New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-30

tried was what had been considered there, as worn
out which must have been truly worthless soil
compared with any Of ours. The first year, by the
use of compost, 1t produced twenty-five bushels
of wheat to the acre; by the further addition OF
the same compost g second year showed a yield
Of thirty bushels TO the acre by still further adj
dtion the third exhibited the still greater yield
of fifty bushels to the acre-doubllng the crop IN
three years and now the same land will yield
from fifty to sixty bushels of wheat to the acre.
When this is taken into consideration IN con-
necton with another fact, that Wheat can be
raised in great abundance upon the shores OF the
Baltic. and sent to England, and there sold at a
cheaper rate than the average price of wheat per
bushe at the port Of New-York and that they
have Just commenced raising that grain upon an
extensive scale in that region, and are increasing
the quantity produced every year by the farther
occupation of land for that purpose--let ne IN
quirc OF any thinking man, what reasonable
prospect we have of supplying G. Britain with
breadstutiS unless subject to the duties of her pre-
sent Corn laws None whatever. 1t may be, that
until their increased growth of wheat VIII be-
come sufficient for all therwantS, they Will receive
our -four and grain through the Canadas, as
Canadian -four and grain, but IN 10 other way
and not even IN that indirect method so soon as
their object is attained, When they arrive at
that point, at which they are now aiming, heavy
duty will be imposed IN the Canadas, upon all
the breadstutis coming from the United States.
And now thew receive them IN that manner, IN
preference to grain from the Baltic, not from any
friendship to this country, but to carry out por-
ton of their settled policy, by advancing the IN
terest Of their counlrymen IN the CanadaS over
that Of iorci gners.
The only reasonable prospect OF guarding
against this contingency, and OF securing to our
farmers at all times fair price for their produce,
will be to make home market for them, by per-
manentlv sustaining such a protective system as
Will bulld up manufacturing establishments IN
the Eastern and Middle States. BY doing this,
we will at once create a certain and a fixed mar
ket for our Southern Cotton, and one not subject
to the capriccs orpoicy of foreign governments,
which may be, ard frequently is, at variance
with our interests Also steady market for all
the surplus bread stuffs OF our Western States for
that great number OF manufacturers must live,
and they cannot till the land, or raise Cotton for
themselves. We al the same time give continued
employ at fair remuneratlng wages TO all the Ia
boring classes and operatives IN our country
either in the production of the raw materlal-the
manufacturing 1.-THE producing of the bread
stufiS and other provisions for their subsistence,
or in the transportation and sale Of the various
articles which must be continually passing to
and fro throughout this extensive country. BY
such system, in my judgement, we will revive
and perpetuate IN great degree the prosperity of
our country; and by no other can we reasonably
hope to affect that great object, which all have
so much at heart.
Although ii is true, that since the time when the
first eight bales Of Z. S. Cotton were seized by the
Custom House officers IN the port Of Liverpool,
in 1889, as not being the growth of this country,
that article of commerce has been produced in
an increased ratio, almost unparalleled IN the an
mails of the world yet our population has IN
creased with equal rapidly; and if our country
men could be induced to see the justice as well
as the value Of using their own labor in their
own land for manufacturing it, and thus consume
our flour and other products, without being COM
peeled to look abroad for a vent for our surplus,
the time would soon be at hand when every
pound OF Cotton raised in the land would be
manufactured, and consumed within our own
borders thus rendering US truly independent as
a nation.
Ihavc thus shown you how the Cotton Planters
at the South, and the Grain Growers at the West,
and in the Middle States, arc directly, and vitality
interested in sustaining the Protective Tariff, and
by that system establishing certain and steady
market for all they raise within these United
States. will no" show you what has been the
experience of other nations on this very question:
and how analogous their situation has been to
ours; and that they only obtained permanent
relief by abandoning the projects commended to
their favorable notice by the Statesmen and Man
ulacturers of Great Britain, and by adopting a
Protective Tariff policy.
This matter does no trestu my oplnon,o upon
any arguments which or any other person can adj
duce, but it is also proved, and firmly established
by the actual and sorefclt experience of nations
in our own age. You have seen that the prospe-
rous condition of England IS to be attributed,
under Providence, to her steady adherence to the
system of a Protective Tariff and you will now
nations as have been induced by her representa-
tons to pursue the course of policy which she is
at present urging upon us for our adoption.
Russia in 1918, embraced the Free Trade sys-
TEN, SO much erlogized by the English writers
and Statesmen, for all countries tut their o,on );
and her Prime Minister, Count Ncsselrode, in
1880, affords US a view of its effects upon that
country. He says: 1t is with the most lively
feelings of regret, we acknowledge 1t is our own
proper experience which enables us to trace this
following picture The evils which it Details
have been realized in Russia and Poland, since
the conclusion of the Act of the 7-l9 December,
1SlS-A gricuiture ,cithOut a market, Industry
,citiout protection, anguish and decline. Spe-
Gle is exported, and tie most solid commercial
houses are shaken The public prosperity would
soon feel the wound inflicted on private fortunes,
il new regulations did not promptly change the
actual state of affairs" The Count here shows
the intimate connection between the people and
the Government; and that the former cannot be