Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1844-10-03

Now, how hope, in the face Of these duties, to
sell 10 England any great amount OF agricultural pro
dncls She never buys any OF us Unless she Is compel
led 10 do il by the necessities OF her people, aud those
ceises she can, in ordinary cases, supply lar more
cheaply with grain from the Baltic and Black Seas than
from the United Ssles. She has repeatedly and recent
ly declared she will not repeal or reduce these dues
and, though we may admit every thing she makes into
this country duty pre- IL would scarcely ncfeasc The ex
poralion of our farmers products single busel! We
cannot expect heesct I, export iotoreign countries any
more fihese products than we have done heretooro
and that amount az We have SEEM has never yet reach
ed $50 O00, 600. We have never yet been sblc, and
have no reason 10 believe that shall be- able. 10 sell 10
all the rest Of The c0rid one t,oenieth part q the surplus
productions Of our tarmers
lhi. fortpr market II " be- seen. then. compared
with that which American agriculture needs is OF very
insignificant value. We must find another IN addition
10 it,
Another ia created BY the American system. We
have already seen that by this system 100000 persons
are engsged in actual mechanical and manufacturing
Dor and that 1000 900 are dependent upon them Tor
subsistence; what they need they have 10 buy aud pay
for out of the wages their labor, Now; every one Of
these a. 600 900 needs st least SO worth per annum
Of flour, beet, pork veal, mutton, poultry, polaoes,
cheese, butter eggs, oats. barley, fruit. &c. This they
must buy of fsrmers IL one person. then, buys $50
WORTH 100000 must buy ono hundred and fnty mil
lions orlh Of American produces This is seven times
as much as all tho rest OF the word has eper during
year bought ofus And the market, moreover, is alb
slu,ey ours beyond the resc Of The Legislation o any
alton earh To be disturbed by any foreign chan
yes broken down BY any hfIegn poicyj the Produce
sell in il PAYS duty To any body; We ask no per
mission of any oregn Power to sell It: the market Is
our o,tn the people who buy Of ~ arc our own people;
and long the American system keeps them enga.
ged in manufactures, 81 long must they buy this Sl4o.
0O0, 900 of the surplus products Of our farners This
great market, moreover, al our own DOORS Is IN oaf
very midst. The farmer instead OF sending hs WHEAT
BY canal 500 miles 10 the seaboad and then 5000 miles
10 The foreign MARKET paying freight. storage, commia
and eno,mors duties upon it, sends It TO the manu-
featuring village within twenty miles OF his field. pays
duties 10 nobody but gets his pay aud goes home Every
farmer knows that market al home 10 better than one
far away. farm five miles from Rochester is worth
SO an acre; fifty miles offs worth not $50 be-
cuuse tho market is further on. So il is Of home and
foreign market. American farms are all worth three
times as much they would he If there were no
market nearer than Europe To this 40 900 900 should
properly be added the value Of great variety OF other
articles for which manufacturing create demand, and i
ls far from an unreasonable estimate to say that thi,
home market, created by The American SYSTEM buys o
Ame;csn farmers every year produce To the amour, q
! 5000 600 OOO-ten times as much a the rest Of III.
tcorld And vet hear men seriously propose t.
make James X. Polk President. to secure revenue Ia
riff: Of course break down the American system which
protection has built up, and thus 60 anlflhlsie this gea
home rket and thfUw American farmers on the ten
der merces of the foreign market! Insanity never con
ceived wilder or more destructive scheme. Thes'
men forget the fact stated by tho United States Com
missioner Of Patents in his r-port that in l64s
New England bought Of American farmers 900 900 bar
els Of -four to marke Rtach for sizing alone; while IL
the same time all England only bought 20S 900! The,
forget tia, the small Stale Of Vermont pearl,
a million of bushels Of wheat per annum. while Grea
Britain aud all hef dependencies only bought Of Us 4,
600 900 bushels in lS42
1t should be remembered. too, that the foreign mar
ket is not destroyed by this SYSTEM remains exien
sive oefore 1t is mol influenced by any thin
that we do. It depends solely British necessity
aud that will be Just urgent, and So, il v
have home market, than il we do not. Now IS BE
will the farmers have-boih, or the foreign aIsas'