Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1860-05-10

extending from the Gulf Of Mexico to the
Canadss, and from the Atlantic TO the Pacific
ocean, contains a variety Of soil and climate
better adapted to the growth and develops.
ment Of all articles necessary for the use Of
man, than sny other land upon which the
sun shines. The laws Of our ciimste and
soil forbid Us from becoming wholly nation
Of either cotton, sugar or tobacco planters,
or Of wheat, corn or wool growers, or OF
cattle, mule and horse rsisers. Benefcent
nature has clearly intended that we should
be oil these, and more. She has diversified
the industry Of almost every Stale OF our
great conlederacy, and seems 70 have de-.
signed as Mr. Jefferson wrote, in renuncis-
tion Of some OF his earlier theories, that the
great capabilities Of the county should be
placed side by side.' and that 'ss a people
all foreign nations" These suggestions of
nature have not been realized in our roiit.
ical economy. .r -"
The cotton and sugar planters possessing
almost complete control OF great and pc
cuiar branch Of the industry Of the country,
finding market for their productions in
foreign countries, have though, it most TO
their interest to msks war upon the manu-
featuring interest OF the Don-cottoD and
sugar States, so as to break them down and
drive their thousands of employees into the
producing Of bresd-tuffs and other farm pro-
ducts, and thus oy increasing the growth
of wheat, corn, oats end cattle, TO cradle
,i I'D Ia CO. Lac in 0 hair
suppl lies of breadstufs at the lowest rates
on a Northern and Western market in
which themselves would be the only pur-
chasers. In other words the theory Of the
Of the cotton and sugar planter has been,
that the less diversified the industry Of the
non cotton and eugar States, the more the
people Of these States would be thrown back
upon agricultural pursuits, and the greater
the number Of the people thus emp Dyed the
cheaper could supplies Of breadstuiis be had
for the sustens nee Of a elsve population
whose labor could be more proftably EN-
| ployed in raising cotton and sugar than in
raising breadstufs. To such ccurse--so
inmical to the best interests Of our own and
go many other Stctes. the Republican party
is opposed. Its policy here as elsewhere is
to encourage the white labor of the country
| by building up manufactures, and TO favor
the devolopement of the mechanic arts by a
proper and jtdicious tariff of duties en- for
eign goods. Such policy would develope
the sleeping resources Of this our own State
as well as of other States; would give white
labor just and renumerative reward, and
would supply to our growers of wheat, corn
and oats, and our raisers Of stock, demand
for their products at their own doors.
Out of this aggression Of the Cotton and
Sugar growing interests upon the rights o,
white labor, has grown the present antago.
nism between the two great parties of the
country. The capital o. the cotton and sugar
planter consists OF peculiar kind Of prop
erly, viz: the right to the labor Of Slaves
This property he claims should be protected
and fostered at the expense OF al. other kind:
o: property, and that the rights, the inter-
ests, and the very labor Of the white man
should be made subservient to it. Now ths
Republican party is an organization estab
ished for the protection Of the persona
rights of our citizens, as well as the right'
of property, and we hold that one OF thu
chief objects of our laws and Constitution
is TO prevent the one from encroaching up
= on the rights of the other. Neverthe less
here in Virginia, as in othor parts Of tn,
United States, we have suffered under tn
steady, yearly increasing encroachments o
f the Slave capital upon the personal right
of the laboriDg white man. The non-slave
. holding farmers, mechanics and workingme
d of Western Virginia are oppressed an
weighed down with ,txaiions for the oenef
OF Eastern Virginia Slave capitalists, merel
because they have the political power an
choose to exercise its tyrsnnies wi,hou
=, mercy. Capital in the shape OF Slaves, IN
d der our Virginia (so-called) Democratic leg
slatiou, is made to pay but about $500 90
n toward the expenses Of the State, whereas
a il it was taxed as other capital is, it woul
be made to contribute al least 81 500 ,0oC
:. The products of the Slave labor of Virgni
!. consisting altogether Of Tobacco, Corr
wheat and Oats, are exempt, 100, from taa
alton, whilst the products Of the white lsbt
n of the -Slaveholdiug part of the Stat'
consisting of cattle. hogs, sheep, &C.. al
, made to contribute largely to the Stat
d treasury. With this and other resources s
unjustly derived from the white laborin
Il men of western Virginia, our Eastern VII
,r ginia Slave capitalists have construett
canals and interlaced their part of the Stat
?. with railroads, and are thus enabled at o,
d expense to carry off their productions
Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, &C., to a seabor
r. market; whilst the West having no seaboal
ar coast, and no railroad facilities supplied !
her BY the State is compelled to feed b
ID products to heavily taxed Stock in order
R get them carried to a purchaser. So III
although corn and oats, for the benefit
B Eastern Virginia slave capitalists, are e
I'd empt from taxation, yet so soon as they q
made here in the West to assume the for
' of Stock they are heavily taxed. Tho ia
n mer in Eastern Virginia raises little or
sto * because he finds it more profitable
the railroads and canals built before his do
:" to send his grain to market. instead OF, III
" the Western farmer, being compelled TO fe
his grain in order to drive i, 20 point whe
If it will find purchaser. Whilst, also, 4
TO slave underI2 years Of age, by these sar
10 miscalled Democratic rulers of Viiginia.