46 The Croj)s and the Season. [July, 



and deficiency. This Ave believe to be almost in itself physically 

 impossible. The law of the distribution of rain and other atmo- 

 spheric agents, forbids such a result. When from a given cause a 

 crop fails, it is not to be supposed that that cause will be general; 

 and hence what is deficient in one part of our country, will be sup- 

 plied by another. 



Then again we are to look to the facility of transporting bread 

 stuffs to market. And what does an examination of this matter 

 result in? Why, that the sea-board is accessible from all of the 

 interior of the country. Nature herself has been lavish on us in 

 giving us those natural channels of communication through the 

 great water courses, the main trunks of which penetrate in some 

 instances 4000 miles into a rich and productive region. These 

 send their arms upon the right and left, and as they channel the 

 valleys far and wide, they waft upon their bosoms the breadstuffs 

 which are garnered upon their shores, and bringing them to the 

 great channels and trunks, they are brought finally to the great 

 marts and store-houses of the nation. But this is not all. Wears 

 not content with what nature has done, but we chain and link to- 

 gether by bars of iron, durable as the flow of w^aters themselves, the 

 west and the east, the north and the south. Our rivers, our in- 

 land seas, our rail roads and canals, are pushed through all the pro- 

 ductive regions of our country, and wherever a bushel of wheat 

 is sown its produce can find its way to the sea-board. If, then, 

 our country is the most fertile in the world; if its means of com- 

 munication equal its capacity to produce, why shoukl a scarcity 

 ever be feared. Why should the price of a bushel of wheat more 

 than double in less than one sixth part of the time it is growing. 

 The famines of the old world cannot drain us even though a partial 

 failure should occur with us. Now the great antidote to the suf- 

 ferings in community, and with individuals is to know what is pro- 

 duced in different parts of the country, how much has come to 

 market, and how much probably remains in the hands of the pro- 

 ducer, and whether this which is still held back can be brought 

 speedily to the sea-board. And the only efl^ectual way of coun- 

 teracting the evils of speculation, is a general distribution of 

 knowledge upon all these points. Now cotton never rises and 

 falls like bread-stuffs; and why? because every fact in regard to the 

 amount of cotton produced, where it is stored, and how much 

 there is in the great marts of sale, is perfectly well known; and 

 the same results would follow, could the public be as well informed 

 in regard to bread-stuffs. We cannot, at this time, proceed with 

 this trian of remarks. We only intended to bring our views in a 

 general way before our readers. We wish to see a check put to 

 speculation in grains, or that those who deal in them should be 

 compelled, through the general spread of intelligence, to content 



