Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-11-29
To The Eorrons OF THE WINS.


To THE EorroRs OF rHE WINS
meSSrs. Edit0TS:-As the object of this commit.
n'ca, ION is TO enquire INTO circumstance which
mas iatciy been brought To my notice, by of
most respectable country mIllors shall not pre-.
tend to offer apology for thus TROUBLING vou Ii
is SAID that the city mlors have dc errnined to put
down those in the country, and to enable then,
ueasurahy to do so, they have rcsor,ed TO one OF
the most dastardly and infamous tricks in other
words, the most fragrant outrages, that was ever
ohercd To the public--onc, which ought TO arouse
the Indignation of every honest aud hlghmInded
man. have always thought u fair and honorable
competition, the very lite of tradcand it is hoped
an indignant public will laugh to scorn, the mise
rabc attempt now about to be made by the city
milcrs, TO destroy that competition. The trick TO
winch aude, is this--the city milicrs (my infor-
H'aht says, from information derived from ono of
your most respectable commission merchants arc
no" by way of induccmcnt, holding cut to farmers
price tor wheat far above what they are really
"',i'hg TO give when the wheat is actually at their
hiiIS-thus practising fraud upon the seller and
robbIng tho poor country miller of tho miserable
pittance he might have made, if this false idea had
not been held out to the farmer What is the far
'ef 10 DO after he has boated, what is probably
worse, waggoned his wheat 10 their .nillsl Why
lie must hear it said that ms whcut is not rood
when ho knows it to be nerchautabc,l and thu,
ne must take piice less, far less, than he expected
10 get Tor 1t, or incur the additional expense of
HdulnS IL oack TO his country micr--Sooncr than
do which, he is actually forced TO take Whatever
lhey may he pleased to give him. Really sirp, /
thought alter the last session of the LEGISLATURE
these gentry would have done with their tricks
pHl they must now have resort to some other mode
to put down the country mllcrs,r rs the I,euisla
turo was so unkind az to pick few of their type
l'canal hour'l out of their form. / am 10 miller
and beg 1T to be so understood, but feel deeply in
terested III behalf of the country millcrs, because
as farmer, am personally interestcd--our inter
osts are identiiied--wc both, in settling tho
price OF our wheat, governed by the Richmond
market. Wei. what arc we to do? Wheat Is quoted
from lUfal IL, IN the city papers, and by letters
orally His commission merchant however " rites
hun, that the C ty mers not actually irving
those prices for wheat-that it is only intended as an
Involvement to get wheat bro't to then-or in other
words, to "put down country millers." II Sir, tho
country milers put down, what a re we us hirh
up the country this, TO do? We have not the
same facilities of getting to market that those re-
siding in tho neghborhood Of Richmond have
The Company incorporated sometime back, for the
Improvement of the Rivanna river have been thro,
their dlligent and cfatgablo Directors, striving
tor two years, encountcring lawsuit after law suit
to get 1t fairly under way. But what they do
when they are opposed, at every rock they at.
tempt to remove, by the most obdurate and unbri.
died wilos of modern Talleyrand? We then are
compelled to sell our wheat to country millers un.
less wo choose TO incur expense in shippno
that would not Justify doing so, if we are to
be offered price and compelled to take ano, her
when get there. 1t is therefore to entrent Of
our farmers up the country to sustain the couutrv
| anu 10 ala In puDllcIy exposing the
mlllers IN such netarious schemes ifthcy be true
Indeed 1t is the duty of every honest man TO dis.
countcnance such acts aimed Mt the prostra.
ton OF a fair competition. Y on will at once see
the disadvantages under which labour in set
Ting The price OF our whcat-if these prices are
merely fictitious, the country miller, if he knows
1t to be so, is unwilling to settle for wheat by them
and the farmer is, the other hand, unwil-
ling to settle by the prices quoted by the mers
| commission merchants when they are variant from
those quoted in the public prints of the city. an,
really unwilling to persuade myself to believe tia
these things true-and it is to be hoped, for the
character of those respectable men who are engag.
ed IN the milling business in the city, that they are
not. But if they are true, they should most ind,I-
bitably be held up 10 public indignaon We should
always recollcct that honesty is he best policy
\ FARMER.
| u We know nothing of tho charges brough,
by a Farmer against the City Millers; but from
their high social and business standing we presume
that he has received incorrect information. rhcy
will feel obliged to him for affording them the
opportunity of meeting imputations priuatef,
circulated to their prejudice, in the country.
The price of Wheat quoted in this and mos
if not all the other city papers, is not furnished b.
or derived from the city mers; but from the mos
respectable Commission Mere hants, who sell TO the
city miliers and know the price they get, and can
have no interest in stating it at more than they
get ct II is true as Farmer states, that tho city
milleTs reject much wheat brought to them,
deemed merchandise by the selIcr-they deetnina
it unfit to make city mills flour. And surely they
have the right to judge and determine what wheat
will suit their purpose. Before they restricted
to one brand, they bought inferior whoat-but will
not now, if they help it-and where in taking
whole crops, they have got part good and par
inferior, they have had this season to re-sel
the inferior to shippers. One miller has re-
sold this season 4 5000 bushels of such a.
would not answer his purpose. But all may be
assured that the prices quoted in this paper arc
the actual prices given by the City Mlors for the
Wheat they grind, and they anxious to buy al
the Wheat they get that will suit them, Al
| those prices