The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-01-06

'tryman, (whose business, has not been
improved by the genius which concen-
trauon excites and rewards,) being thus
in an instant ripped up into boards you
shall see each board passed with the
speed off bought, and between planes that
shave and groove and tongue it, and pre-
pare il with'pertt>t precision for the use
Of the carpenter and the cabi net maker;
and they again, il need be-, with labor
saving machine that locks miraculous
will cut the lennon ana mortice. and
the hugh tree is tn us, by the inventive
arts that flourish wherever men eau
combine, sliced up and fitted for its final
uses with mathema teal eXactness and
the celebrity Of magic. Thus it IS, farm.
ers, with everything else vince the
policy of country draws men together,
there Improvements of all sorts eT@7e,
and the march Of discovery Is steady an d
rapid. The young men can afford to
get married. and the daughters have nc
difficulty but to decide between rival ad
mirers. Population increases and pros
rers. But where the barbarous policy
is to break up the useful in dustrics-to
send the products of the plough to for
eign Icons. to shut up the coal-pit and
put oft the FIRE in the furnaces
and scatter our population to the far
West, to make more wheat and more corn
and more neat, Of all Of which we have
already a surIrlt. and the Stimulus to in
On, Il ,yHt,,
ceases, and with it improvement in all
the arts, population dminishes, and moth
ing incr eases bat ignorance, poverty and
old maids.
To show the wonderful difference in
the contrivances for industrial purposes
where men live WIDE apart ana where Con
ceEtratlon whets the genIus-.take for eX-
ample your own field Of Indian corn or
wheat-your. firm is your factory-yet
how tude and comparatively inefficient
are all your implements aud appliances
compared with those in the hands Of the
mechanic and manufacturer, and hence
how. slow and laborious are ali your pro-
cessea, except such Improvements as
have been invented for You by mechan-
ics-not in many cases, either, exactly
for J on, but to meet the more earnest
and more telnrneTatng demands of the
manufacturer and the commercial man,
and only incidentally turned 10 your ad
vantage.
Lock At your ave. and your hoe, and
your scy,ho, an,! see how simple and how
aborious in their form. and ,leir uses urr:i
the grain reaches your barn, where, as il,
Mr.. BoiIinos aid a few others. il ,aeets
the power Of steam; not originally applied
for your beneGt or any stimulus offered by
your Gctira ona riejant societies, bnt 10
meet the sharp-sightcd acquisitions OF men
who live in Concentrated communities.
Does any body believe tina, ifconmerce
or manufactures had needed machine like
IlusHcY's for reapj"e wheat, as agriculture
has done sinoe the time ofNoah, that
would not have been perfected cen,ures
ago? Compare il with the thousand more
complicated machines to serve the use Of
the arts pursued and practiced in the towns
- compare II with the machi,Ie for maxim.
cards.
Well, let us follow Your wheat 10 the
great merchants mi i'll and see how incredible
expeditions and heaultfu l are all the opera
lions l,there uudergoes. and YET how in
cnmparabIy moe expensive is the machine
of production, ihan any such as are employ
ed in fashoning lie matural produces of The
land and OF agricultural iadustry-lhe Tin,
Der tree or the grain crop.
Take fer iTl<tance your 1000 bushels of
wheat. manufactured with a years labor
on 100 acres of an,, for which you wouIa
ask $1,000. Thea calculate the amour, OF
manual labor in tedousy ploughirg and
narrowing, and sowing and reaping, and
lhreshing aad cleaning, aud taking to mar
ket. If at the end of a whole year, one
eigth flhe crop remains clear profit III your
hands, is more than many get though ,hev
may not and do not choose to know il.
See then the miller, with his l:gh, END com
paratlvey inexpensive machine OF CONVEX
sion, when he takes your crop, how he will
in few hours pass il through the mill
fan, grind, bof, cool aud pack it, and after
taking as much of il for the labor as you
bestowed months upon it, he hands ii over
again the merchant, who makes you pay
again first for inspecting and then for sell
ling it-sel ling it 10 the man who in Man
chester is weaving your wnol-or your
coilon-'hat is if you can there meet the
competition of the commercial world in the
markets of the world az Governor
Wright and the Paten, Office Commits
sioner recommend we shall prepare and
strive 10 do, instead Of compelling The Man
chester spinner 10 come ard spin our wool
and your cotton here in your own country,
where he would be sure 10 eat Your -four
and your meat. And why not carry your
wheat and corn to be ground too in Eng
land. as we! as your wool and cotton. If.
you want the miller here to take GU. part