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IVV-N0.r3O. -r::.: r ByrMoKEE Catkin. Two Poixari and iFirrr Cexts per annum in advance, orTititci Dollars within the year. . " No'paner will b discontinued, except at the option of. the ruWWiers, tinlil fill arrearages arc paid. , Advcrtiecmcnti inserted at Oxe Dollar rr square of ten lineafor ct for the frsi in-wrlion, and Twesrr-nvE Cents fot" each continuance. . The number of intujrtiorts dcilred ipusl ho marked cm lie margin, or the advertise mcnt wil be continued til! forbid, and eLurv d accordingly Uourt Ordcm will be charged twenty-five per cent extra. g n" 1 i.m - wirAkiua- 0- Bliort Put cut Sermon. iv row, j a j , NOTHING! iES3 'AND UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE 0 :1 Tczt. fOh'how uncertain and hot? brief jslifo, And yet how full of pweetness! ' My hearers, The more I reflect upon the mat ter th tnorr: lully am 1 c.onvnicca 01 inn ey anc's- cencc nt cl tlie .niiUjn;n:css ot liio., VVh.it U it bin a bubble flo'iilirijirtioivn the si ream of titr.e? hNow I r I i r . . i. T i it-glides nnd fro over n piacm eunacc ii-'w u irj amid llic rouh breakers rcd now ii bursts up and disap pears in tho dark-wave ofi t-ler- nity! v uat is u but ,u vapor that creeps! for a 'while aliin earth's checkered vale, and then rises to its native heaven? What is it but an empty , itrcnm roil lni-igin. uy entity void nnd tjis va shell of hope? It is anyithing e or unsubstnniinl. And what ennt bb the dcsRriv that's fliiitins. brill is man 7 Ntithins ftjut a mass of diri Kcrapcxl up (rom the fallow', nnd destined to .dance and kip for'a. short timcj utidcr tlio inflaeiice of life's ex. ir srrH. then to be carried back i)(n dcatii's nablp cart, and emptied upon the soil from whence it was cuibered. t)h, try dear I nntia : wuen wo ioo:c r.ijoijii us and behold !whal 'multttudi: tire daily, ciitiiriiiiz the' tlark p'ifi al of the tomb and how .even 'the moe.rn. vrs then .selves, arc luuirly ' cnsling olf tho black liabilmientij of sorrow, nnd donning the w!ito robes of the grave, wo cannot but be impressed with the sbkmnchaly idea "that our turns must all fioon-cornot o porta ke ot .mo same co, supper which merrns, as; my friend bhakspeare-saysrndt to cut, btit to bo en f-n.; I no - worms ot tr.e cipit will soon hbld n ft stival in the mji!1 that isjno'w peopled with a.thrjving generation of ideas :j nr'(d every beflrt now hi ating with lhe. fullness olj' liopoy must, ere lonu, forever cease to throb; The; thin i cnaemcnt tbat enclpses tne immortal spirit is as brittle aspglass: and a gentle rap of disease if it do not entirely dcmjdisli it,' may so shatter it! that all the mrdicated putty in the universe can't hold it together. The bwssamcr threads that arp wiivcn in the web ot maiisj 'murtal existence nie so fine in texture a in I sojfet rst breezo of phys ible in strength that the slight- , cal alHietioD will sometimes and leave them dangling in the anao thetn asunder. dusky semilchre,)hk t i . t . . - ib so manv supcwnnuatcd cob. webs in .the Corner of a -.miser s hovel. , . -iIv friinds. the 'uncertainty of ..life- is as certain as Quartcr-n,av. i 1 have seen hew.born babes' im biU the bvisan lofdcath wHb .tb? .:.verx,2a?j llu.it jrnvk them existence ' have seen infancy cieep into the grave, and give baek its life into the ban of its Mukj'r, unusf'tl and undamaged. I ha aud.-f. Maker, unusbd undamaged. 1 have seen chihihJod and youth kicked out of tbo yorld 3 " as though they were committing di-pivdatioiis in its flowery garden, qnd had rio business to oeiUipy even a nif-hu in the )road empire of animated na turc. .: I iLvo seen manhood fall'fpom the topmost clitrol ambition ker-sicash into the depths ol nun'- entity, u"rd (icvforcvcr buried in the turbid wave of oblivion. r l! dan now sec' old ago knocking at the door of I'icjtomb, and begging to rest his weary frame ,wi Inn its sa :red walls, wiere no earthly 1 jars can disturb. its slumbers;? csj'my friejiids, old Ti me, in his moving, fakes' a :s weep from one "sute of creation to tbo otlier, and all that cijmes ' within thi reach of ibis scythe must fall to fadand wither. JBefore It,' lifoV fragrant posies yield up their, sweetness like new. mown clover, and the in. cense is borne to the realms' of the Almighty ' Power which