Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-01-02
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of articles for which they had been accustomed to de-
pend upon the North or upon Europe-or, in short,
upon other countries and sections The blockade cuts
the Confederate States of from any reliable or extern
sive supply from without What remedy is to be found
for this deprivation
This is question of great interest ADD it s therefore
one which ELECTS great many answers, especially from
the "abeeditor order OF statesmen-from those whose
business it is to amuse the public by talking boldly upon
all possible and impossible Subjects abusing all Others
and assuming to themselves vast wisdom and virtue
in comparison with which that ascrbed to George
Washington st hide it's diminished head.
The things we want are OF two kinds First, things
that are not the growth of the Confederate States
products of which the elements do not exist 10 such
States and second manufactures Of which all the ee
ments exist within the Confederate States ard only
await the application of skill and labor to their deveI
opement, and products which be raised here in su
Gent quantity bat not.
Under the first bead will properly tropical pro
ducts, and certain drugs, chemicals and dyestufs for
some of which it might be difficult to End substitute
while for Others it would be impossible But these inn
possibilities properly under the head Ct Injuries
and can be done without.
Under the second head will properly all manner
of manufactured articles we'll agricultural pro-
ducts which can be made or raised among but have
not heretofore been either made or raised 10 quantities
at all equal to the demand and for which, n fact we
have been in the habit of depending on others We
have in truth, we here in Wilmington, we mean,-de
pended much upon the North for butter aud tor bay
as have for buckets and for harness. All things
then that be might be raised among U.s. but have
not heretofore been made or raised, not in sufficient
quantities. will come under the second head.
For the first class of artices-hose OF which the ee-
ments do not exist in our territory, must deptnd
either upon finding substitutes running tie blockade or
doing without them. Happily, substitutes can be found
for neary ALL aud those for which substitutes cannot be
found, can be dispensed with in most cases.
The second class, composed of articles that can and
may be made raised here, but are not yet made or
raised in quantities adequate to the demand, nor IN
quality such as they might be, is the most important
and pressing Manufactures of cotton, WOOL iron wood
leather twine rope, etc, also butter buckets and
hundred other necessaries form desideratun-a thir
that must be attended to. Fhe small of things that
must come from abroad if at ALL can probably be read
y dispensed with for the time being if not they can
they will bring in Southern markets will stimulate some
parties to smugge 10 sufficient amount of drugs for
all useful purposes.
The remedy proposed by some of the policy mongers
by which they to expect great results, amounting
to nothing less than naturalization of the blockade
and full foreign supply of all needed articles is simply
to declare all the Confederate PORTS free to all fOreg
shipping Except the United Sates for say five years
To abolish all tariffs for that tme and let everything
be brought in duty free. We have seen this projec
very graveIy agitated,
The Tariff of the Confederate States is low. o.
many articles it is merely nomination is it owe
one-thrd or 1919 per cent-on average it does no
amount to Is per cent We doubt if it goes that high
Most of the articles that we most want are taxed 10,
, enough for anything.
II we, or any of our readers who know anything abol
the wants OF the community could go abroad and pul
chase assorted cargo of Blankets staple drugs sal
Coffee sewing silk, spool cotton, number of othe
things that skilled trader might name, and could &C
them safe into any Confederate port, the profits woul
not be less than four to five dollars on every one doa
invested. That inducement exists for parties
run the blockade Is it possible that parties havin
before them the temptation of four five dollars o
every dollar, deferred from making the ventur
the idea of having to pay Is to Is cents the do
lar of duty, or that saving of few cents will Undue
men to risk to which dollars have not temple
them? No. So far then this thing OF turning por
open for any definite number of years is concerned it
sheer folly if the object be to induce parties run Il
IL blockade. In fact it is too ridiculous to waste wore
d upon.
. But if, as must be apparent this abolition of duti
~ could have effect in neuralizug the blockade by
erlng inducements to parties to run it, and,
quence could add nothing to supply of necessari
to be obtained from abroad what would be its effect
the production of such articles among ourselves
While the war, and, per consequence, the blockac
lasts, manufacturers have sufficient protection again
foreign competition. They have an absolute prohiI
D. tion But they say This is but for uncertain tim
In we know not when the may cease the bIocka
be broken up. To manufacture largely to advanta,
it we must put up extensive machinery This machinel
It, with the buildings containing it, must be put up at
rates. and when the ends must necessarily depre
d. ate largely in value when it comes into competition wi
other machinery put up under all the advantages fri
which the Southern manufacturers were cut of VIII
70 erecting THEIRS If manufacturers know exactly WI
r. to calculate they could do better by themsel,
nv and by the public If az exact calculation co,
en be made, those in any particular business wou
?" haze to do the best, by the mere force of com
as ttion, we the best that the circumstan
u would allow. If then we add to the fear OF loss
~ depreciation incident to the state of transition fir
80 to peace or rather from blockaded to open Dol
the certainty of being deprived in that event of a
o. even the slightest incidental protection which due