Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-07-27
sURRENDERING THEIR GROUND.


The concession Of an opponent Of particular
policy is worth more than columns OF argument!
in defence of that policy. Consequently, VT
were eratified to find in the New York Tribune
of the ODD, one OF The most rabid proociionis pa
pers in The Union, an article which pays the iol
90, tribute 10 the blessings Of free tIade. II as
ser,s most positively the cheering opinion, thai
owing 10 the liberal measures ofG. Britain (stimu'
lated and fos,cred by onr own free trade move
rnents as The National Intelligencer declared, J
1--WE shall be, in all time 10 come, producers fol
England" it, moreover, reiules the fallacious
argument Of The proteclionists that American
agricultural products cannot compete with The
farmers of The Baltic and Mediterranean.
The article below, coming from an able and
leading Wing protection Journal is an involun-
tary compliment to the policy OF The Democratic
party, viz, TO make The interchange Of produc-
lions between the Old and the New Words as
free as possible. We have marked some very
strong passages in ital,es:
THE COMING CRop.-We are rejoiced 10 OBJ.
tain, from sources Of unquesiionable merit, in
felgence of a forth. coming abundant crop this
season. The estimate that has been handed us
makes the seed OF this year one-lhird greater than
that OF Nashville every indication upon which
we can rely, augurs crop equally good in pro-
portion.
In Ireland, our latest reports authorize appre.
tensions OF another failure in The potato crop
though such lamenlabe contingency is in great
part provided for by The liberal use that has been
made in the planting Of our Indian corn. BY
the introduction of this great staple Of human
life into the old country, we have added vastly TO
her original Indebtedness 10 us for the gift of The
esculent potato
Still, next year as well as this, in all human
probability, we shall be the carriers of sufficien-
cy TO Great Britain; 10 us she will look with
confidence for supplies that her own soil refuses
10 contribute and will not look in vain.
In conversation which late Minister OF our
country held with Sir Robert Peel, then Premier
Of Great Britain, the latter acknowledged with
much candor and even with seeming qualification
that hereafter his country must look 10 our own
for perennial supply OF the necessaries of life.
mot upon the countries contiguous to The Baltic,
nor an European or eastern land do depend for
our future wants-but 10 the prolific soil and ILL
mitable products OF your GREAT WEST"
That eminent statesman has the sagacity to
perceive that The resources Of our country, as
they become deyeloped-ihe resources that spring
from luxuriant soil and the hardy indomitable en-.
ergies of willing labor-musl, IN the natural op-
Yeration of ,mmutabls laws, oulslrp and detrude
the scanty contributions of overlaxed and unpaid
labor, Of a penurous and ungrateful soil. His
prophetic vision led him TO anticipate what stern
and unyieldng necessity would soon have i'm
pressed upon more common apprehension
and when he tempered the iron restrictions OF the
Corn Laps-those oarbarons relics Of an anenlight-
ened oge-and in fact, badc open he PRISON. gates
of tie trade, he made no concession 10 US orto our
ioterests, but TO the coming events whose shadow
his good common sense, that second-sieht of |
statesmen,-enabled him todivine He saw The |
storm rising while il was no bigger than mans
hand, recognized its hidden meaning, and prepar-
ed to encounter il.
And though, in difference to the 6igol, Of bis age,
be but for certain period removed the shackles |
Of trade, successive events and increasing inlslli.