The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-11


10 the people of the United States. and Of every
country in Christendom, q p ,riod of severe |
trial and suffering, occasioned by the scarcity |
and consequent high price of provisions, and |
by one of the most rigorc ns winters that has
beeH experienced for m'Any cycles, Providence,
in its unerring justice, and in its inscrutable
ways, comes to rake compensation to hu-
blessing the earth with more than ordinarily
fruitful productiveness. We had the grati6ca-
ton of spreading before the public in our issue
of yesterday, the cotemporaneous testimony Of
the journals throughout every part Of the coun-
try, all agreeing in the glad tidings that the
harvest promises to be one Of the most plen-
teous that has, perhaps, ever blessed the land.
From the golden fields of California, as rich in
vegetable as in mineral productions; from the
fertile soil Of the Southern States-Georgia,
Virginia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina,
Louisiana and Kentucky; from the great grain
producing States of the Michigan, Ohio,
Illinois, Missouri and Iowa; and from the less
fertile regions of New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York and Pennsy lvania, come the same
and plenty Of the grain and other crops. And
all the advices which we have received from
the European continent convey to US the like
agreeable intelligence.
The coincident accounts from all parts of the
country, of this great Righteousness, and the
very brief space Of time which has only to
elapse before the new harvest is brought into
the market have already had the effect of re-
duciDg the exorbitant famine prices at which
-four has been held; and in the course Of the
next week or two, this influence of the good
prospects will be far more conside rably deve-
lOped. In Georgia, and some others ofthe South
arn States, the new flour has already appeared,
and s.nply Of it win soon enter and affect our
market The night of want and suffering is
past, and the morning star of plenty and
prosperity has appeared above the horizon.
Let us exhibit our gratefulness for these bless
ings, by showing that we know how to appre-
ciate and nationally enjoy them. The past
year has taught severe lesson of the madness
of extravagant living, and of unhealthy expand
ed speculation. That lesson should not soon be
forgotten. 1t commends itself as well to the
residents of Fifth avenue, the Wall street finan-
ciers, and the large commercial traders of the
city and country, as it does to the humble me-
chanic, the toiling artisan, and the salaried
clerk. 1t is the duty Of wise man to be coun-
selled by experience; it is The province of
fool to reject the counsel.
The bountiful harvest which is about to bless
the land will do much more than relieve the
misery which the famine prices of the last
twelve months have occasioned. It will enrich
the whole country, and give that impetus to
trade and commerce which is necessary to re-
pair the disasters recently experienced. Not
withstanding that the countries of Europe ap-
pear to be similarly blessed with ours
In the matter Of good crops, still will the
Western portion of the continent, at least, be
compelled to depend upon US for supply of
grain, pork and other produce. The shores of
the Black Sea, on which they were accustomed
to rely for supplies of food are now, and will
probably long continue to be, Theoretically
sealed against them. The immense armies now
in the field or camp, to the aggregate number
of a couple of millions of men, will soon ex
haust the granaries of Europe; and it is the
American continent which must supply the de-
felt. The capital thus brought into the coun-
try will necessarily increase the prosperity of
the United States, agricultural and commercial,
and tend to develope still more its resources.
We only now need to be true 10 ourselves, to
tread out every disorganizing political element,
to exhibit the attitude Of great and free PEG.
pie, proud of and deserving the name of re-
publicans, and we will present to the admir-
ing gaze Of the world powerful community,
unaffected by the mad wars of despots, pro-
crossing in the ways of peace, enlightenment
and prosperity. So may it be!