The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-10-07
OF KENTUCKY.

Onr retuTn.-Mississippi compared with
other stntes.--COnditiOn of the Country.
The next Presidency, &c., sc.
It's known to the generality OF our readers
,batw are but recently returned from tour
through some of the Northern, Middle and
Western States, and as may be expected, we
embrace the earliest opportunity of placing
before them our Observations and reflections
upon the various matters and things we have
witnessed during our absence. We have,
during our excursion, visited eleven of the
States, travelling through few but partial
ly-oihers extensively-noting as we passed
all that was worthy Of remark, the result of
a portion Of which observations forms our
leading article OF to-day.
First, A comparison of Mississippi with
other States. In pecuniary point of view,
it can be unhestatingly said by us, that we
have not seen, among the number of States
we have so lately paid visit to, single one
in which the happiness and prosperity of its
people can be compared with the enjoy
ments realised by the people of Mississippi !
The most deep and all-pervading difficulty
and distressing embarrassment is every where
abroad in the land. The oldest inhabitants
of the country-those who have nearly num-
bered their three score and ten years-having
spent all their days on the spot of their ma
tiVity-these are frequently heard to exclaim,
"Hard are the times, indeed! NE neUer be-
fore haze beheldt the like - There is no price
to property-no price to labor-for there is nc
money with which to compare the value Of
things. He who has a capital, be it ever SC
small, is enabled to command the poor tC
whatever state of servitude he pleases. The
country seems to be now entering upon the
confines of that bane of republicanism-tha
abhorred condition of the old monarchies
where men breathe not the invigorating al
of freedom-wnere the poor are, as it were
serfs to the lords of the soil-where the hare
working and honest peasantry are looked up
on by their tyrannica and boated task-mas
tiers as part and parcel of their hereditary
property-and where LABoUR HAS NO REWARD
Aye, actual suffering is the condition of ma
ny, very many communities. We have du
ring our absence, beheld the mechanic toll
ing in rags, day after day, with no other re
compense than the small modicum Of fooc
necessary to preserve existence! WAN,
amongst laborers, mechanics and operative
of all kinds is no uncommon thing This il
no overweight statement of the condition
of the people of portion of the counr,
through which we passed; would to Heaven
it were!
MIssIssIPP1, slandered, prosecuted Missis
sippi is now enVied in her condition anC
prospects by nearly all the sister States a
round her. Her immense resources-tht
certainty and the value of her rich prod uct
must, will, ard does sustain her, at least 81
far as to place her people distant, far distan
from suffering and want. Let her but hus
band her esources,-exercise proper econ
omy in her commercial transactions and agri
cultural regulations, and her condition mus
be that of comparative prosperity. Let the
stand of late taken by her citizens agains
the oppressive impositions upon her trade
and commerce, as enforced by the avariciou
authorities of the city of New Orleans. bt
by them steadfastly and firmly maintained
and millions of dollars will reach their pro
per destination and enrich the tiller Of the
soil, which would otherwise be applied tC
1he building of immense public edfces anC
prineely mansions for the boast and adorn.
ment of the Crescent City. Let her planters
and merchants give every encouragement t.
Home Manufacture Home ,Narket-anC
the result will be-iadePendeHt commerce.
Second, The cause of the present discou
raging cOndition.o of the country and the re
medy. The cause is the sanie which wa,
predicted by four-fiths OF the people in 1882
and has been increasingly complained o
since 1884. It was hoped that this great Ma
Iional difficulty would have been remedieo
10y the Administration elected so triumphant
y BY the People in I84O, for that purpose
But alas the history Of the deeds of tina
administration is but too well known. It's
written in ire achery and ialsehood and crime.