Des Arc weekly citizen., 1868-03-28
Decay Of the North.

Such is the effect of radical rule on the county that it is beginning to be most severely felt throughout the North, and to make the decline ofbusi- ness consequent upon it the chiefargu- ment of the Northern Democrats. That our readers may be kept posted, we occasionally give such arguments as are addressed particularly to the Northern people, and now give the following from the New York Day Book:
 It is an undisputed fact that the, de- cay of one great branch of commerce. unless arrested, is carried finally into all other departments of trade. If any man doubts this, look over the country and see it's condition. We have had fair crops, no pestilence, consumption is certainly hungry and willing to be fed, but the supply does not come. Why is it? Because the great machinery of trade is out of order. The law of demand and supply is not allowed to operate. Our great staple, cotton, Is strangled almost out of existence. Boston and New York exported in 1860, ll9,S76 packages of cotton goods. In 1861, 72,SS2 packages. In 1867 those two ports shipped only 22,906 packages. In 1860 New York sent to Mexico, 4Sl3 packages of cotton goods. In 1867 only l090. In 1860, this same city sent to the East India and China AZ, 735 packages in 1867 only 455S. To the South American ports New York shipped in 1860, l3,294 packages in 1867, l,024. To Brazil, we sent in 1860, S,l03 packages; ill 1867, 2,343.
 How long, oh, ye sleepy commercial classes, do you intend to doze over these startling facts? Do you not know that you are as surely being undermin- ed and irretrievably ruined as you exist? You will awake and find your selves completely pauperized, and be- yond the aid of help, unless you open your eyes to your danger at once. The trade of any country is like piece of mechanism it is intricate, complica- ted, but under proper construction, and regulation, beautifully perfect in it's results. One of the great wheels, as cotton growing was, cannot be stricken out without endangering all the balance of the machinery, and any prctical man can see the Arrangement to-day. New England howls in des- pair; she cannot sell the South her domestic manufactures she cannot get from the South cotton at price that will permit her to work it up, under the additional expenses of manufactur- ing that taxes have piled upon her. The great commercial cities of the North out of New England, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, etc, which once sold the South large bills of foreign goods, now do little or noth- ing in that line. The great western trade, the millions which in the shape of property foated down the Missis- sippi and the Ohio, is plotted out also; and the ramification of the evil, the destruction of that one item, cotton. in our trade machinery, has been wide and deep. Not single Eastern North ern or Western trade interest has escaped the effects of the cotton depres- sion. Our warehouses, our insurance offices, our commission brokers, our shipping houses-nay, the very dray- men who convey the cotton bales from store to vessel, have suffered aud are suffering through the terrible visita- ton of" no cottou." Now, the restora- ton of the South is the restoration of trade all over the North The restora- ton of the South will take place by driving ignorant despots out of power, and replacing them by states men. The industry of the country. six millions of voters, if they will awake, oan at the ballot box restore general prosperity.