gave it How unwelcome thc-thntght that- lifel so lull- of the highly concentrated com- pound extract of sweetness, should be so brief ! that the candle of fsxistence should so frequently cease" to burn befoe"the tip end of the tallow js fairly consumed! that it jshould so sooq, at best, flicker in its socket , land th mor- talitv run down upon the cold clay of the grave ! ' Mv'ddar friends!! pivthis occasion, all the light er feelings that pertfain to fiuman nature have de. I sotted ti e domain bf '"my heart, and have leti.no ; thipr ihioad but a vacuu.tnof solemnity. A man is dead !f he was nothing tjaorc than a man f.utit - is somet ikg to bejt man inj these degeneratejdays of hypo'crisy, conceit andj.jselfishncss. Ye j?, the . "man whiui we had but hilely chosen from u ibody 1 of seventeen millions to prqsldr over us, is now no more! His inmottal-spiri haa tiown to join com panionship with lhise of his five illustrious prcde . cessors, whose souls, I have reason to believe, are in hcaven-r-w hose bodies jhavc returned to apst whose npble virtues are ctibalmed with the intense rf mnmnrr and iwhosn 'names aiv written birrh upon the obelisk of lame,' to be read and remem-iwill bered liv the ctuitfreu ot . posterity, ls, my friends, he who but yesjei day , ;as it were!, was crowncd&with thd costliest' coronet of horioif, has now" gone o furnisn no'bdilcrpod for the wcjrm of the valley than ihej btrr who di?s.for thei want "of a crust. Tho&h eves .'that so lately surveyed the th renting mul;itudej and witnested the sincere manifestations of a nation's respect .are' 'now fastened together .with the adhesive "lurt uf death, to gaze no more bpon the. -world's buy .scene. Those, hands, which formerly received the con. gratulaions of thousands, arc crumbling to lashes in tliQ. mouldering sepulchre ; nd that generous bosom, 911CC .warmed withlhe fires of patriotism that blazed upbnlhe heart's living altar, is now as cold, an i inanimate as the marble that covers it. 1 1 hear a jfuneral dirge, iu every breeze ; the $un, to me U clothed it) sackcloth : the eagle perches upon thb cypress,' and droops" its" wings in sorrow: the ptars thntlspanghd upon Uberty3s banner are dark ened with the emblems' of grief : mourners fill tho streets:, and a watt is heard- througlut he kind for the loss of one, who. through the all-wise dispensations of rProvidericc. vielded un the trust confided to hitn by his fellpw.countrymen while the blossoms ot hope were iq their fullest bloom ' Such, my friends, is thefrailty of life such the insjgnificancc hinan gicatnbs? and such, the vanity of-all earthly Vxrcttti Death hows no preference fo; the.humtlaY r of, the soil over tire kin3 " rthrone. Thv high; the !awrthc rich, tho.poor, tbo b::autifjirti,(i oglv, the fat en 3 the lean,. arc aJI slaughtered indiscriminntflr- i packed away in that turf.'c c'red house a j .int-'d ibr all living. Man surely u but a shadow iff a dream J ". j ' ,i . . j ' , , - ..n'ofi,-ctt my friends, upon; what, feeble, 'tlyfnrr insects you.arej that crawl fur a day alonMhS sunny path of vistence, and Mienarecrusbwfihto dusi to inhabit the enrih-no more. Oh, think of this, and live, while, you live, in the daily expec union of dyingso thnt'whdn you die, you mav dte in the expectation oT living. Sj mote it be ! h .! -!-.. : . r:- 'Vc nver fullv! know ' urn'S tl n hl-eo'Ifin. K tJu until v,e frc'in danwer of InsrAfr it Tl,., t..lu first t:nir perlnjs, wc tccaTiie conscious of its paramount importance, "or learn too" late that wc have tr-ficd wiih'the laws which control our nhvl. i-iii i-uijuiuuil,. XML'IJ O 1S31 nnrl :inrL nm l anrj mc rc ha ndisd shrink into; objects of but slight lessor, auaaeijly lie is told, .that medical art can cto no more lor nm than recommend a change of climate. In thd last stages of his disorder, gene. rany tnc consequence ot his Own imprudent the invai;.lj bids farewell to the -jJomain which be'bas earned; at the cost of his physical powers, and niter nair n century ot toil and 11 carkin" care," he departs in the good ship Emily ."for St. "Croix; woK-o uas convey eu so) many and safely too, only a lorugn grave ; or else he tries the bland a r of Madeira, and hories to recruit himself in its ner petual jspving. riicre is,, however, a! mclancholv presentiment about his heart which tells him that all will soon b:. over;, and then it s he looks back with anguish ot the folly with which' he disregarded the warnings ot hismvn experience and , the friendly Hiivicuoi nis puysjemn. Much of tlKsufK;rin2 of our race couid be nvoirled by a sraionnbl attention to tho subjects of tc.mperature and clothing. In in climate so variable us ours: wecfumotue too careiuj ot ourselves. " rr)v k;.. r-,..l-i'-;.Ut. :J ' ii. - . . .... 