If the South works for
itself it works also for the Northern merchant, and views his prosperity
without grudging.

"9. Nor is it a trifling article of gain that arises from the
expenditure of southern visitors and southern travellers, who spend
their summers and their money in the north. The quarrelsome rudeness of
northern society is fast diminishing this source of expenditure among
us. Sever the Union, and we relinquish it altogether. We can go to
London, Paris, or Rome, as cheaply and as pleasantly as to Saratoga or
Niagara.

"Such are some of the advantages which the north derives from a
continuance of that union which her fanatic population is so desirous to
sever. A population with whom peace, humanity, mercy, oaths, contracts,
and compacts, pass for nothing--whose promises and engagements are as
chaff before the wind--to whom bloodshed, robbery, assassination, and
murder, are objects of placid contemplation--whose narrow creed of
bigotry supersedes all the obligations, of morality, and all the
commands of positive law. With such men what valid compact can be made?
The appeal must be to those who think that a deliberate compact is
mutually binding on parties of any and every religious creed. To such
men I appeal, and ask, ought you not resolutely to restore peace, and
give the south confidence and repose?

"I have now lived twenty years in South Carolina, and have had much
intercourse with her prominent and leading men; not a man among them is
ignorant how decidedly in most respects, the south would gain by a
severance from the north, and how much more advantageous is this union
to the north than to the south. But I am deeply, firmly persuaded that
there is not one man in South Carolina that would move one step toward a
separation, on account of the superior advantages the north derives from
the union. No southern is actuated by these pecuniary feelings; no
southern begrudges the north her prosperity. Enjoy your advantages,
gentlemen of the north, and much good may they do ye, as they have
hitherto. But if these unconstitutional abolition attacks upon us, in
utter defiance of the national compact, are to be continued, God forbid
this union should last another year.

"I am, sir, your obedient servant,

"Thomas Cooper."

"Many fine looking districts were pointed out to me in Virginia,
formerly rich in tobacco and Indian corn, which had been completely
exhausted by the production of crops for the