The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-02-19

this country was supplied by cheap grain from
the Baltic and Black sea /; an average crop in
Europe would nj once do away with the necessi
~ OF shipping grain or breadstuff from this cou,
try, and then the three hundred million of su,nlns
winch we raise every year would remain DRUG
on ouI hands; we mnst have some outlet for il
else the Atlantic States will be ruined-thst
outlet must be through Oregon.
Beyond the mountains i'm the Mississippi VALLEY
eight million OF people reside who are agricutur-
isis-hese eight million of people are now raising
provisions for about six million of the people of
England-'hIs is surprising that out of the thirty
Tour million OF the population Of England, Srot
land. Ireland and Isle of Wight the crops raised
In England will not be sufficient TO supply more
than twenty SIX million, but this is not the fact
It is very common 10 have n surplus. China.
India, Japan-the Islands IN the Pacific. and the
Pacific coast contain a population exceeding
seven hundred millions of people-not all agricul-
'urlsts. but mostly manufacturers, requiring the
very KIND OF productions for their support which
are raised IN this country. Let us have the pos
session OF The hne harbors of Oregon between 49o
and 54N 4V. and then we have an untIet for the
agricultural productions of the Mississippi valley.
otherwise our Atlantic farmers will be ruined by
The cheap production of the western agrculturists
The reduction of duties on cotton and tobacco
would be small matter. Let the CAPITALISTS of
this country establish south, on the James River
big Falls 0i The Potomac, and branches Of the
Ohlo and Missouri Rivers, manufactures for cot
ton-and IN few years this country will he
enabled to supply the whole world IN cotton goods
as cheap as the north now supplies the south and
Indies. Our tobacco planters could, through
oregon, find market to India, China, Japan,
&c.-and substitute their southern tobacco for
the opium now used in those countries: and by
these means have the balance of trade in our
favor. As it is, there is a balance of trade of
nine million from China against us. Let us see
the chances of populating Puget's Sound and the
mouth OF the Columbia River in a short time. At
present, there is a large American polulation
among the Sandwich and friendly Islands of the
Pacihc-sIx hundred and thirty whale ships with
the aggregate of twenty thousand men !; this popu-
a'lon are compelled to occupy the Islands, be-
cause they cannot settle, under existing circum-
stances, Oregon but give US Pugel's Sound and
the harbors of Vancouver's Island, and in five
years the whole of the American population of
these Islands will, with the interests of the six
hundred whalers, remove to the lands and har-
bors of Colombia River, Puget's Sound, and
Vancouver's lsland-withn that time a post
route will he established to those poinls-steam
vessels Will run from thence to the islands
China, Japan and the Indies-and the emigration
from the Atlantic and Western States will. in
consequence of this turn of trade and circum-
stances, seek those points for settlement. The
Atlantic States will then be enabled to rise from
the dust of commercial depression, for to them
will be left the trade with Europe while to the
western portion of this country the trade of the
east will naturally flow.