Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-09-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

The following article from tee Athens, (Va'
"Banncr," contains. IN our opinion, some just
views aud sensible suggestions. Read it:
The Yankee Blockade
We c~ct.;css, al tunes, q: being slightly an
noyrd Il. havirg the question propoundea TO
us, do ycu Think England will blow up the
blockade-how loog vii! it last? To miners,
Smiths, carpenters, manufacturers, iroa anu
wood worEs:s, TO our females who sew, 10 al,
We say, God grant the blockade may last until
the seventy Cents out OF every dollar earned az
the Svu,h IS stopped being PAID North; unit.
The thousands ssn, North Itr machinery of all
kinds, Ter cloth, pins, biscuit rollers, combs
i,r negroes hea IS. and sausage stuhng ma.
chimes, sre kept at hons 10 feed, clothe and
make :ich the working men OF the South.
With a territory SIX times as large as Eng
land, Scotland ard Ireland combined, with Il
people, cl mate, soil ard resources unsurpassed,
70 cream TIA, we cannot live aud prosper
AWAY with such delusions. Our people have
believed our clothing must come from the
North, cur teachers and preachers. OUT books,
furniture. nails, pins, hay, cheese, butter,
b7oou.s, pigsins, tooth picks and shoe-pegs.-
THIS wss depTi7ing our own people OF M I'M
me.se sum Of money and fed and made rich
our brethren whose only bond OF union 10 US
was the oond to plu~dsr and keep poor he
South depr,ving thousands OF our honest, na-
tive born men aud women Of employ ment.
The despotism CT Kings drove the cclonists
from their father lard and peopled America
with The test blood of the old stock, 1--WE have
nc reference to the May Flower.j God is s.
,rae God, ard when a prosessedly religious
p.cp!e sise HIM ap, He iorsakes them anG he
80 - .,,ro, ord orrorar,cg u e u-ail
nc III. nr.lE f the North. not only for HIS
own gic-y, bot our good. Yankee intolerance,
inI.in.Gdiing, AID tylanny forced us out OF
Toe Cn,n.., aud iaukee blockade will work 70
Our lros psrlty.
petus ard or ward harch 10 the South 1t has
aroused our energy, and revived the sources oi
wealth a"d happiness 10 she l.horing classes
i protects and encourages hotne lnte'eS;si and
j. viii keep cur capi;al ~ home. making US In
dependent Ct inc world. What say you ship
bu,Iter, stall timber 60 North 10 be converted
iaio sh,rs? Manufacturer, viii you send cot.
ton Svi.n to be woven and spun? Mechanic,
give you a chance, aud are you not able to fur.
n,sn doors. sash, blinds, and ,noulaings! En-.
eraves a.t mason, can you not do the work
Ysrkse land has been supplying rs with p
Soutne-a girl, can you not be qualified 70
teach. give manners and education to our
child.en? Then let US ell be true 10 ourselves,
and wealth and prosperity and happiness will
DC ours.
A short time since, Gov. Brown was naking
IF IT'S TO buy and ship cannon from the North
Nov GU: own mt chanlcs are finding employ
merit, and Richmond, Nashville, Charleston
r inc and New Orleans are furnishing them
Guus are now made IN North Carolina, swords
are Manufactured at a number Of places; shoe,
hsr, cap, drum, oil cloth and glass factories are
going INTO successful operation Our sail
springs in Virginia, Arkansas and in the La
suna Maore, near Corpus Christi, Texas, viii
cut Gown the profits Of those who are nov
baving up salt for speculation.
Rut how is it North? More than two thirds
OF the exports Of the old United States wen,
fror, the South; the carriage Of all this and the
drippings are gone. Marble stores have, ITO
let" painted on them; magnificent hotels are
empty; merchants are failing. Two millions
of southern money no longer find the way to
Hartford for CARR &c work. Matte, Lyan, ano
Haverhi!, where all our shoes have been made
are almost beggared. The sewing machine
c. I.e.,pill aud tn shops of Meriden are down
to short tin e." Mills are closing, %factorie:
stopping and families begging. The North i:
fast becoming drained of specie; depressed ir
business; injured in interest; ruled BY o mob
no credit abroad; disgraced in the eyes OF thu
world; fo1ssken Of God, BE has given them up
and ste will linger on, her time az poor S. thu
Jews; for she has committed the next greatest
sic to the Jews.