New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-22
Southern Commerce.
From the ouaehi.a Herald Camden. Al,

From the Ouachitn Herald Camden, Ark.)
Now that the war is over and the people have
generally quietly acquesced in the result, it be-
comes necessary for the people of the South to
look to their commercial interest. Heretofore the
Northern cities have enjoyed the monopoly Of the
trade OF the Southern merchants, and they will
continue to do SO unless more public spirit IS
brought to bear on the interests of Southern cities
This becomes absolutely necessary for the general
welfare OF the States bordering on the Gulf Of
Mexico. We would urge it as indispensable to the
future prosperity of the South 4f fs
Why should New York, Boston, Phnadelphia
and other Northern cities monopolize the direct
trade with Europe? Why not New Orleans, the
Southern emporium, import directly from Euro
hand by the Northern cities IT is true that the
old capitalists of the South have become measur~
ably insolvent by the operations Of the war--bnt
cannot foreign, or even Northern capital seek our
Southern cities and thereby Obgiate the necessity
Of this second hand purchase through Northern
capital and Northern cities, building up prncey
emporiums of merchandise, and resldenees. N Ny
Orleans is properly the market Tor LOUISIANA, MIS-
sissippi, Arkansas and Texas and II the merchants
of that city will properly represent her interest," III
q liberal spirit we feel assured that tne states
named viii not prove 80 far recreant 10 theH pes6
| interests as to seek any other market.
1t seems to us that every Southern merchant
who aids to build up and sustain Ihs Northern
commercial cities to the prejudice OF his own Sec
ton aclsnganst bis own Interest e a. present and
cnn we'll iudge by the past that their interest is
mreIv identified with the cities of the South, and
| that Southern merchants must know that their
pecnniary life blood is drawn from Southern soil.
| Therefore, let Southern farmers and merchants
| sunport Southern commercial interests. Let our
merchants in New Orleans import directly from
Europe such goods as are required from abroad.
and then orr agricultural products will reach the
same source directly. But whist we mako the
Northern cities the ports of imports, we shall Be
compelled to a great extent to make them our
ports of exports. And whether the latter neces.
sarily follows or not, we know that at the closing
Of the fiscal year the balance of trade will be
against us. T s7TfD
We would further seriously urge on the CONNER
;ial and property capitalists of the city Of New
Orleans. the necessity Of aiding and assisting in
III possible ways tue development of the .agricul-
.nra interest of the sections of the country here.
,oiore doing business with that city. We mention
his more particularly, as it is to our knowledge
mat during the past summer our locality has been
infested with agents of commercial houses from
Memphis, st. Louis and Cincinnati, with view 10
vert the trade of this section to those Cities and
we regret to say that several thousand bales OF
cotton havegone to those markets via Pine Blum
and Gaines Landing, which have heretofore gone
to New Orleans. In conclusion, feeling direct
interest with our Southern city of New Orleans,
we would urge them to seriously consider the mat
ter, and to use their best efforts, by eVinoing q
liberal spirit, to counterfeit the exertlons being
made to take the trade of onr locality from them.