Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-05-17


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1t will be seen that no State is mentioned in this
report, which has not seaport or Lake harbor,
and Of course, the exports of such States must be
classed with those of the States whence they are
shipped and this makes it mpracticable to desig-
nate the precise 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 report, is approximation to
the aggregate amount of the two sections. Then,
how stands the account with the South2 The en-
tire export of American products, for 1859, yas
$685., S94, 1856. OF this amout, the South is enti-
tied to credit of 1872 sos, 9Ol, for the two items
of cotton and tobacco And when to this amounts
added the sugar rice and cotton-all of which will,
heuceforth, come under the head of exports-thot
are consumed by the North, it is not extravagant
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 staple ar
ticles is rapidly increasing, and can be made to
keep pace with the growing demand, and that not
one of them can be seriously deprecated by compe-
ton it will be how bright is the future of the
South when contrasted with that of the North. In
the production of breadstuHs, the yankees have a
competitor in every nation on earth, and in manu-
features rivals in all the powers of Europe. Sugar
and cotton ar monopolies granted by nature, and
are beyond the reach Of competition by art; and the
North, in making war upon slavery has aimed a
blow at interests which the governmentshou!d have
carefully fostered but instead of inAstng the con-
tempaed injury, it will itself be Frustrated by the
terrible recoil.
The North boasts of its wealh and power, but is
strangely blind to the fact that it both to its
union with the South. 1t laughs at the imagined
poverty and dependence of the slave States, and
shuts its eyes to the figures that foreshow the an
Inhalation of both wealth and power aud will soon
turn tie laugh against itself Let the yankees
look at this table and learn that the single State of
Alabama exports more, by nearly half million,
than the six New England States, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey Delaware, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Oregon, and Washington fourteen northern States
not eq~a al to the single State of Alabama. Look at
the figures furnished by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, and see that our statement is correct These
figures do not of course show that the value of the
products of Alabama is greater than that of all the
products of the fourteen States, but that the former
exports more than all of them, whilst their surplus
is consumed mainly by this section which will,
hereafter, need il not
Another look at the table will show that Georgia
exports nearly three times, and South Carolina more
than three times. as much as the great State Of
Pennsylvania; that Louisiana falls only four milli-
ons short Of New York. and that httle Florida beats
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Connect
cut aud nearly half of Maine. But there is no use
in running the parallel any farther; enough has
been said To prove that the South has the elements
OF gr.a' lpti7n that without the products Of the
say, S'atcs, the granite hills Of the northern At
lantic States are not barren and deSolate than
the future prospects Of the fanatics who have mad
~ cut themselves OF FROM the source Of their pas
prosperity. Il j. the knowledge OF this fact -ac
qui.ci too late--which now prompts them 10 put
money value upon the old Uuion, aud stimulates
them to attempt its preservation by cementing i
with blood The wealth and talents Of the Soutl
were the liie-bood of the Union, and tue northern
vampires who have 80 long fatened upon it, al
ready feel the guawngs Of hunger craving io
the food wtioh--like the dog in the f,bIe--the,
have acn6ccd TO their sraspiug ayaricc aud witch
burning tna'i"i-o The, once sr their SUPPLE