The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1864-09-14
From the Daily Confederate.

We give place. 10 the communication
OF" Farmer" and dissent totally from his
reasoning and conclusion as applicable to
the present coodition Of the country, or the
present state of things.
The quotation from Sidney Smith embo-
dies tissue Of lallacies, even in its appli-
cation to England. for which locality alone
It was written, and 10 which alone il was
intended to be applied; for. in England.
OF all countries, il is fixed fact, that Far
mers " dn have the power. and do exercise
il, 10 ix the price Of corn and before the
opening OF the North western granaries,
the farmer of England being without RI
val, held the people at command unre-
strained. so long as he could force public
and private charity TO do its work of keep.
ing down the pernicious riots, that at once
begin when bread is withheld.
But it Sidney Smith was correct in his
assertion of general principle, it ought
not to escape Farmer" thai his principle
is applicable to couatries in normal. not
in Al abnormal State. The great rror of
men in our day is. that they have failed to
Consider that we are eggaged in war for
existence and the physician would be as
wise who administered the diet of health
:oa patient in raying fever, as the meta
| physician who endeasors to apply the rules
which guyern nations in time Of peace, to
sin the revolutionary crisis through which
we are passing.
Farmer may lay The flattering JUNCTION
20 his soul, that "the most benevolent, the
must Christian, and the must profitable
conduct the farmer can pursue. is to sell
his commodities for the highest price he
can possibly obtain.' and may reyeI in the
enjesment which this exquisite solace af-
fords, when the poor are staring famine IN
the face all around but what will become
Of his comfort, when he comes to find that
these highest prices have flooded the
land with currency-beggared by It's re-
dundancy-worthies by the very imitation
which /" Farmer" has necessltated by his
"most benevolent. most christian and most
profitable conduct;' when this inordinate
imitation recolls upon his government, ia
be met By corresponding taxation, with al
the attendant evils when this burden be-
comes more grleyous; or else, when stag
gering under the recall, repudiatiou, with
all its blishting influence on morals aud
credit. national and individual, shall come
We do not mean TO be disrespectful Il
Farmer" personally, but We are SO vel
convinced Of the deep importance Of thu
subject, that we cann0t withhold the ex.
pressioh of our opinion, that the reckless
inordinate prices-the speculation aud ex
tortion-are doing more TO day. to retard
peace, to prolcng the war. 10 aid the enc
my. % endanger the nation-than the Yam
kee armies with their bullets and bayonets
Aud our soldiers will light battles in vain
failure, lanen,able. ignonipious failure
vii. be our doom, nnless some radica
change is effected in the people. " h
turner's are ivise and patriotic. they ,rN sc
fhe Example.
The communication of a" Farmer" which DIRE,
forth the above icm1rks Of the Confederate, 10 bosts
up the po-ilioi which be takes. commences with
quotation Eom sidney smith, an English writer
Political Economy. he then proceeds as fOllOws:
Smith knrS, as every man Of common
sense knows. that high prices stimulate
production. And !" il happens very beau
tfully," that The farmer cannot hoard il h
would. Should he attempt il, the weesi
would destroy his grain. and the worms hi
meat. 10 me il is as paia as day, tha
/. the true policy OF our government and th
non -produc classes, is to encourage i
every way the raising oi provisions; 70
it is universally true, that whatever ]
abundant must be cheap. And this remar
applies most emphatically to bread an
meat, on account Of the impossibility q
long preserving them. II the former rails
, ed but half crop Of corn, he gets ten do