1 . .ft 1 ' i :' - i ! ui hi -wuuujr isjjjuiB wu, j nave no .ijoaiuu oMiaiuiions- irom.-ini son, which -tiring oS-ath to those w ho are compelled to ttfrn it up. No blasting sirocco S'veeps over dr plains and destroys life, huq wc have remarkable differences of tern,, peraturf, rapid in their succession, and ha ve a most tremendous effect upon .the Ihuman system. A sudden change w 11 sometimes shiver trees, and the human frame, thiugh adapted to the alteration of tho seasons, cannot, nilirely qupnccsj of theso' variations. One of the nn st easy, and escape i the conse- 5'ct most comrr.onlv i i iwu m wui'iuus, is auuuuiK cioinm". i no physician generally confines his directions to that worn next -the skin, yet sometimes fashion is1 so imperious as to ihe form of the outer garments, (hat he js compelled to forbid such .articles 'of dress jipoi delicate par s of the frarne, as change their structiirp or. impede their functions. ' We will only remark insh!i-?r to ihisi. mat'fashionuji'iiJUW wajfsis to be more slender than; nature permits, has" destroyed the life of many a fine young vvomaq. Woolen garrne s are unquestionably the-best adapted, to our-cli irate. Being poor conductors of ii':ai in meniseivns, iney reiain wiuun ineir ioius he warmth of thd body, while they equally prevent iho cold(air from penetrating Flannel should be worn next the skijn, unless it produces debilitating perspiration or n i unpleasant irritation. 4 In this case a lighter wod'en fabric should be substituted, or Ci'.nton fiynnel, as it js called, iiade of cotton. Fiannel'so worn -Should be frequently changed and washed i pnd if lie latter be; not done with( too warm water, its snrihking may be prevented. Silk is not proper to bo worn next the skin,1 as it repels :m -l - .hi-.-. l!.Lu --'-A--i U :. tne perspiration, ppes noi aosoru u, unu tjL-avos u to Irritate ftnd cool' the surface of the body. Cot ton has 'all the pood qualities of flannel, though in a , iess- negree. piany persons nou n mw hiusi pleasant article to wear in this'manner. Thcotiter ijarments should tio warm andlheavv. The modern fashions in adopting this principle in the sack, have become accept:) u Tho feet arc also to bo well iiuai'ded. Those persons who arc subject to com- plaints bf .the head, the stomach or the lungs, can not be too particular in keeping their leet .wqrm ond.' dry. Theyi should be frequently washed, in not very warm water, and ..the stockings houid be repeatedly changed. These things observed, mbch better health may be at, our command, than the unreflecting would, imagine, j - j P ' i Wet garments should never! be permitted to re main upon the .body for an instant. The neglect to change- them lias brought many a one to aniun timely nd.. ' ' P ;; . ' i ' i j ' j ' Those of our readers who! belong to that class of citizens who cannot afford all thocomforts of thr-fr -iKnrc.fiivofcd brethren;, should nevertheless observe the habij of wearing warm clothing and keeping lhcirfcjt dry. Never were prices lower than those now lasked for wearing apparel pi the poor man's fpc, rheumatism, be kept.at a ms inro nnd onc' bf his most troublesome enemies be overcome. irutoM. A Word to Young Men. TheTe-is no furer guarantee of success in.this world than self-reliaiice.v Young man, if you fail in ontiM-nriie.- commence in another; don t despair because you nrcrxoor a p.ort'v nnrl misfortune draw out the true man, thevare thetestlsof great nrsh- they decide wheth-; er a nian is onTv sirccessful by chance, nccioem.or bv his 'own exertions. Never say tail, tnougn eve- rvthtncT turns hgainst-you. P"l nereis no sucu in r -i j rf him who with an a woro as iau n no u --tii ....... - ( honest heart arM intfomUabVwiH; struggles man fully Against tlic tide of .adverse circumstances. S.