The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

vanced, and at the same time with so kindly a feeling, that
they come with twice the weight that denunciations of

England's selfishness and greed of gain could have come.
" In nothing I have said do I mean to underrate tho just.
value of commerce with the Old World. We may well
rejoice in what tho nineteenth century has done for the

mother land. Her population has more than doubled since
it began. Indeed it had doubled in 1851. And she had

doubled the supply, enlarged the variety and secured the
certainty of food of her people. A hundred years ago she
exported corn. Her farmers had been wont to esteem
themselves ruined by the low prices incident to every period

of plentiful harvests. The other parts of her population

bemoaned every year of agricultural prosperity, because
then they paid the prices, or suffered the pangs, of famine.

Several causes have conspired to make her truly great—
great in the strength, the digility, and the happiness of her
people—greater yet in the prospect of the ultimate educa-

tion and enfranchisement of masses, in the equa-

lisation of public burdens, of all the rights of conscience,

and that fairer distribution of political justice due alike to

Celt and Saxon. Theso causes in truth are essentially ana

single cause—namely, the application of science to the arts,
giving to the island the additional working power of
500,000,000 of mon. It is seen in the development of
manufactures by the highest mechanical agencies. It
has brought near together the remotest corners of
the realm. It has restored the bogs and moors

and other waste lands of tho kingdom by drainage,

by agricultural machinery, and the intelligent adapta-
tion of crops, and soils, and fertilisers, and has deve-
loped the lean and unprofitable cattle of former times
into the modern sheep, and cows, and oxen which
lend their distinction to the attractions of her modern fairs.
It is seen in manufacturing and agricultural-machinery, in
civil engineering, in the construction of bridges, loco-
motives, cars, steamers, and railways ; in the treatment of
soils, the management of breeding, the rotation of crops,
and the composition of fertilising materials, and in all the
thousand manipulations of practical husbandry. Little
more than five hundred years ago, in the reign of Edward
1., they hanged a man in England for the crime of burning
coals, within the precinct of the city, " brought by the way
of the sea to London.' But wiser generations since,
taught by science how to use the treasures hid beneath
the sea and in the bowels of the earth, have found in the
mines of coal and iron the secret of modern power.

" What do you deal in ?' asked George 111. of Matthew
Boulton, partner of James Watt in the business of making
and vending the steam-engine, by the invention of which
the name of Watt is immortalised. ' What do you deal
.in ?" What kings delight in—power,' was the stout reply.
Yes, but it was a power which makes the peoples great—
not their kings. That mysterious power—found in the
application of the tremendous forces of nature, in steam, in
electricity, in chemistry, in that practical philosophy which
teaches how to tame and usethese subtle agencies of the uni-
verse—dwarfs the proportions of artificial greatness. It
confers a share of its benificence on all, and ennobles by na
arbitrary distinction. What science—applied to each and
all the arts of life, to all the creations of inventive genius,
to the uses of commerce, of manufactures, of mechanism,
of agriculture, in all their thousand diversifications can do
for any, let her do for us—with a territory larger than Eu-
rope, a people numerous enough for empire, independent,
free, and thirsting for glory.
"Now when England proposes that the American people
shall discontinue making cloth, and turn their attention to
raising cereals instead—offering on its own part to sell to
the American people their supply of cloth—these several
things are to be understood as comprised in the proposi-
tion, viz., that our supply of cereals is to be increased,
while our home market for grain is correspondingly dimi-
nished, and while foreign manufacturers are permitted the
monopoly of the American market for cloth. England
would then undoubtedly sell cloth in a dearer market, and
she would undoubtedly buy food in a cheaper one ; while
Americans would sell their food in a foreign market,
cheapened by the absence of competition at home, and
they would buy cloth at prices enhanced by a similar cause.
Besides, it is to be remembered that if the populations of
the Old and New Worlds aro to increase in the same rela-
tive proportions hereafter as heretofore, our own demand
for cloth must increase in vast disproportion to the British
demand for bread. And thus, as the years wear on, our
surplus of breadstuffs would grow on our hands, while our
generous friends across the ocean would be continually
giving us less cloth for every bushel of wheat we should
send them.
Now I venture to affirm that the annual purchase

