Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-01-14

4. Z. p2!as ~ eenfs een each. -. nonvF1tBs
The 11s.., Abllity i!!y Of ths latten to pay.lt.
- 49, 9 DkBts 4 $500 -
i !. + From The N Is york Post, ir
i In his recent message Governor Seymour
repeats what he had Already enlarged npon
IN his speechin this city before the Novem. .
Der elections-his fsaFs that we are an.
preaching national bankruptcy. The Lou
don Times, .which taE6s Ssymohfss view OF
our affairs generally has also pt6Bhesied
repeatedly that nov, and now, and now,
the great collapse is coming. But We still
go on; and for Governor Seymours COM
Tort, and the peace of mind of those abroad
ana al nome who share his,trepidation, we
propose to exhibit a portion of the national
assets, in order to maka it evident thai the
unIonthas still promising future.
VI course We do not mean to approve
Wssteful expenditures or the, careless &C.
7cumulation of public debfst; we do not
mean to say that economy is not as much a
Yiape With nations as ttiis with ind Jidn-
alsi; AhdlWe haVe noSinttnifon d. sboRin1
that BECAUSE our resources are tabundsnt.
We oughF to continne The Wal r ION 9 eEmohefnt
! -bdSondNthe Amesin Whichn sAu ABSOLUTE
NECESSITY. Bpt as Governor Seymour has
intimrsted his purpose to break do4n the
hpancial asiWell as the political policy of
the government it isAprOper to show how
little real ground he hiss for his assumed or
exaggerated terrors. : q ,a.,'.. e.
When people talk ofIouF national bank
ruptcy they ought to remember at least
that the territory of the. United States is
larger than that of all Europe; and that ii
IS not only compact, but united by lakes,
canals, rivers and railroads. We have no
mi !. L
TWO oceans our land is all within the
temperate zone, and, to pse. t6s words; 81.
Mr. Robert j. Walker, in a recently-pub-
lished letter on HAmerican Finances and
Resources, Eho empire OF contiguous ter.
Fitory possesses esisuch a variety of climate,
sPilEtorests and praiFies, ,fTgttsaud,6 ,6sheties,
fdfat pro ducts. bur son and climate are
SO far superior 70 those of Europe, that our
country Incapable Of yielding more than
double the amount of food and Substituting
more than twice The population Of Europe.
Mr.. Walker says;at'If az we'll cultivated as
England, it could much more than feed
and aelothe. the whole. population of the
world, IfAs .densely settled as EnpIapd.
our population would be more than twelve
hundred millions-exceediag that OF all the
earth. II as denselY settled as Massachu-
setts (among the least fertile of. all our
sstpates). we should number 513, 100000 in
habltantsfii ..sIaJr NOT o.. II
I'VE have maritime coast line Of 6,I2O
miles, or, if We count all the indentations,
of !a33 1853 miles. The Mississippi and its
tributaries have shore line, abovetide-
water, Of 35,664 miles; and our entire shore
and coast line, mote than half of which is
navigable by steam, counts up to, l22, 1884
miles. mo eountry,p says Mr.! Walker,
whose fgnres.we are quoting, sis arterial-
lZed by such a vast. system of navigable |
,fiEefsta e on which fs already employed an
interior steamI tonnage exceeding that of
all the rest of the world. Europe cannev
have such cheap water trhnspor tati6n as
FeIepjoy. ehaVemore deep, capacious,
safe iharborsi accessible at; all tides, than
all EUROPE" we have more, timber than
all Europe, we have nearly six Thousand
miles of canals completed; have builtsince
1923 81, ,69si miles of Eailroad-more than
all the rest Of the world, have more miles
of telegraph line in operation tbAnSall. the
rest Of the world. We.have more light
hou5es, on our Coasts than any other coun-
Try boasts-apd as : 1Ir. Walker remarks,
Writing fof Englishmen,s we charge no
lpht.fi dues - p ~ ~ - = - is isSS
Finally, we have a greater extent of min.
eral deposits than ell EnFope.p Our coal
fields are.0f thirty two times eteatet extent
than those ioft England Ireland and Scot
land our gold fields are the richest in the
world, and the newly discovered deposits
are declAEed to De ttinexhaAstibte;n We
have also the rithest silver mines in the
world; and besides these, itoh in the
greatest abundance of the best quRliti6s-
as have discovered since the, war broke
ont; the greatest copper mines known; as
also one Of the tRolgT quicksilYeF mines
(which supply the WoTldI The mines Of the
pFecI9us metals are nearly, alt on govern
ment lands, and their value is- s6great that
with them alone we could pay our public
debt. fL 81 A,NA 81 - O5S
More than this-aud to igi1eivaIueIto ell
these 'elenle lentgi Of prosperity Ne have
abnpdaRee OF acbsAh and fertile lands,
which 4he pOorIOf all countries TO
our shores; We hAye. .setools everywhere 10
educate their chIldfen, and make Of Them
industrious aauds intelligent citizens; We
Of OFFER liberty and equal ights to all who
come; aud the temRt ton Is so great that
the industrious poor Of Bnrope arc pouring
20 our sh6res b5 thousands IN the midst of
civil war. Such Immigration MAJ Mr..
Walker remarks Is dinopulation:
Iiand eshDNR that assnming the value of
bthes labor OFF each man woman khd)cbild
TO be but Sl00-qae tbIfd OF what il is in
tass& &ch1sett Wolld make ia tan Years,
If We receive 200, ,oO6 emigrants each wear,
An aeeumulated kaih Of of9F ST l,0o6, ,0k ,0OOs
2TherGareRo eigns of bankruptcy here;'
the asset s.arslso e1urnolsly greateri ithan