The Arkansas banner., 1844-02-13
Commitee on the part of he
 Contention.
From {" the Army and Nayy Chronicle" THE MARITIME INTERESTS OF THE SOUTH AND WEST

 divided between Virginia and the Northern States the and Ho & Carolina with the so1hn n and N Western % States on the thousand of exactly onef The show that all the the hog all the hemp the tobacco, and c speaking all the that ased and produced the whole count come from this section Ie the te of the ground reap at each returning harvest and and gather into their bn forty million millions o other cereal grams such as oa barley and rye They also eighty millions of pounds of ice one hundred and thirty millions of ieed chiefly the wild of their woodlands herds of swne
 herds and harvests nno, by eight and half producers The average consumption of cereal gan food Charles smith, the welnormed Me Corn 1ad estimated to be the of about twelve and half bushels year to the nhaban We why the aong in the West or south with rich and wide for his ca-wt his own bouniu board spread thrice day with fruits, aud vegetables should average for himself and his ca much bread and grain as the labong man England in whose dietary bread the chief and more grain and bdma than is allowed to one man and his cattle in England This estimate will ae after dectng onent of the whole for seed surplus of hundred millions of buhe by brow; and was not gathered by him with ol and labor to be scattered the winds be burned in the fire be consumed by the producers is for sa therefore must be sent abroad merchandise seek make Let suppose that oneh by boring live stock The remainder crowded into the channels of de and down New Orleans other seaport of the trade all that shipped the Gulf has through the Straits of Florida and exposed alike dangers Instructions that enemy may throw in that long and narrow pass.
 mmater the proof of proposition whether the fourfhs of as % whea corn neal hour whether they assume some other of the proan shapes of grain and down for live hogs and cale barrels of pork and beef rd acon oil, whiskey-ey
 the surplus produce of those bushe of which
 
 mercef
 vaung then, this Produewheter manufactured live cents bahe we have the sum thegh millions Of dollars be added three millions rice for Western tobacco, and much for all hundred and millions dollars d umber hemp stores the annual amount of exports from the South and West y nsw noa %d 5 @ e Ga a of " @ the s where f sends down. through the inland channels of communication surplus compared supplies Gulf ports with their articles of commerce The State of New York hpmO The quantity of grain of all produced that State lacks half of being much the mhaant the general average the whole of wheat each for bread the people of thai State will only peck apiece for export take all the grain produced that sht and deduct of twenty bushels for esch the about bushe each nhaban What other of the great staples of the does New York produce? She have lumber and ahe but tng country produce know drawn off from New York; through the Albany railroad for consumption surplus wheat of oo lnos dna and Michigan shall find then that her trade from the back does oneenh Seeing e York country through all of the world, be added whence does she obtain The this question has important bearing upon the subject of deence New York has her daily or her weekly line packets plying between her wav and commercial importance immense trade Not so with New Orleans and the Gulf boris ey derive the almost exclusively through the and roads of their back country
 now illustrating the bearings of this circumstance wise of national defnces, suppose New York ade by the fleet of an what degree of distress would the country go down the Mississippi the mouth of the Hudson closed The
 
 from the South the pork, the West which for anhpment would not be shut happened be bockadd they would have before them and they cou without stopping way, shipped This would distress embarss or two o her neghbo perhaps might inconvenience the mercantile considering Its effects sections and classes speak supposed its bearings upon the large, industry prosperity and welfare of the body of the light blockade would be the whole stopping of one of the outlets the delta of the Mississippi either commerce would be thrown into channels little bd and perhaps at hrs because but those the immediate lands would be oerown property injured there would nothing inc blockade of New York like public distress for all the exported thence could like the waters of the Mississippi, oruced one channel find and oher and perhaps At most the blockade o New ok would but be
 Now, the the other hand, let suppose that this hostile fleet raises the blockade of New York and occupy the Totuya and block the Florida South cannot flow the Mississippi the river closed commeree the obaed pass and there is no other channel through which barrier and force Its out through this stagnaion back to and the reu spread ruin and deaon oyer the land The of the Gulf blow it's o ouue Ill me hano o all enemy naval North, thousand miles distant and among Ines close al hand Not stitch of leave There inhabitants
 the h cotton; o 400 9z i9o barrels and i22 hh lard ~ H