The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-28

Arrange ments for the Decline Of tho Empire
sssse-Marvellous Provision Of tho Seward
Organs.
The Tribune, the elder Seward organ of this
city, in connection with its co-laborer in the
same vineyard, the Philadelphia North American,
has finally fixed the grade for the great highway
ofindustry from the Canadas on the North to
the Carolinas on the South. 1t will be graft
flying to Phladelphians to know that it is set
tied on the general plan Of the rise OF Penn
sylvania, the decline of the Empire State aud
the fall of Virginia; and it will be interesting
To New Workers to learn that their decline has
been fixed as penalty for adopting 'policy
that looks to trade in preference to agricul-
iure and manufacturers policy that builds
up great cities to the ruin Of interior villages
and towns
Perhaps IN the whole history Of fanaticism
there is to be found no act Of presumption
more giaring than this effort of the abolition
organs TO degrade and utterly misrepresent
the commercial metropolis of the Union, and
the true character of the Empire State. The
secret is all told when we say that the city OF
New York is radically opposed to the schemes
of disunion put on foot by Seward, Greeley and
Garrison. The popular mind here is patriotic
and honest. There are consistency and int yri-
~ in its politics as well as in it's trade-it seeks
to discharge its obligations under the federal
constitution, as we'll as in the relations of bust
ness. The exception to this as a rule, is found
in the abolitionists; and now, since the city has
shown its utter detestation of them-since it
marks them as traitors to all our great in
terests-points them out as enemies to every
class-the negroes included-they resort to
falsehood and Misrepresentation, with view
OF exciting the country against its chief com.
mercial emporium. 1t must be gratifying
to the business men who support the
Tribune, to the property holders of the city, to
those who have witnessed with pride the steady
advancement Of the great State of New York
to its present commanding position in the
Union and in the world, to those who remem-
Der that it was the pioneer OF improvements in
the construction of its canals, that it has filed
the West with its surplus population and CAPT
tai, that 1t is linked with almost every town
and hamlet in the great agricultural plain of
the lakes by the ties Of consaugunity, and
still more intimately by commercial and So
cial relations, that it has built up and sustain
cd goodly number of interior villages and
towns" whose prosperity is unimpaired and
whose wealth is almost unlimited-to SUCH we
repeat, it must be gratifying now to learn from
such paper, that the Empire State is in q ra-
dical decline. And all this is proclaimed
without shadow of authority and in the face
of the most conclusive evidence to the contrary.
The impudence of the reason urged to sustain
the assertion exceeds even the source whence it
emanated-"the policy that looks to trade in
preference to agriculture and manufactures"
Let us look at this point. By the census of
1850, we find employed in agriculture in this
State, 3l4,0Oo in Pennsylvania, 267 600. We
mining and mechanic arts, 10000; Pennsyl-
vania employed in the same occupations, 207,-
600. We also had 900 engaged in sea and
river navigation Pennsylvania had 1000. 1t
will thus be seen at glance that the bottom is
all one Of theory of the traducers. They have
been compelled to beg the conclusion that
labor is badly distributed in New York, and
tuut VIC uuSC Etiuulutcu COullucICC uuu uFdWu
to it those who should have been engaged in
agriculture and manufactures, just to enable
them to assert that the city is hot-bcd of trade
generating poisonous atmosphere, fostercd by
legislation. and drawing its vital sustcnance
from the interior villages, which are in decay.
Never was an untruth more bold and glaring-
ly false. The per centage Of our agricultural
employments and those engaged in other pur-
suits, do not differ essentially from those of
Pennsylvania. If any difference is pcrccptible
it is found in the more perfect distribution of
labor in this State.
In regard to cities and I" Interior villages
and towns''--to their population, their COM
mercc, their prosperity and their wealth--and
they are but expressions of agricultural and
manufactured productions-the simplest reie.
renee to facts is enough to show the folly OF
the journals referred to. Look at the most
prominent of the two States -
New York in 1850 had population Of. ;. SIS 600
Observation-Disclosures. e6 900
Albany. $4,000
Williamsburg Observation-Disclosures. 30 600
Troy Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Utica 1900
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