Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-01-24

ton, and Agricultural Wealth.
From the able pamphlet by Hon. Jno. Townsend, of
South Carolina entitled. The South alone should
Govern the South" and which should be in the hands
of every Southern man-DeBow's Review
BY SENATOR HUNTER
What rejecting doubt the abundant ability
of the South to protect herself and to attain power
which will cause her to be respected among the foremost
nations of the earth?
The eight seeding States alone possess territory
than three times great France; more than sr
times large Prussia, and nearly times as large
Eng land Scotland, and Ireland put together while
the alliance of the other Southern and border States
would increase the territorial extent of the Southern
cOnederacy than third. Can a country like
this, occupied by people who om their childhood
have been accustomed to the most manly exercise and
the free of firearms bold, hardy FESTIVE under IN
lawful c0ntrO-and numbering within its borders | :
100000 men capable of bearing arms and who, with a
few weeks warning could be marshalled at every as
saable point in bands Of $4,000 and l00000-can,
say such country, and peope be overcome by any
foreign foe? The idea is simply absurd.
Next: Consider her conn actness within her boun-
daries her ineXhaustible resources in money and all
other materials toward providing the appliances of war
and her capacity, arising from these circumstances of
resisting or furnishing if necessary all aggression upon
her rg hts With agricultural production the most
valuable in the world and which make them the objects
OF envy to every manufacturing and commercial people,
and her friendship and alliance to be sought after by
every civilized nation, she holds in her hands the very
best bonds which they give to 'keep the peace "
with her 1t is mistake MIR. Chairman, to suppose
that England France Germany, Russia, and the other
commercial and manufacturing nations of Europe are
hostile to our African slavery Nations land even our
sanctimonious North is not exception are not gov
erned by sentiment, much less by setamenaly but by
their interest; and these people, to whom have Just
referred too deeply interested in procuring the raw
materials which the South, almost alone can supply
them with, for their manufactures to embark in silly
quarrel with about the kind of labor, by which these
materials acquired Not only many millions of
their people are dependent upon these materials for
employment TOR their bread-not only thousand of mil
lions of capital are also dependent upon them for profits
but it becomes concern of government that these
raw materials should be supplied since promotes con-
tenment to the hungry aborer and establishes quiet and
social order which might not otherwise be procured ex-
cept by the terrible resort of powder and lead. The
South then need be under apprehension of interior
ence with her slave property from these nations but
ON the contrary may reasonably expect friendly inter-
course. Indeed sir, no alliance would be more natural
than between these nations and our Southern
federacy There would be DO cause of rivalry and iea
ousy We, the agricultural people, would grow the raw
material, and they, the manufacturing and commercial
people, would work it up and send it to their customers
of the world.