New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-21

there would have been diminished necessity for
submitting to the taxation Of Liverpool sad Msn-
chester, and increased power to build up Nor.
folk, Charleston, Savannah. Mobile aud New-Of-
leans Under the tariff Of 1876, the South ceased to
build either mils or furnaces, and ceased to sup
ply itself with either cloth or iron; aud, as a
necessary consequence, its towns and cities
suffer. In New. Orleans, as we are told BY The
True Delta:
"The population has scarcely msde az advances
since the census Of 1850, and should not be sur
prsed If it were found to have fallen behind the num-
Der then recorded. This is very discoursgag aspect
Of our affairs; still there is in blinking it,
affecting prosperity which has exlstencs in fact.
On all sides of us we hear of families preparing TO
depart permanently from our cty-the enormous cost
OF living being vastly disprop0rtioned to the profits
10 be made by persons in Legitimate business, or by
any persons unoonnected with public office, and the
administration Of public affairs. The number OF
stores vacant exceeds that of any past period Ia the
history of the place and from the very general en-
barrassmen ts among the smaller classes OF merch an
we must expect to fBd, as the season advances, a
very great augmentation Of the unering evidence OF
dtcliLe."
Would this be the case had the tariff Of 1877
been maintained, and had the sugar culture been
protected 90 as to afford q constant market for
all that could be produced Assuredly not
Under that tariff the planters would have had the
means ofinproving their machinery Of cultivation.
aud of adding thereto the machinery required for
refining their raw produce, and then they might
have had direct trade with the consumers Of
sugar everywhere. As it is, the planter trades
with the people of Cincinnati and Louisville,
New Orleans and Mobile. through the reineries
of this City and Philadelphia, France snd Hol-
land.
Would it have been the case, had the planters
been ever, where enabled to build mills and fur
Faces, thus furnishing home market for cotton
and diminishing the quantity pressing on the
market of Liverpool to the grea. diminuhon OF its
price 1t certainly would not. Had the tariff
of ls42 been maintained the domestic cossump-
ton would long before this time have reached
million of bales, and would no y be not less thsn
1900 OO0-lesvipg only 800. 900 to seek smarket
abroad, whe reas, we now have to send 2, 1000
Every extra bale forced en- the British market
tends to lower the price, while every additional
bale kept out of that market tends to raise the
price. Had the policy Of 1912 been continued to
this time, and had the crop been the same that 1t
now is, we should now be consuming 10000
bales that have now to be forced on Europe, and
the crop would yield JJiy per cent. more than u
niH do under e1isting circumstances. 1t would,
we think, be safe to estimate the price paid by
the cotton planters for the maintenance of this
British monopoly at fifty millions Of dollars per
annum; and it is TO this enormous taxation that
IL due the poverty of Southern people, and tho
slow growth of Southern cities.
The South possesses natural advantages of in
finite value, but Ii knows not how to profit by
them. II will become rich, and ito towns and
cities will grow, and it will make roads through
its territory, whenever it shall open its eyes to
the fact that there can be no freedom Of trade to
the man that must 20 to q single market-snd
that no community so situated has ever failed to
be ruined. India was prosperous when she could
trade directly with the consuming world. She
has been ruined by the necessity imposed upon
her for trading with the consumers OF the world
through tho aaills of Manchester. So has II
been with Turkey, Ireland, Jamaica, and all
other countries subjected to the British monopoly.
No country has ever prospered that had not
agriculture and manufactures as the basis Of COM
merce. When agriculture is the sole pursuit Of
people, the farmer and planter are always sell
il G their soil, exhausting the land, and wasting
their labor. Of all the States of the Union
there is none that possesres greater natural sd-
vantsges than V rginis. and yet we see her, IN
der the parslyzing influence of such q system,
gradually declining in her place In the Union un-
til, from being the first, she has already become
the fourth with the certainty that at the next
census, she will fall to the fifth or sixth, if not
even lower. To those who desire to understand
the process BY which her descent has been &C.
complished, We recommend perusal of the fol-
lowing extract from one Of Mr.. Wises recent
speeches:
~ have boast to make of virginis-a boast that
che can give the best proof of any people upon earth
that she mighty in her power and energies over any
other State, or che must have sunk long, long time
sgo far below what che now lie. The four great car
dine resources of weath-the four great cardinal pro-
ductve powers are agriculture, commerce, manufac-
tures, and mining. No State that know of upon
Gods earth has richer bowels more bountful in iron
and in god in gypsum and in salt. This has IN .de
England the most powerful nation on the earth. We
have iron ard coal for mining, and waterpower which
would turn the spindes to clothe the world gold and
iron are abundant, with all Of which We stand unr-
vailed for manufacturing msrts roads rivers, mouths
of rivers and bays which would float the naves Of the
word-eo for agriculture Of all kinds. the richest be-
meath the sun-the dark loan and the yellow clay and
limestone rock embracing degree after degree Of st-
tude, running through the middle territory OF this
coptnept-we have this all this of power and virtue,
rot surpassed by any other State Ba< ~ all the four
cardinal resoarces-ronderfI 10 tell, dsgraceful TO
teH shameful TO annousce-6u one source Of all four,
in time past, has been employed toprodace reah We
have had no work in manufacturing, and commerce
has spre ad its wings and flown from u.s. and agricu