The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-03-14

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The Southern government, it will be
seen, is making active preparations to
strengthen itself in case a difficulty should
arise with the Northern administration.
An army is now being rapidly organized
and equipped. BY the adoption of the
old and somewhat equitable tariff of the
United States, the South has gained an
immense advantage over the North, as
many articles of foreign merchandise will
belexcluded from our ports by the exorbi-
tant and in some cases prchibitory duties
imposed by the Morrill, tariff: and thus,
while importations will fall away in the
Northern cities, they will increase and
are even now increasing in the ports of
Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and
Charleston. At the same time that for
eign nations are seeking more friendly
ports with their goods, the products and
manufactures of the Northern States will
be subjected to an equal duty with for
eign manufactures on the Southern bor-
der-a measure which will prove protec-
tive of Southern industry and enterprise,
as we'll as productive of considerable rev.
enue to the South.
Again, in the matter Of expansion the
Southern confederacy has much the ad-
vantage over the Northern. There are
the cotton lands of Mexico, which, in the
ordinary course of things, may probably
be absorbed by the Southern section, and
ultimately, no doubt, Cuba also may be
annexed to the adjoining. free States on
this continent, and thus enjoy that inde-
pendence, as a member Of a selfgoverned
empire, for which her people have been
SO long pining; in which event the Gulf
of Mexico will be transformed, as it were,
into an inland lake, and the commerce of
the tropical States of both North and
South America will find q ready and
profitable mart for their products in the
various ports on the Gulf The resour-
ees of Mexico and the South American
States can thus be developed for the ben
eft of the Southern corfederacy, instead
of being converted, as they are now, to
the profit of England and France by
means Of the regular steam communica-
ton kept up between them and these lat
ter countries. The statesmen of the
South are not blind to the importance of
closer intimacy with Mexico and the
Republics Of Central and South America,
which has been restricted heretofore by
the selfish policy of Northern politicians !;
and now. that they are ut liberty to act
forthemselyes they will noldoubt endeavor
to divert, the trade of those countries
from European channels into their own
ports, even if their policy should not in
yolye Immediate measures of annexation.
And to counterbalance this adhesion of
commercial or territorial strength to the
Southern confederacy, what has the
Northern confederacy to fall back upon
Nothing but the annexation ofthe British
nrovinces. And what reason is there to
expect that anything short OF annexation
will increase the advantages which our
contiguity to British America now lnsures
MS? We cannot hope for any inordinate
growth of inter-trade' with the British
possessions. Unlike the Southern gov
ernment, we at the North can open up no
new fields of enterprise such as the un-
faHowed fields Of Mexico, Central Amer
lea and the South American republics
afford to the sagacity of the Southern
States. Wanting convenient market
for their products, much Of the most valu-