Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1829-12-01

years have not elapsed, since not a bar
rel OF Flour was brought from abroad
INTO this county. Twenty years have
scarcely gone by since Merino Sheep
were first imported into New-England.
The same corresponding revolutions are
going on every where, and it is amazing
to observe, with what facility, these vari-
Gus new modes of industry are adopted
by enterprisng people. Look, however,
to those countries where there is no
such enterprise, where the old furrow is
ploughed, and the old tool is used, and
see how the people wither and shrink,
and what dead stagnation there is.
Mention has been made of the river
counties in the state of New-York, now
let US see how the Erie Canal has effect
ed them-what was their condition and
4 what is it, According to the argument;
and the fears Of Massachusetts, the far
mers there must be impoverished, the
population diminished, Improvement
must be at stand, villages and towns
In decay. There is no use in multiply
ing words upon this subject; every man
who lives here, knows that this is not 50.
but the contrary.
There is another inquiry upon this
subject, that is worth making; suppose
that we are In fact in danger from the
cheap products of the west, the question
arises how they are to be kept out-do
they not at this moment enter the State
at every point9 Where will you build
lyour walls of brass what points on the
sea-board will you defend against this
new enemy, which comes as enemy new
er came before-to feed you; where
will you dam up the Connecticut, the
Merrlmack River, the Blackstone, the
Mlddlesex Canal, and how will you
stop the mouths of new applicants for
improvements, on the rivers, and for ca
nails, for turnpikes, and Railroads.&c. These
are pretty serious questions, when there
is hardly village in the State, in which
you may not see "Genesee Flour"
marked upon the head of every flour
barrel. In this predicament, neither
Chinese walls, nor Chinese policy will
answer; for it is certain that decree
has long since gone out, that the great
world west of us shall be peopled, shall
be cultivated, shall TEEN with riches, SO
that the streams of it shall overflow, and
reach US as well as others. Nothing is
left, therefore, but one course, and that
is to prepare for this new emergency,
some In one way, some in another. Ii
we must consume western commodities,
let the transportation Of them be as cheap
as possible-let us prepare to meet our
western brethren half way upon our rail-
road with our excellent manufactures,
and there in our turn exact the price of
transportation. Let us dive into the
bowels Of the earth, and if there be any
thing valuable there for them or our
selves, let us bring it forth. Let us al
so dive into the depths of the sea, and
send out our fish and oil, ten for one,
compared with the present demand. If
they on the land have wide and rich
| domain, we have on the ocean. Before
the contemplated railroad can be COM
Ipleted, there will be demand on the
line of it, and beyond it, for ten barrels
OF Fish and Oil, where there is for one
now. 1t is not credible, that our friends
on the sea board, can mistake a plain
point of policy like the one we are dis
cussing, which is to give them bay, an
inlet, in every notch of the land. 1t is
certainly new discovery, that we have
made all at once, that the people of New
England are to be ruined by cheap bread,
beef, and pork. Bread 50 cheap, as to
be a curse, is something new under the
sun. Strange and absurd as this may
seem, there are those who think SO.
! Trade and manufactures have their for
tunate and their unfortunate periods we
are now experiencing the latter; peo-
! pie are alarmed ; there is panic, and
men know not what to believe.
1t is said that there is over-production,
and that this is likely in state of peace
to continue (; and while in all other peri
DDS of the world, the great desire has
been on the part of one man to con-
trive how he could amass riches enough
to buy what he wanted, and what anoth-
er had to sell, the main thing now is to
arrest the labours of men. What is
meant by this over-production unless it
be that mems hands can execute more
| than it is in their hearts to desire-when
was this ever the case, when can it be
500 There cannot be over-production
permanently so as to interfere ruinously
with the industry of country. The
plaques of Egypt would be light COM
pared with curse like this. There may
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