The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-04-02
Price Of linseed cakes per OCO in the month Of
January, 1910 60 O TO flO o
1874 10 TO 10 10
1876 - 0 to - 5 0
Price Of rape-cake per ton
January. ls43 5 o
Isli 5 3 0 TO 10
December lSIi o to 10 o
January, lS46 5 II to

January, $50 5l7 0to $40
Now, in the supply of Indian corn we can have
no competitors. 1t is raised in England or Ire
land, or in the north Of Europe at all.
And here, Mr.. Chairman, permit me to dgress
and remark, that the opening Of the English ports
the free admission Of Indian corn is not only of the
greatest consequence to the agriculture Of Virginia,
but TO her merchants and towns. We have been
talking for a long time about direct trade with Eng
land, but difficulty heretofore has been the want
Of sufficient exports to keep up a constant trade with
her We export but little cotton, and the demand
in England for our Virginia tobacco not suffi-
Gent 10 keep up constant trade But Norfolk is
great depot for corn. There are brought to that
market from North Carolina and Virginia. several
millions annually; it is thence shipped to the West
Indies and the eastern States. But if our merchants
in that city shall hereafter exhibit proper enter
PRISE they will ship directly to England Corn is
cheaper in Norfolk than in the northern Cities and
she will have the advantage, so far, Orthem in this
trade. II was a similar state OF things which here
tofore gave her such large share of the West India
trade. But will not pursue this subject, my ar
gument is designed mainly for the agrculturist.
4th. In estimating what we have to pect from
European competition, there is curious fact which
have to mention, one of many millions Of others
illustrative of the goodness Of an al-wse Prov-
dence From a long series Of observations, it has
been found that short crops in Europe are almost
always coexistent with good crops here. In both
hemispheres good and bad crops come in cycles,
rying from three to seven years. And ! repeat
that in long series Of years good crops in this
country have been coexistent with bad crops in Eu-
rope. This is not accidental but it results from
provision of an allwse Providence Ii results from
the fact that the regions of the continents
are in different ATTITUDES. In this country the grain
region is between the 36th and Add parallel Of north
latitude in Europe it is between 500 and 600 So
the circumstances which insure good crop here
are apt, nay, observation shows are sure to pro-
L.. had Al
serve, Is another proof amid thousands of others,
that the free commerce and interchange Of commod
ties Is the law of nature. So sang Virgil as long
ago as the days of Octavius.
This ground with Bacchus, that with Ceres suits;
That other loads the ground with happy fruits
fourth, with grass unbiddcn decks the ground.
Thus Timoius is with yellow saffron crowned;
India black ebon and white ivory bears;
And soft Idume weeps her od'rous tears
Thus Pontus sends her Bearer stones from far
And nal ed sPsnards temper steel for
Epirus for TIL Elean chariot breeds,
IN IN hopes OF palms race OF running stecds
This is tn original contract; these the laws
Imposed by nature and by natures cause"
quote from Dryden's beautiful translation
1t Is not less in consonance with the wisdom than
with the goodness of God. Il modifes the sad and
awful curse by which man was condemned to live
by the sweat OF his brow. Permit it, and the labors
of nations are diminished and their comforts in
creased Does this truth require an illustrations If
So, here 1t is. The Virginia farmer wants bread
and he wants sugar. He can make both. Good
sugar is made Of beets, and he can raise them but
not to an advantage. The Cuba planter has the
same wants; he wants bread and he wants sugar
He can raise BOTH although his climate and soil il
not adapted to the production Of the former Let
then, the VIrgnan devote himself Exclusively to the
cultivation OF grain, and the Cuba planter to sugar
and both will have more of each article than if he
undertook to raise both for himself Under this
system the Virginia farmer get more sugar with
the same labor by cutivatlng corn and the Cuba
planter can get more corn with the same labor bv
cultvating sugar. But man, by legislation, will i'm
plousIy attempt to Counteract the DEGREES Of an all
wise and all-good God!
! have been led unintentunaIIy into this digres-
sion. II is not in theories but in Statistics desire to
deal.
The gentleman from Massachusetts Mr. Hup-
SON undertakes to underrate our trade with for
egn countries in breadsNfs and provisons-par-
ticuary with Great Britain. He makes a cacula-
ton, based upon the commercial document, the CEN
sus Of lS40, and the estimates Of the Commissioner
of Paens since, to show that Of the 96 600 900 Of
bushels Of wheat produced for the last FIVE years,
one-tenth has been retained for seed; 1000 900 of
bushels have been consumed in this country; and on
y 400 900 has been xported In reference to Great
BSain, he makes n statement, which, as desire to
refer to it by-and-by, quote his own language from
the pamphlet copy ofhis speech:
In $40 and slI, exported to Great Britain an ave
reee OF 2d9O OO bushels year but in the two succeeding
bushels year But sir ss wish TO do perfect justice 10
the subject readily admit that bya change in our com
Ell ear the year lsla consisted OF only nine months
WISH WeleioIe TO add to another quarter TO make
OF the usual length But Il we add one for,h 10 the i'm
ports o. mat 80 as TO make four quarters twelve
years Of only H6,7O0 bushels year
little further on he says