The Texas Republican

The South has a remedy, which if properly used would work a wonderful change in Northern aggressive sentiments. Let the South learn to lie at home! At present the North fattens and grows rich upon the South. We depend upon it for our entire supplies. We purchase all luxuries and necessaries from the North. We do not depend upon ourselves: we do not encourage enterprise, skill and industry at home, but give the preference to that of the North. With us every branch and pursuit in life, every trade, profession and occupation is dependent upon the North. For instance: the Northerners abuse and denounce Slavery and Slaveholders, yet our slaves are clothed with Northern manufactured goods, have Northern hats and shoes, work with Northern hoes, ploughs and other implements, are chastised with a Northern made instrument; are working for Northern more than Southern profit. The slaveholder dresses in Northern goods, rides a Northern saddle with all other accoutrements, sports his Northern carriages, patronizes Northern newspapers, reads Northern books, drinks Northern liquors, spends his money at Northern watering places, crowds Northern fashionable resorts—in short, his person, his slaves, his farm, his necessaries, his luxuries, as he walks, rides, sleeps, loafs, lounges or works, he is surrounded with all articles of Northern origin. The aggressive acts upon his rights and his property, arouse his resentment—and on Northern made paper, with a Northern pen, with Northern ink, he resolves in regard to his rights. In Northern vessels his products are carried to market, his cotton is ginned with Northern gins, his sugar crushed and preserved by Northern machinery: his rivers are navigated by Northern steamboats, his mails carried in Northern stages: his negroes are fed with Northern bacon and beef, flour and corn: his land is cleared with a Northern axe, and a Yankee clock sits upon his mantle-piece; his floor is swept by a Northern broom, and covered with a Northern carpet: his wife dresses before a Northern Mirror, his child cries for a Northern toy, crows over a Northern shoe, and is perfectly happy in having a Northern knife: his son is educated in a Northern college, his daughter receives the finishing polish at a Northern seminary: his doctor graduates at a Northern medical college, his schools are supplied with Northern teachers, and he is furnished with Northern inventions and axioms.

The South is the dependent on the North. The fault lies with itself. It has the remedy in its own hands. Heretofore it has only grown the raw materials—the North has manufactured them and reaped all the profit. It has grown rich and prosperous beyond measure, the South has become poor. There should be a change. Necessity and duty alike demand it. Self-respect and self preservation require it. The South should manufacture, first, all its necessaries—its heavy articles. It has the raw material, water power and all proper facilities in abundance. When it does thus the North will have learned a lesson, and we shall be independent and prosperous.—Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate.