Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-12

the insurance companies. and all those who are en-
gagged ID recelv1ng and distributing Southern pro-
duce WITH the long train of persons who furnish
Them with houses, clothing, supplies education, re
Nsloh, amusement, and transportation are depend
ant on this active interchange, by which about
VOVO00 coo come and go annually between the
North and the South. The mind of man can hardly
contemplate the misery and havoc which would be
caused by separation. The North. distinguished
from the South and the West would elopo be nor
manenty injured. It's fortune depends alone on its
manufacturing ard shipping. Il neither raises its
own food or It's own material, nor does it fur
nlsh freighs for its own shipping The South on
the otner hand, raises surplus of food and sup
phes the word with raw materials. timber, hides,
turpendne, cotton, wool, indigo all that the manu-
factuTers require is within its own circle The re-
qulslte capital to put them in motion is rapidly
cumulating. The North, on the other hand, will
have to buy food and raw material to en-
ploy its labor. Who will purchase its fab
RIGS She cannot supply England, for Eng
land makes the same things cheaper The
South, whilst having the world an eager custo
p1sr for her raw produce, will not want Northe Z
goods but she viii supply the Central and Southern
American countries with her manufactures as she
now does with her -four. AS the world progresses
manufacturing countries trade less with each 9TH
ar, btcause they make the same things. Their Gus
toners must be the inhabitants of tropical and az
ricultural countries. The South has vast natural
resources TO develope, and they will be DEVELOPED
by separation The North has no futare national
resources. In metals It is comparatively destitute
In raw materials, it has none. It's ability to feed
itself is questionable. Its commerce to the whole
country is what that of Holland was TO the whole
world that is, living the trade of other people
Massachusetts,, from her present proud position
must fall back on her granite crop in summer ard
her ice crop in winter. UnscI upulous politicians
and reprobate parsons are making attacks on the
institutions OF thebest customers Of the North and
are holding out to the Northern slave States the
bright prize of becoming manufacturers, importers
and carriers for the South, as the North has been
We here behold the sources from which the
wealth Of the North has been derived They de-
rive 1t from the long summers, the mild winters,
tie long growing seasons the fertile soil and the
well adapted labor of the South They now find
the South is about to retain the wealth of which
they have heretofore been robbed by legislation :;
that they are about to lose about S46O 600 coo If
produce from the people whom they perpetuaIly
reprOach with the charges Of poverty and igno-
rance
When the wealth Of the North is thus mainly
from the Golfers of the South. it betrays says Mr.
KETTELL, the depth of their ignorance and the sub
Unity of their impudonce to point 10 The blessings
Of free labor as the source of their prosperity.
These facts also show why it is that sagacious
Northern Ournals are ralIying the people with such
implaeable fury to the subjugation Of the South
Eight millions o. the best customers on the whole
earth are not to be lost without long and
eXhaCsting war, or the absolute failure
Of The means to prosecute il. They have
created debt of s2sOOOO 600 and they propose to
borrow S400.0O0OO0 more TO carry on the war.
They would rather contract debt of ST 000,00C,-
0JO and lose half million of men, than lose the
right to govern the whole of the Southern States as
colonies or counties for their own benefit They
talk of confscation Of the property of S0atheIn
traitors to pay the expenses of the war aud thus
charge the South with the cost ofita ugation
They protested to think the start that the seventh
New York regiment could march from Washing
ton to New Orleans, receiving the gracious subms-
sion of province after province as they passed on
just as staggering British Colonel 10 T. war Of
20, assured the British Ministers Pot he copld
march with single regiment VII FIRE and sword
from on end Ct the country 70 the other But this
noted seventh regiment - ., N-,7- Vol, in
just one,
49, sc, repeat that The only hope Of peace,
Jpe of prosperity, TIE only hope Of *
d from tie crushing weight G. legislative
- berry, stimulated by vndictve sectional MAJOR
ity IS to establish our indepe dence at the point of
the bayonet and to hold forever the right ofselfgov-
eminent in our own hands, dependent alone on the
Almighty Ea,er Of the universe for our blessings.