Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-02-09

ments in his immediate neighborhood, thus destroy
ing his market at home, and forcing him into a
competition with the grain growers on the seaboard,
who will have the advantage of him, to the extent
at least of the cost of transportation! Is il that all
the farmers of the country are to be driven into
competition with the grain growers of the Conti-
nent and in Germany, who can now, by the cheap
ness of labor, deliver their products, at profit, in
Liverpool at n to 80 cents per bushel! Is il that
the agriculture of this country is promoted, by aid.
ing in the indirect consumption of the agricultural
products of other lands, while the products OF our
own farms lie boarded in our warehouses, TO await
there the infection by Providence of another famine
in Ireland, in order to create demand for our sur
plus production? And for what must all this be
done? This question finds its solution in the con-
sequences of policy that can foster free-trade
principle. 1t can be nothing else than to give to
England monopoly of our supplies; to give her,
through her manufactures, the marts Of the world,
and the heart of wealth, commerce, and power"
and to fling back the condition of this country to the
colonial vassalage of the last century.
1t would be no difficult task-and the writer may
recur to the subject at some other time--to show
the harmonious action and the necessary afiinitles
of these two interests in the production OF British
wealth and power. Nor shall we dread in the in
qury to trace the history of ancient times and the
medieval ages of the world = TO which Mr.. Richie
invites comparison though we might protest against
erecting for our social and political standard the So
cety Of baronia times and the institutions of feuda
poity. This reference to /" "med@val ages comes
with bad grace from the organ Of that indeinabie
progress" on which Mr.. Cass SO eloquently, but
ruitlessly deeaimed, not long since in the Sem
ate chamber
But we have written more on this subject than
we had intended. Indeed, we have wandered out
r 4 II Jaa:, n.,s
was to notice the writings Of the Union" under
the force of convictions it could i'll repress and to
watch its editor as he vainly tried to unloose the
formidable coil of difficulty which The simple, yet
irreutable doctrines of the Secretary wound round
and round his faculties. All the Secretary main
tanned the discounted editor is driven to admit.
He says: Workshops-that is, manufactures to
certain extent--create wealth, articles of COM
merce, and contribute to the growth of national
power; SO do warehouses. Workshops contri-
butte to those objects in proportion to the labor
2 and capital employed IN them; and SO DO ware
houses" This sentence, Invested of the qualihr
cation about warehouses, (put there as salvo to
the admission of truth he would rather have mega
tived,) can mean nothing less than that national
power and greatness are promoted by manufactures
in the ratio Of the labor employed and the capital
invested in them. This is the best of Wing doc
trine, and indicates the true policy of the country
We commend it to our Democratic brethren as an
authoritative text; and while we, as Wings, claim
its peculiar truseeship, are not SO exclusive as
to reject communion with those patriots Of the
Democratic party who find in tariff policy the
surest conservation of all the great interests of our
common country.
It follows, from an admission of this principle,
that, if we desire to develop the resources Of our
expanded and expanding country--if we wish to
foster and keep alive the aniies Of interest that
bind us together as one great family-in word, if
we wish to be independent, we must cherish our
manufactures we must stimulate capital by hold
ing out to its investment the inducement of ade-
quate reward we must encourage labor by the as
surance of permanent occupation and remunerative
compensation. In this way, we may soon become
the consumers of our own agricultural products,
and may hope to find within our own borders the
nnrts Of the world and the heart Of wealth. com
merce and power"
A PENNSYLVANIA.