The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-17

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par9 Of the late United 6tates feels The
war more severely than the great North.
west. 1t Is almost exclusively agri.
cdhusal; and It's productions are the cereals
alone. those which yield the smallest profit 70
the farmer. BY means Of The cheap navisa-
sioa Of the Ohio, Mississippi, and Missoari
rivers, lie farmers could deliver their grain a.
New Orleans fer expectation Mt very small
COS. and the immense quantity sent thither
was indicatedby the fact that next TO New York,
Itself exporting more grain than anything
else, New Orleans was the largest exporting
city in the Union. The cheap transportation
they enjoyed for their grain enabled them 70
pocket very fair net prices from the saie vi II;
and the same great avenues of navigation
brought merchandise in return to them very
nearly IT manufacturers prices. Thus, the
farmers of the Northwest enjoyed the two
essential advantages for a profitable agricul-
sure, that of receiving nearly last prices for
their grain, and Of obtaining their merohan-
die u, nearly first prices. 1t is true that they
enjoyed several Lines Of railway for reach
plying the meaas Of tran sporta,ion, served only
TO cheaper II, while Totally inadequate of them.
selves to accommodate the mighty bulk of
Western trade.
They sold, moreover q great deal OF grain,
in the form of -four or meat, 70 the Southern
States. The culture Of cotton, III these last,
paid four or FIVE hundred dollars per anuum
for each hand while that of grain paid only
about oue.t bird that sum. The case was sim
liar as TO sugar. Of course the tendency OF
this circumstance was TO throw the whole
force Of the planter upon the profitable sta
pies, and to produce demand throughout the
cotton and sugar States for Northwestern
farm products. 1t is said that seventy-fi
mi lions of pounds of bacon alone were thus
supplied from this quarter to'the South, aud
of course We are to infer that the grain fur
nished was in commensurate amount. The
war has put a stop to this vast demand from
the South, and cut OIL the Northwest from
its, largest and most profitable market. 1t Can
only export produce now by way of the lakes
and by railroads through New Yerk, over
routes doubly as expensive as the natural
channels Of great rivers, the lake routes closed
in winter, and the railways Inadequate to the
business, and charging their own prices.
The South, instead of starving, is simply
raising less cotton and sugar, and growing
more corn, hogs, and cattle. Ii was the siIlicst
and shallOwest experinentever embarked upon
by sensible people; that of starving their own
best customers by depriving themselves OF
their own best market. They lind to their con-
fusion that they are the greatest sufferers.
The delusion that we are to be starved has
at last been given up; and the Northwest ut
least are signing i'll their secret hearts for
peace. They are the starved party, starving
for want Of that remuneration for labor, which
brings thrift, wealth and prosperity, and the
want of which brings poverty and distress
The experiment has completely failed; so
fur AS the expected exhaustion of the South is
concerned. Our land teens with all articles
of native production; there is scarcity in no.
thing except in things that were imported.
among which the only necessary of life is salt.
There ia no article which the Yankees have
In surplus that we ourselves cannot also pro-
duce in equal superabundance and, SO far
from the war teaching lis our dependence up
on that race, it has demonstrated to us pre.
cisely the opposite truth. In little while
we shall have supplied all deficiencies which
our long habits of trade had led us to derive
from the North aid the war is the only
measure which could have produced that
oCny{efa salf 1apapIopca "a.
most happy consequence to the South. =
The experience Of the Northwest is only An
aggravation of what is felt all over the North
. at the loss of Southern trade Where two
communities are 80 extensively and multifari-
ously engaged in mutual trade, as were these
two sections the cessation Of that trade can
not operate exclusively to the prejudice of one
of the parties only. On the contrary where
one community are producers and the other
merely manufacturers and carriers, the latter
are. sure to feel the effect most severely.
DIsLoYAL AND DANGEROUS INHAEITANTs.-
There are two elements of Southern society,
and occupying opposite extremes in the socisJ
organization, on whose CO. operation the North
confidently calculated in the beginning of thiS
war, both of which have signally disap
pointed our short-sighted enemies One of
them was the old Union party, composed of
gentlemen who, possessing large, if not the
largest, amount of slave property in the South,
was yet ardently attached to the old Govern
ment 1t is needless to say that in this calcu-
lation they have been sigrially disappointed,
Tor as soon AS the real designs of the Lincoln
despotism We're understood by the Unionists,
they became the most fixed, nnforgiving, and
irreconcilable enemies of reconstruction of
the American Union to he found in the whole
South. Men who from their own magnan-
unity, and moderation, and stability of charac-
ter'are slow to suspect evil in others, never
permit themselves to be deceived more than
once. Their confidence once lost is lost for
same party again. For that reason the Union
men of the South have trampied all possibility
of reconstruction under their feet, and are
found through the whole length and breadth
of the Confederacy a ''stone walP' Of indom-
liable resistance TO the Northern invasion.
The other influence relied upon by the Lin
colnites was the servi.e population. But, in
instead of cooperating with the enemy, it
has never been more loyal. In those rural
districts where the servile population is most
dense there is no need even of a patrol, and
they are themselves the reliable protectors Of
the homes and property of their masters who
are engaged in the war