The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-09

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8. P. Kinard, Newbcrry.
Samuel Drouthitt, Greenville G. H..
VIM. Moore, Abbeville @. II.
julius Poppe, Anderson c. n.
TRADE WITH OUR OWN C1r1Es.-The
gigantic struggle through which we
have passed, has taught the people
of the South many lessons which will
be useful in the future. Not the least
unfortunate of these. is that we were
able to live for years without the aid
of New York or New England. Ne
cessity required that we should de-
velop manufacturing interests, and
they were developed with rapidity
Talents which the most sanguine
could not have dreamed were possess
ed by the Southern people, sprang
into existence. Direct trade with
Europe was required, and in spite of
a stringent blockade, the products of
way to our shores.
These lessons should not be forgot
ten. While we have no enmities to
remember, we should remember that
if we were able to break for four years
the chain of dependence which link
ed us to the markets of the North,
we need never allow that chain to be
re-inked. This can only be effect
ed by Southern merchants trading
with Southern merchants. BY build
ing up our own cities, we build up
the entire Southern country, which
by letting those cities langmsh we
may apparently thrive for the time
being, to be crushed eventually by
the great Leviathan Which swallows
up all within its reach.
In urging these views, we do not
pretend to advise that men should
buy at any market other than that at
which they can buy cheapest; or sell
to any market other than that in
which they can sell to the best advan-
tage; but we do mean to say that at
some point like Charleston, the South
ern merchant can accomplish two
results important to himself, and at
least one to the entire people of the
South. The first advantage that he
acquires for himself, is that while he
is able to buy as cheaply as in New
York, he can get his goods at. least
five or seven days earlier than can his
neighbor who purchases in New York.
The second advantage that he de-
rives, is, that he builds up money
centre near his home, and when
credits are re-established, he will be
able to control his liabilities much
more easily than he would be able to
do in New York, which is much
further from his home. The advan-
tage to the entire people of the South
is to be found in the fact, if great
commercial centres are established at
the South, and they can only be es-
tablished by Southern enterprise and
Southern good will, they will be fol-
lowed by the establishment of manu-
featuring centres which will give &
large home market for much of the
raw material which we now send to
New York and Liverpool-thep profit
on which is made at those points and
not at home.
Trade with Charleston. Her net
work of railroads makes her the most
desirable point at which the n1er-
chants of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Tennessee can buy. The
same men who traded directly with
Europe during the war, are still in her
midst and engaged in business. The
city is being rebuilt. Trade has al
ready re-opened. A large stock of
goods is on hand, and the spring as-
sortment will be worthy of examina-
ton.
Trade with Charleston. for your
own advantage, for the advantage OF
your customers, for your love of the
development of Southern resources,
and for the memories which cluster
around that grand old city, as proved
in the desolation which has visited
her as she was noble and brave in de-
fence of those principles which she
believed to be true.
augusta Chronicle.
The New York Post thinks the ex.
treme men in Congress have disco
vered that they have got to deal will