Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-01-07
lPoR THE WHOLE
'JuSt,ua ct tenaett1n prqposiE UHsn,
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i or the evpcutlon OF Savannah"
Fam 10th 90 deny to any of your confreres OF. the
press any of the old Roman virtues but it does seem
that al least has been frightened from his pro-
priety by the untowari events IN Georgia and Ten
nessee.
lie has declared that, to secure the protection OF
EGrsat Britain and Frsncc, on condition Of the aboli-
zion of slavery, rather than continue the war, he
would be prepared TO urge the measure upon his
readers that he believes such proposition would
be fvoraby received and acted by those nations,
and ought to be made to them.
| one swallow does not make summer; nor does
one editor express the sentiments Of the people OF
the Confederate States.
The hrst idea suggested by this proposition is that
the Confederate Government, which alone, under the
Constitution; can treat with any foreign Government
has NJ. Jurisdiction whatever over the subject. That
is reserved TO the States
ID It may be answered in the language of Mr.
Roberta Walker, in his letter OF 9Th January Is44
in favor of the annexation Of Texas Speaking of the
Abolition party lie said
Let US all, then, feel and know, whether we live
North South, that this party, if not yanquished
must overthrow the Government and dissolve the
| Union This party propose the immediate abo-
IiOn of slavery throughout tie Union, Ii this were
lpraStcdUle, look az consequences; by the
returns OF tie savehoding Statessin 1910 amounting
in value TO S4O4 429, 36s. These products then, OF
the South must have alone euabled II to furnish q
home market for all the surplus manufactures ofthe
North as also amarket for the product OF its forests
and tisheries-and giving mighty impulse to all its
commercial and navigating interests. Now, nearly
all these agricultural products OF the South which
accomplish all these great purposes is the result of
tsave-abOr and, strike down these products by the
| immediate abolition of slavery and the markets OF
L.. = .f.s
Zoe lost TO the people of the North; and North aud
South will be involved in common ruin. Yes
III the harbUrs OF the North (at Philadelphia, New
| York and Boston, the vessels would rot at their
wharves tor want of exchangeable products to car
~ the building OF ships would cease, and the grass
4 would grow in many street now enyened by
active and progressive industry. la the interior
the railroads and canals would languish for want OF
business and the factories and manufacturing towns
and cities, decaying and deserted would stand as
blasted monuments OF the folly OF man. One uni
/ ycrsal bankruptcy would overspread the country
together with all the decentralization and crime which
ever accompany such catastrophe and the notices
al every corner would point only 10 sales eXecu-
cutiOn BY the constable. the sheriff, the marshal
and the auctUneer; whilst the beggars would ask
in the streets not to- money, but Tor bread. Dark
as the picture may be, IL could not exceed the
gloomy reality. Such would be the effects in the
North, whilst in the SOuth.no human heart can con
ceve nor pen describe, the dreadful consequences
Il
slaves being emauCipated not by the South, but by
the North would y there for safety and protection
aud three millions OF free blacks would be thrown at
once, Is II by CONFUSION of nature, upon the
States of tlN North. They would come there, to
their friends Of the North Sho had given them see
dom 10 give them also habtaton, food and cloth.
lug and-Uot having il To give, many of them would
perish from want and exposure whilst the wretched
remainder would De Lett 10 live as they could, 10y
theft OF charity they would still lie n degraded
Il ,plt win h. tv nf free
dom ~ few might earn wretched and precarlous
Subsistence by competing with the white laborer OF
the North. and reducing their wages to the lowest
point IN the sliding sra!e Of starvation and misery
whilst the poor house and the jail thg asylpms OF
the deaf and dumb the blind the idiot aud insane,
would be filled T. OVERLOOKING ii indeed any asylum
could be afforded TO the millions of the negro race
whoa wretchednesS and crime would drive 10 des-
PAIR and madness
Tihs picture OF the desolating consequences OF
abolition is the less truthful and exact, because
otthe fact that Walker has since been bought ,o
price by, and is working for snd in the pay Of
the same party whose destructive tendencies he 50
graphically portrayed in ls44. What he said then Of
its effects upon the SHIPPING railroads, canals, faeto-
Iies aud cities OF the North D true now and applies
as we'll to those interests in England and France in
the Northern States. The consequences of abolition
have been experienced by England and France in their
West India Islands. British emancipation in the
West Indies a matter of poticO-economic calcu-
ation and arithmetic to increase tle value of their
East India Prosecutions. French emancipation was
more a matter OF mere sentiment; but il was that
| run-mad sentiment of - Liberty and Fraternity
which drowned itself out in the best blood OF France
i Whatever OF sentimental sympathy exists Tor us Ia
Europe springs from admiration Of gallant srug
gle Tor independence. Let the proposition OF the
Eaqaire 60 TO Europe as the sentiment of any arg'
number OF our people, and our friends there, nov
numerous active and increasing, would turn from u
IN disappointment and disgust as from cheats anC
crayens who had beguiled them INTO hisIt hced adj
miraton OF assumed heroism, while ohr false SHOW
OF courage was ready 10 ooze from tue fingers at thu
hrst appearance Of disaster.
The Governments Of Great Britain and France vii
be controlled, not by the exploded dOgmas OF ianati
cis, but by wise considerations Of the material in
terests of commerce. Reduce the Confederate State
BY the same measures to the now desert condition
Jamaica aud Hayti-tr6ldSted movements of the fol-
u of qnann-and neither England nor France wOul
have any inducement to turn on their heel TO cour
our friendship or secure our commerce, and nue.
less give protection. But let them begin fee
the cotton famine, heretofore delayed che Occumu
u latiOn OF old stocks hand in 1861 but clos
c upon them, and they will hasten to avert the disas
tiers TO themselves which will be the inevitable con
!, sequence of abolition.
The accurate aud reliable statistics of Mr. NJ
: | Henry in his able work on the cotton trade sfo'
that the imports Of cotton in 1860 into Great Br
o tain and Ireland from all
sources, were 3,4T7 $3.50 bales of 400 ID
! From the Conf States 2 Ts9r72S
The No. of spindles in Great Britain and Irelau
were............ -. "a, 600 OF
g The No. of spindles in France and other
e European States Were -..... "A, OOO, On
The No of spndles in the Federal Anne
rican States were 5000, o.
1.-THE cotton which has entered into the commerC
Of the world threv-fourths has been contributed
the Confederate States and of the whole quant
grown in the world, two-thirds was produced fro
the soil Of the Confederate States and the increase
4 product of India, Notwithstanding the extreme his
"A prices has not been more than $50, 600 bales.
!, The consumption in Europe and America, IN 1856
~ by the mills, equal TO 5000, 600 bales viii
T. the actual consumption Of European and Americ.
machine made cotton goods by the inhabitants OF
- globe only 800 go This difference of 500
900 bales, with the accumuations of previous year
left old stock hand in 1861 in the shape Of "a
material and manufactured goods, equal to thr