Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-15

oil human liberty, or more ready at every hazard
tam them Our prosperity ought TO be greatly increased,
and would be greatly increased by the operation de-
scent law, would Government consent unshackle COM
mcrce Nothing is better calculated increase produc-
ton, than the division and subdivision lands are
thereby brought into cultivation, which would
remain claimed, and industry exerts all il. snews
in their cultivation and Improvement To thes
causes, then, is our condition ascnbable.
The honorable Senator, in his effort TO find other
causes OF depression has proper remark, that
were too poor 10 ivctoo proud worktoo mind
ed and honorable to resort TO gnobc acquisition
as did those who, but short time ago, preceded u.s. is
most true-and sir, ii 10 misfortune 10 be growing
poorer and poorer: the OF this shall attempt pre-
scny to explain But that INDECENT or idle, ut
tery deny There lives not more industrious popua-
ton under the taken in the Let the honorable
Senator revisit his native Sate-et him so with to
Shirley and TO Wcstover the which he has repre-
sentcG diapdated and in ruins, and he would promptly
abandon the INTO which he has fallen The first
the ancient of the Carriers, would find i'm the pos
session OF descendant of that respectable family, who
his person would illustrate the OF last
touch TO the portrait drawn by the honorable Senator
brave daring, chivarousha bravery, that daring that
chiyalry, displayed board the irigate Constitution
during the late in bloody engagement the ocean.
Not too proud TO work. the highly improved condition of
his estate the reclamation OF extensive body ofswamp
land as rich the delta Of the Nile, would bespeak-
estover II true has passed out OF the hands of tho
cen family of the Birds for debts contracted before the
reroi'0n; but the honorable Senator would find in its
present possessor idle drone. There too he would be-
hold the effects OF untring indusryand let also,
tell him that he would be received with the extended
hand oil hospitality, and welcomed by the inmates Of that
venerable mansion, alter the manner OF the oden time.
These estates embraced within the limits my
county, of the citizens which gives me both pleasure
and pride 10 speak.
And Mr. President, let express an honest OPT
mont may be mistaken, but it is honest opinion
FIVE estates upon the James river and within that county,
which, for the information OF the honorable Senator, will
name Shirley, Berkeley, Westovcr, Weyanoke and San
dy Point would supply from their surplus productions,
every manufacturer in Rhode Island with food and in
cline strongly TO think that you might throw Connecticut
into the scale along with Rhode Island Let be under
stood do not mean that they could supply $4,000 bar
rels OF flour for Rhode Island No. Sir this would be al
together extravaganza And the honorable Senator's
tsucs be correct hey furnished him by others then
do these manufacturers in Rhode Island devour of
the fruits of the earth than did equal number
men in any portion of the globe Here Mr.. Robbins
begged leave TO explain He said that the flour imported
into Providence not destined exclusively for Rhode
Island, but found way into the interior of Come
&C. am happy to hear it, said Mr.. T., for began be
seriously alarmed for good friends in Rhode Island
lest they should fall victims TO plethora No coming
from that State had ever impressed with belief
that the inhabitants possessed such voracous appettes
and certainly the two honorable Senators
with me such an impression. The whole population of
State is but 900 SOULS men, women and children; and
10000 barrels OF -four and above their own produce
uon, would be supply altogether exavagant for tho
exclusively.
That we proud, Mr.. President do not mean to-
denyproud OF our native landproud Of illustrious
not be proud of their h;g
deeds in arms and of their wisdom the cabinet-of
Their devotion to the rights of man, in the maintenance Of
which they wasted their ample estates and consd-
cred them as nothing And il their descendants are
sometimes found in peRuy, while the mansions of their
fathers have passed into stranger hands who among them
would exchange their humble habtaions for the SPLENDID
abodes of the ungenerous and selfish? Has not Vrgn;a
now cause TO be proud OF her Look there, and
there, and there, and there and there and there and
there, (pointng TO Messrs Grundy, Ellis Forsyth Bibb
Poindcxter, Buckner and Clay) and although some few
OF them found the advocates policy which she re-
CARDS as runous and destructive, she nevertheless feels A.
pride in the intellectual strength which they never fail to-
display But IL she had no other cause of pdc the State
which had given birth to ashngton and eferson would
have reason to exut and rejoice The
the portrait drawn by the Senator requires no comment
oo hghmnded TO obtain their objects by ignoble means
es sir this trust is true and fthe honorable Senator
had succeeded in proving lin which, however, he will be
found to be mistakenly that this tariff benefited Virginia
1t did at the expense Of other State she would
am sure, be gll-mndcd TO sustain il for an hour
The honorable Senator then, is mistaken the true
cause oil our distress and impoverishment. have looked
carefully into the natter and my inference is that it re-
suits to great extent from the single fact ,ce sell cheap
d1dpHchdse dear. Other may conion with this
put tnis is me great controlling cause and amply sui-
Gent in itself TO account for the condition of the south
The home market has been represented to us as of vast
Importance more especially in reference bread suffs
This deuson has been kept up for Is years An in
of duties has never, any time been PROMISED bur
That we have had representations made of the great i'm
portance of the home market produced by the
inent of domestic manufactures And yet Sir no non r.
ever known produce low been during the last
seven years Tobacco down an average price of from
three dollars and fifty cents 10 iourdoarswheat averag-
ing during that period, in the seaport towns seveny-fv
oreghy cents-con from ten aud six pence two dollars
per barrerice, cotton in short every production of the
SOIL at the lowest minimum price OF production And f
IL was not lor tne foreign demand prices would become
entirely nominalproduce would either rot i'm the prapa-
RES OF the country what is still probable the pro-
cess OF production would altogether. Who does not
see the widespread ruin which would desoate the andf
rom an eXacttaken from merchants books in Phila-
dephla claiming and receiving unqualified confidence flour
ana wheat commanded much higher price in I77I % -
han n9w-whcat then sold for dollar the busheC and
ourlor seven dollars the barrel and vet we are coptin
any od OF the great Importance Of the home market crea-
ted by the tariff The planter and wheat grover nm
dersand their interests in this respect somewhat better
Than they are supposed to do, and the manufacturers
Of flour They look abroad for their important markets
The corn trade TO South America carried on 10 great
extent The miers in Richmond find, in that country
an extensive, and have doubt profitable market for
bread suis and shipments actively carried on i'm tho
same direction from all parts Of the u. States. NV homo
rdbe TREND from Mass, who sits before me- fMr Sis
BEE few years ago, inquired of az to the pyospec,
OF procuring cargo OF flour at Richmond which he was
DESTROYS OF shipping 10 South America The trade 10 En-
gland notwithstanding her laws it extensively car
red on When the ports Occluded the flour shipped
hber placed in bond, and is sent To the different mar
kcts oil Europe as they respectively hold out the prospect
on commercial advantage. Exchanges thus beneficial
~ made or British fabrics. Canada also opens an ex-
tensiye market for American wheat, with a view 10
convert IT into flour, when il Is exported, under ali
the advantages accruing from important
in favor OF the colonies, made by the mother country
Nor il this a-othcr markets arc presented In te cor1
grower Of considerable value The foreign price recIates
the domestic prices and the fluctuations which take Mace
every fall in the wheat market here are ascrbbe 10 homes
excited by the slightest circumstance of an increased price
abroad II cloud is over the face Of the sun during
The harvest time in England prices advances and If ac
counts are brought OF fall of rain the spirit Of specula
uon immediately becomes active, and the farmer
pockets the benefit Under these circumstances the adj