Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-12-17

manufactures. and the demand for English
shipping to transport them, began TO de-
cline. Gradually driven from Europe,
England has sought markets in Asia
But she had already impoverished fndia,
by robbery and extorton, and found a
market there which could not pay. She
also sought market in China, But seek
ing II by force, she has not found it exs
'ensively, and has incurred, in the search,
greater cost than the value Of the market.
ohc has ploughed into debt beyond her
means. in forcing mohopolies, and finds.
that, while the debt remains. the monono-
lies have departed. Then her landed aris-
tocracy have run in debt and grown poor
by extravaganza, and her coun,ing-house
arstocracv have followed the silly exam
pie. To support the coercive system Of
securing monopolies, and the extravaganza
of aristocracies, she has, by enormous tax
alton, impoverished the producing classes,
The only creators of wealth in any country.
She is poor precisely like spendtbrifs
banker, who, to sustain the credit on
which his custom depends, lives in exiras
VACANT style.
The Times says that England is poor,
because she has parted with large quan,ls
ties of her gold to buy food, in part for
feeding the Irish; and that now she is poor
in materials for manufacture and in manu-
featured fabrics, the latter the means of
purchasing from her neighbours; that she
has expended fifty millions of dollars in
feeding the Irish, forty millions of which
she borrowed. All this is true, 80 far as
it goes. But it goes not beneath the sur
face. She has a pauper TO feed in Ireland
whose poverty she produced by her tyran,
ny; and she is therefore poor like land
lord who Expresses his tenants till they
are no longer able TO cultivate his land, and
then finds his rents unpaid and unpayable.
England has played spend-thrift till she
has exhausted her ready money, and ty
rant till she has depauperaed those from
whom she obtained it. She has managed
her affairs like the Pacha of Egypt, who
seizes the whole crops Of his peasantry,-
and thus leave them without seed to cul-
: tivate another, and to starve for want Of.
: food that should have been furnished from
i the last. OF course his Pachaship soon
grows poor under this system; and il is
the system which has impoverished Eng
! land. And last, not least among the cau-
ses Of her poverty, she has nurtured rot
: ten system of paper money, which, by
t enhancing all prices, has gradually driven
t her commodities from most markets.
b But with all this poverty, England is
II still rich, and by proper uses Of her riches,
!, would soon become comfortable. She has
). her climate, her soil, her mines, her crea-
e tons, including houses, ships, wharves
e and mills; she has also the numerous, in~
s telligent, energetic population. Torecov-
Il er, she must let her colonies 60, trying
\ to retain them as customers, not by force,
S but the advantages Of trade. Then she
X must abolish her landed aristocracy, re-
n lieve the land from the burden of the
J.. Church, dispense with tho expensive, and
II TO her useless, baube of a monarchy, re-
c duce her overgrown army, used only in
n the folly Of keeping colonies by force and
y her overgrown navy, once used in seizing
Il by force, the trade that should have been
a obtained by mutual interest.
;, When England clears away all this rub
bish, politically emancipates her producing
J. population, establishes a cheap republican
government, leaves religion to take care of
: itself, the best care which it ever had, tries
> 10 enrich, instead of sponging her foreign
e possessions, lets Ireland govern itself, or
u governs IT for the benefit of its whole pop
II ulation, and not the exclusive benefit Of
Il its few landlords, and goes into ihe world
l. as fair trader upon reciprocity, and not
;. Ike cheat. smuggler, and pirate, she
: will become richer than ever, and have her
d riches properly distributed. Shallow
n thinkers seeing 100000 paid at the
al bank as dividend OF interest on the Ma
J tonal debt, or seeing the splendors OF
J. Buckingham House when the Queen gives
a ball, or of the nobility when the Duke
2 Grabland bets 100000 on horserace.
" exclaim, in wondering delight, show rich
'r England isl" Those who know how 10
X estimate things, in beholding all these fol-
l. lies, and all these fruits of crimes, exclaim,
n in mingled pity and indignation, "how
a. poor England is u
!, A BfoyruIfor Young Ladies. "Listen,"