, 1872-12-26

b 0EdAbu, DI1L161S
and American have suffered ; captivity:
: It received much OF it's Rustenance from the
e7nigres from Florida, and, after three hundred
years Of domination, peril, and fierce influence
the gateway Of New Orleans s'a-laying for us"
out there il the offing, to catch us rs we come
down the Mississippi and seek to run past to
sea.
oUR STRENGTH on TIE oEIF;
can shores Of the Gulf of Mexico: Florida,
600; Alabama 1000 900; MiesissipRl, 4a 1g sg9,
tai Of all races, about 1000, ,0o0 Of whom 2,o0o,-
ooG se white people The 9S hfe aao hgRtns snp P9pT
itary uses against the Spanish races, particular
" againat elave Cuba and Porto Rico, the Amer
ican negro population is as numerous and mere
effective, We are thus nearly TWICE m moIe NJ.
but our relative density on it's shores is not as
great as upon the other shores, including the
Islands.
/ asked Judge Fellows, IN old Whig, who had
been opposed to every flibusteTing expedition
which quilted New Orleans, and to tho Mexican
War before he got there, whether, on the whole,
he approved our partition OF Mexico in l847 ~
the light Of subsequent events. He said, heart
tie Northern Provinces of Mexico; and 7 am
CORY that the Government did net also include
the eight Northern Provinces of the present
Mexico, with which Texas has large dealings, and
which are 3ull OF mineral RESOURCES.
no MORE F1LIBUsTERo.
It would seem at this writing that the contin-
gElcy is very remote for any political ferment or
extension Of which New Orleans is to be the seat.
| That city does now no more than hold its own.
| Mobile and Pensacola make humor out OF the
decline of each Sthcr in theirriyal papers. Gal
weston probably no present ncrease for itself
in RAILWAYS leading it's exports off by the North
| ALI the tendency of the times is interior-ward.
Scarcely excepting New York, all our cities face
i 4.-., t1,1fr1 1ocf-u {N ft,o pao md
! towns which are growing up are on the inner rim
Of the Continent. In the slave States, the cauBe
Of this invoultion may be found in the increase
| of tile West aud North in Manufactures and
Money. Obedient to those great magnets, the
coast-cities have turned from tue 70 the prai-
ries and there is relatively nothing behind them.
As il Nature ceased her activity when the neces-
| slty for it was reduced, tho very ports of the
| Gulf seem to hive lost tho slulces which kept
| them open, and Mobile is now far inland from
heavy tonnage and calling on Government for
aid to regain her character. New Orleans, still 3
giant, ia made the eufferer a. well, by lnordinate
pilotage and tonnage chargos., Pensacola, with
superior harbor, has lost vitality. It might
almost seem that the reviving day for these sea-
| ports will be when the raw materials and staples
Of the tropics seek tho United States for mar
ket. The policy OF
EXPORTING EVERYTHING
| and importing nothing, 80 popular with high
! Protectioniats, has never yet made d rich and
healthy Commonwealth in the South. The COM
mercial, like the human economy, seems healthi-
est when the ne,re e0p ba and 10"
away 100000 bales Of cotton and get 4; ;o0o.-
600 bales OF something back, is 3 truer
receipt than to chow the export-blls and borrow
again for next years crop. Slavery vas always
feld-gangs. Il had fever Of brute human
energy between planting and ginning times, and
these perBpired such copious exports that
everybody treated end predicted the universal
dominion Of wise mankind which was Always
selling to the world aud never buying anything
in return, Thus pride and raggedness devel-
oped together. Everything Was bounded by the
plantation and nothing BY the Homestead The
tortured ground gave forth its increase Ike ::
self for the next year. But still the exports
rolled up the usual, and even the larger meas
ure, and only occasional sproes OF flbustering
showed that the heart Of the planter WAS some
times disturbed.
BLINDNESS BEFORE MEN.
And, all this while, the North and West, buy
| ing something useful in return for something
| necessary sold, fenced the fields, tightened the
roof-tree, added to the farm-stock, educated the
dominion, aimed At that which is its only stable
component general pr0spsFE efss sna tsa the
either slaves or masters. The non-lmporting
virgin ground claimed also BY these homestead
| making people. The wave from the Gulf rolled
inward with all the fervid fo1ce Of the South. II
found, in the words Of achool-history which ls
generally studied in these days by Southern boJs
| and girle, this state Of things:
| "The census Of 1860 ascertained the number
Of the people to be 81 445 080; but the white in
| habitants Of the States that afterWard seceded
were little over 5000, 600. Neither these mum. !.
bers, nor the vast disproportion, vera known at
| the South till the great Civil War had been ter
| minated. The amount of cotton raised n 1860
was t, 1881, ,052 bales, or more than twice as much
rs in 1850. Wheat and other products, had great;
| " Increased, but in . less degree. Holmes
School History Of the United States.
| To this state OF things it was always urged
that the North tyrannized oyer the South by
putting 1t under the tyranny OF the Tariff. But
the chances were equal under the Tariff, Or,
! rather. the South had the advantage in posses
sing ali which tho North had for manufacturing
uses, besides the staples to be manufactured.
It's fuel, water-powor, natural highways: credit,
and capacity to support free labor cheaply, were
| equal to the North'e; but it dreamed its dream
Of exports, and languiahed every year.
TIE cH1SAs1EN OF TIE NORTH.
The South has plenty OF Northern followers in
thspeople who aTe forevef 9aoaa hoans up anof
Glorious n But the vigor which men aud ma.
tions possess is not merely in the e1ertion of
force, but in the acquisition of it,-in inhal-
ing enough to perfect existence, aelf-sustaining,
armored 80 as to sleep the dull security Of
cowardice. 4 large proportion Of tho receipts OF
what is sold, exchanged for sonaething Of com
fort OF developement, ls wisdom In man or com
the the yield Of barter than with the dull
Of sale No n man needs M9n'y qss
escepf ea0 wtn nrudant cond.
tions, may leave the purchase-money behind
him, but i has come back il a noble form ot
is soul1ess principle, that it aims at Non-Inter.
course as the finality of national happiness, in
stead Of Exchange, which is commercial Chris
This is doubtless old and crude. but it has
come up naturally from thinking over the condi
tions OF the Southern States and their sea-ports
might 70 further, and show that
I SOUTHERN CRAFTSMANSHIP,
go yaunted and so glitte1ing for many years, was
m idle series OF intellectual propulsions toward
mattera exterior to our country: The affairs Of
MEXICO. and Spain, and England, which it as.
guned to direct without particle of conscience
or call, than Danish pirate had to p:ocipitates
| himself upon neighborirg coasts. $ Manifest
[ Daatinxn ,qas tho confident apology Of this