The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-09-26

of the war such has been the demand for good
that the.mefchants find it difficult to supply it
and many of the manufacturing establishment
of the North refusing to take further orders
1t is stated that southern merchants are buying
every conceivable article which is needed by
people who have been cut off from commercial
intercourse with the world for three years; an(
these purchases of necessary articles, moi
luxuries. 1t is also said that the Southern mer
chants who crowding the markets of the
North are we'll provided with money and prefer
to buy for cash; and not only so, but they are
paying off or making arrangements to settle their
ante-war debts. New York merchants say that
at least 75 per cent of their southern debts Will
be paid. These things show that if Cotton is not
King it is mighty Prince in commercial mat
tiers at least, for without the aid of cotton all
know that southern rchants could not now
buy goods or pay their old debts.
The Richmond Times truthfully remarks on
| this subject:
This unexpected abundance of money in the
pockets of Southern merchants show that there is
great deal of royalty about cotton yet The
present enormous price of that staple goes very
far to explain where this money from.
The receipt of cotton in the city of New York
alone, during the year ending the / st instant.
reached 100000 bales, and since the lst of Sept.
the weekly average has been $4,000 bales. When
it is recollected that it is estimated that there
were one million of bales of cotton in the South
ern States at the close of the war, valued at
two hundred millions in greenbacks may form
some idea where merchants have obtained
their money. If the. quantity of cotton is less
than it was before the war, the price is much
higher. In 1860 the price of bale of cotton was
$52; in 196l-62 it had fallen to $45; whereas a
bale of cotton is worth $270. Hence it hap
pens that while 1,8493l2 bales of cotton sold for
only $92 465, geo in 1860, 271 0f5 bales sold for
S73.326,398 in 1865. SO far, therefore, as the
Southern States concerned, although as po-
litical autocrat cotton has been dethroned. it is
still commercial monarch, and yields power
greater than it did before the 1t is furnish
ing to the South the pecuniary means for rebuild
ing the burnt cities and restocking the desolated
plantations which the war stripped utterly bare.
Cotton. in paying the debts of the Southern
merchants. and in creating unprecedented de-
mand for whatever the North has TO sell, is play
ing the part of a great peacemaker. The New
York Times is right III the opinion, that ''com
merce is the grand solvent of hatreds 1t will do
far more than bayonets or martial law towards
obterating all resentment between the two
tons, and giving an era of kindly feeling and
cordial cooperation which. in consequence Of
slavery, we never yet have known
u For the third time we will say to North
ern Advertising Agents Chose who collect adver-
tisements to be inserted in southern papers) that
they need not send US advertisements unless they
send the money along with them. And we will
not promise to give such advertisements more
conspicuous place in our columns than others
we put all on the same footing. 1t would be to
the advantage of Northern merchants if they
would send their advertisements direct to south
ern papers, and not through Advertising gencies.
u The South Carolina Convention convened
the 18th inst. Judge Wardlaw was elected
President. On the 18th the Convention passed
ordinance repeating the ordinance of secession.
Three delegates voted against it, On the 10Th
ordinance abolishng slavery adopted
yeas 90, nays 6.
Gov. Perry's message to the Convention ac-
knowledges the death of slavery and counsels a
wise, just and humane treatment of the freedman,
by which they may become as strongly attached
to the whites whilst they slaves Legis-
lation, he says, will be required to regulate the
relative duties of employer and employee The
Governor suggests changes in the State Consti
tuition. making it more popular and Republican
in form. 1t is the reproach of South Carolina
that it is less SO than any other State in the I'M
ion. He is opposed to the extension of suffrage
to the freedmen in their present ignorant and
degraded condition, little less than folly and
madness. He contends that this is the white
mans government and the white mans only.
That the Supreme Court has decided that negroes
are not citizens, and that each State has the UNI
questioned right to decide for herself who shall
vote. He suggests the election by the people of
the Governor members of Congress, Legislature
and Presidential Electors directly by the people;
and that the Legislature should be elected and
convened in session to order election for Con-
gressmen before the first Monday of December.
Nha fnf ba will he hriU 1rlo
AS long as civilization continues, this great re-
public will flourish and increase in numbers.
wealth and grandeur. 10 less than ten years we
shall realize in the loss of slavery blessing in
disguise to ourselves and to children. He
notifies the convention of the re-establishment of
the civil law and courts. and the withdrawal of
the negro troops from the interior to the garrison
on the coast The presence of white troops, will.
he says, be necessary for some time to enforce
the relative duties of freedmen and employers
GOVERNOR PERRY TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
ColumbiasS c., Sept 10.
President Johnson: The Convention have repealcd
the Ordinance of Secession, The committee have
reported in favor of abolishing slavery equalizng
presentation electng the Governor and Presiden-
tal Electors by the people, and voting viva III
the Legislature, These measures will pass. Every
thing here is harmonious. Thompson, a delegate
irregulary elected by the Northern citizens at Beau
fort was permitted to take his seat.
B. F. PERRY
PLAIN TALK.-Gen: Geo. w. Morgan, demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, delivered
a speech at Elyria. Ohio, on the 18th inst, in
which he spoke of who to blame for the suf
ferings of the Anderscnville prisoners follows:
There is name. the sound of which fills
every heart with sadness-'Andersonville - 1t
was at once the prison and the tomb of thousands
of our children, eur brothers. and our friends -
The treatment they received at the hands of the