New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-11
pposprcrs or TIE FARMERS.

Fron Furope we have advices Of large crops. That
f Fr.nce l. said 70 be one fourth above the average,
ard those of England and Of Germany are reported as
abundant. Our farmers cannot therefore look 10
Europe for market From California We hsEe ad-
vices that the home supply of wheat 10 very large
that tie mountain regions are raising immense num-
bers of swine, cattle, and poultry-snd that fre'h
meats are generally chesp in the mines in the az
rcuitursl valleys below In this state of things the
journals OF that State rejoicing, for, they say
the gold no longer passes of ii is obtained
Tie Weld of the mines increasing but the export is
decreasing and they are daily increasing in their
power to retain the quansy required for circulation.
Looking westward our farmers see thus decn-
ing market; boxing eastward they see the sane;
looking homeward, they see that they are no Logger
10 be secure in their own market. The Sham De-
noeracy fresh from the passage of the Nebraska int
guilty has sho itself determined to crush the farm
ers of the North by opening wide the gates for con-
retition with those of Canada and thus adding TO the
value of Canadian produce the whole amount hereto
fore paid by Canadian farmers into our treasury A
fortnight since the price Of wheat at Toronto was
81 % to 81 80 while that at Rochester was %; and
yet FIVE cents would pay the cost OF transportation
The difference the benefit derived by the Ameri-
can farmer from the fact that he had made market
at home, in which he was then protected. The Sham
Democracy together with some men from whom we
expected better things and whose conduct yet
remains without explanation, has however, re-
solved that the farmer shall have protection
longer: nor will be have it from the day or which
the Provincial Legislature shall rstify the treaty
d gn6ed with the title Of Reciprocity, and under
J,r;t III +ha of tbap
free OF duty, while continuing TO pay duty all that
have to sell and they require to buy, except cot
ton, rice and tobacco-aH Of them the products Of
Stare labor.
The bill by which all this wa. accomplished was
carried through the House without being permitted
even moments discussion of the rights of northern
farmers. II was introduced on Thursday morning,
passed on Thursday morning, and was we are in
formed by the correspondents OF Sham Democratic
journals, signed by the President in hour end aha
from the time at which rePorted-and all this, as
We learn from the authority was accomplished
By means of "a skillful msneuver' on the part of
MIR. Bsyly-one OF the illustrious tribe of Virginia
slavedrivets whose tobacco is allowed by the treaty
t, pass free of duty.
Canada will this year have IL 600 900 Of bushels of
wheat for SALE and European market for it. Next
year she will probably have 20,0 00, 000 and as we
have now granted an enormous bounty all her agri
cultural products may reasonably calculate that
the increase from year 10 year will BE- enOrmOus-and
that the whole Of it will seek market within the
Union, the consequence OF which will, We believe,
be disastrous to farmers to extent TO which
would not, at this moment, be willing to fix the limit.
The remedy for all this is now to be found in the
substitution of real for sham reciprocity, by the in
corporation Of the Provinces into the Unions mea-
sure that can be accomplished without the slightest
difficulty, or the smaestcost. We have recently paid
ten millions for a piece Of worthless land at the
South, and the Administration is now hard at work,
trying to obtain Cuba. with all its negroes, at cost
of hundred and fifty or two hundred millions. The
British Provinces contain row two and half millions
of free white people, and they be annexed with
cut the expenditure OF a single dollar. All that is
needed for the accomplishment of that object is the
manifestation Of determination that they shall either
come into the Union forfeit at the earliest moment
the advantages that have cheapy granted them.
To that eud is required only that we elect to Con.
gress northern men with northern principles, as We
trust is now about to be done. Canadian AnneIa-
.tion" should from this tine forth, be the watch
word of every farmer north Of Mason and DiYon's
line and when il shall become So they may regard
the question a settled one. And its settlement
will BE- attended with the further advantage that it
will bring with it the final settlement of the Slavery
Tihery. st. Lawrence and Navigation questions.
For hall century the South has bought southern
land and has used i. to maintain equality Of
votes in the Senate, by Of which five million
southern whites have made the law for fifteen mil
lions of northern men. Let the North determine
now to restore the equilibrium, by insisting that
the South unite with them in accepting, in free
g,f, vast territory having already two and half
millions of educated people, and capable of
adding to the Senate eight northern members,
while contribu ing twenty or twenty-five to the
IN, rbers Of the House of Representatives. 1t
il time that northern farmers shall learn to look after
their common interests, and this sham reciprocity
Will force them to do, if their indignation,
cited by the Nebraska iniquits, should tail to lead
them to il. The South has fairly thrown down the
gauntlet: let northern men now take il up.