and consumption by New-England of Western agricul-
tural products, (including grain, flour, and animal food,
used for the support of man, and the forage of cattle, swine,
and horses), during tho last half-dozen years has reached
the average annual value of $50,000,000 ; that this amount
is annually increasing ; that the market is, and has been, '
a sure and constant market, subject to no fluctuations.
The total export of breadstuffs to foreign- countries during
the last 40 years furnishes a result annually of only a trifle
over $21,000,000 on the average—more than five-eighths
of which has Won sold during the last ten years. But the
foreign demaid is so variable that no reasonable estimate
can ever be made, one year in advance. It is always con-
tingent on the European crops.
So long as three thousand miles of ocean roll between
the eastern shores of America and the shores of Western
Europe : so long as two thousand miles besides of water
transportation delay the products of our North-West on
their way from Chicago to the Gulf St. Lawrence ; so long
as the interest of foreign capital, the necessities of foreign
labour, the ambitions and traditions of foreign States,
and sovereigns, and peoples continue to exist ; so long
indeed as every people conscious of their national unity,
who are able or worthy to endure, must, first of all things,
study to maintain, at whatever cost, the ability within
themselves of independent, nay of defiant, life—just so
long universal economy, the common prosperity, and the
very idea of nationality, forbid our five and thirty mil-
lions of men, possessing a continental domain, enjoying
self-government and popular liberty, to break the magic
circle of their industrial power."
Our space will not admit of our following his Excellency
as fully as we could wish. The address is well worth a
careful reading ; and we recommend it to the attention of
all who deaire to gain in a condensed form a clear concep-
tion of American progress, and of the ideas implanted in
the minds of the New England farmers. We conclude
with the following extract :
" Assembled on this fertile bank of the broad and beauti-
ful Connecticut, the central stream of New England, bound-
ing two, dividing two, and watering four of the New Eng-
land Commonwealths, associated in our history with grand
events and great men, with ideas transcending far the
greatness of events or of men, I venture to summon these
representatives of the yeomen of New England to rise to
the height of their new occasion—to concentrate and apply
your influence to this work of national development. Our
fathers founded this nation, planted it here in the wilder-
ness in the early day. They and their sons have helped
to maintain it by their care, and have defended it with
their blood. If others have over done more wisely or
tusttce bravely than we to them let history award the meed
of honest fame. I know, at least, that for all we are, for
all we possess ourselves, and all we can offer to the com-
mon glory and support, we of New England are indebted
to accidents of fortune, nor capricious favour of earthly
power. By patience, industry, and frugal manners, these
people have turned rocks, and ice, and wasting waters into
thrift and comfort, and have added the results of more
than two hundred years of toil to the national defence, and
to the glory of the civil state. And now I long to see
New England in the lead,
using alike her political weight,
her public influence, and her material aid, in a work which
will signalise the far-sighted and liberal quality of her busi-
ness intelligence—namely, the improvement of that great
natural system of lake and river navigation by the deepen-
ing and widening of existing canals and locks, and by the
construction of new ones—by means of Which a "'Ship or
steamer, of adequate draft and dimensions, may carry
freight from any port, on any of our great inland seas, or
from the Ottawa River, down the St. Lawrence into Lake
Champlain, for distribution at all its ports from St. Albans
to Whitehall. The navigation of tho chain of waters com-
prised in the St. Lawrence, and our great inland seas, or
lakes, reaches nearly half the way from the Atlantic to the
Pacific Ocean. The extent and fertility of the regions
whose shores are layed by this vast system of waters, the
relation it bears to the great Mississippi basin as well as
the basin of the St. Lawrence, the relation which this sys-
tem of inland navigation bears to the Nqrthern Railway
route to the Pacific, mad to the far Western valleys and
rivers which indicate its direotion, all combine to render it
the Mediterranean of our continent, the seat and home of
empire, transcendent in might beyond the dreams of Rome
and Carthage."

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