-r-'h n-one is bound to triumph over every obsta. cle : he will ride against the surging eas over the mountain. wav6; his cheery voice wo. -above the din of the thunder, and bis steady eye flash brighter than Oic most vivid ngntmng.i ; tx stout heart. vbinr maninnd an honest purpos are the on! requisites fora' successful journey through i:r tSU fimi hnvv vnur-rich neighbor rdonof life. ilJo not envy, y stop to look b'aek on I rouirinrre 'which we r..-. u r t.. : w. . . , i nim.wao ruius " j"!. r.'LtoKoti' nnd sustains. nmnnrrfi 'v UCI1 WOHIUl. lUimanw , cvour fellow Wn, with ihgp'fotidwt and greatest rAct tr rw enuai in mcriLauu you meet j and you will tasa re ar- licticio- ; rank3 6f wea!:h'. in 'the community. Valusthjcho as you do the other, and you will covet ncith.-r. "liut there is real rang, andrw! wealth, cr.J r 1 honor, for Hit possession i uiiilii njs gooJ to Uruz-le tl.o rank which 'ell menu and obli e i industry, the honor iowjng from a pure and mo world will readily withhold. X.When we acc a young man, 8piriib?3 and inac. tivo, because be has met with re verso-, rivin him self up a willing slave to urjrequitiug n.elancholy,-. inster. I of mHkinn-nnnthor nA ...itl.A. AtT..-. o f im ami uiiwiiiui iiu(i to: regain himself, we ; pity bjm ; for there is, fox: f ri m lnw"iworid,. nothing nrorth living for. ; Can . e suppose Jhal strangers will go' out of ...v.., ,uuu ii pick jnm irom tho ditclnn whicli ho has fallen, and in wiich he Jies apparently lifeless? This is not human n.itnr c ? ;r "c.L tain life, but it infuses none of Ms esseace into the d-cayed and lifeless trunk.. He who would Avhlk must make the attempt himself, cro lie "c.; ex pect others to aid him. , I v. ' . Let the young man rely on himself, and be re lies on a friend who'will never desert him. Count not on foreign aid. Each man has lii's own busi ness to accomplish," and ho cannot neglect ' if to ook.aher the business of others:1!. M. Noah. Tlie Sabbath. " " - God, whose sun shines equally upon the just and the unjust, never could consider it a crime for the pent-up artisan to leave his close and narrow dwelUI u ci ii .i v i i . . .. .... "'g u V oauoatn, ana wander with his children and the partner of his: toils amid the green, hedge rows and verdant fields. Wc know that ho blue sky, the perfumed flowers, the fresh air, the music of the birds,' the bee, and the' dancing rill must qevate the mind, must bear it upward, must decoy it from the small, low, creeping things of life to those which lead from time unto eternity. We always pray that the Sabbath sun may shine bright and warm, so that our laborers, ourserrants, those who toil in comparative darkness all" ithe week, may bei reminded that! God made the Sabbath for them, and that our way-sides, fields, and woods, may be filled by an outpouring of Cheerful and happy people. It is not Sabbath.breakinz toeniov the sunj the light, and the air of heaven. . , Man s Destiny. Man is higher than his dwell ing place ;f he looks up and unfolds the wings of his soul; and when the sixty minutes which weTcall sixty years have passed, he takes flight, kindliii" as he rises, and the ashes of his fathers fall back on earth, ajid the unveiled'soul, freed from its covering of clay l as pure as a tW "ascends on. high. Even in the midst of the di!m shadows of life, he sees the mountains of the' future world gilded with the morning rays of a sun' which rises not bprn hplnw So the inhabitant of he polar regiorslooks into the long night, in which there is no sunrise, but at midnight he sees a light, likothe first rosy rays of morn, gleaming on the highest mouritain.tops, and jie things of the long summer in which if never sets. j A Strike. V-1 rint going to be called a prin- ters devil any longer no more I aint," exclaimed pur imp the other day in a. terrible pucker. - "Well, what shall wo call you?" 1 ! " C.dl rae typographical spirit of evil, if you- please that's all." t " Fifty Years Since." The New York Mirror contain j an csstty on the manners and customs fclty vcarssrico, Iwlnch isfullf admonition to the present generation. rif ly. years make a great change; not only in the condition of an individual buPin the habitaand principles of society, . ? Wc make an extract for the benefit of our readers; male 'and female. The. writer says When Washington was President, his wife knit stockings in -Philadelphia, nnd the