Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1861-04-12
The w essIfla and Power Offered
EsV Secession

products of manufactures. Helper states from the
census of 1885, the value of real and personal prop
city of the North and West at 81, Let, 800 $3.50 and
that of the South at So, 1926, 1885, 970 which gives
$685. per inhabitant for the North end West, and
$303 per inhabtant, white and black for the
South An immense portion of the wealth Of the
North however, is bat the accumulation of South
ern capitals, and the figures given would prove the
South the Weather section in productive re sour
ces, ever if the valuations Of property ttey ere
based upon were true. But they are not trne ana
Mr. De Bow has shown their palpable inacccracy
and applied the proper corrections. which give
the following results:
North, s2,fa5, 1888, sss
West, l,022, 94S,2 1862
South, I. y. 3,947, ISL 1856
which gives for to NortA, per inhabtant, s246 ;
for the W est, $40 and for the South per inhabi-
tant, white and black, S4l5.
But the great source Of prosperity to country
ere it's export Values for these not only indicate
indicating alluence, but they furnish basis Of
commerce and Of finance, public and private
which bring social prosperity and political power.
The exports OF the United States in the fiscal year
ending on the 3oth of June last, had risen to the
enormous figure of $500, 22 296, consisting in part
of imported goods re exported and giving net
expectation OF values produced in the Union, Of a.
bout $3.50, COO Gee, deductng in the specie of Cali
fornia from which would leave abont 1925, 600, 900
for the remaining staple exports OF the country.
Now, it was the slayeholding States Of the Union
which furnished this whole expectation. Two
thirds of the va'ue made up Of the esscusive
products of the South to wit: Cotton, topacco.
rice, sugar, molasses, hemp, navel stores-and the
rest consisted of articles which, though many of
them We're produced in the North, were but eG ual
in amount TO similar articles sent thither by the
South, enabling the North to send off eouival e,at
quantities Of its own production. 49,
''But for the quantities OF breadssrfs arG pro-
Visions SAYS Mr.. Kettell (Which were sent n ORTIZ
from the South to feed New England, httl or no
Western produce could be spared for Europe, even
athgh prices. In this respect. the " est is situa
ted like the English Wesv Indians. There is pro-
lilc land enough TO raise Abundance: for. export,
but no labor. The introduction and Use Of labor
saving machines, alone, enables the West to ex-
port at all )" and, whatever they do exp rt, would
all be consumed i'll the East, leaving more to go a
bread, bit for the -four end grain derived by the
latter from the South. Were it necessary Just
now, could prove, by arithmetical and. statisti-
cal demonstration, that the whole expectations Of
the Union due to the South, and that that Sec
ton furnishes the basis for the whole foreign
and the whole Federal revenues Of the u
nicn. .
The Withdrawal of tie slavehclding States fro m
the Union at once strikes down Its whole system of
Federal revenue and emphatic sliy true is Brrkes
apothegm, ''The Revenue is the State in the
cass OF Che Federal Goyernih ent. The Government
at u aShingt0n exists exclusively by virtue of the
tariff; and the Withdrawal Of the slaveholding
States from thu Union. by withdrawing its entire
foreign commerce., anniifl&tes ;ts revenues and
proatrates the Government. Seven of those States
these which furnish the largest values for exper
tation-the seven leading Cotton State5-haye al
ready withdrawn from the Union. They will i'm
mediately open direct trade with Europe. they
about to enact very low tariff; while the
North has enacted an enormously higher one
Two hundred millions Of the three hundred and
twenty five millions Of the foreign expectation of
the Old Union are thus withdrawn from the foreign
commerce of the remaining States. The seven Sc
ctong States have thus a resource OF public II
and social prosperity greater than that Of the
whole remaining twenty-seven States Does il
GINA desire to share the one hundred and seventy
five millions left, with the tWenty-seven unconge
NAL States or, adding her own export valres,
would she not prefer to share two hundred and fif-
teen twenty millions, with seven congenial
States 1t is q question between long division Of
small dividend, and short division of large div
idend.
But the worst feature Of this subject of foreign
commerce as it went on er the Union thai has
been dissolved, WIS, that, while tie outh furnish
ed the whole si.rplus for The foreign commerce of
OF tho country, and therefore paid the whole sixty
millions of revenue levied upon it by the Federal
tariff, the North reaped the entire profit of this
magnificent trade. The North sold the whole OF it
in Europe, and elsewhere on its own account col
lected the whole pro :eed5 OF t, and then paid the
South back in It's own wretched wares, st double
prices.
Tho South Bought these small wares, "gim-
cracks and haoerdashery,' in the enormous a
IS uGSCflDed Dy DGipeF IN the eG-brHCt gwen
from His Book the other day aue il order to dis
charge the ineettediess th5s created not only al
lowed tie n orth to collect abroad the entire pro-
ceeds Of her inmence expectations, but also sent
large additional quantities of products there to be
credited on the same Indebtedness. The annual &C
count curroa. is thus stated by Mr.. Kettell:
SENT NORTH.
Bills Of Exchange, raw materials, snd other Pro
d:toe, s452, $50, s94
Domestic goods, $24o,o 600 600
Imported, 106 Geo. 600
Interest, Brokerage, &c., $4,000 Geo
Southern travellers, .52 800 800
S&G2, 500, 394
i s:ich is the footing up of The long bill Of items
Detailed from Helpsx the other day. Seven Of the
Southern States have declared Independence, hare
proclaimed that they will longer remain in tn is
commercial yassalage. Is irginla, who is so ad-
,nirably circumstsnced to command the foreign
trade Of the South, prepared likewise to throw Oft
the. calling and degrading yoke =
What a magnificent resource of credit ard pow
or would not ibis S462, $50 394 Of annual Surplus
wealth afford the South if united in one greet DO
lifiGal confyderacy OF Ter osYn mere ten per
cent imSol tariff woild bring her forty-sx mil
lions Of dollars Of revenue sufficient to defray all
the expenses OF her economical. Federal Govern
1nept, and leave twenty Or thirty millions over.
which wp:tld more than pay the fifteen million of
State ta-es row levied b The State Government
directly upan its people; thus entirely relieving
them Of taxation. " as ever so noble a book Offer
ed for noble act. as.is offered to Virginia in
favor OF her Hting herself to the South ?-Rich-
ason.5 Dispatch. 49,
.SourH CAHo1i>L CONVENTIONAL committee o
The South Caroline State Convention, appointed
TO inc uire how much of the legislation of Congress
has been abregated by the secession of South Car
.ona have made q lengthy report, declaring that
patents and copyrights previously issued by the
cannot be violated with impCnity the legislation
Of Congress on the subject Of veghts and measures
aid tie standards Of coin are declared to have no
force in the State. The power of furnishing coun-
to oounsetng is an oe fen
and punishable by the common law. The commit
tee also. declare that although moneys borrowed