The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-19
NUMBER 13S.
STATE LEGfsLAT1oN.

manufacturing and other industrial interests
OF our people. While would by no means
advocate the adoption of selfish and exclu
siVe State policy, that might in any manner
conduce to the injury of our sister States, it
IS still my firm belief that we should bcstow
our best energies upon home affairs, and paw
less attention to matters abroad, which less
intimately concern us in our ocapacity of
State citizens. There is no conflict here be-
tween State interest and national patriotism
1T IS my conUiction, often expressed before
and strengthened 6y ny experience abroad
that the hope of perpetiating our isstit,1t;ons
and Of gtUing peace to all our diversified and
conflicting interests rests upon the ladoption
OF such a system of State Legislation as shall
tend more and more to the deuelopment of The
internal and natural resources of the several
members of our happy Union. o q 81
ENLARGEMENT OF HOME MASuFAcrURxs.
1t should be the policy of our States to
make more at home, and to buy less abroad.
We should diversity our pursuits, and make
1t our aim not only to raise cotton and wool
as raw material, but to manufacture it at
home, instead of sending it abroad. to buy
1t back again at higher price than it would
cost US to manufacture it ourselves. It is
obvious, that to Indiana, where coal is plen-
tifuL, where provisions are cheap, and where
railroads afford rapid and convenient means
of communication with other States II
would be far more profitable TO buy or raise
the raw material and convert it ourselves
into manufactured goods than 10 send both
material and provisions to an eastern wafer.
power or an English coal field. The same
principle should apply to every State in the
Union. In illustration of the working of
the opposite policy, take any six of our
North Western States, which have expended
nearly as much capital in railroads within
the last fifteen years, as Great Britain has
invested in machinery for the manufacture
of cotton goods, and compare the relative
results. See what her labor and machinery
have enabled her to accomplish with the
raw material, which we have supplied her
looms with Her vast commercial revenues
have enabled her to carry on her conquests,
to extend her empire, besides adding millions
to her internal wealth. Well may she ex-
claim, Z" Cotton is King I"
:, Why should we linger in the rear of such
enterprise We should discard the errone
GUS, but too prevalent opinion, that selling
the raw material abroad, in any form, will
accrue to the substantial advancement of
one section of our country over another
Our common interests cannot be divided
The farmer, whose lands produce corn and
wheat, whose Hocks supply the wool mar
ket, the planter, whose fields whiten with
the cotton harvest, the merchant and the
mechanic, and the daily laborer, are all
alike interested in the home manufacture of
cotton and WOOL to say nothing of other
branches of industry. From mutual pros
perity, we reap mutual benefit. The burden
of insurance, storage, freightage on grain,
cotton or wool on their WAY to market does
the profits, are shared by all in the end
and each is therefore interested in the pros
perity OF the other and all are interested
in the home manufacture of the raw ma
terial which our country produces, not alone
for home consumption, but for sale abroad.
1t will be an auspicious day for the West,
and especially for Indiana, when we shall
send the results of our labor abroad, in a
more condensed form than at present, and
apply our immense wealth of coal, and
other mineral resources, to the purpose of
home manufactures, and home consumption
in other ways.
OUR INTERCOURSE WITH THE soUra.
We cannot look indifferently upon the
completion of the great Northern and South
ern lines of railroad, which must nev;4ably
affect the character of our trade and COM
merce, and the intercourse of the different
sections of our country. Now, as we say
out West we travel to New York on the
line of the Irish potato, in the same latitude,
mingle with people who follow the same
pursuits with US, and for the most part cul-
| tivate the same articles which we do. But
/ when the mentioned lines of railroad are
complete, and we can reach New Orleans,
| Charleston, and Savannah, in as short a
| time as we now reach the Eastern cities,
each hour as we fly along, we shall breath
in new atmosphere, at every meal partake
of some new luxury, and mingle with our
brethren whose pursuits and occupations
differ essentially from our own. And who
can yet foretell the consequences of this in
tercourse-thousands of our Southern friends
passing their summers on the shores of ouI
beautiful Northern lakes, and we in return
spending our winters upon the Atlantic
coast of the South. Our noble rivers run
southwark, bearing their millions Of com
merce annually, and when, in addition tc
this, we enjoy the facilities afforded by cheaI
and rapid railroad communication, we sure
, " cannot remain uninterestedss observers o
each others prosperity or adversely. Fol
lowing the products of our industry to th,
great markets, having frequent personal IN
tercourse with those with whom we ex
change our commodities, we shall inevita
bly, learn to estimate each other more fairly
and it requires no prophetic gift to forese
5 that the best of consequences must follow
from such an interchange between the tw
f great sections of the country, the North an
! the South.
d | DIRECT TRADE FROM TIE LAKES TO EURoPI
D But if we must send our raw materis
: abroad to be manufactured and sent back I
: US, let us do it as directly and prohtabiy 6
= the nature of the case will admit l W:
!. pleased to learn from our late able Consul (
e Hamburg, James R. Mcdonald, that tt
y good people of that city were somewh,
y astonished the other day, by the novel sigf
e of a Yankee schooner, from Clevelan
1t Ohio, with cargo of wood, lying at &c
e man wharf. The true western captain, a
e though he had never seen salt water befor
Is had made the trip from Quebec to Englar
y in seventeen days-the quickest passage c
IS record. There was cargo of walnr
N hickory, cherry, curly maple, ash and 9th
L varieties from our boundless forests. Th'