Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-08-09

In the first place II Will De 10 create
market for our agriculture; and that se-
cured to our agriculture by the same pol
icy-a market, the magnitude and effect
Of which, those who have not reflected
upon the subject can have no adequate
idea; market sufficient for all our agri-I
culture as it now is, and all il may be
hereafter; market not confined to the
sea board, and few ports, but difiused
all over our country, wherever there is
water fall, wherever there is bed of
coal, wherever coal may be water borne;
a market that, with the facilities Of inter-
communication which the country may
have, and ought to have, will be brought
as it were, to every mans door. IL you
doubt the magnitude of this market, do
but reflect upon the demand they create
upon your agriculture, your crops, your
focks, your mines, and other agricults
raj treasures, for furnishing the raw ma
terial OF their fabrics; and then for the
supply Of the wants Of the whole manu-
featuring population; not stinted in their
consumption of the necessaries of life, +,
because not stintcd in their means to al
ford them; and you will doubt no longer.
/ should hope the honorable gentleman
from Georgia would no longer doubt
Wherever manufactures are planted, they
change the face Of nature and the con-
dition Of the whole surrounding country,
and by means Of the market they create.
Ask the agriculturists within the
sphere Of those markets TO give up this
policy-you might as we'll ask them to
give up their freeholds; you might tear
them from the one as easily as the other;
and those Of us who represent them here,
be assured, are far behind them in zeal
Tor its continuance. Why is it, that, as
manufactures have multiplied, and ex-
tended themselves, this policy has gained
friends, and particularly with the agri-
cultural popuIation' 1t is because they
have been made to feel its benefits; it has
made proselytes by comforting benefits.
They see these manufactures putting ev-
cry thing in motion around them, evok-
ing and evolvingall the dormant energies
of place and society; the old and the
young, females as well as males, all en-
ployed; it is one scene Of universal ac-
tivity: with the dawn of the sun the busy
scene begins, nor is the sun more con-
slant in his course, nor more regular IN
his return to it, than they in and to theirs;
contented, animated, and happy, their
gains make their labors light, and the
whole surrounding country rings with JOY.
For much of our agriculture it makes the
only market it can have; for all that pro-
duce, for instance, that must be consuni-
ed at or near the place of its growth. -
For oil that which admits of transporta-
j on and expectation, This policy, young
as it is, has already made this country a
greater and better market than an the
world beside, except for the articles OF
tobacco and cotton. For cotton it affords
better market than any other country
in the world, except England; it affords
better market than Eng land did fifteen
years ago, and in fifteen years hence it
will afford better market than Eng land
now does. So late as 1919, our whole
export of cotton was but 81 900, 900 lbs
The consumption by our manufactures
now is 78, ,OOO, 900 lbs. This country by
means of this policy, is rapidly making
for itself, and within itself, a market
equal to that Of all Europe. mean
however, if it be aided by making and
completing the facilities of inter-commu-
nicatiOn Of which the country is suscep-
tible. The great evil Of our situation IL
rises from what is its great advantages -
the immensity of our domain, and oul
dispersion over it. These improvements
would remove this evil, and leave thi.
advantage unmixed. Then, with all the
advantages Of our expanded domain, we
should have united all the advantages o
condensation and neighborhood. But
without this policy, we cannot have these
manufactures; and without these manu-.
features, we cannot have this market; anc
without this market, we cannot have
these facilities; or if we could have them
they would be no object. The stock r
them would be unprofsable; it woult
make no dividends; it would be dcas
capital. The cause of this policy, then
and the cause Of these Improvements, i.
one and the same cause; they stand o
they fall together. But the West is told
that it is deusion on their part to be.
ieve this; that this policy is not necessa
ry to these improvements; and that they
may have the improvements without the
policy; and told this by the foes of both
Why not tell them they may have life
without blood, and its circulation The
one is just as feasible as the ether, and
just as probable.
OF all the strange ideas thrown out ir
this debate, the most strange, according
to my apprehension OF the fact, was the
supposed tendency Of this policy to di
minsh our commerce, and PARTICULAR,