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

alt will be seen by the above comparison that FAR from
there having any foreign coal imported the
present year. the the three ports named less by
559 than for the first three quarters OF last The
comparison, have doubt, vii! hold good any
port throughout the Union. At Boston there has been
increase At New York and philadelphia there has been
considerable falling of. The whole imported how
ever trt1ing merit word Of comment the
competition With the produce Of mines The Read
ing railroad OF srf brings down IN three weeks coal
than imported into the three principal ports o. the Union in
nine months How idle is all the partisan yaporng Of pro-
lection IN the face OF such made appear III
enjoy nearly the whole market now, against whom does the
trade require protection -
s obvious every that The great coa trade Of Penn
sylyana is In almost runous condition. Men who have
years devoted their labor and their capital TO this great
trade ruined Miners and boers are compelled TO seek
elsewhere the employment longer afforded them the
working Of the MINES Railroads sud canals that have cost
twenty thirty millions Of dollars have fallen in value to one
third Of their original cost and all this here attributed TO
productions which that many have been
empoyedn consuming food while producing COAL with which
the market has therefore been eutsd Look, however,
where may, the difficulty. The market Is
glued with food with WOOL with cotton, and with tobacco
ard. II the who have consumed food while producing
coal had been employed producing iood the gu Of food
would have been s, greater than Is. Men must work
they would live, and they cannot ~ converting
food into coal and on they must endesvqr 10 do by
ducIng food themselves who deprived Of the
power OF being customer the farmer OF Necessity
rival TO him. Every where around il s the Not only
the coal mines being abandoned but furnaces and rolling
mills and cotton and wOoen mills being cosc and lan0r
severy where becoming SURPLUS preparatory 10 It's transfer TO
agriculture.
There gut Of every thing required for the convenience
and comfort OF nan-ood, COAL on cotton and cotton CLOTH
wool and woollens-snd yet the laborDg finds IL
difficult obtain the supplies required for his family and him
self than he did when there gut Of nothing Why is
so Because the places where food and labor The
spot exchanged for and coal and clothing been closed
by the working Of the system adopted 1885, the tendency
Of which that OF compelling the farmer 10 send hs wheat
OF which yields fifteen bushels the ocean,
70 pay the distant 0nmas;er for ron which before be bought
som his Degbbor with potatoes and unps and hay, Of which
The earth yields by tons, and thus 10 diminish bis power OF
purchasing and consuming iron. Throughout the whole
ton the power Of has been diminished and there
fore there this gut Of every thing, TO confuse and increase
until the planters and farmers Of the Union shall determine,
ci UOiee and one man, that they tcH have their
sides the machines and the necessary for converting their
food and their wool the cloth and the iron needed sup
ply their wants Let them DO that, and the glut viii
for every county in the Union will obtain its place Of
change, where coal iron cloth may be obtained for food
and the power Of consuming these commodities will increase
because the farmer will obtain larger crops while saving the
labor that wasted the road and home for
regular demand for II and returning the land all the
fuse Of its products, thus Increasing instead OF diminishing
power Of production.
Two systems are before the farmers and planters Of the
Union fo consideration. by The they obtain market al
home for comm ,jies Of which tho yields largely BY
the other they are forced depend upon foreign markets.
which they can send only those commodities OF which the
earth yields little BY the they will he enabled TO
a1gsy Of cloth and IRON, because obtained in return for