Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-09-24

many OF you, would ask, can educate families ON
mere rent roll property; how many can give Their
children proper education by the income they OBJ
tain from land which they pay rent fort Meme
In ssachusstts, afford to spend S4OOO or
5000 to bring up family out of property which
they t. But here nine-tenths Of you work on
your own land. In Europe, nnety-nine out of every
one hundred work on other mems lands. Is your
labor, by your own hands, at your own ploughs, in
your own barns, reapng and thrashins your own
wheat-lords Of the soil, as you really are-to be
compared TO that of Europe, where 10000 Of the la
borers don't own amongst the whole of them enough
land to make one gravel No. There's vast diff
ference in the state Of the two. And the idea of
comparing them, arose altogether from a misappre.
henson of the condition of the aborers Of the two
countries. The example of Europe has miserably
misled them to advocate the propriety of reducing
the prices Of labor here to the European standard.
year age was in England; in the south of Eng
land, which is little the poorest part of the
try-and was in the centre OF England, and in the
north And was very particular to find ost how
the laborers Jared there. 1t was subject that deep
y interested me, and made particular enquiries to
find out all about it. wanted to know every thing
about it. And if l went ava from my country an
American, l came home 300 600 times more an Ame-
rican, to the back bone, than was when left here
Immense cheering)
On the 22d of September last year, l was in the
South of England and found the price Of labor
there for good man was seven shillings a week,
and he has to board himself and his family. In the
centre of gand, which is the richest and best part
of the country, and where the soil is more produc
tive, in the midst of the harvest time good man
only get eighteen pence day, or about 80 cents a
day. and board himself and his family In the south
Of Scotland he gets no more, and in the north he
doesn't get so much.
And in the midst of the best season Of the year
for labours, have seen thousands OF them going
along the road side with their sckles their shout
ders, DESTROYS of working for Is. I'd. day, aud
couldn't get it. That's labor in other countries
that's labor in Europe. Do we want to to that?
(Cries Of &c no, no.'')
And no W hat wish you all to do is, not to take
my opinion or statements for this; but to go home
and examine the subject for yourselves And you
will see that the Sub Treasury scheme leads to this
Its friends say it does. Mr.. Tappan says that the
wages Of labor must and ought TO come down to
eleven cents day and they think, must be dis
posed to thank him for little who Will thank him for
that But 90 home and enquire all about this Don't
take the statement Of that old arstoerat, Mr. Web
ster, for truth, unless you find it is So
There is net thoroughly independent set
people in the world than the community in this same
county Of Suffolk Here you all Of you far
mers. You have your fine lands, stocked with &
tic, your woods filled with game, your broad and
beautiful bay and when you have no desire to
plough the land, you can take your boat and plough
the ocean. Immense cheering and cries Of truer'
"truer')
Ii is true that your soil is not fertile that of
Michigan, Kentucky, or some Of the western and
southern states. But you have one great advantage
which they have not. You are near great market,
and that market must be supplied II prices are bad,
il is true that you suffer little But prices are
never bad distress any Of you, on account of
the many resources which you have TO avail your
selves Of.
WELL in this respect you Fortunate But re-
member that the country is not all so fortunate and
so well situated you are. There is the gr; AT com.
mercal interest that has suffered and that is still
suffering deeply; and there are the great manu-
featuring districts that suffering. do not mean
merely the large cotton and woollen manufactures
Of the eastern states but the small scattered all
over the northern states, where they make shoes
and hats and carriages and harness All these are
completely cut up, and their business is gone.
And now, my friends, it is for you, as you value
not only your prosperity, but the welfare Of the
whole community, the prosperity Of your neighbors
and fellow citizens, to say whether you don't wish
TO see all portions and all classes Of this great
try lourshing and happy. And then look at the sub
treasury scheme and say if il isa scheme under
which all classes Of the community can flourish
Enquire carefully and fully into the state OF bus
ness all over the country ascertain what has caused
all the prostration in trade and commerce. For
think on hear and see much Of the storm than
r. Il. has pAl
tected you from the violent changes that have af.
fected all those communities in the country whose
prosperity depends upon the production and dispo
sal of some one great article, the cotton and tobac
en- OF tha South, or the Wheat of Ohio and the West
How fortunately are not you situated! You raise
all that is necessary to supply your wants yourself
You live WE'LL believe you have sort Of univer-
sal taste for that kind of thing, by what have
,ince 1 have been amongst you. daughter AID
cheers) You send the surplus Of your produce to
market. Remember, only the surplus. fprices are
high, that affects only the surplus. lf prices
low still il is only the surplus that is Affected And
If prices are down onshalf only the surplus feels
that fall.
Bu, il i. not so with the cotton Of the South. The
pantcr can't eat it, he can't drink it, nor he can't
smoke it, He has to sell the whole OF II and IL
prices fall the fall runs through the whole. And he
has to buy all that he wants for his own use out OF
the diminished sum which his produce yields him
But with you the case is very different. You con-
sumo nine ten,hs and sell one tenth. The same thing
holds true Of the great grain regions that have
stated OF the cotton regions, and Of all those
districts that raise provisions and produce for ex
portaiicn. You have the great market Of New York
close to you the people there must eaaad you must
feed them. But take Ohio and Michigan. II the
market for their produce falls il affects the farmers
products and labor for the whole year.
Now, then, carefully examine these subjects, add
you will find that tho war against labor is war
al. xerv vitality Of the limited States And