mother made doughnut and cakes bcttveen Christinas and New Year's; now the married ladies are too proud to make doughnuts,'' besides they don't know how, fo ihey even send to Madam Pomadour, or some other French cake Baker, and buy sponge cake for three dollars a pound, jln those days, New York was full of subslan'ial comforts; now it is fall of 'uplendid piisery ; then there was no grey headed spinsters, (unless ! they weie ugly indeed,) for a man could get married for a dollar, and begin housekeep ing for twenty, and washing his clothes and in cooking jhis victuals, the wife saved more money than it took to support her. Now t have known a minister get five hun- dred dollars for buckling rnuple. then .wine, cake and et ietrras. five hundred more wedding clothes and wwols a thousand six or seven hundred in driving to the springs or some deserted 'mountain, then a house must be got for eioht hundred dollars per annum, and furnished .at an ex pense of two or three thousand and waen tall is done, his pretty wife can neither make a sake nor put an apple in a dumpling. Then a Cook must be got for tea dollars per month a chamber maid, a laundress, and seamstress at seven dollars each, and as the fashionable folly ! of the day has banished the mistress' from the kitchen, those bles--sed helps aforesaid, reign ' supreme, and while master and mistress are plaving cards in the parlor, the servants are playing the devil in the kitchen thus lighting the candle at both ends it soon burns out. Poverty comes in at the door and drives love out at the window... It is thi stupid and expensive nonsense which deters so many unhappy old bachelors from entering the state ol blessedness ; Hence you rind more deaths than marriages." The Yocxg Man's Leisure. Youn? man ! after the du ties of the day are ovir,bow do you epend your evenings! When business is dull, and leaves many unoccupied hours. what disposition do you make of tnem i i nave Known, and now know, many young men, who, if they devoted to any scientific, or literary, or professional pursuit, the time they spend in games of chance, and in lounging in bed, and in idle company, might rise to eminence.; You have all read the sexton's son, who became a fine astrono mer by spending a short tme every evening' in gazing at k ctar or rinrmr the bell for nine o'clock; - bit Wil.. liam Pi.inps, who at the ag2 of forty-Uve had attained the order of knighUiood,.and the offices of sheriff of New - . . Attn lnnmnI I A England ano Governor oi iiassa5uusn, r-uinuiuicau and write, after his eighteenth year,' of a ship carpenter in Boston. William Giflord the great eauor oi me ytuiw iy, was an apprentice to a shoemaker, and spent his Ieisuro hours in study. . And because he bad neither peri nor pa per. slate nor pencil, he wrote out his problems on smooth lcainer wim a.-oiuut awi. can Astronomer. wher7 a ploughboy, was observed to have covered his plough and the ferices with figures and calcu l.t.nftQ .lomro Ferruson. the great Scotch astronomer. learned to read by himself, and masicreu iac pieuienis oi astronomy whilst a shepherd's aoy in vu iu uy ingiu. ... i r. ? " . 'n.11. .i mv. that, if Hip. hnnra W:,cf pfl - in idto comnanv. id vain conversation and at the A nn turri9TM 1 L IS IllJL LOLI UU1U1 w " J 1 : . - tavern were only spent in ihepursuit of useful knowledge, .iiici Trnimor man "miffht become an intelligent mem br of sociQty, and a. fit person fprmost of our civil offices. tj l.,f, 'onn'ivV: the thick' covering of many a youth inirht be laidtiside; and their ideas, instead or being cbn fi. , t rt Inrat subiects an d professional technicalities might iiimiiirTiniit the 'wide field of creation; 'and "other stars from the young men of this country might be added td tlie list of worthies that is gilding our country with bright mellow uguw - The ui:Tch all rren pri23, that Lvlsws thal l1G iaJ Ukrn by .the supposition of the award brc-usc it cannct " 01 , v - osHtutioa anopthe urn n,; which Extract froxli tho Speccli of ZJr. raiia REPLY TO MR. MCDUFFIE. .. ' " tinT tho wealth of hon: -Anc oenaior Una proceeded to illustrate, tec 5. .i:.:ss life, that which cfeal,on of Ihree separate lonredcracies on the should be of -homogeneous material. He supnoa. ed that it was introduced by way of an illustration of ! :s views, and