Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1870-01-06
CORRESPONDENCE.
PLAIN TRUTHS.
The Peninsula is. and Must be,
One State.
Wheat and Corn Must give way to
Fruits and Truck.
The Plain Road to Peninsula Prosperity.
HAnnlsoros, DEL, Dec. ., 1869.

HARRINGTON, DEL, Dec. % 1869.
MEssEs. EDlTohs :-Incasting my eyes over
map of this peninsula am struck with the fact
that here are thirteen counties lying between the
Atlantic and an island Sea, which, geographically
are, mud in reason should be, but one common
wealth, and yet they furnish support to the gov
ernments OF three States. II would seem that an
error oil o. established Is destined to unlimited
perpctuiiy, else why have not the citizens of these
counties, urged by the most powerful of reasons,
self-interest united their destiny under one COM
mon organization, aud by csscning of expen.
ditures, and unity of action aud tendencies, iu-
ductd that prosperity that is now SO sadly want
cd5 There is no land OF equal magnitude, iu ntiy
county more highly favored with natural ldyaI.
lages than this peninsula, aud which are taken
Ices advantage OF. With level extent Of terri
tory, walered by abundant aud uavigablc streams;
near enough the Gulf stream to have the winds
oi winter tempered TO sottness, aud the fevor Of
summer cooled by the agitation OF seas on either
side; spine Of railway with attendant ribs from
Wilmington 10 Crisiied the homc OF the peach
and the vine,-Heayen has Intended il the garden
u such large cities as Baltimore, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston.
With u soil but little adapted 10 wheat, wear
after year thousands Of acres are planted with
this cereal. aud year after year is the shDrt-sigh,ed
hooh'd " disappointment, OuuDlu 10
cope with such States as Ohio, Indiana, aud lii
nois In the production oi corn; year utter wear
our iarultrs paut thousands upon thousands OF
acres iItbis,and rely upon its production as their
chici dependence Ii only stands this way in 4 e
end :-li the crop is large or average. the price
10 them is small, since the millions of bushels
that pour 10 upon the east by every avenue lead
ing IRON The western States, flood the maj keis
and depteeinte the price If continued rains. or
drouths, have ruined the crops here, the price i,
N Al am a1t Eos s7...l
lions ot bushels eastward, aud the little mite ulIr
farmers eau spare, islikc the waters of a shrupk.
EN- creek swallowed In the capnciOus ocean The
west never seems to fail. Now in u commuuit,
whose Interests are almost entirely agricultural
successive failures In crops cannut but induc,.
peuury and wa.t. Particularly. in a cr.p like
tnat OF corn, where niue months 10 twelve are tx.
pended III preparing the ground for its rect ptiol
It's tliluge, aud Its garnering. For three OF Tor
years. now, in this section, the corn crop has been
aaluIe, and, surely, at no time in the last fifty
years have mems faces, upon this peninsula been
longer, or their iurtbodiugs OF the future more
doieiul. Repnng or foreboding never remedy
an evil however. Now that increased rnlroud
facilities are ut hand, let truck iarmiug lake the
place 'i corn planting III succession of crops will
thus take the place Of the uncertainty Of one. and
every month will bring money To the farmer. in
stead OF the usual twelfth months pittincc.
Wilmington, from her position, Is able to afford
all the wares of commerce 10 the merchants Of
his peninsula as chcaply as any citv of The
North. Money expended here is more likely IL
return along the arteries 81 trade 10 the most RI
note cross roads store, thus keeping alive the
cfcnlatnn than it ever is il spent III Philadelphia
or New York
Let the thirteen counties of the peninsula he
united uud, one State government and we shall
assume II mpre powerful position in the copicd-
Tracy OF States Position has influence and
Importance that need not be dilaiud on here
Taxes, too. will necessarily BIZ lessetlcd Then.
to this add more enlightened system of apri.
culture; the promotion Of manufacturing est,,,-
lshuents the encouraging If Immigration from
The Northern States. aud the favuing of home
Trade and iiye years will lind Il prosperity nov
uuureahitu 81. SCRiBLERus,