Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-09-26

hall million of persons are, i'm effect, sub
sisted by us; but their actual ipaans Of sub
sistence are drawn from foreigS u grculturc
IL we could transport them 10 this country
and incorporate them in the mass of our own
popul2Ilon, there would Instantly arise de-
mand 2or an amount of provisions equal to
that Which would he requisite for their sub
sIstence throughout the whole year. That
demand, IN The article of flour alone, would
not be less than the quantity of about 100000
barrels, besides a proportionate quantity OF
beef ana pork, and other articles of subsst-
ence. But nine hundred thousand barrels of
Hour exceeds the entire quantity exported last
year, by nearly one hundred and fifty thou
sand barrels What activity would not this
giVe!' what cheerlulness would it not COM
mur'ceie to our now dispirited farming inter
est! But NJ, instead of these FIVE HUNDRED
thousand artisans emgrating from abroad, we
give, by this bill, employment to an equal
humberof our own citizens now engaged in UNI
profitable agriculture, or idle from the want
OF business, The beneficial effect upon The pro-
auctions Of our farming labor ,couid be near
~ d0u6icd. The quantity would be dimin-
Ished by subtraction of the produce from
The labor OF all those who should be diverted
from It's pursuits TO manufacturing industry,
and the value OF the residue would he enhanc-
ed, both by tina, diminution and the creation
oil the home market 10 the extent supposed.
And the honorable gentleman from Virginia
may repress any aPprehensions which he en-
'erlains, that the plough will be abandoned
ana our fields remain unsown. For, under
all The notifications of social industry, if YOU
VIII secure 10 ii just reward, the greater al
fractions of agricultural will give to it that
proud superiority which it has always main
taincd."
"And what is this tariff, Ii seems TO have
been regarded as sort Of monster, huge and
de!ormed-a wild beast, endowed with ire
mendous powers of destruction, about to be
let loose among our people-if not TO devour
men, at least TO consume their substance
But let us calm our passions, and deliberately
survey this alarming, this terrific being. The
sole object of the tariff is to tao lie produce
o. foreign industry, 10Th the rieao Of promoting
.Hmerican industry. The tax is exclusively
leveled at foreign industry. That is the
avowed and the direct purpose of the tariff.
II II subjects any part of American industry TO
burdens, that is an effect not intended. but is
altogether incidental and perfectly volunta-
ry."
he best security against the demoraliZa-
ton OF society is the constant and profitable
employment of lis members. The greatest
danger to public liberty is from dleness and
vice. u manufactures form cities, so does
commerce And the disorders and violence
which proceed from the coptagion of the
PASSIONS are as frequent in one description of
those communities as in the other. There is
no doubt but that The yeomanry of country
Is the safest depository of public liberty. In
all time TO come, and under any probable di.
rechon OF the labor of our population, the ag-
rtcuAurdl class must be much the most numer
Gus and powerful, and will ever retain, as it
ought to retain, a prepondeIating influence in
our councils. The extent and The fertility of
our lands constitute an adequate securiiv a
galnst an excess in manufactures, and also
against oppression on the part of capitalists
towards the laboring portions OF the commu-
nity."-yNat. Int.