not with the purpose of i;ccom. pli!:ing it,orffom any want of attachment to the u.inon ; built seemed to him that it would, befa ken as a recomme'ndation by men of more zeal than the Senator himself,' though he does'not want that, and of,t less discretion, . of which he has much. Ma ny, .might be taken captivoby the gorgeous pic ture drawn by bjm of the prosperity that! would remain for the South, when freed from .the' shack, les imposed by the Union, and, of, the happiness uwu power 10 wuicnii was uesuoca. . -- - Ttis Senator was ,not the ilrsf wbo had permit- ted his imagination to dwell on th2 consequences that would follow a. dissolution ,ofithc, Union. OUiers hod attempted, at ditferent times and jn va rious parts of tho country, to exercise their; imag ination ;y speculating on tho condition' !of the country, in case the, Union should be -broken up; but everyone else had, looked upon it as full ofdii aster and wo, nnd the Senator was; tho first who had been able to discover in it. not a scene of.-ruin ancT disaster, but of unbounded prosperity" The Senator had --held up in glowing colors the hdvanta ges whicii it would bring to one "of "the portions of the Confederacy. ; Ho had described in very glow ing language the happiness that would be enjoyed , by a commonwealth with such homogeneous! inter ests. He seems to have solved the nerolpxinf? question of the existence of the lost island, that floated in the imaginations of the ancieutsp" That happy region be had at last discovered. . The con siderations that had influenced others brought no apprehensions , to him.. Perpetual peace was to reign inthe new Confederacy. But ;ill this (said Mry-EJJs speculation. It is the fruit of a warm imagination. The character of human nature, the lessons of history, give no countenance to it. The history of small confederacies showed 1; that they were beset by dangers ot the "most jfearful kind. ! i . " . - .r ''-.-:'-: ' -pHe proposed to examine the subject a little, and see whether ail the benefits anticipated by tlieSen. ator would be experienced from this scheme of a confederacy of homogeneous interests, j The Southern confederacy was to be' united at ,iiome, and enjoy perpetual pear abroad. There ! was to be no envy, no rivalry, no jealousy, springing from human passions, and its commerce was never to be interrupted, nor its peace disturbed. " They ttropfi 1a ritrn r nrtiviiviAVWA until 1 m A. At 9 w 1 v iu uuic c wiijuiuivi vTiiij . juiLi ijltj uuu - acii i to her all their products. Iheir exports would umount to one hundred millions, ond their imports, including'twenty millions in profits, to'one .bun- dred and .twenty- millions. All,4hese' imports wcretobe consumed at home, or sold to the West ctTicyrn?7T0rTOOT-TTCTinjiir-rrrcrTm? get along ope hour. They must.rely on the West ci u uumsueracv : lur iuhjui nit? . v esioi n corueu. r for supplies.' Why nottake her at once, into the confederacy with the South ? That would not do', because it would destroy the homogencoushess of their interests, and, alter some years, the same questions would spring up between the South and the. West as agitate us now. ' The South 'was to xport cotton and rice, and import one hundred millions, besides the rollis.. WJiere were the protitsto come, trom l rrom, commerce. 1 he profits were derived from the importation of the gooda into the country, and belonged to those who h id the1 trade and.the navigation in-their hands. and tho profits would enable New England to im-' the profits on it must go, therefore, to foreign na tions. . Thecommerce would be carried on with England, "and the profits would go to her. The one hundred and twenty millions of foreign imports were to bu consumed. The whole popu lation of tlie Southern confederacy would be only nbniit five or six millions. .The population 'of the .v,.... .....w.o. m. .w v.uuUiiU whole countrv is about seventeen or eighteen mil- lions, and we find an importation .of a hundred or a hundred and twenty millions adequate for the consumption of all. Could a population of six millions consume a hundred, millions of imported articles? It was what no nation ever did before, and never would do, except in fancy. What were the imports made up of 1 Ouejhalf of them were fancy articles. The mild climate of the South, and the