Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-12-01

Iy--equai to the full average value Of
all the cotton exported. Without. ia.
ferior trade. . city can only be a. He
igoIc'd vas when converted into a
nest Tor smuggiers, as the island Of 81.
Thomas is. because a free port ar
which the British Islands are supplied
with our flour, sc.
n ,nore special application Of tho
dement's derived from prudent diris.
'on % labor, may be thus shown
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and
Connecticut, are capable Of raising al
The bread stuffs which their people
need, and heretofore had q 6onsidera-
Die 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 we'll fitted
Tor the cultivation Of wheat-but they
prefer bread made from il. If able 4.
purchase it. We take Of them cotton
and other manufactures, oil, &c. and
they receive. in exchange, Of US, not
less than the equivalent of 100000
barrels Of flour. in bread stuffs, or a
much greater value than the whole Of
our foreign trade in them. This NAV
be called a new business. and is oil
vast Importance to all parties. 1t is
equally profitable TO the one, whether
yard Of cotton cloth be sold for cts.
to so to Baltimore or Lima--or to the
other, II a barrel Of -four sells for rs.
to proceed to Boston or Kamschatka.
But there IS this imposing advantage:
the orders and DEGREES, intrigues, or
caprices, Of foreign nations. have no
effect over our home trade. Its amount
Is beyond calculation--andi il knits tho
people closely together. We have
seen Baltimore branded -four in tho
midst ot the mountains Of Vermont.
Such is the American System This
could not have happened, but because
OF the dirision Of labor that We have
spoken of.
But it is said, the people would eat
as much bread rs they now do, were
that system destroyed. So it may
be said that we should require as ma
ny shoes, were all the shoe makers
guillotined! But every body knows
that It would not be advantageous for
the farmer to stop his plough, and let
ms horses remain idle, To make n pair
OF shoes. IL the people on the rich
lands Of New York, Pennsylvania.
Maryland and Virginia. can make
wheat cheaper than those Of Massachu-
sets and Rhode isiand--and they. of
the latter, furnish the other with cot.
ton goods cheaper than they can other
wise obtain them, common sense viii!
teach both the value of mutual exchan-
ses. We have had q mighty out-cry
about the loss Of the West India trade.
and shall have n grand ado IL II is re-
tanned. We believe that the sale Of
one barrel Of American flour has not
been lost, because Of the loss Of that
trade-that the general amount of our
trade with the West Indies has not
been materially affected by an opening
or closing of the British ports. 7 But II
the sale OF all the flour which proceed
ed (direct To those ports when OPEN
ell, was really lost TO US, the mhoie a.
mount IS less than The dtmnnd for Rouy
and corn at the nidnufacfuring torn OF
Proridsnce, Rhode Iiand. This will
astonish many, but it is the truth not
withstandiDg. The HIGHEST amount
oi Hour ever exported TO the British
west Indies was about 10000 bar
rels IN one year. In 1896. -. from
July TO July, liz. $50 barrels of flour
were received at Providence, with,
perhaps, coo. 900 bushels Of "SouIh
ern corD," nearly all Of which immcdi-
ately passed TO the manufacturers for
consumption.
We might multiply facts like these
without number-but cannot give tho
room 10 state them.
To D. concluded ncSt week
We hare exported 100 ,nOO barrel. Of n,,t,
To- Wraf fst1s.