The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-16
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Blockade Hurts ,he North.
The wealth and prosperity of the North are
not to DO denied; but it is dependent and not
self-sustainiDg. The manufactures Of the
North can flourish only while they have ample
markets open for their goods. If these mar
ke,s are closed, the manufactures cease to
flourish and TO exist. Then the very labor
which before was wealth and power, becomes
. charge and a burden. So with her ship
ping Nopeoplo in the world were so wealthy
as the North in ships and sailors: but, deprive
those of the trade upon which they subsisted,
and you convert their searnen into vagrants'
their marine into d dead and rotting invest
mept The like is the case with all the ma
chinery, equipments and outfit of commerce.
The fine buildings of the cities, the army Of
elerka. tho merchant princes, tho great cities
themselves, all lose their occupation, and be-
come a charge and burden to the country.
consumers of food and no longer producers of
wealth, on tho cessation of business.
No wealth and no prosperity is really in
trinsio and independent except that Of an ag-
ricul,ura people. They can stand b1ockades
and the stoppage Of trade; but the inanu'ac-
turers cannot. They can cease to buy and
cell and yet continue TO live; but merchants
aad book keepers and bankers cannot. They
An subsist il comfort, though not pound Of
freight pass from port to port; but COM
munity Of ship-ow and sailors cannot.
The LIsooLy Government is inauguratiDg
precisely the policy which must ruin the
North To stop tho Southern trade is to
paralyze the North, which almost monopoi2ed
theee markets. To stop up the Southern ports
/. 70 destroy the American eoashng trade.
which oroated and sustained the Northern
merchant marine, the largest and best in the
world To prevent the South from buying
merchandize from tho North is to coufcr y
substantial benefit upon her, while depriving
the North Of her lar est and most prof table
customer. Instead of raising barriers against
commercial intercourse, the clear policy of
LINCOLN would be TO remove and keep down
oil barriers. If he did not undertake the
work for US, the South, in self-defence, would
have herself to intordct trade with the North,
and encounter great expense and odium in
enforcing the non-intercourse. But for his
proclamation Of blockade, We should have to
proclaim an embargo against all trade with
the North,
True, he may cut off tho Southern trade
with Europe but the South would not gain
noro from this commerce than she North would
gain by such trade rs, but for LINCoLS's pol
10y, it could oontrive to keep open with the
South. Nor will the odiun which the North
will incur in Europe from the blockade be
loss injurious to itself than an Introduction Of
6outhern trade with Europe will be to us. The
embargo established at Cairo seems especially
Injurious 70 tho interests Of the North. 1t
prevents Western produce vendors from s.nd-
Ing their provision stufls to market 1t pre-
vents Northern manufacturers from procuring
cotton for their mills. The loss by the South
OF tho sums it might obtain from that dlrcc-
ton is most iucon siderable, comp AIRED with the
loss which the Western produce growers and
Northern manufae turers must sustain by thus
blocking up of the Mississippi. The right
hand Of the North seems in these things to
have forgot its cunning. In the desperation
Of its anger, the fangs of that section seem to
have been turned upon itself.
The true policy Of tho North would seem
to US to have been the very opposite one to
that they are pursuing. They should have
disdained to attack commerce, to stihe bust
ness, which are the breaths of Northern life
they should have eschewed the thought OF
blockade. The manly course was the true one
for them to pursue that Of naked coercion
plain, downright hard fighting. They were
the commercial, they the shipping, they the
trading section aid in attacking these inter
ests, tho Washington Administration have at
tackled the vitals of Northern prosperity.
The blockade and its kindred measures will
be great advantage to the South. 1t will set
on foot y thousand branches of manufacture
which would never have taken spontaneous
root in the South. How very many classes of
manufacture there are connected with the
equipment Of ARMIES. Half the wants of do
mes.o life are supplied by the sans factories
which provide the outfit of the soldiur. If
We arv uadc 10 manufacture ali the articles re-
quisite III war within ourselves, we shall con-
tinue to manufacture them when the war shall
have ceased. Nc sooner has Gen. ScoTrs list of
things euntraband of war been made public,
than immediate steps are taken in Richmond
- manufacture here all that was not manufac-
turcd before. All that We ever wanted for the
establishment Of these manufactures in the
South, was prohibition OF the Northern riva
article. NJ sooncr is that prohibition decreed
BY LINCOLN, than the new mauutac ,ure
eprings up spontaneously around US. Surely
are the fates working Tor US III this esntest.
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