The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-06-26
COLUMBIA !
Wednesday Morning, June 2s, 1857.
Statistical.

ander Delmar, the Director of the
Bureau of Statistics in the Treasury
Department, at Washington, monthly
statements of valuable and reliable
statistics connected with the COM
merce of the-country. These useful
and important tables are made up
from official reports of collectors in
the custom houses, consuls and other
officials, and therefore it may be de-
pended upon as being correct. They
bring to light facts which will sur
prise tho country, and which even
the people of the South did not
dream could be realized under the
condition of their section at the
present time. These exhibits, which
do not lie, may aid in opening the
eyes of Northern commercial men.
A few facts collated from the tables
cannot fail to interest our readers.
They show that the exports from the
United States during the first quar-
ter of the present year were about
$133, 900, 900, and that of this amount
the Southern States furnished $92,-
100000. This is, indeed, wonder
full exhibit, considering the dilapi-
dated and impoverished condition
which the ravages of four years civil
war left these States in and the de-
privation of all resources and means
to recuperate. 1t shows that, under
all these adverse circumstances, they
contributed seventy-fye per cent. of
the whole exports of the country for
the three months mentioned above.
The great resources of the South
ern States are here made manifest
without quibble or without exaggera-
tion. The last treport brings the in
formation referred to up to April 80.
For the four months ending on that
date, there had been exported of raw
cotton: Sea Island, 4, 7S7, 500 pounds.
valued at $3, 042, 79S; and of upland
cotton 392, ,776,730 pounds, valued at
$119, 623, ,553, making grand total
for this great staple alone of 1922,
666, 353. Tobacco was exported to
the, value of 81, 160,S57 The total
exports for these two staples, there
fore, were $126, ,S27, ,21O; which, de-
Quoted from the gross amount Of
foreign exports-S1S3, S67, ,779-leave
only $57, ,O42, $50 as the contribution
Of the rest Of the United States to
foreign commerce.
Let it be remembered that this
magnificent exhibit of the mighty
resources of the South shows only
her strength in a crippled and sub
dued condition. Who so respondent
as to despair of such country? Who
SO reckless as, for the sake Of abstract
and dead theories-for the sake of
party spoils, Office or power, would
refuse to aid in fastening the day of
her redemption from thraldom, de-
privati0n and ultimate decay? Who
would dare, in view Of the power and
magnifcence the South must cer-
tainly attain, to block up the path of
restoration-the only path Of recu-
peration left open-for the sake of a
wretched and specious consistency,
in adhering to dead principles and
defunct thrones of so-called State
rights and state sovereignty?
History will not award to these
impractical politicians the need Of
commentator for either statesman
ship or common sense. Party names,
party affiliations and party success
are but bubbles on the waves Of n
country's greatness or renown; the
first puff of adversely blows them
into dir, and other bubbles succeed
them only to share the same sanguin-
ary fate. The whole history of this
country, from the days of the Fede
ralists down to the present day of
Democrats, Republicans, &C., abun-
dainty proves this; and yet each
party, in its turn, was to save the
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