Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Commercial Enfranchisement of the Confederate States of America: With Original Articles on a New System of Weights and Measures, and New Coins for for the Confederate States
The Commerce of the Confederate States, constituting the subject which has called us together, must occupy much of our re?ections. We are without Foreign Commerce altogether only a few cargoes of our products escape the blockading squadron of the United States in going out from our ports, or an occasional vessel may succeed in entering some harbor along our extended coast; but, prior to the period of our separation from our former associates, the contemptible position of the commerce of the Southern States had been a subject of most anxious solicitude upon the part of our best citizens, - the incubus which paralyzed every energy - that palsied every heart - that chilled the zeal of the most devoted patriots, has been thrown from our commerce by the action of the people of the States composing the Confederacy, and we are now assem bled where the discussion as to our future policy must be left to ourselves, for until all hands are chilled by death, no renewal of the accursed connection with the United States will be tolerated.
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