Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-02-26
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sthed, skilled labos in her midst The
Worth, because shc5ss done this, is to-.
day the superior to- tle South in the sinews
that constitute the strength of a-natiou.-
The Northern slave States, such rs Ken.
tpeky, Virginia and 4iFylspd, endowed by
nature, as they aref gith inherent great.
neEs, had they Afty yeis agoadopted such a
policy, would be nowlthe centre of Auerf.
can enterprise and sigy-their mountains
tunnelled for ores4sfleir streams driving
myrinds of spindle s-evsryl variety Of arr
aud manufacture NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
brought to high tstate Of perfection
while their pOpulatfa Of skilled artisans.
merchants, and intelligent farmers, all, COM
trtbuting to each otqrs prosperity, would
form q society on thsbasis Of direct deal.
tiuE. mt once advantageous aud enduring,
Agriculture is, AMI siways must be, the
sp1-stratum of the world. 1t produces
What people must sve to subsist on; and
hence theldevelopm,at Of our soil is of the
highest Importance but all experience
proves that the true economy, and, indeed,
the only way to bring about the highest
developmont of agritIltute, is to stimulate
by demands upon it Wherever the popu-
latioR is dense, and the employments yari-
Gus, we find,. other Ibings being equal, the
greatest products q tie soil; and for the
reason that agricultirs is governed by the
same law that regulstes the world of trade,
supPlynaudsdemahf And ,sOi nOtwith-
standing the currelt opinion, we believe
that any tariff, Which would encourage
home manufacture, while it might appear
to discriminate ngiinst the agricultural
interest, would really, in the end, be bene-
fetal to ii.
The condition of England is, in some re-
speets, exactly the opposite of ours. Eng
land is too exclusively a manufacturing
country. The resuE is population much
greater than her isSil can. sustain. This
condition of things gives her great power
abroad, and yet leates her weak at home;.
for, in times when the supplies of food
from foreign ports should fail or be cut
of, her population must inevitably suffer-,
She hns dense population who are com
PEELED to work cheap for food, or starve.-
Itis England's polf;y, therefore, to make
herself tie manafacp pFy of the world, while
America India, % shall become trib.-
utaries in supplyinf her with their solid
and substantial prtduets. THUS she is
furnishing work alIs food 70 her super
t11ous inhabitants, i,it1iit draining The soil Of
.a'ise1s'' khiei;; icriH
no such 4 policy as tilsi the legtslafi6h,
of tour tG9vernmeui.h has always, BEEN too.
much shbsertfenti Instead of .1asiine the
materials of @6iEh fs have abundance. to
create. theml We, hat preferred to e1llaust
our soil, shipping away its fertility ne eyer
to return, and drain,our banks of specie,
to buy across the Atlantic the fragile
fabrics demanded by our over refined civil
ization. When Will statesmen realize the.
fact that the economic a nation is like the
economy of family3 Those that produce
and consume their own productions are
independent and Be3ms rich. They that
depend on buying, Iecanse they can buy
cheap and always pa. cash for their cheap
bargains, will ind elentually, unless their
purse be very deep. tat their debts have
out grown their crrhits and bankruptcy
stures them, in the tae; - slstt tsss 3'
The dreadful fina4ial commissions that
agonize our land inlYcles of about every
twenty years, like tS thF6es.o of oppressed
nature that speak ofappr6achfnr disease.
should warn us ag4nst coutinuanee OF
our misguided polly. For few years
after each panic, the leople reform. They
work and nd'ecOnomise Ell u moderate degree
of prosperity crown their exertions.-
ThSh the ssdnGions pGa Grsdit lead them
into speculation ani so they expand
till they ailfgp IPWR agpiaiini 4 general
crash. And jet Ibis experience tsaches 4
us nothing. 30 long this may con.
tinue without ia u results is not easily
coRiectured. sorsmen profoundly ycrs- !
ed in the scieuct Of goyernmentj think I
that it is approacHuk q conclusion. Mr..
Henry 9, Carey, " philadelphia well
known as a G.lffsr1oSS student of govern
ment economy, has Frittsb, recently,
letter to AIR. Seward in the course Of
which he says:
In October, 1857, .belg then In London,
had conversation 1th Mr. Dallas, in
the course Of which h3tnquired Of me as
TO when the CaPitol ,whld be completed.
About the time, WIS hy reply, that the
Union shall be dissoyek 4iIsf It be dis /
solved ?---said he. tesisaid i, dissolution I
cannot fail to come Nothing can stand /
against the disintegk ktiug process of Brit /
ish free trade, infieEd upon US By the tar I
if of 1876. Undert our. population has
been scattered, pr6hctiDn has diminished /
10 its ratio to numetss and foreign rail-
road proPrietors, fceign bankers, foreign
traders aud foreign pyernments have been
becoming more anil more masters Of our