Year: 1864

The Trade and Intercourse Between
Nassau and the South.


The truth of the saying "It's an i'll wind
that blows nobody good" is strikingly ex'
emplifed in the following exultant edito-
rial which we clip from the Nassau Herald
of the goth January:


NASSAU, N. P.-This little natural
Paradise now wields power and influence
much greater than its citizens dream Of
Its harbors and anchorages arc crowded
with steamers and sailing crafts. Its ware.
houses are groaning under the weight Of
heavy supplies now offering to the trade Of
the city. A trade founded on n more sub.
stantial basis than is generally admitted,
and one that is likely to continue and in
crease through many months, perhaps years,
whatever may be the result of the combina-
ton of circumstances that first developedit it.
The war in America bids fair to be one of
long duration, and as three years Of strife
have as yet failed to bring forth single
glimmer of light as to its prospective settle
ment, it will, doubtless, exist as long as
there is any vitality left on either side, an
issue that present and past experience
places far in the distant future. The North
is impelled to its prosecution not only by all
their brilliant dreams of wealth and power,
but knowing the instability of the airy cas-
tie of prosperity they now live in, see in
the loss of the contest the foundation taken
away from all their hopes, and every pecu-
mary consideration worth fighting for be-
sides. The South is striving for national
existence, laboring to throw off a yoke so
oppressive that every man, woman and child,
no matter of what caste or color, groans be-
meath its oppressive burden, with readi-
ness to sacrifice all-hfe, wealth, and even
hope, if necessary, in the glorious strife for
their homes, their hearths, their altars and
their honor.


This Southern Confederacy, now raising
its giant head above the political horizon,
is truly great one, and possesses the coun-
try, climate and labor, that conduce, to the
highest state of oivilization-a civilization
that really is what it purports to be-bene-
fetal to the political as we'll as moral ad-
vancement of all ats people. 1t is q new
country, it is true, and does not consequent
ly offer the comforts to be found in Old
England, but SO rapidly were they improV.
ing before the war, that in less than half a
century it would have advanced to such a
position as to offer greater political and
moral happiness to its people than any ma.
ton in the New World or many in the Old.


But it was not to indite disquisition on
this fact that this is penned, but to call the
attention of our community to its govern.
mental, commercial, and social capacities,
and to the Incidental interests therein in
volved.


Are we really friends to the South ? Do
We properly appreciate the nature of the
heavy commercial transactions We have with
them? If we do, we must in every respect
prepare to prosecute our trade with these
recognized belligerents on an extensive and
liberal foundation. Our great mercantile
firms should have the nerve to enter into
this business, not as thoug b it were merely
temporary, but destined to be lasting and
sound. They should superinduce consgn-
ments from "the other side," should in-
crease the number and. capaciousness of
their warehouses, and prepare to despatch
all the details incident to such system,
promptly, systematically and cheapy.


The sunshine of prosperity beams bright.
ly through the future. The elamentable war
in America is not over yet, and the position
of Nassau, as the nearest British port to the
great struggling nation who have-We say
it in all reverential pride-our entire SYM
pathies, cannot be affected even by a darker
phase of their fortunes arising than has
been developed up to the present time.


Let the ports of Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah, Mobile and Galveston all become
sealed by the Northern Vandals, and our
position would yet remain unassailed.-
Hundreds Of harbors on their coast of 5000
miles will open. They have the cotton,
and can easily improvise the means of its
delivery, and the receipt of supplies in re.
turn. That this will be done, who doubts !?
And when the war ends, as we trust aud
believe it will, in their success, here will be
the depot (aOtthin two days saA Of their
shores where the merchandise stocks will
be deposited for selection and purchase
Nassau has brilliant future in prospect,
one identified with that of the Confederate
States of America. Let US not shirk the
position, but like Englisbmen and frecmen,
commercially recognize and stand before
our country and the world honest, digniied
and fearless.