The Arkansas banner., 1849-04-24
Dsssndenos of tbs West upon Ea.,srn
 Ortntoas ard Eftarasnra

DaseE6ercs 0f tbs Wess upon Eastsrn oFtHtoas asd Litaxatsre.
 lhe Western doosasi for ApyIl contains aa able nFfteia ey he aseSog editor wes'ern policy from
 whIcs we exlrSet,lhe following ,ruihiui remarks in regard b tAs dependence of the Yves, on the East ! fos Its opinions and iissvasure
 We have been so long accustomed to Iook 10 fhs
 East tor opinions. hterstsre. ats manufactures and
 capital that seem to have eut little confidence ir :, our awn capacity, and eveA disirus, the obvinas 1 sdsaotages which surround us. The epinson which
 we enterts,o of ourselves. and ef the resources of
 the country, ov, os probable success m spy par-
 euisr pursuit are generally received hem the East ! Do ws contemplate the encouragement of certain manufactures, consult sn eastern manufacturer
 who has no means of approaching eihes the advan-
 tages disadvantages of the s aiion snd honestly
 believing no doubt that no county can rival New,
 Engsnd in this respect and not pereNiying how he Is
 to be benefited by encouraging manuise'ures in the
 West he is too cautious, aud perhaps conscientious
 Co advise us 10 enter apon hazardous entefpYise i He has long contemplated all the difficulties thai
 attend the introduction cf manufactures in newly
 settled country, and be is able te enumeraie them like welt conned lesson, for he counts spon these
 difficulties as protection o his own business and
 he would almost abse an article in his creed
 as 10 admit that aHy of these difficulties did no, 1 exist ia fu force We are told that ours is an ] agricultural, and that New England Is mannfac- turing country that the habits of population are
 formed 10 rural pursuits and that they wi not make efficient and reliable operatives in manufacturing establishments and wha. that they neither possess sufficient industry. strength to endure constant labor; and these, and like assumptions are taken fos granted hy western men aad we hear them ,re0aenf- ly repeated established and incontroYerbie facts And ih like manner our opinions in regard ta every parsuit in this country gre less influenced i by the opinions of eastern men.
 In respect to the subject of literature our cnndi. sfif politics newspaper notices ef legal and moral oi- fences, paragraphs of personal abuse and Kindred subjects writer in the " est would meet with little less patronage among the Camauches ct the plains than among his own couDtTymen. They appear 10 be totally incapable oicompfehending bow 1t can be that an individual residing in ihe same country should kHow anything that IS not familiar 10 ihem- selves, they liberal patrons, however, of eastern literature, including d John Donksy'' and all np l ;o the most fashionable and highly embelhshed monthly; and even the prudent and otherwise wel-ladging farmer, sends 10 New England for an agrcuitarai paper, 10 learn him how to grow corn. tobacco, and hemp rn MissoH,i while he wouh almost suspect that one was attempting to get lis money by false pTetences ii he were applied
 10 for 'he purpose of soliciting his patronage 10 an l agricultural paper to be published in the West. ! As long as men, women. and children condne their reading exclusively to eastern literature and
 totally neglect their o3n, their tastes and habits Of i thinking can never conform 10 the condition oi | things around them; and instead of sympathising
 with ihe institutions under which they live, their 1 sympathies are with those at a great distance whoe prncipls aim IS to monopoIile the profits of i western lahot.
 i Nor do the arts and manufactures receive much ] better encouragement. IT, however, the manaiac.
 turd should be 90 fortunate 10 possess the means of proceeding win hls business without he assis- tanee of the community, and should be satisfied 10
 live without it's sympathy, and afford to sell his
 tor decidedly less than articles of like nature l can he purchased ot fine merchant, he may 20 on and prosper; otherwise he would have little 10 hone ! for, laboring he must, against he prejudice in i fayor of eastern manufactures"