Year: 1860

The three great central commercial and
i manufacturing States Of New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, are awakening
in earnest to the dangers that encompass
their multform interests from the posi-


bic success of the baneful doctrines Of
Black Republicanism. Thei: extensively


operating business men, their merchant
princes and wealthy manufacturers are
among the most sagacious and farseeing
men of the nation. They know well the
almost utter ruin and total destruction
that would fall upon every branch Of busi-
ness and industry, if the fanatical theories
OF Abolitionsm should be suffered to get
the upper hand in the control Of the gov
ernmental policy Of this nation. New
York is now the great entrepOt Of the
worlds commerce with this nation
Nearly the whole vast exports Of the
South and its foreign consumptions find,
through its port, cgress and ingresS.-
This trade amounts annually to hundreds
Of millions OF dollars, and constitutes the
main spring, the very artcrial blood of
the commerce Of that great metropolis
Cut short this life-giving trade, or turn its
current into other channels, and the boast
cd commerce Of that mighty city, which
constitutes it the heart and brain Of the
nation, will dwiAdle away to compare
lively nothing; her shipping will rot at
her dilapidated wharves, her immense
warehouses will be closed, and she will
wilt and shrivel up as one inflicted with
the curse Of palsy.


New Jersey finds in the South the main
market for her manufactures, and the
chief source Of supply of the raw material
which keeps her spindles in operation and
her laborers in bread and employment;
while in Philadelphia the houses of her
millionares arc reared and sustained solely
by the fat profits accruing from the hand
ling Of Southern products. These busi-
ness mcn-these monicd mcn-thcsc i'm
mense apitalists--the men who have
lcathcred their nests by the rich pickings
obtained from the carcass Of the Southern
goose, are the men who control, in great
measure, the political sentiment of those
States. AS we said, they are excessively
shrewd, calculating, sagacious men, aud
always count, in dollars and cents, the
cost Of the success or defeat Of parties in
every National political contest. They
are smart enough to see that the South
are about driven TO the extremity Of the
tether of fraternal forbearancc by the az.
gressive power Of Northern fanaticism-
and that there is imminent danger, in case
Of the election Of the " irrcprcssiblc" can.
didate, Of a swapping Of the bonds Of un-
ion. In such an event, whether the
Southern goose were destroyed in the at.
tempt to free itself from the talons of the
Northern vulturc or not, those wealthy
tradesmen would, for all time to come, be
deprived Of the golden eggs it has bccn
so long accustomed to lay in their laps
They know, too, that even should disunion
not follow rs all inevitable consequence of
Lincoln's election, that there is great dan.
ger of the Southern trade being diverted
into other channels.


The South is fast awakening to the ne
cessity Of a development Of its latent re \
sources by the establishment Of home
manufactures, the opening of its vast
mineral stores, the building of ships and
the opening Of her ports to commerce and
direct trade with the lnarts of the world.
This awakening sense of Northern aggrcs-
sion and ianaticis,n is precipitating, but
Northern policy and Northern capital arc
striving to allay. In the event Of the
Southern States being fully aroused to
the necessity Of establishing for them
selves manufacturing and commercial
independence, the loss of the egg would
be just as inevitable to those Northern
tradesmen as though disunion should be
effected. Those prudential gentlemen arc
not prepared for any such dcprivation-
The pocket nerve is more sensitive to the
touch than is the conscience to its own
prickings When it is to the interest of
those kind of persons to be just to their
neighbors, no set Of men prove more en-.
thusiastic allies. Self-intcrcst, self prcser-
vation, therefore, will make those Northern
princes WELD the mighty lever of the
money power in the present contest
against Abolition fanaticism and Black
Republican scctionalsm. This influence,
in conjunction with that of causes of va.
rious kinds, all acting in connection with
the conservative patriotism and native
sense of justice Of the majority Of the |
people Of these three great central and
controlling States, will ensure, beyond a
peradventure, their votes against the
common enemy Of sclf-preservetion, pat
riotism, and Of right. Notwithstanding
tho recent vote Of Pennsylvania we still
believe she wi'sEast her vote, in the Pres.
idential contest, for the Democratic nomi.
nees. The merchants of Philadelphia, too
sanguine Of success, relaxed their efforts.