The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1884-10-16

clothe your little army and navy without
our aid. We even furnish you with blan-
kets to make your Indian treaties with.
and splits to roast your turkeys on.
From all that has been written on polit-
} ical economy, from the earliest time to the
present day, we are led to produce these
immutable facts
That agriculture is the great source Of
I all national prosperity.
Ilat inGaaJactM'ilag IS the aIt OF making
a nation rich by giving new forms and ad
d1tlonal value to the qdlU material
That money commands all things. and
the country which produces by its indus
try the greatest abundance of all things
must attract and possess the largest por-
ton OF the precions metals, the sinews Of
wealth and power.
What better illustrations of the truth of
these aXlms, than is exhibited of the
wealth and power of England. who has at
all times firmly protected her industry. and
the decline and poverty of Spain and Por-
tugal who neglected theirs to reap the har-
/, vest OF gold and silver in their American
provinces? The latter persuaded them
selves when possessed Of the precious
metals which they enormously supposed
| would supply the place Of labor. the stan
GARD OF all things, they would become the
masters of the universe. Rpt they have
since learned, and are living examples to-
the world OF this truth, that the standard
measure OF all things belongs to those who
produce by their labor the greatest abund-
ance OF these things
Thus we see, in the example before MS,
that nation or Il state, losses by imper~
| ceptible degrees, its commerce. when it
neglects to protect and improre every
branch it is capable of undertaking and
sustaining.
| England i'll making her establishments
in America sought not to discover mines
OF gold and silver, being content to partake
OF the produce of those Oh Spain and Por-
| tugal, through the medium of her malslfdc-
tureS, whichtheSe nations consumed to q
great amount annually. and which she in
| creased to suit the taste of her customers,
| thereby augmenting her own industry in
offering every temptation to her in0giaaIlS
rich nelghborS, supplying their wants in
everything, by which means she snatched.
from the hands of the Spanish and Portu-
guese miners that which contributed to and
constituted their misery and England's
Opnlence frl.a
Thus England began, and has continued
her industry and protecting system to sup
ply her almost total want of the production
OF the earth, possessing by that means
more of the riches of combination than
those who were and are the proprietors of
natural riches. Her industry consists in i'm
porting and distributing in4le,r forms to all
countries, by the aid of her fabrics, all tha
raw productions of the earth; proving incon-
trovertibly that without due share of this
species of industry no nation can enjoy in
dependence, or possess in abundance silver
and gold, which political economist call
riches of combination.
That arriou1tnrn auJ ,paD,,foo turoc ORC
the essence of commerce, must be admitted
by all. The union of these two branches
OF national wealth is such, that if either
obtain any advantage of the other, it is by
working its own destruction to the detri-
ment of the country. Without manufac-
turing industry, the produce Of the soil
loses the greater part of its value to
the nation or state, and if agricul-
ture is neglected, the sources of commerce
must fail.
The French. who are tho roughly verSed
in the science of political economy, app ear
to have adopted the following commercial
maXims:
+ LIST. The expectation of her surplus pro-
auctions is the clearest profits a nation can
make.
Ind. The most advantageous manner of
exporting the Surplus production of the
Oil. is to manufacture them.
Sd. The importation of foreign products
IN a TaaU state to be employed in manufae-
lures. instead of importing them in a man.
l1act,~ed state, greatly adds to the wealth
of nation.
4th. The importation of goods viii CHI
lessons the consumption of those of the
country by checking the progress of her
manufactures, must tend to the ruin of
nation.
Will our statesmen be actuated by these
sound commercial maXimS? To contract
and limit in this great Republican family
our ideas to single branch of it, and to
contine our knowledge and duty to that
branch alone, is beneath the mind of II
great statesman! To embrace the whole
Republic with all the extent of his powers,
secures victory over ignorance and error.
The most elevated and sublime character
OF legislation is unity of principles, all
tending to the same Obiect-that of estab-
fishing such q general harmony of laws as
shall be found to belong as much to the
people as their manners. climate and soil.
am aware of the many obstacles in the
way OF just and liberal tariff, for, how
ever painful, it must be to acknowledge,
that the South Carolinian, from stubborn
habits, prefers the fabrics of Mother Brit
ain to those of his own country. He pre-
fers sending his raw material to England
to be manufactured for him. He prefers
paying the artisans of England the same
sum for manufacturing for him as he pays
his own countrymen.; and to crown the
whole, he will send to England, whenever
she will permit him to do so, all our bread
stuffs to feed the half starved British OPP
erativeS, though by doing so may raise to
an exorbltant price the necessaries of life
at home, and thus distress in two-fold
measure, the labOring classes OF his fellow
citizens. In this way, the southern
planter and the British manufacturer are
colleagued. How strange the association
How deeply it conflicts with the whole his
tory OF our Revolutionary war; What q
satire it speaks upon all our institutions
England has moistened the soil of ma
lions, and tinged the ocean with blood, by
her commercial wars; and it appears to
me, we have some hotspurs among us, who
are ready to stir up civil war, and blast
the faireSt prospects the world has ever
seen, that they may aid her to sell her
musllns. Deluded men, the period is fast
approaching when manufactures and IN
ternal improvements will be the tombstone
to political consideration in these States
aperiod when those who opposed them will
be regarded as madmen or fools. Mad. if
wrought upon by the agents of a foreign
government to check the prosperity of
their own country; fools, if they prove
themselves ignorant of her most important
interests, by refusing to cherish and pro
tect her industry and rising manufactures.
To use an old adage-''time will destroy
their fictiOns of opinion, and confirm the
decisions of nature y for God has ordained
that no nation on the face of the earth
shall sTpass, in industry of every species.
the people who shall live on the soils and
under the climate of the United States
KnaVes and fanatics may check for q mo-
ment, their moral and physical force, but
on they must move to their high destinies
the DEGREES of Providence are immutable.
Do you recollect the answers made to
Fernandez of Corinth, when he asked the
Greek philosophers this which
is the most perfect popular government -
Said Bias, where the laws have no supe-
rior." Said Thales, where the inhabi-
tantS are neither too rich nor too poor -
Said Anacharsis, ''where virtue is honored
and vice detested.7 Said Pittacus, where
dignities are always conferred upon the
yirtuous, and never upon the base.'' Said
Cleobulas, where the citizens fear shame
more than punishment. Said Clio.
where the laws are more regarded
than the orators. . Said Scion, where an