The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-11-20
THE ADVOCATE. A
POLITICS FOR FARMERS.
(Continued from our last.

y (COntinued from our last.
We have in our own country, two beau
tirul types Of the principles that we teach,
in Fitfsburgh and Cincinnati. They have
no foreign trade--but lands and housesin
them, and in their neighborhood, bear a
full comparison with the values of lands
and houses at Baltimore, and its neigh
borhood. The manufactures of Philadel-
phia, (that is, those supplied with labor
and capita, and which centre in that city,)
have been estimated at 25 ,00O, 900 dollars
annually-equal to the full average val
ue of all the cotton exported. Without
an interior trade, a city can only be as He
kgoland. was, when converted into q nest
for smugglers, as the island Of st. Thom-
as is, because a "free port" at which the
British islands are supplied with flour, &c.
"A more special application Of the ben
efits derived from prudent dsr's'om cf "a
Dor, may be thus shown
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut are capable Of raising all the
bread stuffs, which their people need, and
heretofore had considerable surplus /;
but, at an early period, they turned their
attention much to navigation, and have
lately become great manufacturing states
The lands in this district are not well fit-
ted for the cultivation Of wheat-but they
prefer bread made from it, # able to pur-
chase It.. We take ofthem cotton and 9th
er manufactures, oil, SC, and they re-
ceive, in exchange Of US, not less than
the equivalent Of 900, 900 barrels OF
-four, in bread stuffs, ,or a much greater
value than the whole Of our foreign trade
in them. This may be called a new busi-
ness, and is sfvast Importance to all par
ties. 1t is equally profitable to the one,
whether yard Of cotton cloth lbe sold tor
6 or I cents to go to Baltimore or Lima
or to the other, If barrel of -four sells for
5 dollars, to proceed to Boston or Kas-
schntka But there is this imposing ad-
vantage-the orders and DEGREES, in
trigues, or caprices, of foreign nations,
have no effect over our home trade. Its
amount is beyond calculation-and 1T
knits the people closely together We
have seen Baltimore bran5 d -four in the
midst of the mountains Of Vermont. Such
is the GO American System. This could
not have. happened, but because OF the
dip;s;ons of labor that we have spoken OF.
But, it is said the people would eat as
much bread as they now do,were that "sys
ten" destroyed. So it may be- said that
we should require as many shoes,were all
the shoe-makers gullotined But every
body knows that it would not be advan-
tageous for the farmer to stop his plough
and let his horses remain idle, to make a
pair Of shoes. .Ifthe people on the rich
lands Of New York, Pennsylvania, Mary
land and Virginia, can make" wheat
cheaper than those of Massachusetts, and
Rhode Isla6d-and they, of the latter, fur
.nish the other with cotton goods cheaper
than they can otherwise obtain them, com
mon sense will teach both the value of mu-
tual exchanges. We have had mighty
ont cry about the loss Of the West India
Trade, and shall havesl gGand ado, If It
is vseoined. We believe that the sale Of
one barrel of American. flour has not been
lost, because ofthe loss Of that trade
but the general amount of our trade with
the West Indies has not been materially
affected by an opening or closing of the
British Ports.* But If the sale Of all the
-four which proceeded (direct) to those
ports, when opened, was really to US, the
whole amo,nt Is less than the demand for
.fOu,rand corn at the manufacturing to,cn cf
Prvpidesce, N. Rhode Island This will
astonish. many, but it Is the truth notwith-
standing. The highest amount of -four,
ever exported to the British West Indies,
was about 100, 900 barrels in one year
In lnsl826-1--ffom iJuly TO July, 1877, $50
barrels Of -four were received at Provi-
dencs, with, perhaps, 200, 900 bushels Of
southern corn, nearly all which imme-
diateIy passed to the manufactures, for
consumption.
we might, multiply net. like these
sws have sspotted 100000 barrels Of
-four more 10 the West indies, when these
ports were shut than when they were D.
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