Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-01-06

purchasing our productions!
On grave questions Of national policy,
a difference Of opinion may be expec.
led, 10 a country so wide and of 50 di
Versitied interests as ours. Such differ
ences, however, where they extend DO.
yond detail, should be founded on some
Thing more substantial than mere party
differences, and least OF all should they
be tolerated when they arise from igno.
rance. 1t is not for me I say on which
horn Gov. Shannon shall hang. But
when we come to test his assumptions
BY facts, and his facts by experience,
they dwindle down 10 a point so equivo,
cal that there is little left for q states.
man TO be proud Of. Take the follow
ing, and if ii have any thing to re.
commend it beyond a blind subservieDcy
TO Southern policy, regardless o! conse
quences to every other interest ave that
of the slave power and foreign navige-
ton, we shall leave it for others to point
ii out:
"a large amount Of the Wheat Of Ohio
and Michigan has found its way 10 Eng
land, through the Cauadas, within tho
last few years by paying mere nominal
duties. This is an important trade now
to the agricultural interest Of Ohio, and,
under favorable commercial regulations
between the United States and Great
Britain, would greatly increase in mag.
nitude and importance. Yet this trade
so important to US, is in danger Of be-.
ing sacrificed 10 the protective policy"
Here is a fact stated in such a way as
TO render it quite certain that his Excel
lency did not understand its bearing, or,
If he did, he was willing to disguise II
by assumptions which do cot naturally
follow. The amount Of agricultural pro
ductions, exported in the manner above
stated, when compared with our total
surplus, is too small 10 be taken seriously
into account when seeking so 10 adjust
our foreign and domestic policy as to
insure a compromising return for the
agricultural labor Of the country. Even
the wheat crop Of Ohio, according to the
Governors own estimate, amounts this
year to t,Oeay four millions of bushels,
with a surplus for expectation Of -four
teen millions. Now, it appears by actu
al custom house returns, that our aver
age yearly exports of flour for 1886, '37,
'38, $50 and 40, made through all the
British North American colonies, amour
ted only 10 The sum Of S9G3, 7l4!!! For
this pill(ul return, our home market
should be sacrificed.
But says our observing Governor, 'un'
der favorable commercial regulations"
this trade would greatly increase? Does
he know under what regulations this
trade is now carried onP Is he aware
that not q bushel Of the limited amount
which thus finds its way to England is
carried in an American botIOmP Or
must he be told that the commercial
regulations under which it passes into
the colonies, is designed expressly 10
give employment TO British sailors and
British shipping at the expense of A.
merica2 II he desires 10 see such a
commerce flourish at the expense OF ev,
cry American interest, let him run up
the Tory flag al ono and declare him
self in favor Of an exclusive British SyS'
TEN He may then claim some merit
Tor consistency, and there will be some
connection between profession and prac'
tice.
How humiiialing is the reflection that
the public agents OF the American peo-
pie, through ignorance or design, are
engaged in Gripping and destroying A
MEXICAN interests. The laudation ofthe
policy by which England is inficting
deadly blows on our navigation, o =
trasts badly with the depreca,Ory Ian
guage %Vouchsa(ed IL the patriots of The
land whose efforts are directed for Sc.
curing for our productions market al
home, which is denied US abroad. On
the superstition that in a few years The
five western States aud two tetritorle les
will furnish a surplus for expectation of
sixty millions Of bus hels Of wheat the
Governor asks2
"Should the West be ebIe TO sell to
the Northern manufacturers, even ten
millions, annually, where will the re
naming fifty millions find market9 1t
must seek for an outlet in the South and
loreigD countries. The idea, therefore,
Of building up a home market for the
vast productions Of the West is, in my
judgment visionary 10 the extreme. We
want the market Of the world for our
productions; and that policy that has a
tendency TO cut off our foreign trade, and
exclude our staples from The foreign
market, is hostile to our true interests"
We rant the market of The World for
our productions! That being denied
where will our Governor go to find ouef
And who is to be blamed for denying
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