habits of a large portion of her people rendered many of these fancy i articles unnecessu. ry to lliem. lie did not mean to say that the South would not, or did not now, consume aslurge a portion of the luxuries imported, or nj larger portion,1 than any other part of the country; but many of her people are ot a class ; that never use them atMll. f A large amount i loo, of the imports conisiv.1 of silks, linens, class," &c, of which a portion of the populations-were not consumers. The Sentor?uj)posed that the Southern corifedera- cy would consume this- vast amount of imports. It was utterly impossible. Look at it forj a mo- ment. . ! It was a large part of the whole amount of the manufactures of Great Britain. The jpopula. tion of Great Britain was twenty-six millions more than four, times the amount of the jpopula- tion of the supposed Southern confederacy and the amount of consumption -proposed .vastly ex- eeded the consumption ' of Great Britain herself, in proportion to her population, though there was there, mingled with some1 poverty 'so much wealth and extravagance. It was a greater amount . of onrwnmnt on than anv nation was eaual.to'. in nro. obrtion to relative population. ' : v . .What portion, then, ot theseimpo 5 imports are to go .u irta w ih shP. hnit nav nr thpm What' will the Soutn take ot tne west i , one wants nothing but1 the; live-stock ' of the -West ,': for she raises her own grain.' - She'caniipt take Kentucky backing 'for that would. destroy the whole theory !bf homogeneous interests, and revive a home man! ufacture.0 All tho cotton bagging must corse from vv uL-io ticsu-ouiu niey Kauu -nuw iogmno produces but six millions)! dollars Worth of qqU s 1 ns couiu not oct emn oveu in t ie iraue. iur mat tn V aoV; l lmik ,.r would destroy the homogeneousness of the scheme, three Imnd red and seventv-fivj thousand, produces '' l Glasgow ana wund., lest t!je 7esi Jiould Lucorao ! a manutactunng naiu::. .W-8oiiih-v.:i. tik sho will;be so great at. producer. ' Sbo ; i!l t: ncuurjirom i.er out nvo siocu. j P Br: West we're to ifind, through the SouthI ern p i :, how they were to get, there he did not P k i. -; an op . i u n i ty to cx poi t their con: r.:odi. " lies. Bat that, cgain, would.brcak up the rcheir.; - -r : . L 2ausoif ths West- went to tfxr jrtir',' the" P would alio commence importing, and supply iherol-' v selves wifh all their foreign a(iiclcs-of C3nsurhp tion, instead o buying Irorh the 6outlu t If, tho '' csv ijuc uieir owu exports, iney yui aiso, have ; ' their owa imports." '.Where would be the, cloriiw ' : " prosperity it the South and all the magnificent re-; -' '"' suits that were promised by "the homogeneous corf."-'- ; federjcy ? Were the" countless millions Vlib werV" -: to pejplo the West to content themselves' with .1 -trifiirj trado with the Southland sl-llinc them a little live stock ? . What else could iljey do 7, If ' they began jmanufactui ins: it would break un the" ' tneoYy Hy tnanufactuiin;' the XV sl'wouid ! be. roma seller instead of buvr.rs.'L'tiA West wn. . ' beyond doubr destined to bo a gre t mvnufacturirr country, for Jtvasjh most ptufiiabltflinodo in which they tould apply their fab .Jr.' Ii woJ bo vast wool. growing country and tho unlypmode in whiclf the wool cou'J.bn: usethwas to niandacti t it. i .It could not be sold, because wool was cheap v ly produced and in large.quahtities, in various ' 'portfons of. the world; v The' great danger now was, that wol would be imported so che p "tts to, 1 btnuk down the home nrojucLion of it. The West . 'must manufacturi!' her. wool, and the! will Vave no occasion to buy wdoljens from abroad, but "will rather seek a nmrVct fir her mununcturcM ai borne. rhcreVas danger, then, of C(dlisioua between the "'. Southern confederacy and iho West) 7 ' ' Bnt'was there . 