Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-12-23
A FARMERS FREE TALK.
NJ Dsar Ned
NELSON, Dec. IS, 1861.

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Nv Dear Med
have not the "oacoe.hes scrbendi else would write
communication for the WAig the paper of all others
the most true TO my class, the agricultural To YOU
an old friend and an associate editor now of the said
paper dot dowp few ideas and fshectiors, in the
'ough that you may refine upon them you like or not
The press every where is firing at the "Extoroners,"
and bit too hot it be- provided they are sure Of
their aim. To who knows as you do feel safe
to say, few breathe who scorn and detest mean.
ness and selfshness and their first born-extortionsm
more than hence It is cannot rest under the filings
Of the press and other of what have TO cell
not that have been specially spotted understand me,
not at all.
What is extortion and who are eItortioners? The
FIRST translate: an illiberal advantage; the second
who profits by the Of his capital over the abso-
lutte necessities Of another. III have money and buy Up
salt sugar, wheat corn, meat iron leather WOOL wood
coal medicine and few other neoessaries, and hold
them and sell them for high profit. am Spectator
in its offensive sense, that is ex.oroner; but II
produce these things in the order of my regular voca.
ton, and they brig high prices by tie competition Of
consumers, am not extortioner. cultivate, gather
and send my. crop to market to my commission mer.
chant usual. If il sells low, and under the cost Of
production do tell him not take the market price
for It certainly mott Il If sell at al) for he, and
you too, would dub big fool. Do instruct him to
sell under the market price, because II Is high Cor
sny not for you and be- and everybody else would dub
me bigger fool The Lyuehburg Virgnian, (your, and
my household paper for twenty years. the farm.
err for the sin Of 40 cents pound for butter Ny dear
Virginian butter in the first place. luxury, pay for
it then in the next place, 1t s the Yankee article
Is cut of from u.s. great scarcity not half the farm
ers, should say properly, the planters Of the
ate produce enough for themselves and pork II says
at ten and twelve dollars, is outrageous. May be it ia,
a, must buy some myself; as like thousands OF other
corn planters owing to the absolute failure Of corn
crop last year, lost most of my hogs.
But, Med, do you hear much about the low price Of
wheat and tobacco the only source Of ontysd income
to the ters Of the soii Devil word And has Il ever
occurred to you that for the whole fall and winter the
army Of the Conederacy and hundreds of thousands of
others at figure positively under the cos. Of produc
ton? 1t IL an agreed fact that wheat in Eastern Viz.
gua Of late years, cannot be produced under one dol
lar per bushel nett aud how much of the hundreds Of
thousands of bushels sold in the months of Sep
TENDER and October, at so cents let your city statistics
say.
So much for ow defence. And now few words
generally. isl legislators ( slgators," as Ridg-
way used to s themt quit legatng about the price
Of anything, q Ii will make bad worse, as all history
proves We are In state Of revolution and war, and
should e1pee, these things and put up with them like
men, as best we can.
the Government wants salt for its supplies of meat
for the army let them, the legislators, give law
thorirng its agents to impress H. also wooen goods