The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-12-05

annually augmentug home trade to enrich and aggran
die them stood aloof from the unound operations of
which New York is the soul and embodiment, even the
comparatively few which have fallen large
houses in St. Louis would not have happened,
would we to-day have any bank suspensions to depore.
The West cannot suffer more than a temporary de.
preston for if she had other element to sustain her
and splendor than the perpetual stream OF
healthy emigration which pours her fertile fields
who duly estimate It's immense volume or nexhaus
tibe resources and morally and commercially consider
ed Look for instance to the certain consequences OF
the present general break down in the northern and
eastern commonweaths the dismissal from necessary
employment of thousands of mechanics and laborers
who now the very Threshold of their terrible win
ter thrown penness and breadess themselves and
their little ones adrt upon the face Of the earth Is
it clear can, in fact anything he certain than
that myrads of these native born countrymen and
countrywomen, will fly the approach of spring to
that fertile and bounteous country spreading in hosplt
able longitude away towards the West rather than tary
lenger in region WHERE at best, plenty is vs
tor and gnawing poverty steady guest
And when this multitude starts on its western exode
any pretend to set limits to the accessions it
will receive from every portion of oppressed and King
ridden Europe from Muscovy to Erin In this, and
in paper money, lot buying and land specuating
eastern operators, consists the guarantee for western
sol>ency and prosperity; and whether her people spend
little little less per annum for foreign lux
ures is of the smallest possible consequence her fu-
ture is assured and the happiness and fulness Of the
land secured beyond the reach of individual foes
extravaganza.
So also is it with the South her products-cotton
sugar. tobacco and rice-are necessares indispensable,
and of some she has also monopoly, and in the re-
mainder competition to alarm. For the they
may be moreor less productive stock gambling in the
north Of country and wars, civil and national
among customers may derange the usual channels
of trade to cur Disadvantage but the lesson this
head now learning will, hope and confidently
believe not be lost upon us, and in the future let
resolve that shall be made the shuttecocks
Of adventurers commercial gamblers and rufan states
men, this the other side of the Atlantic.
Let resolve and determine that products shall
bring in the markets Of the world their intrinsic value
regulated by the only fair criterion demand and supply,
and be graded to compensate for the losses of Wall
street. the Credit Mobier, the brutal love of blood
! Of the Pamerstons of England
To do this, nothing is easier, simple remedy is at
every mans hand and every adopt keep out
of debt; with our surplus money-not worthless &C.
cepanees, let increase force Of labor add to
plantations, beautify mansions, and increase
personal and household enjoyments and then, but
BEFORE shall we be able compel Manchester, Rouen
and Lowell pay the true value Of our inestmable
product and the whole world to send solid cash or ex
changeable values for all Of our disposable surplus
Ii do this, hearts will no longer shrink into
one half their natural dimensions at the mortfyine
spectacle daily presented of sacrifice of great
staple, little than half its admitted value by
those whose manufacturing necessities compel them to
purchase will any then be under the necessity
an honorable punctuaty imposes, to throw away the
equivalent of half crop merely for credit which il
based for redemption bis industry and integrity
If, we repeat, will only do this, and the West will
also on her part keep far away from her borders bogus
banks, shlnpaser currency and monopolizing specu
lator., we afford to laugh good naturedly at tn.
affected dstresses Of New York journalists over oul
consumption of imported merchandise when they arc
put to up their domestic rottenness ane
their innumerabc shams They rejoice in the con
stant watchfuness and partial vors of the federal gov
ernment we, if only in the way we have indicated
true to ourselves will be able dispense with its friend
ship and to nothing for its injustice having withir
ourselves all that is essential comfort spendor
Independence Delta.