The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-09-22

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upon which the leaders of the Rebellion
acted,--nor were they ,ill,founded, for
the cotton trade Of the south amounted,
according TO DeBow, from estimates founs
ded upon accurate data, to "from one
hundred and fifty millions to two hundred
and twenty.Gvcl millions of dollars. am
nually."
As it was manifest from these data,
that the Northern manufacturing states,
and the manufacturing countries Of Eu-
rope, would be compelled to draw a very
large amount Of the raw material for the
production of cotton goods from the Con-
federacy, that heavy export duty on thi,
article alone, wouldYyield an immense
yearly income, Or at least, enough 10
meet one-half the expenses of the new
Government. In other word, the North
crn States and the European manufacture
inc nations would be compelled wholly TO
support the Confederacy through all future
time, which would relieve the new Gov
ernment of all burden for its own support,
This brings us 10 consider the true Office
or position which slavery was to sustain
in the new order of things. 1t was to be
used as remote means Of personal and
public venture. In this latter capacity
it was considered an accidental adjunct.
the same in this respect as the possession
Of the Lower Mississippi. River, and to be
retained possession of on the same grounds
In a private capacity it was to sustain =
non laboring aristocracy, and to be an
important corner stone, but not the foun-
datlon, OF the new political structure.
The poor whites of the South were to be
made overseers of the slaves, and thus
DO elevated to the non-laboring class, and
to be ranked as gentlemen" which
would confne the laboring class wholly TO
I the colored race, and render the aristo.
cracy Of the white race complete. 1t was
by this last idea that the leaders of the
movement bound all the white population
together and brought them in unitedly
into cordial support Of their schemes
Having settled plans for the support OF
the new government and established the
orders OF society, they next considered
the policy to be preserved and the means
to be used 10 render the new nation pow,
erful. This was 10 be done by fomenting
discords among the Northern States and
causing divisions which would produce
weakness, and at last leave them wholly
at the mercy of their moro united and
consolidated power.
The first step in this course was TO take
the trade from New York City and Bos
ton, by establishing powerful line of
steamships between Charleston. SC. and
the different rations Of Europe, and thus
concentrate all the commerce of the South
at one point, and deprive the North of
1t. 1t was on this account that the Con-
tederatcs were so anxious to secure and
retain Charleston, and it was in view OF
this policy that caused Jefferson Davis 10
say that in three years from 1861 he
would cause the grass to grow in Broad,
way, New York, The increased price of
cotton in the New England States would
drive the "hircling' into abjcct poverty,
ruin the entire manufacturing interest in
those staIes, deprive them of the large
profits they were making, stngnatc bu.i-
ness generally, and compel the ''hireling"
population to abandon their white. com.
Portable dwellings and little cultivated
fields, and to dwell like their ne,ghbors of
the same class over Canada line. in little
/ log hats with clayel floors, ard like them
I'VE on the commonest and coarsest food,
instead OF roast beef aud luxuries which
they daily enjoyed, and TO dress in sheep.
skins and the coarsest and meanest clothes
instead OF broadcloihs and cassimeres OF
the best patterns, that they then wore.
The capitalist would abandon the country,
and those who were in debt would remain
and sink TO the level of their poverty,
The remaining Northern States would
have no desire to be associated with New
England, reduced TO this abiect condition
ofpoverty and commercial insignifcancc,
and would sccede from her. Trade being
taken from New York City and the
Middle States, by being ceniered in Char
lesion, would render them nearly Il. bad
off as New England while the Western
states would be reduced to the same con-
ditlon by reason oflhe heavy transit duties
they would have to pay for the right to
use the Lower Mississippi River, and
having nothingin common with the Middle
States, would in turn secede from them
The Pacific States being remote, would,
as matter of course. form an independ-
ent government in the Iisintcgration Of
| the old Union.
In respect TO the European nations,
the Confederacy, "lroducing that which
made the commerce of the world" Eng
land would be at its mercy and as much
subject TO its power as New England.
Other manufacturing countries would be
reduced 10 the same level. Thus the
Coniederacy "coull (and wouldD dictate
terms 10 all the world. Through these
means, the disintcgration of the Northern
States, the possession of the great staple
OF commerce, the control of the Lower
Mississippi River and the possession Of
millions of slaves, the Confederacy
would at once become the most powerful
nation on the globe, which il would rule
literally with rod OF iron We could
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