Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-08-15

In xoTDanG 1AloEeala .a=~p~rz~,
The BASH Of the wealth Of > country
il in its agricultural products. The man
hfactsrer take the meerisl already
prodsced for bim, and Combines it 10
new brms, The manipuisrions Of chem
is.rysand de arta OILY give beauty, del
icacy, adaf,ta'on and usefulness to the
substance already In existence. The va
rioas grades of merchants and factors
are but the warehouse men to preserve
and arrange for the consumer the pro.
ducts Of agricultural labor, mechanical
artistic SIX u. The three
great interests under which the indus
try Of the world may be classified are
mutually useful and necessary. without
the other two, neither is complete.
Adyentitious suses and cOnventional us
age may give undue PrePon derance and
importance to any class, and confer a tac-
,iious honor upon any pursuit. Thus war,
ani even piracy, have 10 certain ages
and conditions of the world, rank d
higher than peace and honest industry,
and the p!undering freebooter has claim.
ed precedence over the seuf whose un
r,onted labor fed him. But though
ruth and justice may be overlaid AMI
hidden, they can never be extingu.
l,hed, or entirely forgotten. There Is
An unconc,ous and unacknOwledged
common sense which undcrlies all public
sentiment. The teudal lord deferred t.
this when he called the land by his own
name, and founded the house which
should thence be proud to identify itself
with the patrimonial acres. Of all pur-
sui,s,agriculture comes nearest IN Its re-
suits to the creation Of something which
lid not exist before. And the FAINT
resemblance which agricu.tu bears il
this to the acts which mark supreme aud
divine power invests it with dignity and
defends It's utility. All men at LIST, What
ever be their pursuit, and with what
ever iancied privileges and immnn't:ef
they are invested, must come back to
the tillcrs OF the soil for the very means
Of existence.
II is evident that the true policy O.
every nation is the encouragement OF
agriculture. 10 a political veiw the III
raj population of a country is valuable
reliable, and conservative. The decay
of a nation ALWAYS commences III it,
cities, never among its agricultural pop
ulation. The French seigneurs learned
in Paris the vices VII CHI precipitated The
first horrible French revolution. Tue
tsoman empire died OF the social gan
creme which commenced IN the City o
the Seven H lis. The present strength
and glory of En-, land IS due to her rep.
resenta,ive body, the House Of Com
nous. Aud in our own land, while thu
active metropolitan mind opens the ave
nues OF progress, political, social, and
intel ectual, the sturdy conservatism OF
the agricultural interest directly or iAdi.
rectly holds the helm.
But American farmers are not mere
ploughboy-, nor have we snvlheredta'y
class of mobiles or land holder, who's,
symp .thies are with the agricnnur Il
population, and whose leisure encoura.
re, the learning necessary to a law-g'v
.r. Our Southern ne'ghLors have some
of the benefits Of this position. Blu,
the advantages they poses are neutral
zed by several circumstances, two o.
winch only We may note as prominent
and poten ial. One Of these draw back.
Is the want of a population which, IN anv
,rae sense, may be called constituency
The Southern Representative can hardly
be said to represent his slaves, and ne'
Their does he represent freeman Who arr
non-siaveholders. Another difficulty in
the wsy Of So them agriculture, poll,i
calv considered, is the absolute author.
-uy exerted by the landholders over tho
labtrers, Sill, even with these disad
vantages, the history of our legislation
shows an abil ty and proficiency in poll
tics among the Souther: states nel
which would have moulded, to no small
degree, the dest,n,es of our country.
We have been indebted for much that is
good and excellent to our Southern com
patriots, though antagonism of VIEWS
and of interests has sometimes caused
their advocacy of measures inimicaI t.
northern prosperity now. and certain,
eventually, TO tell against the true iuteI.
es!s OF the South.
Some of the northern cities are u.s.
ualIy inclined to 60 in harmony with
the free trade, or Southern vei'v OF ma.
tional policy. There are causes for this,
entirely irrespec i've IF the merits Of the
,estions in controversy. To the con-
servatlve portion Of the North, the agri-
cultural portion, We must look for an
etfiectual solution Of the distuttd ques.
ton. One ght expect that I'll } same
influence that unites other classes would
unite our farmers. G uld they once
come to see alike, and to act together,
the industrial pursuits of tie country
would flourish, her commerce would
revive, and her agriculture take a high
or rank among the arts, and a higher
position in the State, than it has ever
known before. Even our Southern tree
.radc advocates would come, in the end,
into the convection that the encourage
ment Of domestic industry ard ant Gre a, es
the best market for the great Southern
staple.
But cotton is only one article out oil
many and is by no means the heaviest
agricultural p'oduct OF the county. Its
price this day is in no small degree due to
American competition 18th foreign man
utacturers and the greater the American
demand, the higher must be the relative
nrice. We can illustrate this nosili. N