New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-18

hghsr .nds The lower ones are mas Of dense forests
ard dresy swamp while q: the foot NJ the bill runs rs-
sr forbade but for certain period OF the year % ne
hillside dRtsnf feT mica is another tnbei but conmu
nicz.ion between them difficult because the river oct
being uneeSred roads be mad= and bridges
are IS yet unthought Of Population and wealth however
into cultivation yielding larger labor and enA
bling the tribe 10 obtain larger supplies of f'O $685.
e1eron, and 20 spare labor 20 be employed for other pGr
poses Roads made in the direction Of the river bank
Population rapidly because OF the increased
supplies Of food and the increased power Of preserving r.
and wealth grows still rapidly. The river bank at
.nsib Is reached. and some OF the best lands nov
cleared. Population grows again, and new etsn4nt Of
wealth Is IN the form Of bridge snd nov the too
little communities enabled TO Communicate freely
with each other One r-oices in the possession It wheel
wright while the other has wind mill One wants carts
and the other las TO grind One has cloth tn spare
while the other has leather than needed for is pur
pose Exchanges increase and the little % grows be
cause Of the increased amount Of trade Wealth gro
still rapidly because OF new modes Of combining IA
boz By which that Of all IS rendered productive.
Roads are made in the direction Of other nnuntss
and the work performed rapidly because the e1erons OF
the combined and because the machinery used
! more Efficient One ser another disappear forests aud
swamps that have occupied the fertile lands separating ten,
twenty ffy five hundred communities which nos are
brought into connection with each other and with each step
labor becomes ard productive and 3 Ssrded
with better food clothing and shelter Famine and dig
ease disappear. life IS prolonged. popglaron is il
creased and herewith the tendency 20 that c'mbina-
ION among the individuals composing these communities,
which is The distinguishing characteristic Of civilization
increase Of population and wealth the desires OF man, ADD
his ability crafty them both increase. The nation thus
formed has han needs but It has no cotton,
ard Is supply Of wool i nsut cut The neigh boring M
ton has cotton and wool and needs corn. They are still
vded however By broad forests deep swamps and rapid
rivers Population increases and the great forests and
swaups disappear giving place 10 rich farms, through
which broad roads are made, with immense bridges ena
bling the merchant 70 transport his wool and his cotton 10
exchange with his rich ghbOrs for their surplus
or sugar Nations combine their exerons aud wealth
grows with still increased rapidty facilitating the drainage
Of marshes aud thus bringing into activity ths richest soils
while coal mines cheapy furnish the ue Tor converting
limestone INTO lime and iron into and spades and
u: rails for the roads needed for transporting 30
kt the vast products Of the fertile s use and 70
bring back the large supplies Of sugar tea coffee aa the
Thousand other products OF distant lands With which inter
course nov exists Al each step popullton, and wealth
and happiness and prosperity take new bound; and men
realize with difficulty the fact that the country which now
affords 20 tens OF millions all the necessars comforts
venences and Injuries Of life the that when the
suuerabundant land occupied by tens Of thou ands
ONLY gave 20 that limited soanty supplies of the
worst food: So scauty that famnes frequent aud
soue,mes so severe that starvation followed in is
wake by pestleIce which ~ brief intervals, swept from
The earth The population Of the little and scattered settle
mfnts among which the people were forced % divide
themselves when they cultivated only the poor soils o. the
hills.
ance with the facts observed in every country as 70 has
grown in wealth snd population TheeSry settlers ofathe
counrie, of the world 20 have been slaves 20 their
nect sies-and often slaves to their neghbors whereas
With the ncre sc Of numbers and the increased power Of
J on "
the hills the fertile soil OF the nver bottoms ana mfrshe
Nth constant increase in the return - constantly
increasing power tn determine from themselves for whom
they will work and what shall be Their re~ard ms view
hoTeyer j. in direct OPPOSITION 20 the theory of the occu
raton of land taught IN the potico economical school of
which Nautilus and Ricardo were the founders By them
Va are assured that the settler commences on the low aud
rich lands and that population increases men ar5 re
ouired 10 pass to the higher and poorer ands-aud 81
course no the bi-wth constantly diminishing return to
abor. and thus that, population grows men becomes
more ana slave % necessities and to those who have
newer TO administer TO his wants involving necessity for
dispersion throughout the world IN questoi the rich inds
mon which the early settler suppose 10 comm-nce his
opsrstions 1t in reference to this theory that Mr.
| Mn ,sys:
proo.on in poncs economy II the law daeren ano'i ..
