The remedy is in an entire change of the
Northern aspect of hatred to. the slave hold
ing States. The people of the North must
shake off this incubus of sectionalism. They
must turn their backs on the men who have
deceived them; they must resolve to live ap
TO their constitutional obligations and let sla-
very alone in everything except turning it
to the best account for the benefit of man.
kind.
This is the remedy; and the great question
of the day, Union or half a dozen Repuh-
hes prosperity or national ruin, depends