'not also danger of collisions in the Southern confederacy itself 7 Would thuir in-" terests.be homogeneous in', every ij-spect ? , Her.' great staples were cotton and rice. But Virginia irnido but very little cottoiir-uone for. exportation.' - The population of - Virginia . was a million and a half, a fourth part of the whole f Southern. Confedei ' racy. 1 But the only staple that she pfoducesisnb-'' bacco; ; The amount that she' would "furnish to wards the exports of a hundred ? millions would bo three and a half, millions in tobarcop iHer share ; . of the consumable imports will therefore be , very- ; small. "How was she to get her portion of tho " -hupdred and twenty' millions - of imports? What could .Virginia raise that the other jStates; would take? lu a very short time .the quest ionf would grow up between Virginia and the other States ns to the rate of the duties on imports." . I She will say," you do not buy of1 us, and you must !do something, that will equalize the benefits of this system. f Questions oftaxation and of the jregulation ofy commerce would arise between them. "Vireini commerce would nnso would insist Unon a dutv, 10 Vive nrotnction! t,i her --. 1 . : . - . - .., products, or. upon some other model of obtaining, portion of the benefits" of the svstep of Govern, ment. Vnginia had great facilities fcr manufac- turinov Sfu had conL iron .nnd navifTnhtii!rlvr.- Nhi vuo v one nowj in his opinion , ihg for a separation frorrithe " Unio without wait- Uniop. Virginia, when she became a manufacturing State, would say to the Southern'meinbers of "the y0U must protect our manufactures confederacy, and we will then buy your cotton. In the end, the same diffi- , cuftv that is now complained " of will arise, and ' thcre must be another separation. .The same dif- ficulty will occur in regard to South Carolina her. seft for she must abandon the Competition with otlier southern states in 'the eniwihe of cotton. South Carolina,' with.a greater population'than Ala. 1 ' . . '' hama or Mississippi,, produces mur)i less 'cotton.' : - Wi,h a population of six hundred thbusandPshe ' - cotton. to tlie rriiunt. of fifteen millions and a half oi uonars. wvccoramg to mis, Mississippi woum be able to consume imported urtieles in - the pro. portion of fifteen to sixain comparison with the consumption of South Carolina. South Carolina would be badly! off in this case', yiiat liad ho that she could furnish for the consumption of Ala. bamn nnd Mississippi ? Nothing. J She had hothing that these stales wanted; not an article. But South Carolina must raise something that Tennes. see and Alabama would 'take. She;, must! go to J manufacturing, i She will say, we have materials, and a population that can be easily instructed in manufacturing, and we can make articles for you if you will give us your market; e cad' supply you and obtain from you such foreign articles as we want. This result would le inevitable ; and this would put an end to the homogenous Interests of the southern confederacy. Coujjd anyj way be" pointed out by which the small producers could be- como large consumers? Collisions would Jiecr.ssa. rily arise between the more southern and the more northern portions of tho confederacy. J' What would be the condition of the West? .If suo were to hno a market lor her llopr, it would be more valuable than cotton, as an'articloof xport. But If she exported, she would" atso import, and that would destroy the system. . The Senator said thntthe southern confederacy would lhave a! revenue , of twelve millions. But how Ts the Vcsfern nation to get along for revenue? ' They have no way .to et it but by taxing the imports agtn, 'after they have been taxed by the south. VVhere is lhe.west ? Pei . 'oga to the Uregon. VVhat rerenre do ih j ot i 1 hey will say to j the south j you are U...4,; ..ie result of our industry add we will tRX yours. Then comes a schemejof "countervail, iog restrictions and duties, and border warfares will soon De noacu. v nai wouio uniuie eiieci oi n war on the South7 There could be no war with England, because she would be thKonly eoisumer ot tne soutn. oui snouiu u arise, sne ,wouia t e ODl,gca Jocaii.m uwiu ui me norm, wnicn, however deplorable,1 was not improbable, the aid not ineir relations wiin ijreai uriiam icau iu dijijiu car inurnucicL uai nauoecome ui an umi mem - said of the grasping ambition of jEngjand and of j what had been said! of tho ; u genius, of universal j emancipalipn.V--.-"J ": " - - I 1 i I - - The south would find, after all, thatthe g1 wearily" of - bet institutions 10 rf , - '" .V: V -V . - .1 ?.)..'.- ! i t
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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March 8, 1844, edition 1
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