The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-01-11

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We call the readers special aucntion~-es-
lpocially ic like ourselves, he has no tears
TO shed while plymouth Rock Is bowling.
| Says the Ddy Rock
The curses which New England fo, the
past thirty years has visited upon Tho
South, are coming back upon her. rnd fear
lul will be the penalty she will have to pay.
To-day. she Is wringing her hlood-staincd
hands and crying wOCijllly over her wool
trade; but the present Is bright sunshine
compared with the darkness which is to
cnvelop her ere five years pass over. With
cotton, and sugar, and rice. and tobacco.
and manufactures almost completely wiped
out does Now England suppose She can
sell her annual S60,000,O0O 10 the section
| that raised those products as of old? Her
boot and shoe trade, which is now so rap
/ Idly declining, was, prior TO the war. s30,-
100000 per year with the slave States Her
Idry goods went south, many millions per
/ year, aud second only IN quantity to her
leather manufacturer New England sold
her fish south 70 tho extent of S3,OO0O0O
por year. Her furniture went there TO the
extent of over Si,0OO,0O0 yearly and her
ship-building was stimulated by Southern
lproducts to many thousands OF tuns per
annutn. New England, as a whole, sold To-
the South, OF manufactures, One-half the
INkkANkAAf tiltb Nllt NfllShN Nllultdittl tAh llt
sales OF Northern manufactures to that sec
tion. New England built per year. tun-
mage to the amount Of $25,OOO,0O0 to $780,
IOOOOOO mainly employed In carrying the
products we have alluded to.
| What did New England buy of the
South Boston alone, In 1859. received OF
cotton, S22,0O0000; wool. S1O00,000; hides,
81 l.000000; lumber, Sl,OO0,0O0; -four, So
100000: corn, ~, 100000; rice, $500, 600. to-
bacco. S3,O00000. Here are eight articles
only Of consumption. all from the South.
| footing up S3l, 100000 In value, arriving at
Boston yearly. Allowing for tho receipts
| from the South ut other New England
cities. Providence, New Haven, Hartford,
&C.. and the value also of molasses, naval
stores, beef pork, lard and other animal
| produce, hemp. early vegetables, oysters,
and other shell fish, game. etc, which ar
rive yearly at New England. we may be
allowed to foot up her annual receipts from
the South ut $JOOO0,OO0. In 1859, one-third
of all the -four sold In Boston was from
the commercial ports of the South. aud in
| the same year tVC-seVenths Of all the corn
sold In that city was received direct from
| Delaware. Maryland, aud Virginia. Is
there any mystery regarding the decline of
New England trade, In the cost of her
ocean frcights, the dying out of her conn
mcrCe, the failures of her manufactures.
Look at the South as she was when
New England sold her manufactured
goods and took agricultural products
| i'm exchange to the amount of Sl25000.-
| 900 per year, both transactions. and then
look ut the condition of things to-day? Is
there not a cause for the dismal howl that
| Ipuritanical misunderstanding section seuds
lup? Can New England stand the loss and
| live, commercially? Certainly not. She
has had her first paralytic stroke through
the prostration Of the South her second
will come from the withdrawal of the west
crn trade.
Prior to 1860 the West had determined to
take care of its own interests to as great
degree as possible, and cut loose from New
England manufactures. The latter section
had assumed the right to control the man
Iufacturing trade of the country for the last
quarter of a century. and crammed her pro-
ducts into every nook and corner Of the
Union. The six New England States ere
ating no less than $350000,00O per year.
which found sale mainly in the South and
| West. The eleven western States includ-
| ing California, New Mexico, Oregon, and
Utah, only produced some $140,000.000 per
year, up to 1860, and there appeared to be
a most brilliant future for the New Eng
| land monopolists but the Great West de-
termined TO be their own manufacturers.
and to-day, Notwithstanding all the finan-
cial difficulties the country labOrs un-
der, that section is pushing its pro-
IductiVc resources in the manufactur-
ing lines with tremendous energy. Pitts
burg, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Milwau-
kee, Chicago, all have, their scores of facto-
ries OF various kinds, And one OF the most
thriving departments is that of boots and
shoes. The West has struck at the very
vitals of the New England leather trade.
Lynn, Hayerhill, Essex, Milford. Sopsfield,
Marblehead, and score or more OF other
hoe-producing towns, are to-day in despair
at the loss of business. and know not what
move to make to recover themselves. The
loss of the South alone, to New England
and TO the entire North was severe enough.
butfor New Engand.a shopkceper and
manufacturer Tor other sections. without
any natural resources of her own save ice
and granite, who can not from her own soil.
feed her own people, 10 lose the West rs
well Us the South, viii be her death-blow,
and the Great West she win lose to Ger
tainty.
! No wonder portion OF her manulactu-
rers howl in despair to-day. A few years
more, and her cotton lords will Join the
dismal cry, for she is doomed to commercial
decay, as surely rs time rolls on.