New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-09

Syria and Egypt, reeists decay for centuries. The
dwellings thus constructed are most healthy, being I'M
pervious 10 heat, cold, damp, and wind
The climate Of the Great Plains IL favorable TO
health longevity intellectual ard physical develop-
mtnt and stmuative of exalted tone Of social civ
ilization and refinement. The American people and
their ancestral European people having dwet for many
thousand years exclusively in countries of timber and
within the region Of the mime atmosphere; where
Winter annibiaies all vegetation annually for bali the
year where all animal food mns be sustained, led,
and iattened by tage with the pow; where the rs.
senal necessities Of existence food, clothing, fuel and
dwellings, are secured only By constant and intense
manual toll why, to this people heretofore the I'm,
mense empire OF pastoral agriculture at the thresnoio
Of which we have arrived, has been as compieteya
blank s was the present condition of social develop
ment on the Atlantic Ocean and the American Cohu-
to the ordinary thoughts Of the antique ireeks
and Romans! Hence this immense world OF plans anu
mountains, occupying three-ffths of continent so
novel 10 them and exactly contradictory IN every
feature to the existing prejudces routine ana econ
omy of society, is unanimously pronounced an uh-
habitabe desert. To any reversal OF such judgment,
the unanimous public opinion the rich and poor, tne
wise and ignorant. the famous and obscure, agree 70
oppose unanimously a dogmatc and universal deaf
ness. 10 them the dclneaions OF traveers elsewhere
intelligent are here tinged with lunacy the science OF
geography is befogged the sublime order OF Creation
no longer hods and the supreme engineering OF doa
AT fault and chaos OF blunders q,
The PASTORAL REGION is longitudinal Inc oulk OF
it is under the Temperate Zone, out of which it runs
into tie Arctic Zone the north and into the Tropical
Zone on the south. The parallel Atlantic arabic md
commercial region TANKS it on the east that OF the fa
cGc Oh the west The Great Plains then, at sep
araie ard bind together these tanks rounding out ooh
the variety and compactness Of arrangement in the ee-
nentary details of society, which enables continent
10 govern self with the as Ii single city.
Assuming, then, that the advancing column OF prog.
RES having reached and established itself in force all
along the front of the Great Plains from Louis
lana to Minnesota having. also jumped over and
hanked them to occupy California and Oregon assum-
ing that this column about to debouch upon them 10
the front aud occupy them with the embodied impulse
of our thirty millions Of population, heretofore scat
tered upon the TANKS, but now conyergng INTO phanx
upon the center: some reflections legrmaely made,
may cheer the tmid aud confirm those who hesitate
from old opinion and the pre- udices OF adverse educa-
ton.
II is well established that six-tenths of the food of
the human family is ought to be, animal food, the
result OF pastoral agriculture. The cattle OF the world
consume eight times the food per head, AS compared
with the human family. Meet, milk, butter, cheese,
poultry eggs wool leather honey the productions
of pastoral agriculture. Fish is the spontaneous pro-
duciion of the Nneenths of the labor of ara
bic culture il expended produce the grain and grasses
that sustain the present supplies TO the world OF the
above enumerated articles of the pastoral order II,
then, a country be found where pastoral produce
is spontaneously sustained by nature as fish in the
ocean il is manifest that arabic labor, being reduced 70
the production of bread food only may coudense itself
to very small percentage OF It's present volume, ana
the cultivated ground be greatly reduced IN acres
At present the pastoral culture Of the American peo-
'ND
amount:
Csae of all kinds. go
1s3s1o
Swine,
Value. ........,........ ftSoSS5o9S
1t is probable that the aggregate aboriginal stock OF
the Great Plains still exceeds in amount the above Ia
ble 1t is all Spontaneously supported by nature, as
is the fish of the Every kind Of our domestic AM.
mails Aourshes upon the Great Plains equally well
with the wild ones. Three tame animals may be sub
stitued for every wild one and vast territories reoc-
cuped from which the wild stock has been extermi.
mated by ndiscrminate slaughter and the increase OF
the wolves.
Tie American people are about them to naugurate
new and immense order of industrial production:
PASTORAL AGRICULTURE. Its fields will be the Great
Plains intermediate between the oceans. Once COM
menced, it will develop very rapidly. We trace IN
their history the successive inauguration and system
attic growth Of several Of these distinct orders: The to-
bacco culture the rice culture the cotton culture the
immense provision culture Of cereals and meats leather
aud wool The gold culture, Dav CATION external and In
ternal commerce external and internal, transportation
by land ard water, the hemp culture, the fisheries
manufactures.
Each of these has arisen az time has ripened the ne
ccssity for EACH and noiseessy taken and filled its APP
propriate place in the general economy of our indus
trial empire.
This pastoral property transports itself the hoof
and finds its food ready furnished by In these
elevated countries fresh meats become the preferable
food for man, the exclusion Of bread, vegetables
and sailed articles. The atmosphere of the Grea. Plains
is perpetuay brilliant with sunshine, tonic, healthy,
and inspiring TO the temper IL corresponds with and
surpasses historic climate Of Syria and Arabia,
from whence we inherit all that is ethereal and refined
in system Of civilization religion, sciences,
alphabet, numerals written Ian yuages
articles of food learning and system Of social
manners.
The views presented by the author on the physi-
cal geography Of the vast region which he describes
are for the most part, peculiar to himself, but if
he fails to make prOselytes to bis opinions il viii
not be for the want of urgent advocacy.
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