Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-20
DEPENDENCY.

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The South ought to be grateful to the
enemy who taunts her with her abject
dependence on the North. The bitter
est truths are the most salutaTy and the
more rudeIy and coarsely put the better.
It is true: our people wear what the
North manufactures out even of the cot
ton produced by themselves. Weride in
cars and carriages made in the North,
walk on psvements made ofstOne thatit
supplies, and build our houses with lum-
Der and lime that it fur&shes. We sit
on Northern chairs, and write at North
ern tables, on paper and with ink aud
pens made in the North. From its BEEN
ing bosom come u provisions. It fur
nishes axes and their helves, our churns
and buckets, our paints and glass, our
nails and lamps and oil and can
dies. From it come the cradle of the
infant, the ring of the bride, the books of
the schOol-boy, the spectacles of the aged,
the erutch of the mariner, the coffin
OF the dead, and the spade and mattock
that dig our graves. We acknowledge
the truth, in humility and shame; and
years ago we depicted that dependence
in language as fOrcible as we had at our
command, and urged the South to en-
deavor to become independent Of the
North, not by agitation, and Conventions
and Congressional action, but by engage
ing in the more necessary manufactures. |
We and others spoke to deaf ears, and
we plunged reckIessly into war. We
found ourselves wholly without the
means Of conducting the contest on
equal terms. We could neither arm or
or feed our troops. For the most
part We captured from the enemy our
ana small arms. We purchased
from them clothing, and even provisions
and ammunition, sold US with the con-
Of their government, in its greed
for cotton. Then we engaged in the
most necessary manufactures. Our men
wore the jeans or grey, and our women
homespun. We made arms and the
material of war, and it was a common
Of congratulation that the Southfs
you'd reap at least one benefit from the
var, in becoming Independent of north
manufactures:
1t is true that all that has gone by like
dream and that we again depend
lpon the North for everything. True,
have not stolen these things which it
upplies, but have produced and sold a
million and a hall bales Of cotton. What
use Of Northern production and man ,
facture is not given to us. The best
,overnment the world ever saw has ex- r
.cted Of us as tribute three cents on r
very pound Of cotton we have made, +
nd takes from us in addition five per ,
ent. of the amount Of sales Of the same .
already once taxed.
Repeat the taunt reiterate it again o.
nd again! Let the South hear it both y
ON friend and enemy land it a
lay be that her people will re- h
live, the taunts of foes more stir
ng them than the circumstances and 81
Of friends, to become as far as (
ossible self-dependent. We can do b
cry well without much Of that for ri
hich we exchange our cotton and the
innings OF our labour, with the North. t
ct US thank those who jibe US, for the 81
ord, and be melted by the bitter taunt p1
action and exertion. Let US begin z
.e peaceful struggle for independence, Il
if our w eyes do not see il
hieved, and though it may be for our ia
to finish the good work. That Y
hich is prosecuted, grows; and out of th
adversities is to come the future pros OF
rity and glory of the South.