The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1845-09-12

Theab,e correspondent Of the Richmond
Wing, makes the following striking obser.
ya,joas in his last letter dated from Pa,er.
son, in New Jersey:
"Aii tho farmers around tho place are making
ton times much off their farms, in proportion
TO the capital invested as the manufacturers do.
Hundreds Of tncm mike more from four acres Of
ground, and that all bill, than majority Of ours
IN Virginia do from their three hundred acres
Somo Of them from three acres alone, in raising
strawberries, raspber,es, and dewberrles, mako
over 81 900 profit per year. And This oil TIE
suit Of two months work The fruit crop alone,
sold from the surrounding towns yearly IN New
YORK.. is greater than the entire agricultural crop
Of South Carolina, and the fruit and vegetable
crop larger than the agricultural produce Of the
great State Of Virginia | do not wish TO terri.
fy you, but these are facts. SHOW this statement
TO our politicians, and tell them to 90 to the
nearest rum shop and take drink of groE and
commence lecture on theimmorality Of the Ia.
riff, and then ask the tenants Of dapiiated tents
and farms, ragged, starving, pennilcss and
wretched millions Of the South, 10 bond their
knee before them, and they will call you simple
and unierrdad Republicans "
The writer Of the foregoing signs him-
SELF " Soulherner;" and no doubt before
he visited tho North he had heard the Ia.
rif s,igmatlzed with all the yolub.lty Of
phrase and ignorance Of facts which char.
acterlzes the noises' dcnouncers Of the pro.
tectye policy. Thousands are led b!n3.
~ by sach blind leaders and while slrv.
ing and voting to dcstoy the tariff aud
wl.h il their own prosperity, they know
not what they do. Il is well tina! there
are discreet and firm men enough to save
them from themselves, and to preserve
system alike essential TO Individual and
general welfare.
We collec, the following facts relative
to Paterson from this communication
There are about five thousand persons en-.
gagged IN the factories, making abou; nine thou
sand men, women, and children, who are Deepen.
dant on these establishments directly or indirect.
~, In fact the whole population Of the place,
about twelve thousand is kept together by them;
the destruction OF the factories would cauXe the
town 10 be deserted. The writer states that the
Secretary ct tho Savings Bank Association told
him that there was hardly week that some of
the operatives were not ut his Office to deposHe
money or TO hny lots to build on. Many before
they came here says the letter, were unable to
read or write, aud at the very point OF starvation
now is changed in all these relations On the
Sabbath, You could hardly tell them from the
wealthesl families, and thor deneanor IS every
way praiseworthy and commendaLe'
We commend these paragraphs to the
attention of those who denounce the tariff
rs a system of oppression to all classes ex.
cept the master manufacturers and CAPT.
talsts.
Here there is indubtable evidence that
the encouragement, Of manufactures in this
country has no tendency to degrade the
operative class, to reduce them to poor fare
and low wages, to permanently sink them
into ignorance and hope IeSsness, and 10 fix
upon the country pauper population.
The ialslty of any analogy between this
country and England has been shown again
and agalu-but what matters that The
protective system is to be dcnounced-and
denounced it must be. 1t sounds we'll to
talk Of wealthy capitalists; ii, democrat.
ic to ussal them nothing is easier to pre-.
tend to extreme regard for the laborer and
the poor man, unless indeed it be easier for
such pretenders TO care nothing for them
in reality.
Facts, however, in the face Of all sorts
of misrepresentation, will have their ef-
feet; the force of truth will yndIcate it.
self al last.-Ndi. Intel.