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ton into the Crescent city of some new arti- Gle of tade from the teCmng valley of the
 West. There IS no city in tie world with such back country and so many mtcvel- oped resources as this, and, as a commercial emporium, none so much in its infancy. Yet it's friends, without an effort to suecor. have stood by and witnessed it's unaided struggles against obstacles and disadvantages which long since should have been removed The pubic Treasury has been taxed with heavy expenditures for building sea-walls and break waters at the North; but what, in compari- son, has been done to deepen the bars at the balize, or to keep open a navigahle channel up to New OIeanss The first standard that was unlnrled in the cause of independence had for device disjointed snake, of which New England was represented by the head, Georgia by the tail, and each of the other States Tn order by joint. Over this was inscribed "unlte or die" This was favorite conceit at the North, and is still to be seen on some ot the old coats of arms proposed for those States; and to this day part of it is pre
 served OH the seal of the War Department.
 Was there not in this early device something emblematical of the relations which the South has since been made 10 hold to the North ; Wily and grasping, the North has enjoyed every thing like favor and protection from the Federal arm, while the South has been
 put oil with mere rattle More money has
 been expended in fortifying and protecting the port of Norfolk than for Pensacola. Mo- bile, New Orleans, and all the Gulf coast and harbors put together; and yet in com mercial point of view, Norfolk can scarce boast of more trades than the quiet little town of Memphis, with its one hundred thousand bales of cotton--it also sends down large quantities of other produce.
 The interest of this subject, with its en- ticing eorrollaries, has led us off from the problem before us. We set out with the proposition that at least two-thirds of the commerce of the United States, taking it at one hundred and fifty millions of dollars q year, are supplied from the South and West We have shown that over one-third, or fifty seven millions, are furnished by one single article of produce from the South. We re turn now to the text, and proceed with the demonstration, quoting official documents for proof
 We have been accustomed to consider Pennsylvania and New York as great grain growing States, and to look upon the cotton growing States as consumers rather than as producers of the former article. But the cen sus of I940 shows the state of the case to be far different from this. Including all the cereal grains, New Y ork averages but twenty one bushels to the inhabitant, Georgia thirty five, Pennsylvania but thirty-three, and Ten nessee sixty-eight f Taking away the cot ton from the produce of those States which grow 1t, and viewing them in the light of grain growers only, the census shows that they average a greater yield of bread s.ufls than their sister States of the N orth and East, who, for the last thirty years, have been wringing from them the sinews of war. and grinding them down with taxes and tariffs for protection. The average quantity of wheat, corn, and other cereal grains produced Tn New England and the Atlantic States, as far down as Virginia included, istwentv-two bushels for each person; whereas the cotton growing States, viz : the two Carolnas, Geor- gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkan- sas, and Tennessee, yield like average of forty-four bushels, or just double.
 If we bear in mind the fact that wheat is the great article of food for man at the North, and Indian corn at the South, and if we con slider further, that the slaves and laboring classes of whites at the South consume no flour, but use corn bread exclusively, we shall ind that Georgia IS quite as likely as New ork to be an exporter of wheat. Detetic writers agree that there is more al;nentary matter Ill corn bread than in that of any other grain, and the plantation allowance of this to slave is about ten bushels the year, being at the rate of a peck of meal week. The sailors allowance for duff and bread in the navy IS at the rate of nine bushels of wheat for each person year; McCulloch allows an average of eight bushels of wheat year for bread alone to each person who uses it Tn Engand.f And though we believe wheat bread IS as common among all classes in New ork as corn bread is with us at the South, still, if we allow to each person in New Cork but half the navy ration of Aou1, (and this appears to us to Dc scanty enough) leay- ing the deficiency to be made up of oat meal, rye bread, &c., the people of this great grain- growing State will have for market only a peck of wheat apiece, not enough to furnish the factory girls of Lowell with starch and sizing for their calicoes.
 The general average of grain grown in the United States is thirty-two hushels to the inhabitant, first deducting tenth for seed. The average for the Northern States Virginia and the District of Columbia included among them) IS twenty-two bushels; that of the Southern and Western States and Territories. forty-two bushels: and that of the couon- grocing States alone, forty-tour bmshels 10 each person, as 6etore slated. These last have sea front on the Gulf of Mexico, quite equal ill extent to the Atlantic coast from Norfolk to the highland ridge of Maine. Now, suppose that for the next thirty-years Federal legislation should be as partial to this Gulf coast as for the last thirty years il has been to that of the North that the | shores of the Gulf should be strengthened with forts and studded with castles, at the l rate of eleven thousand dollars mile; that [ national dock yards should be planted along Ihem and the Mississippi to match those at