The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-06-23
THE NORTH AND THE sOUTya.
in tho Free and
.sSlaycc states.
From the Old Guard, Nav, 1864.

From the Old Guard, May, 1851
"The poverty of the South" The
barbarism Of the South" Wrctchcdncss
and Generalization in consequence of
slavery" "What the North suffers
from slavery" "lrrclgion of slave
holders" The curse OF slavery This
has been the harp of thousand strings,
played on with alacrity and skill by clcr-
gyman, politicians, tract distributors, and
ali sorts ofsocial jugglers, here in the
North, until all grades in the community
have adopted the scnscless jargon as a con-
clusion, not only foregone, but ioreordan-
cd and divine
In this article we propose to lay the fg-
urcs and the facts touching this matter,
plainly before our readers. We do not
hope that the truth will open the eyes of
the victims of the Abolition fanaticism,
but it my possibly save some from follow
ing the multitude into the dishonoring,
the bloody delusion. The truth is, that
negro slavery" has Dccn a curse to nci-
ther North nor South, but has been a bcs-
sing to both, as the history and the figures
will show. We state the question thus
plainly, because vc mean to challenge
contradiction. It is said that there is such
a thing as a man telling lie until he him
self believes it to be truth. And the
Abolitionists may have repeated their
SANDERS and falsehoods until they believe
them to be true; but their leaders GO not
believe them 50 implicitly that they dare
risk q fair and public debate upon them.
They are brave at assertions, dogmatism
noise, and wordy defiance but they flee
within the covert Of prejudice and ingo-
rance at the approach of any man who
proposes TO argue the point with them
Their facts are the inventions Of impostcrs
Their lcgic the ycis of the howling der
wishes. Foolish and malicious. Behold
the abomination oftheir pretcntions in thc
following statistical records of the two sec
tions of our country:
/. How has the North suffered By
.. uegro slavery" in the South? 1t has
grown rich of OF the procccdso Of slavery"
labor The merchants the manufacturers,
the mechanics, and all classes o! laboring
mon here in the North have been Immense
" benefited by the fruits OF negro slave
~ in the South. More than tHo-thirds
Of the mercantile manufacturing and IN
dustrial operations OF the North are based
upon tie 'slayo' labor of the South
Strike down this "slave" labor, and you
sweep out Of existaucc two-thlrds
Of the commerce OF the United
States al single blow The United
States Treasury tables of 1859 show that
our exports Of that year were S27S ,392,-
Os0; of which. Sis .000, 600 were ofI
southern origin, while $1,000, 900 only
were OF northern origin. While the South
prod ices more than two-thirds Of the ex-
ports OF the country, the North reaps main
ly the commercial advantages arising
thcrcfrom The Treasury tables Of 1850
show that the tunnacc Of the North was
,S3l $50 tuns, while that of the South
WIS only 391 SIS tuns; and TO employ this
shipping, the North furnished only S3
00,000 worth of freight the South fur
nishcd 81 10000 worth
While the South furnished six-sevenths
of the freight, she had less than one sixth
Of the tunnagc, thus throwing almost all
of the immense profits of the carrying
business into the pockets of the NORTH
The South has not only kept our ships
and merchants but she has also given
employment to our mechanics, artizans
and laborcrs In 1850, We sold the South
goods For our owl. manufacture to the val
uc of $40, ,000,0 900.
We sold them imported goods. which
we paid for abroad by southern exports,
S106 000,0G0.
The interest anl brokerage we made out
of the South that year, SG3, 100, 900.
Money spent in the North By southern
visitors, tradcsmcn, travellers, etc, during
year, s53, ,750,314.
Making our total business with the
South that year, s462 ,56O,374
That is the way VIC have suffered by the
South. That IS the way the Sorth has
wronged us. She has given employment
to our merchants, mechanics and laborers,
to such an extent that we may truly say
we owe our prosperity to her. The pro
ductiou of southern "slavc" labor has been
the great motive battery that has driven
nearly all the industrial operations of the
North. The Treasury tables of the Uni
ted States show that not only our com
mercc, but the whole of our industrial in
tcrests have kept pace with the increase