The Hillsborough recorder., 1860-02-22

lHiHtttst tlal thls must pe HeuSelugWutu
more and more the case in this States'
- The earth produces at this time as much
as is called Tor BY the home aud the foreign
marfcts; while the laboring population, not.
withstanding the emigration to the West and
Southwest, is fast increasing, Nor can we
shutour eyes to the fact that the rapid in.
crease Of the exports ot flour and tobacco from
a new and more fertile soil will be eontinu.
ally lessening the demand on Virginia for
her two great staples, and be forcing her, by
the inability to pay for. imports by exports,
to provide within herself substitutes for the
former
These important truths seem now to be
recognized by all, and, am happy to see,
are about to be acted on by the Legislature.
Virginia must turn her attention more and
more to the diyersfcation Of her industry
by the establishment of manufactures. both
to relieve the surcharge nt her agriculture,
and TO give it, in lieu of the glutted markets
Of the world, the stimulus of local markets
at home, which will diffnse around their re.
spective centres a smiling scene Of renovated
life and verdure. How would the system Of
absolute free trade, patronized by the cotton
States. accord with this condition Of things
in Virginia With one Of her staples-to-
bacc0-m0re heavily burdened with taxation
! BY foreign Governments than any production
Of the earth. and which, from the necessities
Of their systems of revenue. will continue to
be 50 burdpned, and with rising manufactur-
ing establishments of her own, could there
be an act of more suicidal rashness than for
Virginia To place herself in situation in
which king cotton by undisputed prepon-
derance IN the councils Of separate South
ern C0nfederacy. would be enabled to throw
herports wide open to the free and indiscrim-
mate admissionof the manufactures and pro.
ductions Of foreign countries. without any
regard TO her distinctive and vital inter.
ests
- glance at these things to show that in
the utopia Ol Southern Confederacy we
should have no more harmony and concord
IN some things far less-than in the grand
continental temple dedicated by our fathers
10 American unity, peace, and freedom. Let
Us be content with the noble structure which
they have bequeatbed Co US desiring neither
a sectional Convention to botch it. nor a
sectional Convention to subvert il. II evils
aticr tFom ilint 10 tlUe-anu nave no us
position to extenuate the magnitude Of those
which have fallen on us-let US seek a rem
edy for them within the Union as it is. II
i IS the peculiar felicity Of federatiye Re-
public like ours. as have already remarked,
that il affords remedies, within the pale Of
the Constitution, for the defence of the pub.
lie liberty, unknown to any other system Of
Government,
Let Us make firm and faithsli trial Of
these, and they will not fail Us. Let US not,
upon the sudden appearance of squall, or
because one or two of the crew have mutt
niesl. desert our good ship, the Constitution.
abandon our comrades, and, in a panic, be-
take ourselves 10 the crazy raft Of secession.
which will conduct Us, we know not whittier,
amid the trackless uncertainties of the ocean,
1 if not whelmed at once beneath its stormy
billews. The occasion calls for GOODNESS.
self possession, frmness-cordial and frater-
nal concert among the friends Of the Consti-
tuition aud Union every where--a calm re-
view of the past. a prnsident forecast 10 the
future. And iI.these qualities shall be brought
to the crisis, as hope and believe they will
be. we shall find in the sequel. as is often
seen in the oyerruling ways Of Providence.
that good has been edaced from evil. and
that from the nettle danger has been pluck
ed the flower safety"