Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-01-05

There IS truth, wisdom, and SOUND
statesmanlike views in the following article
from the Philadelphia Ledger. Though
short, it is pointed and comprehensive, and
affords more matter for reflection than can
be found in forty of such speeches as Mr..
Clay's at Lexington:
Our TRUE PoL,ox.-Wc ought to profit
by the experience of England. And we
should do so, if our merchants were more
like statesmen. looking forward to national
interests through generations, and less like
shop-keepers, considering only the bargain
before them; and if our politicians also were
more like statesmen, regarding nations as
the growth of ages, and less like partisans.
intent only on the next election, and their
own persona! benefit involved in it. The
majority of our public servants. and nearly,
if not exclusively all our partisan editors,
are shop. keepers in politics, They look
not beyond the gains of the present bar
gain, the business of The day. England
grew rich by suicidal system Of monopoly
through force, through restraint at home and
conquest abroad. As this system, like eve--
ry other system of slavery, contains the
seeds Of its own dissolution, exhausts its
own vitality, England has become poor
She has lived like drunkard, who derives
unusual strength and activity from his dram,
but who exhausts himself prematurelv BY
the process! She has begun to run down.
and will 90 rapidly, till she reaches the low
est depths consistent with her natural ele-
ments of prosperity. She will then sign
The pledge. begin again on small scale,
live soberly and thrive moderately. The
sceptre will depart from Judah, though not
from the chosen people. The power Of the
Anglo-Saxon will be transferred from the
British Islands, t0rthe United States and
Austral Asia.
England has begun to run down, because
she rose ugon an artificial system. She be.
came great in manufactures, without pro-
ducing raw materials. She transferred pco-
ple from the soil to the workshop, and mon
opolized land for the luxuries of aristocracy.
till her own agriculture could not furnish
her own bread. and she is driven to seek it
abroad. She monopolized the coin Of the
world by balances in trade, and she created
these balances by melting other nations to
war, for the purpose Of supplying them with
those manufactures which should have been
furnished by their own peaceful Industry
bu4GeNeO WIZ tHe ueUto VI tueiI own wars
impoverishipg and alternating her colonies
by oppression, losing her foreign markets
by the return Of peace, driving away her
coin by credit and paper money, restraining
agriculture by monopolies in land, and COM
PEELED to buy bread TO feed m overstocked
Of artisans in England, and pau
per penaantry in ireland, she fnds that her
system has been suicidal.
Let us profit by her example; lei US avoid
her errors. Let us forbid monopolies in
land; for no country can be- prosperous long,
in which the cnltivator 10 not the owner Of
The soil. All systems Of tenantry are sys-
Iems Of slavery. fraught with the seeds Of
heir own dissolution. Let us forbid her
in trade, founded in force or
fraud. Letus enter into free competition
With oil the world; and let us, like the
French, command it's markets BY the sssen-
sial superiority Of our WIRES, md NOT Ike
The English, attempt TO obtain them BY di-.
qu9lifies while retaining dppe6r-
snces, or BY conntetfeiting the marks 81 9th /
Dr. nations who manufacture more honestly. |
Let us banish pspsr money and paper cred-
II, and thus ayoid those Engl ish pests, high
prices ~ homo ~ pansions, c0fffactions,
baukfDpt and sta9nation, -
dotrimsntaitO ficrals. - tltsy ~ " poek-
otss Ri ssaA NJ
3 W. possess shrss slensnts N pssspesstY.
sufBcient, ~ l0pg to Sell1 m 0sepe