Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-01-14

manufacturers" still richer Sensible and sagaeiOuS
wasn't it, With mountains full Of iron and coal did the
as,ue politicians Of Virginia aud other States ever
think OF onrCbng their States by working themg Not
ia the 1ast They were intent upon edpphag the IRON
interests Of Pennsylvania, Their business was free
trade aud sailors rights though they had no sailors
with without rights, and the only trade they had
trade with the hated monoposs theywere perpetu
ally denouncng. They, and those who acted with them
carried on a cheap warfare Of words about principles,
the chief effect Of said principles being to keep their
States and people poor possible, and those whom
they opposed spendidly opuent The iayorite themes
Of discussion with the politicians referred to were State
rights, the tariff and the right of secession. At the
time, their people sending millions to the
North annually buy shoes clothing, the products OF
mills and iron fOundries
The product Of the iron works alone of the United
states is worth about fifty million dollars per annum and
these works chiefly in the non-saveholdng States
Several Southern States abound in iron and coal and
could sustain iron works upon large scale as well as
the Northern States. Some of them commencing
the good work Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee taking
the lead They nothing, however, when compared
to the iron works of the Northern States.
The New England shoe trade amounts to about TWEEN
ty-fye million dollars per aunum, and this heavy sum
comes principally from the South. Yet tue South has
the hides and could make her shoes easily enough
sending thrift, wealth, sefreliauce and independence
throughout her borders The politicians, however, gno-
ring these great practical truths aul facts and many
more Ike Them have had their ewes fixed upon the
rights Of the South in the Territores'-ino which she
would not because She could not 90 there were forty
Territories awaiting her for the that she has
abundant and more profitable employment for every ne
gro upon her own soil at home Now at the first alarm
Of danger the injurious and disastrous effects and ten
jeucy OF this political philosophy are most apparent
The popular mind sees clearly that must be discarded
Necessity requires it, and the great Wing system ofhomc
industry secprotecon, thorough sefrelance, becomes
40 once the only salvation for the South Thus through
tue bitter school Of experience has she been led 10 EN-
brace Wing principles in fact if not in name cardinal
necessities in the day of trial The Wings told the PEG
pe the TRUTH truths that uupalaabe at the time
and the people rejected Them has been the many
time aud off in the history of the world; but those
truths have at last indicated themselves and their pro-
mugaors and the fOrmcr and all Of the latter that ar,
,n stand to-day upon high anu impregnabe ground
The people everywhere throughout the South clam
orag for the immediate Inauguration of the great Wing
system Of home Industry and practical industrial iudepen
ience.
TIL, subject naturally suggests some interesting reaec
lions upon the nature Of parties and the party struggles
of this country, which for the presen; we leave With ON
readers