The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-04-08

Manufactures 57,506 354 1896
This shows that Michigan, with population
less than One-fourth larger than that of Wiscon-
sin. has brought nearly twice the quantity of
land under cultivation, owns nearly double the
amount of live stock, produces nearly three
times the amount of Indian corn, nine times the
amount Of wool, eight times the amount of
butter, more than twice the quantity of cheese,
four times the quantity of maple sugar. and six
times the value of home manufactures In
short while the people of Michigan have diver
sifed their labor, distributed their capital
touched every spring of wealth, taxed every ca
pacity of their soil, and where there was sur
plus of grain, put it into live stock, or raised
sheep with it, the people of Wisconsin have de-
voted nearly all their labor, their enterprise,
and their capital, to the culture of wheat As
nearly all have been wheat growers, they have
had comparatively little to sell or buy at home !;
their market has been abroad and in that mar
ket they have been trading upon single staple.
No tariff can remedy this state of things
The remedy is in their own hands Their
climate is rs propitous as that of Michigan
their soil is richer and equally varied Let
them create home market, Just as Michigan
has done, by distributing their enterprise, diver
styling their industry That is the secret of her
thrift Is there any reason why one should
produce seven million pounds of butter, and
the other, with population not much less,
produce only eight hundred and eighty eight
thousand pounds why one should grow two
million pounds of wool, and the other, not
two hundred and fifty thousand pounds
Wisconsin is as rich in agricultural capabil-
ties as Mchgan--they have been steadily
developed in the latter, without the hot-be
process of Protection, and 80 they may be in
the former If you cannot find this year good
market for your wheat put in more Indian
corn, or save more grain for stock, or devote
more attention to wool growing, or to your
dairy. He that observeth the wind shall not
sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not
reap" So is it with those who are always
looking to legislation to do for them that which
can be done well and safely only by their own
good sense and energy.
A LAME ExcusE.-The Washington Union
tries to excuse the late Democratic Convention
of Virginia for not expressing any opinion on
the subject of the Compromise, because previ-
Gus State Conventions Of its Democracy had
passed resolutions concerning it. This won't
do. The Baltimore National Convention Of
Democrats regularly re-affirms the same resolu-
tons every four years, though the subjects al
luded to may have no present interest; and
everybody knows that it will be called upon to
do the same next May. Would the Union be
satisfied with the omission Of the resolution on
the Slavery question, because it had been
passed before
Again so long as question continues to be
agitated, parties are expected to keep up their
testimony in relation to it, The slavebolding
members Of Congress insist, that AS the Com
promise is still denounced in some quarters, it
ought to be endorsed by solemn vote II this
be So how can the Virginia Democracy be ex-
cused for remaining silent upon the subject
CHANGE or MIsD.--A correspondent at Lo-
gansport, Indiana, wrote us few months
since
by the way, DR. Fitch is elected again to
Congress from this district. He goes unpledged
directly upon any particular question, save that
on which he pledged himself before his pre-
vious election; and he will now have chance
to show his magnanimity and heart on the
great question of human liberty untrammelled
by anything but his conscience and his obliga-
tons to his kind and his God
Well-hc has had the opportunity, and has
shown his magnanimity by trying to procure
the re-enactment Of the Compromise and the