Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-05-17

husbandry, and where the labor of one day in
seven is said to be enough 10 crown his board with
plenty, he works with his wonted diligence, and
out of his abundance, he has wherewithal of his
own produce-cofee it may be, drugs, or spi-
ces, or gums, cocoa. or rice tobacco, or some
other of the great staples of that valley-but be
what it may, he has enough to give largely in ex-
change with for all the manufactured articles,
whether OF fancy, necessity luxury, that he
Graves the most. In the long list of what the immi-
grant there will require of us may be included that
great assortment of goods known as yankee notions
also, picked beef and pork, hams and flour, but
ter, lard, and the like; for the climate of the
Amazon Is not favorable to the production and
stowage of any of those things. 1t is particularly
to the curing of meats and the grind
ing of four it is also unfavorable for all indoor
occupations. And in the settling up of the valley
OF the Amazon, considering that New DIRK and
Boston are but eighteen or twenty days under
canvass from the mouth of that river-consder-
ing that the winds fair for going and free for
coming, and that the Atlantic ports of the United
States are the only masterpieces for which the
winds thus ropitious-considering all the
physical advantages which we thus ENJOY and re-
garding this immigrant as the type of class-it
may be expected whenever the tide of immigra-
ton, guided and sustained by American enterprise
and energy, shall begin to set into that valley,
that New York and Boston, with the manufac-
turing States, will have to supply those people
with every article of the loom the shop, from
the axe and the hoe up to gala dresses and river
steamers.
The man, therefore, who in his native Europe
could not buy cents worth of American produce,
simply by being transferred a settler in the val
ley OF the Amazon becomes at once producer, and
one OF the best customers to American merchants
that 1t is possible for commercial people to have;
and Europe is ready, as soon as American COM
merce, backed by American energy, shall give the
world tangible evidence ofthe riches and resources
OF that country, to pour forth its hordes into it.
The memorial states that the merchants of the
United States, are falling into the habit of con-
duct ing their Brazilian correspondence through
England. There is monthly line of steamers
thence to Rio: its time of going is 90 or30 days;
the average sailing passage FROM New Y DIRK to
Rio is from 40 to SO days. Hence lis more con-
venient for the bus mess man to send his letters
via England.
Now line of first-rate steamers from Norfolk
to Para, would make the passage to the latter
place in eight or ten days. A line from Para to
Rio Janeiro is already in operation, and the dis
lance between these two places might be accom-
pllshed IN another week Or ten days, thus bring
ing the great commercial mart of South America
within twenty, instead of forty days. of our bust
ness en-.
The following is an excellent and most choice
morse of wit, with which the Enquirer OF Saturday
enlivens its readers. Here is the grain of attic
| salt:
| ScoTT PLATFoRm-The principles embodied in the
following resolutions said to be the platform on which
General Scott will stand during the campaign. 1t
covers everything North South East and West. After
section OF the country like mighty avalanche Here
the resolutions
First i-Lebessel. Kaiserlish Kongliehererter Ober-
and
Sandy Lachenmayer Kasorich Renghliche Tabachsra-
Observation-Disclosures fletcher,
IHird-0! O!
Fou1th--0! O! o.
The editor sneers at Gen. SCOTS opinions in
respect to Southern questions We enquire Of
HMM what case that distinguished gentleman has
ever expressed any view in respect to the slavery
agitations not entirely agreeable to Southern
Wings? Will the Enquirer respond to this ques.
ton !? Looking to the opinions of the Virgins
Democracy, as set forth in its recent platform, we
mean the Ole of 1882 for tits necessary to estab-
fish CHRONOLOGY ofth Democratic creed, because
OF its chameleon character, upon what ground does
that party lay claim to the confidence of the South
Peep e in respectto the slavery question? Thus
lands the case: The people of the slave States,
by their representatives in Congress in 1850 enter
ed into compactwith the people ofthe free States,
by their accredited agents, by virtue of which
certain concessions were made by each party to
the other But there is this peculiar feature nthe
agreement, that what the Northern party were to
take were of such nature as to be received in
to absolute possession, and incapable of reserva-
ton or resumption, whereas the Southern bene-
fits all were to lie and do lie in contract, and are
capable of being revoked and utterly destroyed-
Now such being the conditions of the bargain, it
is clearly evident thatif it were to be now or at
any future time oyerthrown, that the people of
the South alone would suffer. Now then, why
does not every man South of Mason & Dixon raj
ly to the support of that great treaty ? Men here
might very well have disapproved the Compro-
mise during it tendency, on the ground its
tanning concessions of too ibe raj nature for the
South to grant. But now that the agreement has
become law what good does any Southern Demo-
crat promise himself from its overthrow and de-
struction? Does the Democracy of Virginia
wish to see the slavery interdict inserted in the
territorial governments! 1t is not yet too late
and might be done.
Oh no, says our neighbour, we always We're
opposed to the Wilmot Proviso. Them why did
not your Convention endorse the Compromise,
where that Proviso is not :! Are you in favor of
maintaining the slave law in tact! You will pro-
badly answer in the affirmative. Then why did
not your State Convention throw its weight in
favor of the Compromise, of which that statute is
a principal feature The Democracy will have
to toe the mark. Their position is, we know,
embarrassing, but remember, they have selected
their own couch and if shall prove uneasy as that
one which WAS invented as an Internal runish- |