The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1861-07-03

aroused her from her protracted slumbers;
you encountered IL more formidable foe than
the whole race of Cvclops. You are no W
abont To drive Oft Kentucky aud Missouri
and one more of your impolilic measures
will give us more than we would have
asked
Your present blockade will develop pow
crs IN our people. and resources in our
country not before known Tennes>ee,
Kentucky and Missouri Will supply us with
grain, stock and bacon Florida and Lou
/ islana with sugar and mola-scs. South
Carolina and Georgia with rice. And inde
pendent liberty loving old Rip what has
she not got She il capable OF being a
kingdom within herself. Sine has gold sill
vcr. copper, iron, coal, lumber, turprnline
grains and grapes of all kinds, all the semi.
tropical fruits. kentucky and Missouri will
produce as much hemp aS will he needed
to wrap our cotton and have II very Ie-pec
table surplus to spare vou. And let mo
tell you. sr, il is an article very much need
ed in and around Washing to wrap
cotton. but 10 cincture lil:Ie isthmuses of
flesh
Now what will your little petty Yankee
Kingdom do without our cotton Z What
viii lonr capitalists aud operatives do g
~ Ildt VIII DecDi1e Oh your mills ana prln-
ting works ! If this mai'sprinI Of all your
prosperity is b:okcn Will not your kingdom
Ds weakened And when the pre- sent sup
ply of France and England is exhausted
will they suffer your flnntici-m aud vindc-
tive resentment to blast and destroy lncir
prosperity A. soon a. they need our
great staple their fleets will be sent here To
protect their COMMERCE ; aud then your
nd a tax, nm
Iiae OF run, aud it viii run faster than it
did from the little Savannah schouner.
Your blockade will neneIit Us in another
respect. 1t will nrcc,si,aie policy on our
part tnat ought I"ngn go To have been
nd"pted--!O manufacturing for home sup
pIes. When ] stand Oh the margin OF our
III Jesic NaIa" bn, aud survey the immen>e
facilities and encuuragements ut aud around
l'rnds Ford ] wonder why Lowell ANA
Linn and M"rnac &c We're ever built up
and sustained by Southern c0nsumrrs
When Niessrs Curctun aud Fos.r Jones
ana Gu view enterprise III it, irnc iign', II
new era III our prosperity and greatness Will
commence aud your little wooden nutmeg
Yankees viii no longer be enriched by our
Iabors and, Jrshuruu Iikr,kirk ut their behe.
factors What will tue constituents OF
J our lear ed and lo.i-ned rail splitter"
and the il"o,icr- ard Buckeyes do for III.
want OF commercial Intercourse witu Mis-
sissIppl aud Louisiana This block ad. Will
not last long ill old Abc's friends at home
" III he glad to,src him driven from Wash
Ingi"n and engage "is original employment
and YOU. sir, Al his side Then the world
would eXcaim par nOhile trdtrUm And
II Is my candid "pi"Ion hone-tcr aud better
men tnan either of you nav, been SEM on II
visit TO Sing 81. & lnmr blockade reminds
me of the awk ward Su"tchmun. who at
tempted with reap-' ook To kill II sdrpent.
but unfortunately cut oil his own mead IL
is freely admitted your blockade will sub
Irct uE for II time to some Inconvenience,
hut take care L does not eVentuuje in more
disaster I" yourselves la conclusion |
have only one request To make, aud that
just and reasonable. 1t is lhis-ju,t let
II, alone Recall yOur hungry lrcherous
Yankees. Feed Them upon ,onr own soil,
aud nj your own expense. We do not want
To shed their blood. We want none Of y0ur
property MI We want is our okn And
it YOU will not let us have il in peace, We
viii have it by force. II You viii keep
sending your dastardIy minions we viii
sent them back with day Igat shining
through them, or with hemp round their
neckS. We have no pleasure in these things
We deeply drpi"re them. But you force
The necessity upon us. And at your
threshold lies the responsibility.
SILVANUS URBAN