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as they. This is self evident proposition; ana lei
us apply its principle to some of boosted resources
Vermont has $4,000 persons engaged in agrcul.
ture and no doubt they would feel rather "hufy if
you should tell them they not as industrious as
their brethren IN Ohio or as intelligent as the farmers
of Connecticut But if they are So we cannot escape
the conclusion, that the same labor that will raise
one bushel of grain in Vermont, will grow two in
New York. and four in Ohio. The proportion of
grains of all kinds in lSi0, being for Vermont, 60,
Connecticut 72a, New York ll3 Ohio 24S, Indiana
and Pennsy lvania ZIG bushels for each person EN-.
pIoyed. Competition in the raising of grains, there
fore, l. out of the question. And when such dis
proportion this exists in the raising of grains, ac-
companied by other Disadvantages, we are still less
able 10 compete with them in the article Of pork,
winch no doubt pays the farmer OF Ohio better pro-
III at two cents pound, than II does our farmers at
hVe. Inc states occupying the next or the two next
parallels of latitude doubtless grow wool as much
cheaper than we as they can raise gram and make
pork, should they attempt to do so. Mr.. JARVIS IN
his late communication on the subject of the fine
wooed Merno, SAYS THAT when the sheen were Ia.
" ken from the sunny pastures Of Spain, where they
" were never foddercd at all, to the cold climate of
"Snxony, where they must be foddered as here or
" months in the year il was feared the wool would
dcierlorate, but 1t was found ii did not" Neither
does he say il was improved by the change If this
BE- So and cold and long winter is not necessary
IN periec'ing fine breed Of Sheep or fine fleece OF
wool, then we are at the mercy of our more favored
neighbors, even IN this article. Although OHIO has
at this moment more hogs than sheep, wool is already
numbered among the articles of freight that crowd
the " floating palaces of Lake Erie, from Cleveland,
Sandusky and Detroit 10 Buffalo. The yield Of wool
per head OF sheep in Ohio is fraction more than in
Vermont while the cost of Ike .png is at least one
third less than here.
In the products of the dairy, the western states are
yet behind owing in part, to the comparative scar
city OF female labor, and other temporary causes
ONO, with three times the cattle of Vermont, makes
but little If any more butter and cheese. But as rail
roads, &C, make her access 10 market more ready
and ms her population becomes more dense, she VIII
Doubtless turn her attention to this object also. And
think II may be safely said, that in no department
OF agriculture can mountain state like ours, with
cold climate, compete successfully with her more ia
vored neighbors dwelling the plains Of a mllder
atudeand fat,unless we can have The advantages of
much more ready access 10 market, agricultural Ia
Dor must always be more poorly rewarded here than
there. But is not Ohio, at this moment, as near for
all practical purposes, TO New York ourselves and
as near New Orleans as we are to Boston?
Create, by any means, n home market for the agr
cultural produce of Vermont, SO that her farmers can
sell for cash to consumers in their own neahborhood
and ,ney can still afford 10 produce provisions of all
kinds IN greater quantities than is now done; and, as
fully believe the creation OF such market is the
only thing hat can very much increase our products
But keep things as they and all may foresee two
results that must inevitably follow, viz: Vermont
will hive sparse population, and remain q compar-
anvely poor state. Lord Byron says
mo virtue yet except starvation
Could stop that worst Of vices, propagation"
while the garden of the West is within stone $
throw. Vermont, then, must expect to keep no more
OF her sons al home than she maintain in comfort
and find employment for.
