America

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Excerpt from America: LettersThe author of a political pamphlet published more thanthirty years ago, Europe at least has no motive to meddle in any way with the Southern States. We are not its rivals in agriculture, trade, or manufactures, and nature has bound us together in cords of perpetual friendship. We raise the raw material, and they manu facture it. It is the people of the North whom I fear. The Tariff Bill, though in form and colour a revenue measure, was in truth an Act for rendering the South tributary to the North, As regards Great Britain and the Plantation States, thus stands the case. We can raise cotton, she cannot. She can manufacture, we cannot, and a mutually beneficial exchange of the commodity each is able to supply on the best terms might be carried on between us, supporting in good measure the industry of both. There is no rivalry, therefore, nor is there likely to be any, between Europe and the Plantation States as there is, and ever must be, between Old England and New England. Our true interest is in a free and uninterrupted commerce with the whole world, and particularly with England, where are workshops sufficient to work up the raw material. Which we raise. Such were the well grounded convie tions of Southerners many years before they endea voured by force of arms to emancipate themselves from Northern domination, and to achieve their political in dependence, an attempt in which they unfortunately failed after a brave struggle against great odds, being heavily weighted with the incubus of slavery now.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.