Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1843-10-19
A HOME MARKET.

We cndeavored, the other day, to impress upon
our readers, the Importance of Home Market for
the products oil our State, and the most certain
means OF creating one. The view Of the case
there presented, is not less important TO be under
stood oy the cotton growers, than by the wheat
raisers, and indeed more directly concerns them.
II Is well known fact, that England never takes
from us more than she can possibly avoid. She
receives our cotton at present, hut will she re-
ceive bale, after she shall have been able to
raise 1t in India No man who understands her
policy, will believe it for moment.
certain party among us is in the habit Of ex-
Claiming continually, against English interference
In onr domestic affairs They are even ready to
60 to war upon that argument. BY strange in
consistency, however, that very party is willing
TO leave us entirely at her mercy, in case of Il
rupture. IL England be the only market for the
cotton OF the slave-holding country, and there be
no market for it at home, what is to DO done i'm
case of the war which these gentlemen are so
ready to excite How is the cotton raiser to dis
pose OF his crop, when all the manufactures have
stopped Tor the want of protection Do not our
Southern friends see, that as long as Enoland is
the only market for their produce She has them in
her power That she may Interfere with any
question she may think proper, and that they dare
not declare war against her, while she has all
their resources In her own power!
IL strikes us as one of the strangest anomalies
In the world, that the whole South Is not united
tants do not desire to manufactures flourish
70 an indefinite extent. Jealous as they are of
English interference with our domestic affairs, do
they not see that they are voluntarily putting a
whip In her hands, which she will brandish with
tremendous effect in the event of a struggle |!
with Home market, we always sure of a
sale for our produce. In case of ii sudden decla.
ration OF war, we shall then hear of no stoppage
oil mills and thousands of barrels of -four left
rotting on the hands of the miller; no bales of
cotton Wondering the wlarves of our cities, or
at the gins OF the planters-which must inevla.
bly, be the case, if the agricultural interest is not
protected. The South, tho whole South, is deep-
~ interested in this subject. The proportion of
interest, which she has in ii over the North is i'm
the ratio of an hundred TO one. She raises the
product; the North only manufactures it. She
must produce from necessity, for she has no other
resource. The North, on the contrary, is not ne
cessarily obliged to Manufacture
We trust that the reign of sky-scrapinp poli,i.
clans is at an end, and that the era of common
sense, and practical views, is approaching. The
people OF tho South have been misled mon This
SUBJECT by men DESTROYS Of rising into power
upon II. They have never considered the vital
Importance OF home and the precarious nature
OF foreign market. They have been told that
the Tariff was monster, which would devour
them with as little remorse the ogres of fairy
tale are wont to feed on little children; and they
believed :he tale, because it was told so often
But LEI them take this view Of the subject. and
we feel convinced they will require no other.
Richmond Tthir.