Speech of Hon John B Alley of Mass On the Principles And Purposes of the Re
Speech of Hon John B Alley of Mass On the Principles And Purposes of the Re
John Bassett Aley
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Taking into view the poverty ant dependent condition of the South, this talk about non-intercourse is simply ridiculous — as muchlso as it would be for our wives and children, who are so dependent upon us they could not live a week without us, to threaten us with dissolution and abandonment. But these threats aiout withdrawing from the North the trade of the South, to say nothing of their futility and ini otency, have a moral significance not unworthy of comment. Such an a[i- peal to the cupidi...ty nd avarice of the North — -to stifle their honest convictions and suppress the holiest impulses of tl'ir nature at the call of mammon — is an insult to our people; which not a few northern miscreants I regret to know, are equally with the South responsible ibr. But, tlianks to the integrity and mal heroism of the North, suoli an appeal will have but little effect. I need only add, in confiri]. Tion of what I have already said, of the dependent condition of the South upon the North, tha lotwithstanding the intensity of feeling on the part of the South, the violent threats and vehemenyleclarations about non-intercourse sfnce the commencement of this session, I do not know of a simile merchant at the North, that I am acquainted with, who has been in the habit of trading wit the South — and I know of hosts of such in the Republican ranks — whose trade has diminishec On the contrary, I know of many, and some of them intense Rejiublieaus.
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