! other than they are"
In the view thus presented by Mr. Mil there is exsg
geratn The law Of the occupation OF the land 0y man
fe AZ the foundation of all political economy and We de
sine 10 know phat is that tends 10 the emancp tton OF the
ple Of the earth from Slavery mu't hrst satisfy our
e es thatthe theory OF Messrs Nautilus and
ouiy no foundation in IA but that the law directly the
and tends therefore TO the adoption OF measures
directly opposed those that would be needed were tina
theory true The great importance Of the question val e1
os he occupaton of a few minutes of the readers aten
ton in placing before him some facts tending TO enable nun
10 safety himself in regard to the universally OF tho Ia"
now offered for his consideration Let him inquire whers
he may he will find that the early occupant "a Hoe com
m.pce in the fats the heavily tim6ered land but
,bat he did commence the higher land where the timber
was lighter and the place Tor his mousse WAS uy' WIN
;rc,eas ability he is found draining the sWap clearing
The heavy timber turning up the mar or burning e hls
and thus acquiring control over more fertile sous yeing
constant Increase in the return to labor Let nun nen
trace the course Of early settlement and he VIII ma thar
While has often followed the course OF the sue@as has
always avoided the swamps and nver bottoms earliest
settlements of this country were on tue Pooies' W vac
Trion,bose of New Ii gland SO was It in New YORK.
xbsre we End the railroads running through the lower
/ IA r;cber and set uncultiyatsd lands, WINE the
! baber lands right and let have long been eul
/ tiyated So is it in Pennsylvania, Virginia ADD
/ O.; In South Carolina il has been made
b nbiect Of remark in recent discourse that their pre-
decsssr, did not select the rich lAnd and hat millions OF
acres Of the finest meadow land ia thS STATE sun rem IN
nr,opchtd The settler the praires commences GA the
ILer and drer land leaving the wet prairie and ths
siSyeI-the richest so-for his SUCCESSORS Inc lands
blow the mouth Of the Ohio among the richest IN the
world yet they are uroccuped ana VIII CONTINUE 30 20 os
rti wtsh and population shall have greatly increased
80 n 1. now with the loE and rich lands OF Mexico 80
was II in South America the early cultivation OF which was
upop the poor lands Of The western slope teru ana C
wSs the rch lands Of the Amazon and the La Plata 70
,snsd "a most Of them still remsin, wilderness In the
Wet Indies the small dry ISLANDS were eariy occupied
while Porto Rico and Trinidad Astounding IN ricn SOUS
remained untouched. The early occupants Oh England
e found ON the poorer lands Of the center aud south Of
The kingdom as were those Of Scotland in the Highlands
or on the little rocky Islands Of the Channel Monas Isle
vas celebrated while the rich soil Of the Loihans remained
an almost uubroken of forest and the m0rdsses Of
were the terror Of travellers long after pire
had been cleared and cultivated II the reader desire % nd
the birthplace Of King Arthur and the earliest seat OF kng
LIB power be must look 70 the vicinity Of me royai castle Of
Tr.aee in the high and dry Cornwall Should he desire
other evidence OF the character Of the soil cultivated at
the neriod when land abOunded aud en were lew Ia nun.
Der be may End i'll the fact that in some paFts Of England
there is scarcely hill top that does not pear evidence OF
early occupation and IN the further fact that the mounds
or row are amost uniformly composed Of stone be-
carse those memorials found most frequently where
stoe wa more readily obtained than earth Ciar found
tie Gauls occupying the high LANDS surrounding the Alps
allie The rich Vereiis remained msrsh The occupation
II TIE Campagua followed long afer that Of the Stmats