Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-12-09

60 THE PLOUGH THE LOOM, AND THE ANVIL.
We have several former occasions desired 10 call the
attention of readers TO tie fact that the labor bestowed
upon the Of food and wool into CLOTH and that be-
slowed upon converting food and coal into ron and iron into
machinery, is only all pore GAIN but that the product Of
agricultural labor is actually greater in quantity where the
loom and the anvil associated with the plough and where
portion of the community employed in iashioning the
products Of the plough than where the plough stands alone
and all producers In illustration of this have pointed
the wonderful increase in the power OF consuming cloth and
iron and other commodities when made home and TO the
equally remarkable decrease in the power of consumption,
when, from changes OF policy, mills and furnaces closed,
and the farmer compelled look distant markets for the
sale of his produce for which he is to receive pay in the cloth
and iron that before made in his neghborhood To be
satisfied that consumption with the facility Of sup
ply and that the wool finds his best where
the loom the plough, has only into New
England and there see have lately DONE thousands of
their cattle shows, all dressed in manner 10 prove
that their consumption of wool is vastly greater in proportion
than that OF the like number of people States where the
plough distant from The loom. II is Of the first facts
that strikes the eye of observer who has seen much OF the
North and the South
The principal object of this journal is that of showing the
farmer and planter that the plough and the harrow hare
prospeed distance from the loom and the ANIL and teach
ing them that they prosper when separated Its
first end greatest object is however, the dissemination of
TRUTH, let it lead to what Of action may and there
fore shall all times he willing present Tor the cnns
deaon of readers the arguments of those who believe
that prosperity is to result from employing men and wagons
the road, and ships the ocean, conveying pro-
duce foreign markets. for which Governor Wright said
ought prepare and which Commissioner Burke says
do successfully rather than from employing the la
and capital in increasing the quantity produced BY aid of
that division of employ which enables the of
food take his place by the side Of the producer of food in
stead OF iyng the West; there become himself pro-
ducer OF food and increase the necessity 70: employing la
Dor in the work of transportation and exchange With that
offer them the following article fom journal the
Public Ledger that is perfectly consistent its opposition 10
all tending 70 proec; the farmer IN his efforts TO
bring his side prosperous umer and thus relieve him
self the necessity Of continuing impoersh himself aud
his land by wasting labor and the road aud in dis
tsn markets
The depression Of the anthracite coal trade has awakened
general attention, nd the the pr0SrtOn has been
the theme Of much elimination and recrmuaon IN the
journals Among ether reasons has been alleged that
low duties had thrown ports open the free introduction
foreign COAL and tina; the produce Of mines thus
brought directly competition with the foreign production.
For the information OF the public this important point
addressed the Collectors OF the r OF Boston, New York.
aud Philadelphia the three principal ports o the Union, and
have received from them comparative statements OF the guam
ty and Of coal imported direct into their e districts
for the three quarters Of the present year, To the m IN
slant and for the corresponding period OF time last year.
follows