IT. then, these things so, and there certain
things which we can do no LONGER cheaply as our
/ neghbors there still remans doubtless, certain 9TH
er things which we do cheaper than they. II the
Creator has not given us the advantages he has
conferred on Others. sha find, if we look over the
lis, of our blessings carefully, that he has been no
STEP father 10 us Oar natural advantages are snch
have no hesitation IN saying that if wisely improved
will enable Vermont To support in comfort as dense
n population as any other state While our noun
tans stand on their firm foundations, and the llmpd
streams leap down them every hand Vermont has
a water power never exceeded in the same extent
of territory. And though none of our mountains
should ever rival Parnassus, or our streams be hal
lowed by the genius Of poetry yet they might turn a
great many spuides and furnish honorable and pro-
fable employment for a great many busy hands
We have have some mineral resources already dlsrov-
cred by accident or private enterprise, & is shrewdy
suspected there may he others which thorough geo.
logical survey might deveope, should our vie egis
laors ever see fiji to make it. We have then the nat
ura advantages requisite, We have the native talen
and industry necessary TO make us a manufacturing
people. We doubtless need more capital and grea
deal mors enterprise more wisely directed.
We are not, as people, of the true New England
breed. We belong indeed, as naturalIsts might say
to the genus "Americana y yet arcl lacking IN many
of the characteristics of the species Yankee. W.
lack much of his sh ewdness, and foresight and pa
tent industry; but sull more Of his ready adapnuor
to circumstances, his keenness OF perception as to thu
true advantages of his situation, and that readiness
and ability too to do any thing and erery thing in III,
cause Of thrift, which distinguishes that wonderful
animal. But we are descended from the same stock
whose ruling passion, the verltabe Deldrlch knck
erbocker says, is Improvement" and we should
, disgrace our pedigree did we not look about US an,
exercise the common shrewdness of common men,
we have not the uncommon shrewdness OF the stool
from which we sprung. The day has gone by whe
waited for the force of circumstances to develop
the resources of their country. Even the descendant
of the sage burghers Of New Netherlands no longe
lay out streets by COW paths, wait, did the re
nowned Wofert Webber, never dreaming that Ian
was good for any thing but raising cabbages I'LL III
corporation made him rich man in spite of himself
by cutting up his garden into building lots. Ho,
would Wou'er Van TwIer or Wilhelmus Keft lie as
tonshed could they be permitted TO return once NOR
to the sent of their former greatnesscould they pas
{ through Wal-streei or Broadway, and see the ev
dences which appear every hand, of Yankee lniu
ence and Yankee enterprise, which have passed owe
could they behold the great Western Railway, @
n the Croton Aquednci, or stand on the Battery an
: compare the naval architecture of Liverpool pack
OF the taper proportions of modern steamer, vii
= the ship Coed Vrow-60 feet keel, go feet beam, an
60 feet in the hold
. But to return The Creator has given certain gret
n natural advantages TO our coun,ry and TO each pa
tcuar part of the land, something peculiar to iIsel
A But how differently have the different portions IN
. proved their share of the blessings of heaven.
n nave spoken OF COtIOn ana sugar u lnt SOu'
y these with tobacco form their great staples. Thes
are all articles of export, and have cash raiue
/ where-at home and abroad. One at least of thes
articles. and that the important one Of cotton, Il
South could never have exported but for Yankee il
h penuily. They owe it no doubt 10 the cotton gin
. Whitney that they can grow cotton in competillo
. with the world. But there other advantages fro
\ which New England has reaped rich harvest, thi
|, all the southern aboard might share with her
d they possess the necessary enterprise.
i In commerce the fisheries what advantage hi
!, Massachusetts Connecticut over VIRGINIA or Carr
IS lima, save enterprise and industry And wha: adyaI
/. tages have they in the manufacture of woo
hardware, glass or, in short in any Of the results
ingenuity and abor-he application Of water powe
the use of fuel, &c. &c.-save this same enterprise
J. The industry, contend, we have, or might have,
e there was the hope of reward to call it forth.
n The fisheries of Massachusetts employ l6 900 me-
/; and Their income annually is not less than five mi
lions of dollars. In the outfit of these fisheries she
r very little, If at all indebted to any one beyond HI
own limits; and the return is not in something th
l. has no cash value like large share of the produc
of laor but all the returns of this outlay find
II ready cash market.
le Connecticut employs in this branch Of industI
1000 men, and they bring her home annually ~
III million gallons of oil, 66O0 bbs, picked fish, LII
'e qunials of dried fish, and sl57572 worth OF whal
I'd bone.
'te From this great field of productive employme