The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-04

These frequent well meant, but frutless attempts
70 redeem the agriculture Of States, 20 expanded
and 80 blessed with glorious natural advantages,
merely by the formation Of Agricultural Societies.
and by the offer Of small premiums for individual
success IN particular cases. place them, in view
Ia the light OF strong resolute man contending
cnnd ioid against invisible enemies, thrusting at
his vitals. No. The disease is too desperate
grown" TO admit Of removal by any such superb
ciai appliances. Virginia may rely it, she will
never improve her agriculture, thicken her popu-
sources she ought to do, while she leaves such
water-power AZ that at Richmond and at the great
falls OF Potomac unoccupied, her furnace fires to
down. her coal lying in the pits. where shs psoyi
sist on policy that will force the light and compa
ratiyey cheap machines Of conversion to come and
do their work on the great machine of production;
the men who build Farishs fine post-coaches and
her steamboats,, and make her axes, aud ploughs,
and spades, and hoes, must be tempted to come
and build and make them out of her own timber
and her own iron. The men who make her shoes
and her saddles and brides, must be tempted to
come and make them out of her own leather, from
her own hides, with her own tan bark. She must
agree that our tariff policy shall make il the inter-
est OF those who, in England, manufacture her iron
and her cloths, to with their capital and their
skill, and manufacture them with her own coal
and ore, and with her own WOOL for which she
has unoccupied pastures fitted To supply millions of
pounds OF all, and especially of the finest qualities;
and while they thus making within her bor-
ders, out Of her own materials, the iron and the
coaches, and steamboats,, and shoes, and saddles
and brides, and cloths, she WILDE supplying them
with their clothing and food, Of which last (the pro-
duce Of the labor Of the wn-trodden serfs of Eu-
rope,) very large proportion of the manufactures
she now imports are actually composed-of pig iron
Tor instance. as we see by the Report of the Bati
more Iron Masters, in this number of The Plough,
the Loom, and the 4nul, the raw material on the
ground-the coal and the ore, make So or S3-the
rest OF the cost, say $40, being composed Of the
produce Of the plough and the harrow, the hoe and
the axe. Instead Of upholding policy that would
in few years, if steadily maintained, the per-
manent system of this country lead to the most
glorious results, in the growth of national wealth
and power, behold her advocating system under
which the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by single
scrape OF the pen sends home'' to England for as
much railroad iron as, if made in the United States
million Of dollars Of agricultural produce True, to
her credit be IT said, giving hope Of redemption,
Virginia has lately taken some promising mea-
sures in the right direction. BY appropriations for
beneficial as they are, (and to which the govern
ment should rejoice at any opportunity to contri-
butte, instead Of hgglng about mail pay.) they are
mainly useful and profitable to agriculture, (os~
only concern,) chiefly as they afford channels for
conveying the products of various industries that
serve to make market for the natural and artifi-
cial products of the land No railroad would ever
be needed or pay, a means of transportation and
intercourse, between agriculturists alone
Take single glance at her tide water counties!
DO they stand in need of cheaper transportation?
What human continuance can surpass the canals
which nature has provided for all eastern Virginia?
why Is IT, then, II there be not other source
OF rottenness in the State of Denmark, why is il
that paralysis seems to have fallen even heaviest on
that portion OF the Commonwealth? No! she wants
that diversifed employment which concentrates nom
ulation, drawing the manufacturer to the side of
the Agricultural and creating on the spot a de-
mand, for which rural product is too large or too
smailIfrom tons Of cabbages and potatoes down to
pounds of butter and pnts of blackberries For the
nd Sroti ,kir.x.
and with our resources nothing that can contribute
to human or animal sustenance would be too heavy
or too light to be absorbed by it. Like the elephant
it can turn from lifting bale of cotton or hoey.
head OF tobacco TO pick up an apple or an egg OF
all the States of this Union, Virginia. near and ac
cessible as she is, at all seasons, 10 immigrants from
Europe, ought to be the first to put down her foot
and say: for not dollars worth, for which we
have the materials, will go to foreign countries,
In the essays of Mr.. Carey, published, and to be
published, In "Ihe Plough, the Loom, and the An
. the effect Of such policy on every public in.
Will be most thoroughly exposed to view, and so
even by diagrams, that he who rune !
and can't read, may yet understand it. 1t is there
always comes increased power of consumption,
with augmented importation, immigration, and |
revenue. That, in fact, and beyond all dispute. |
every branch of American industry commerce |
tive, and as invariably declines under free-trade |
policy There Is no exception. II applies, as he |
TO iron, COAL cotton, wool, shipping
steamboat house building, national reve-
nue., and credit; in word to every thing. He who
doubts Is challenged to readg We have no party 10
defend, no theory to uphold-we seek only the truth
for the benefit Of the planter and Dtefumer.
What, let us ask, are the obvious considerations |
high wages and prosperity to the labor employed in
ow otcn country at all the Other pursuits? WHY obvi
ousy because that condition Of things offers resist
less temptation to the not half paid, and more than
IN afart fAA Al
workshops Of Europe, to come not single or in |
pairs, as housefies, before invisible, are quickly
een TO come from all quarters to a pot of honey:
My assure the foreigner Of full wages at manufac-
hem come, as they ever have come under a protec-
i've policy, by shoais and in nsousands- when
hey do arrive, what them Why then, instead Of
5ong on 70 Iohow the plough on cheap lands in the
N search OF subsistence, by the only occupation
With which they familiar, these countless
warns oil immigrants would remain on the sea
board to eat the products Of the plough; and with
increased demands would come, as through all ma /
urc docs come, increased supply! even the supply
81 " modern scientific knowledge of practical agri-
culture" In vain shall we exhort men to acquire
he scientific knowledge to make MORE when what
hey do make scon't pay!
Virginia now wastes in idle labor and in wagons
md horses, travelling long and bad roads.
more IN the work OF sending away her products to
De exchanged abroad, and IN bringing back what
he gets IN return, (all Of which she might make at
lome,) more than would build all the lighter ma
hines Of conversion within her own borders.
Finally, let those in Virginia, who share in con-
rolling the policy Of Government, NJ respects its
industry, ask themselves n few plain, simple qucs-
ions, as for example -
Even supposing the laborer Of Europe TO be con-
umer OF American agricultural products, (Which
re s TO very limited amount, unless in time of oc-
,asional faInine,) where would he consume most
As famishing, halfstarvcd, half paid laborer
abroad, or as thriving, prosperous, well paid
Teil-fed freeman here in our own country? And /
gain: What economical temptation has Virginia |
md her policy held out to the immigrant 10 20
md settle within her borders except the natural ad
her glorious climate, and the social at
fractions presented by the generous and hospitable
qualities Of her peoples
what employment does she offer 10 the capitalist
1r the manufacturer! Hence Of the millions who
re coming TO our shores how many dozen settle in
The Old DominionS But let her unite in insistinr
on course Of Legislation that will protect American
industry, and turn labor, as General jackson sue-
gested and in ten years, her great railroads would
be completed, and every trunk thereof would shoot |
oil its branches to thriving towns, around her i
mountain cascades, and in their Valleys as they do
in New England. Norfolk, and Richmond and |
Alexandria, and Petersburg, then thriving like New
York, and Albany, and Boston, and Lowell, would |
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