The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-09


can furnish bread stuffs to Western Eu.
rope cheaper than they can be furnished b,
US. our prosperity never can be restored
J, through that source of commerce.
u 1t is thus plain that the loss of the South
u ern market must be the loss of the North
!, Westerns prosperity.
S If we abandon the idea of raising up
Union sentiment in the Southern States. and
rely upon conquest and subjugation, then
!, were these ends possible, we would be nc
nearer than we now are to our lost advan-
tages, for should the Southern people be
: conquered, there would remain in them a
, spirit of hatred, which to say the least OF
consequences, would make them the grow
ers of their own food; and to destroy or an
nhilate them-an idea that we can scarcely
pen without shudder. at the very thought
of having men among US, base enough to en-
tertain it-would be to destroy the whole
Southern market, for dead men need no
provisions. When the turf has once closed
upon them, and the night of desolaton set
tied on their once happy homes, all their
earthly wants are then supplied.
To destroy the institution of slavery, by
breaking the relation of slave and master,
would be as disastrous anuihiliaton, for
free negroes, unsupported by white men. are
drones the commercial world. Their
conception of liberty are exemptions from
labor, conditions which grow no cotton, nor
in any other way produce material wealth.
Freed negroes could, it is true, consume our
provisions, but our wary merchant will be
very careful not to sell to people who are
unable to pay.
The great prosperity of the Northwest
has grown directly out Of Slave labor, ard
the folly of England and France in regard
to it. About thirty years ago those two ma
! tions, in their visionary ideas of freedom,
abolished slavery in their Am erican posses
sions. Soon after these events, the cotto n
gin was invented, and other improvem ents
made in the manufacture of cotton fabrics.
These created a demand for the Southern
staple. But no demand could induce the
freed negroes of the West Indies to be eX-
tensive producers. They, like their pro-
genitors in Africa, preferred lying down in
the shade. AS a consequence. the world
became dependent on the slave holding g
States of America. This dependence SO in :
creased the price of cotton, as to induce the
Southern planter to abandon all other pur-
suits. and, as we have above said, to rely or
the Northwestern farmer for his provisions.
Until 1910, Tennessee produced moro corn
than Ohio. But since then comparisons
have changed. Ohio is now much the
greater producer of that staple, unless the
war has driven Tennessee back to her for
mer productions. If so, and this change be
common over the whole South, then the
Northwest is the greatest sufferer, for it is
, change which has taught the Southern
people to raise their own bread and no longer
depend upon our staples.
The demand, which the demand for cot
ton, threw on the Northwestern States for
bread and provisions. sent flood of pros
pcrity over this entire northwestern country.
A rich market was found at home. This
caused our cities to raise and our forests
and prairies to come, as if by magic. into
cultivation. 1t was the lever of all power,
and the ind ducement of all growth. The
German, the Irshman, the Englishman, the
Scotchman, the Frenchman and the Italian,
come to our country to catch portion OF
that golden flood which drifted through
Southern cotton fields into the corn and
wheat fields of the Upper Mississippi VAL
ley. They come, no doubt, with various
localities, but they came because they saw
but from what cause, they may not have
kn6wn-a chance for bettering their condi-
ditions. They acquired lands, built houses,
in word, grew rich, and while SO growing,
cursed slavery while they were fattening on
its labors. In this wild career of contradic-
tions, they continued-particularly the Ger
mans-until they became the fiercest in the
great effort now making to destroy the great
cause of their prosperity. Few people, if
any, have ever shown such blind stupidity.
But we may save our shafts for objects near.
er home. The foreigner, falsely educated
in regard to American affairs, who has heard
of negro slavery but never seen its workings,
may indulge in wild and farcied specula-
tions. But when an American President,
citizen of the great Northwestern country,
and a native of a slave holding community
bends to the fan atcal lash and embarks
with the power of a nation in the same sui
cidal policy, m odesty, at least, demands for
bearance, in the blows aimed at lesser backs.
want of capacity may be an apology for
public as for private men. But ignorance,
even bunde er in a President, is worse than
a crime.
We have already exhausted the stores of
the nation. Three hundred thousand of our
young men have already been sert to un-
tim ely graves, debt of thousand millions
of dollars, in the short space of seventeen
months, has been heaped upon us. Taxes,
duties, and eXcses meet US in every thing
we eat. drink, sell or buy, and now, while
thus burd ened and diminished, shall the
war, which its friends admit to be failure
in the object for which it was Instituted, "to
raise up a Union spirit in the South ern
States" be continued to destroy the great
source and only hope of Northwestern pros
perity. For one we protest against it. If
Union be no longer attainable every other
object for which the war is waged, unless
for self-defence, should be at.once abandon
ed. America, which may some day be re-
quired to fight all Europe, should not be ex-
} hausted by her own feuds.
i DAVID QUINN.
:
the other day at Waterloo, and said he wa:
! in favor of four things, viz: emancipation
confscation, determination and damnatiOn -
Tbesa sentm ents we uproriously applauded