Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-09
What an Llinoissn Thinks Of the Effect Of
Dissolution.


An intelligent citizen of Illinois writing to
his kinsmen in this county, thus speaks Of the
effect of dissolution Of the Union;
"Ifthe entire South secede, the severity Of
the times has not arrived at it's worst etage.-
But fGttef myself the crisis will p oye to be
short lived, and only a temporary one iu the ag
ricultural States of the North. The South must
eat; It will possess as many hungry mouths out
Of the Union as In it, and once that things have
settled down little, our produce will be in as
great demand, OF es ready sale, and at as high
prices as ever, aod we will fnd out, by further
experience, that nothing can produce permanent
hard times In Ohio and Illinois, except perma-
nent failure of crops. The farmers have moth
ing to fear, no matter what befalls the Union.
Not 30 however, but on the contrary, far DIFF
ferent will it be with the manufacturing States
of the East. The East Is manufacturing or Il is
nothing, and the effect Of southern secession up.
on IL will be such, that would not he surprised
If It should become depopulated TO the extent of
loosng three-fourtns OF its inhabitants-in that
proportion they must emigrate or starve. 10
1850 the statistics showed that the Southern
purchases from the North, annually amounted
to three hundred and fifty millions of dollars;
at this time it must reach nearly five hundred
millions, and the greater part of this consists In
Northern manufactures, and importations from
Europe into the North. -ll. - 45l
Now when all these hundreds of millions of
Northern manufactures, and Northern impor-
tations for the Southern market, become sud-
denly struck dead by the tariff to be instituted
by the new Southern Republic, then the North
ern shipping, and Northern commerce, and
Northern importations, aud Northern msnufac.
turing will be almost at an end-for Europe
has more skill and cheaper labor, and at the
same duty their goods can drive these Of the
North out of the Southern market. Then will
be seen In the north. east, such a state Of af-
fairs as has never been witnessed on this con-
tinent; and thank God the disaster will fall
heaviest on the heads of those who have done
the most to bring the catastrophe about. In ad
dition to Northern importations on Southern &C
count being stopped, with Northern ships lyinl
idle, Northorn cities deserted by their inhabi-
tants, and Northern city property rendered
valutless, and Northern manufacturing in al
its varieties, ended; there will also be great
danger of agrarianism being set on foot, and In.
sisted on and established by the hundreds OF
thousands of discharged operatives with theiI
starving families. II these, with the rest oi
the moneyless class, should rise up and foreibly
demand Of the wealthy an equal distribution Of
all the property, they would certainly succeed
In obtaining It. q All TT-
In the north eastof every twenty men there i
one rich aud nineteen poor-if these latter shoult
combine and organize and be led on by intelligen
leaders Gas was the case last winter 10 Lynl
and one or two other shoemaking towns In Mas
sschusetts, where the State militia was onl,
able to keep them In subjection by being quar-
tered on them for more than q month) an,
make the demand all over New England, 4
I would succeed, % Il once did in ancient Rome
| The poor possess the numbers requisite TO max
the success Of such an enterprise certain. Thei
numbers are relatively 90 great that they coul,
even accomplish IL legally through the ballo
box-but they may not fool away their time Il
meditating about legality. Now do you thinl
in the case of dissolution Of the Union that ther
would be no danger of an insurrection Of North
ern labor2 l. l-- TsrL ss9.t.r..
"On the other hand IL Is easy to see that th
South has everything to gain and nothing t,
lose by seeding and establishing an indepen
dent government Of her own. The revenue tar
III she will Institute will drain everything valu
able from the Northern Confederacy and emp
ty It into her own lap; 1t muet accomplish tn
double object of breaking down the Yanke
manufactures and building up the South as
great manufacturing nation The Ne'
England manufacturers having no longe
employment at home, would emigrate wit
their capital and machinery and opera
tives, into the midst of the Southern mar
ket, where they could have the privilege Of man
ulacturing and selling their productions withou
paying a duty, and where they would be protecI
ed by the Southern tariff from foreign compe
titioi. The South would do her own importing
and reap the prOft of II, Doing her own coast
ing trade, vast commercial marine would 500
build itself IN; Southern industrial pursuits O
every description would receive such an impe
tus ard labor be In 80 great demand that emf
I grafton from all parts Of the world would foe
to her, and she would before long fEd hersel
under the necessity Of annexing new States o
the South, as rapidly as ever the North did O
the West; also, the value of Southern land
would enhance, and Southern cities grow with
rspidity never before seen. New York will
transferred to New Orleans Boston TO Mobil
-PhiladeIphis 70 Charleston, Norfolk, &c.
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