Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-09-16
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our war power. But will again quote Mr..
Wells he says Sc since the termination of
the war over five thousand miles of new rail-
road have been constructed and opened for
use in the United States, to say nothing of
the lines in the southern states which have
been restored and re-opened.'-
Gentlemen, when you hear US who are
business men complaining of dullness and
stagnation, please refer to the tables of the
comparative receipts of several Of the great
railroads which ale given week by week in
the Financial Chronicle, and when you see
how they increase year by year, although
rates are lower, ask who exchanges all these
commodities on which the freight is paid
and then consider whether the use of paper
money may not have induced too many men
to engage in exchange, or to become traders
rather than producers.
AGRICULTURE MORE PRODUCTIVE.
Fourth-The agricultural products of the
United States have steadily increased both
in quantity and value since the termination
of the war, and the product of agriculture
increased in quantity all through the war.
We are rapidly restoring the number of ami
mails, both horses and cattle, to their normal
proportion. 1t may be that this year the
crop of grain will be in full proportion to
what it would have been had there been no
unnatural forced stimulus to manufac-
lures by which labor has been diverted from
agriculture.
THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Fifth-Let us glance at the condition of
the South. 1t is alleged that the reconstruc-
ton plan of Congress has been failure
Let us test it by economic results. 1t is al
legged that the South has been ground down
under a military despotism that there has
lib tl,,S bo I'd
lastly that they have had no capital. The
last allegation we will admit, because we
know that the tendency of northern capital
to the South has been checked by It's insecu-
rity. The crops of this year are, therefore,
free from mortgage, for no one would trust
planter this last spring.
Now let us see what is the result. If the
South has had neither labor nor capital
their crops must be the spontaneous produc-
ton ofnature, and they have
First-An annual supply of food for the
consumption of the whole population, say
5000. 100 TO II 900 900.
Second-A crop of cotton which promises
to equal or to exceed that of last year, which
has been proved by the investigation of our
Cotton Manufacturers association to have
been nearly or quite 5000, 900 bales, or
much more than the compIler5 of the COM
mercial tables viii admit and more than
three-flths the largest crop ever raised be-
fore.
THRILL crop Of rice which the Charles
ton Daily NewS asserts will prove sufficient
to drive all imported rice out OF the home
market during the coming year.
Fourth-50 to 100 600 tierces of sugar.
Fifth-A crop of tobacco SO large as to
make it one of our main dependencies as an
article to be taxed.
THEY ARE RICH ALREADY.
In short the South has a salable surplus
of the aggregate value Of $500 to $500
900 zoo and all this with their harvest OF
food is, if we can trust the evidence of their
Democratic leaders, the spontaneous pro-
duct of nature What may not be the re-
suit when General Grant is elected, peace
assured, labor rendered effective and capital
safe?
TIE WAR WORTH ITS COST.
Let me express my profound conviction
that, as purely economic question, the war
will pay for itself since the increased pro
ductIon of the southern states, which will
follow the abolition of slavery, Will in the
next twenty years more than pay the entire
cost of the war by which slavery was ended
The question of taxation is therefore mere
question of distribution of the burden, and
We must see to it that the late rebel states
do not throw of all the burden and reap
only the benefit by allowing them to aid the
democratic party in repudrating the debt.
Like the Titan of old, this nation has
been bound To u rock and scathed within the
lightning of Jove, but the Prometheus is IN
bound, and to may be applied the closing
words of that noble poem of Shelley's. In
the past wears we could have said that it
our fate
To suffer woes which hope thinks Infinite
To forgive wrongs darker than death or light
To defy power which seems Omnipotent:
To love and bear. To hope TIL hope creates
From ITS own wreck the thing it contemplates
Neither To change, nor fslter, nor repent
This, like thy glory, Titan i TO be
Good, great and joyous beautiful and free.
This Is alone Life, JOY, Empire and Victory.