The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-06
NEW ENGLAND.
irhc First Crime OF New England
Against Agriculturc-She Des-
trOyed our National Market.

Against AgriCuiturc-Shc feH-
trOyed our National Market.
The people OF the immediate Mississippi
Valley were corn and hog growers, mule
and cattle raisers. The vast natural mead
ows opened up hearding grounds unsur-
passed In the natural history Of the world.
Scarcely had the buffalo taken up his
westward line Of march. until the Devon
shire and Durham covered the plains In
such multitudes and droyes as promised
meat and leather for the whole continent
Wherever the furrow was turned the
ploughman was repaid with return which
invited immigration from every part oithe
world. SucR was the character and en-
ployment OF the people from Lake Pcpin
TO st. Louis, east and west of the Mighty
Waters.
They were the natural feeders Of the
people of the lower Mississippi, who were
raising cotton, sugar, hemp, tobacco aud
rice. Our people were at peace with these
people. They paid us well and promptly,
and opened up for us market sure and
and perpetual.
They sold their products to every monied
country In the civilized world, and paid us
money for everything they bought, and
everything we raised they were anxious to
buy,
We both lived on the banks on the Mis-
sissippi, without great capital, with a small
amount of labor and at Il trlfling cost.
Our people built barges, loaded them with
corn, put their horses aud cattle and swine
on steamboats, and in q few days they sold
their produce and made an early return.
In this way we could have lived as peacea-
BILE neighbors forever.
New England bought her cotton from
our ncighbors of the Lower Mississippi.
She wrought it into goods. We bought
them and asked no questions.
The manufacturers of New England
grew rich, and shared the general pros
perity of the country. With this she was
not satisfied. She sent wicked men to dis
seminate mischief among the people. She
made open, actual war upon the troops of
the United States, levied war upon the flag
of the Union as tar back ms 1850. She got
bad and reckless wicked men in Iowa to
engage In civil war; and the Governor of
the State to furnish arms to begin the ter
rible civil war. The history is before you.
Shame throws her mantle over these crimes,
and blushes for the country.
Through the instigation of New England,
we sent troops to burn up the cotton fields
After the return of our troops we had to
burn up our own corn-fields. for there was
nobody to buy our corn. We had ruined
our only customers. We could not send
our corn to New England without selling
five bushels mt home to pay the freight of
one hushel to market.
The excuse of New England was, her
conscientious scrnples against the crime OF
human slavery. This WIS the merest pre-
tence; for, at the very time they were
clamoring against the wickedness of slav-
cry, which separated families, the Cover
nor of Massachusetts was engaged in send
ing ship loads of women away from the
state to hunt husbands on the slope of the
Pacific, aud many of whom landed In New
York brothels. But New England had Il
purpose in no wise inconsistent with her
early slave trading history. This purpose
was to divert our trade and enslave our
labor, to pension manufacturers and create
lordlings in an untaNed, bonded aristoc-
racy. This she accomplished by her first
great crime.