The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-01
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A correspondent writing from Cleveland,
senunerates some Of the evidences Of the
material wealth Of the State Of Ohio:
In looking over the census Of Ohio find
one item referring to sheep and wool which
is interesting. Twenty years ago l was ac-
quaintcd with whole townhship that raised
hardly wool enough to make stockings for
the people. Thousands Of farmers did not
consider it possible for them to raise wool
enough to c!othe their families, much less to
make it large, easy and profitable business
to raise wool for the market. Thus the
counties Of Licking, Franklin, Delaware
and Muskingum paid but small attention to
this business but it has become great bu-
siness. Licking county in 1850 sold over
100000 lbs. Of wool.
This business probably brings into the
State yearly at least $4,000, 900, probably
$3,000,000. Very great pains and expense
have been incurred to get the most profita-
BILE breeds Of sheep, and their circulation
has received great impulse frcm the State
and County Fairs, which are, most zealously
prosecuted in every part of the State. SO
great business has this become that agents
from New Jersey, New York, Boston, Low
tons, scour the State to purchase WOOL
1t is said that some of the finest feeces rails
ed in this country came from Ohio. have
seen in Licking county some as fine feeces
and as beautiful focks ms on the hill sides Of
Vermont and New Hampshire. Ohio is
great State in whatever she undertakes; and
among other things has done good thing
in raising near 100000 Of sheep to 2,000,-
600 hogs.
1t strikes one with wonder to consider
that all the pioneers of Ohio are not yet
gone, and yet free labor in less than seventy
years has cleared away the heavy forests
from no less than 100000 of acres, worth
the astonishing sum of $685., 200, 900; that
these farms are sustaining live stock, in the
shape of horses, cows. oxen, beeyes, &C., to
the amount of over 1914, 000, 600; that these
freemen, on farms on which slave never
struck blow, are raised every year IA $780,
900 bushels Of wheat, 59,000,000 of Indian
corn, IL, SOC, 900 of oats, 1880, 900 pounds
of tobacco, and as many pounds of wool;
5000, 900 bushels Of potatoes, orchard fruits
to the amount Of sos 900; $4,000 or 100,
600 of wine, 34,000,000 pounds of butter,
81 100000 pounds of cheese, 1,500, 900 tons
of hay, &c. The Buckeye State will do
very well. She>is quite proud of her great
ness, and has reason to be. Free labor has
sent her ahead of Kentucky and Virginia,
and free labor is enabling her to maintain
her pre- eminence. Well done, brave, free
Ohio, well done!
In contrast with this picture, read the fol-
lowing about
The POVERTY OF VIRGINIA.-For some
time past, as every consumer knows to his
cost, the most Enormous prices have been
paid for the necessaries Of life in the mar
kets of Richmond-many of which, to the
Of our farmers, have been supplied
by the North. Northern hay in bales has
ranged from 81 25 to 81 IS per 100 pounds;
Irish potatoes from 81 so to 50 per bushel.
butter from IS to so cents per pound. and
other articles in oportion-most of them
from the Worthwhile we have the finest
country lying south and west of the metrop-
oils, and penetrated by canals and .rail-
roads.
Northern hay absolutely finding its way
into the very gorge of the Blue Ridge Noun
tains for the food of horses employed upon
the canal This is lamentable fact. Let
our trainers reform the course of trade alto
gcther. They can do it if they will.
When will this dear old State of ours,
with her boundless resourres-alway gallant,
generous and disinterested-b but alas too
careless of her best intercsts-when riW she
achieve her own Independence, and resume
that rank in the confederacy she might so
easily attain ?--Richmond Whiq.
This question is easily answered. 1t was |
answered by her own statesmen fifty years
ago. 1t has been answered by her most in |
selligent citizens thousand times since. 1t
can be answered, and the answer demonstra-
ted, by any intelligent observer Of cause and
effect, whether in or out of Virginia. That |
State, no more than any other locality, can
reach its highest attainable rank, SO long
as it fosters the elements of decay, and
clings to an institution whose very touch is |
moral and physical death. Slave labor ex-
hausts the soil as it eneryates the people. Ii
has not single renovating property, but is
all evil, only evil, and that continually: Vir-
ginia "will achieve her own independence
when she shakes off her incubus of involun-
tary Servitude; not before. Free labor is
the only source Of real wealth. No country
can permanently prosper which rests solely |
upon the labor of slaves. Its decay sooner
or later is as verbal us fate.
What humiliasing revelation is here given
Of the helplessness, poverty and imbecility
Of the Old Dominion /! 1t is not merely true
that every ream of paper, every yard OF cot
ton, every gross of buttons and every paper
Of pins, as well as every steam engine and
every bale of broadcloth, used in Virginia,
is imported from the North but she de-
perds on the State of Maine for the hay her
canal horses consume in the Blue Ridge
upon the State of Pennsylvania for every
pound of butter used in the city of Rich
mond, and upon Ohio for every bushel of
potatoes eaten upon the Atlantic border =
And yet Virginia claims the highest place
for herself among the confederated States
and clings with the infatuation of insanity,
to the source of all her poverty and embecil-
ity, and her blindness, for remedy for
their helplessness-when that remedy is so
palpable as to be felt by every man out of
the State who has sense enoug to cultivate
a spear of grass or to raise peck of pota-
toes.-Albany Ere Journal. -..
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