Litchfield enquirer., 1842-02-10
THE AGRICULTURE OF THE NORTH

llclatlS, ana 100 OILen 06Sented to Oy OUT friends at the North, that the South embra-
 ces the principal agricultural interest of our
 Country. This view ofthe subject, if we ex- anime into the facts of the case as exhibited
 in the late census returns, will be found to be
 entirely erroneous for it will be seen that
 the Wheat crop alone, in the year l94O, a.
 mounted to more than SO,OOOOOO of bushels
 and that, at the current prices, for the year
 l64l, it exceeded in value the Cotton crop of
 the same year. There is no doubt that, if it
 were admitted into the foreign market, like
 our Cotton, its value would be greatly in.
 creased, and its quantity perhaps doubled.
 Owing however to the unjust policy of our
 own Government, in connection with the self
 protecting policy of European governments,
 far less is realized to the producers, for this
 great staple of Middle and Western States,
 than is obtained from the Cotton crop at the
 South for while in New England, New
 York, and the Middle States, money has stood
 at or near the specie standard, and the pri-
 ces of their products accordingly kept down,
 the South has pursued its old system of cred
 it, borrowing on crops not yet grown, and
 heaping up advances to such an extent that
 it yearly becomes matter of necessity for
 all parties, both the planter and the factor, to
 inflate the currency, misrepresent the quan.
 tity of cotton coming into the market, and
 use every other trick or stratagem to keep up fictitious price for the crop. So unceasing and so barefaced are these attempts, that
 they have become the scorn and dersion of all prudent and far sighted merchants
 Estimating the Cotton crop ut l,800,000
 bales-and its value at $40 per bale, (which
 in my opinion, is much above its real value,)
 it would amount to $72OOO,OOO. The wheat crop for 164l, considering its great increase in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Iowa, cannot be safely estimated less than 9O,OOO,OO0 of bushels, which, at s5 cents per bushel, amounts to 6OOOOOO-and there is no doubt that, with an equal chance in the foreign market with Cotton, its value would exceed $l0O,O00,0OO.
 Now, let me ask what our Government has done, or is doing to protect this our great staple? Have we not seen that, while the foreign market is closed against US by pro- hibitory duties, the selfshness of the South would fain deprive us of our own home mar. ket! They would destroy the Wheat con. in the North by beggaring its pop- ulation, and taking away the ability of its manufacturing interests 10 buy. The poli- cy of the South would compel us, with our great agricultural wealth and mechanical in- dustry, to purchase our clothing, and imple- ments of labor, in Europc-which may be paid for in our specie only-for it makes but li;tle difference with the Northern and Mid. dle States, whether they pay for their goods directly in the foreign market, or purchase Cotton, which is almost the only article the foreigner will take in return for goods, and it to the foreign market. In either case it operates as a direct drain upon the capital of the North. This is the doctrine of the South, viz. We must purchase our goods in Europe. instead of manufacturing them ourselves-aud zoe must pay for them in 'he Cotton of the South. Tn this way, the cx- clusion of American Bread Stuffs from the English market operates as direct benefit 10 the Cotton growers of the South-for, in the products that they can. pay for in their nutacttlres-consequent if they took portion of our Wheat, a less quantity of Cot ton would be required 10 pay for the goods sent to this Country. In the second place, he exclusion ofo Wheat from the foreign market tends 10 lower it's price at home which brings down the price of all kinds of gran-so that the planters of South Carolina and Georgia p;",.'>lthr,' said M E ss. so whi and other agricuilu, ..,,el ed. $''.gsln. gln. the Northern and Middle States, lrI;in they would f more Wheat and less Cotton were taken n the European market.
 l have said nothing of the other great az.
 ANoto'"l W tIlc lHOFtuGTlIs md Western States They are subject to 1 he same foreign restrictions as Wheat Western States bear all the burden of for 1 ign taxation and restrction-thut the odious Corn Laws of England operate as benefit 1 o the South, in just the same proportion that hey injure other parts of the Union, because, IS they exclude the Grain of the North, so a 1 greater supply of the Cotton of the South is 'equired in the English market, 10 pay for he goods which we may purchase there.- Ny astonishment is sometimes excited, 10 zee how tamely the Grain growing interest ms submitted to the arbitrary dictation of he South.-Boston paper.
 Resista"re 10 Legal Anthority.-A correspondent of he Boston Morning Post gives an account of the sue. esstul resistance of the officers of justice of three ,rohers named John, Samuel and Lorenzo Dow at Salisbury, Mass, on the 22d. It inc sheriff at. md arms man who had beaten them in lawsuit r Ihey sent word that they would not he taken alive he ne snsnit nude rep"r md was ordered to bring nr them again. but they had fortified the second story 'f n work shop, from which they were however dis. "dged. general hgh: ensned; Samuel was knock. I'd down and captured. The others put the whole party to flight and still at large-N Y Tribune. The Norfolk Herald records the death of Patrick orown' ot that borough. and mentions that he was me of the earliest subscribers the Herald toOk or nearly forty years aud aliroys pnid vpur in ad 'dnce. We cannot mistake in calling such n person good man. ."-BaltiEore Patriot.
 we have number of names on our Subscription Ilst oi merit equal to this. One of them recently 'ad his ortysecond years subscription, who has nev. 1T failed, m any one of those years to pay his suh. eruption within the year. We mention it. moreover
 IS cnrlous physiological fact, that amaDg the great lumber of names that have heen borne on our bouks hose subscribers who have most pnnc,unlIy paid heir accounts appear 10 have been the longest lived.
 erhHps 1t IS because the habit of regularity in all hings greatly contributes to longevity.-Nat Iniel.