Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-03-24

and Will and must receive that atten-
tion which her position and interests
demand. Central and Northern Iowa
and Minnesota lie within that latitude,
that may emphatically be said to be
the wheat belt of this continent. 1t
teens with that kind of product that
is necessary for human subsistence,
bread, meat and wool. 1t wants bat
the cheap facilities to get these pro-
ducts to an Atlantic and European
market. TO inaugurate the golden days
of prosperity for Iowa and the North
west. When we look over our young
and great State with such a fertile
soil, such facilities for working it, for
seeding. harvesting. and winnowing
the crops, who can give limits to the
production of our noble State, with an
increasing population, and the stimn-
lus Of a cheap transportation should
this great Ship Canal he constructed
to the Atlantic Ocean.
The statistics of New England show
that in 1860 all those States raised
bread stuffs enough to last them only
three weeks New York six months !;
while Pennsylvania was sclf-sustain-
ing, and Ohio had surplus of three
and q half millions. The same Stats
tics show that in the last decade the
decrease of bread stuffs in those States
was six and half millions of bushels,
while the increase i'm the same time
in the Northwestern States was fifty
five million of bushels.
Experience has shown to us where
we must look for q market for our
surplus products of the Northwest.
While we are in the midst Of rebel
lion, unparalleled in the history of our
race, with an army of one and quar-
Ter millions of able.bodied men, in the
various departments of our military
operations ; we feed, cloth and pay
those men from orr own resources,
without borrowing a single dollar
from any nation while at the same
time we have prevented two OF the
most powerful nations in Europe from
Interfering in our great struggle Tor
the Union, by an exhibition OF our
strength on the land and on the ocean.
while we have provided England with
the bread that was absolutely neces.
sary for her very existence.
At the commencement OF the Crime
an war, when the ports Of Russia and
Germany were closed against France
and England, we inaugurated trade
and we did not lose at the closing up
IF that war. That trade has continu-
ed and augmented, and although our
political economists had come to the
conclusion that cotton was absolutely
necessary to regulate our foreign ex-
changes We found that after the clos.
ing of our cotton ports against France
and England and all the world, that
our exports of cereals, of provisions
products of the dairy. kerosene oil and
other articles Of value, exceeded in
magnitude these articles and cotton
combined. previous to the closing up
of the cotton ports.
1t il to our foreign demand then that
we must look for a market for the i'm
mense products Of the Northwest
England in 1855 imported SO per cent
of her breadstuffs !; in 1860 80 per
cent, and there is no instance in the
history Of the human race of SD large
an accumulation of food if properly
distributed) 30 close does population
press upon the means OF subsistence.
England ia 1862. imported 10, 000, 900
bushels OF grain from the wheat ports
of the Baltic, viz: Dantzic, 10000, 00O
bushels, from Ksrtch and Odessa Oh
the Black Sea, 10000. 900 bushels
frsm British America a portion oil
which was derived from the United
States 100000 from the United
Staets, forty-three million bushels,
from other countries abost 1000, 600
bushels. Thus we see that twothirds
of the importations of England came
from the United States, notwithstand-
ing the high rates Of Railroad trans
portation. Let Congress give us a
ship canal from the Mississippi to the
Atlantic and put down this accused
rebellion, and we will command the
bread market of the world, and obtain
an influence in the destinies of Europe
that will give us a position in the
families Of nations, to which we are
entitled 10y our wealth, our energy,
our intelligence and virtue.
Then this avalanche of debt which
would now seem to overwhclm us.
will be brushed aside as cowebs from
the paths of an indomitable and ener-
getic people, pushing forward on the
high road Of wealth, power and great
ness. Then we will re-enforce the
Monroe doctrine. then we will re-es-
tablish our international maritime
rights. Then the lilies Of France aud
the lion of England will cover beneath
the proud glance of our American Ea-
gle. aud humbly apologize for the in-
suits they have offered us.