480 MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



come where the hides are grown — all, in fact, v/hose labor is employed in facto- 

 ries producing $52,158,683, tc go i/iere, and eat his bread, and his meat, and his 

 milk and butter, and cheese, and fruit — all on the spot. Everything is kept and 

 consumed at home.* 



What is wanting, as it seems to us, (despising the thought of speaking as a 

 driveling partisan in this journal and on such a question) is, that the American 

 people in a body, and as with one voice, should determine to break the colonial 

 vassalage which elevates our Industry to-day and sinks it to-morrow, according 

 to the accidental wants and vacillating polity and Tariffs of foreign Governments 

 — especially that of England, who in ceasing to be our Mother has become our 

 Step-Mother or Governess. In our vast extent, embracing every soil and climate, 

 we may adopt an American policy, independent of the world, our States recipro- 

 cally supplying and demanding of each other all they want and all they can pro- 

 duce ; and we can force the capital and the machinery now employed in the fabri- 

 cation of the $100,000,000 that we buy abroad, to come and be employed here ; or 

 our own citizens, seeing their way secure, will occupy their place. Then would 

 our people concentrate, instead of scattering ; rich swamps and pocosons would 

 be drained and brought under the spade and plow ; and with dense population 

 would come education, and power, and prosperity, and increase in the value of 

 lands. "We should first thicken on the seaboard, and gradually swell and spread 

 around the circumference, as Nature spreads the forest, by natural expansion, 

 and as she intended society to grow by a natural accretion and not by having 

 its limbs torn off and its seeds scattered to distant and ungenial soils, by light- 

 ning, and storms, and monstrous disturbances, such as are constantly driving 

 sons from fathers and daughters from mothers. 



" The first and gi-eat desire of Man," says H. C. Cai-ey, in that extraordinary and powerful 

 work, ' The Past^ the Present and the Future,' " is that of maintaining and improving his 

 condition. With eacli step in the progress of concentration, his physical condition would im- 

 prove, because he would cultivate more fertile lands, and obtain increased power over the 

 treasures of tlie earth. His moral condition would improve, because he would have greater 

 inducements to steady and regular labor ; and the reward of good conduct would steadily in- 

 crease. His intellectual condition would improve, because he would have more leisure for 

 study, and more power to mix with his feUovv men at home or abroad ; to leani what they 

 knew, and to see what they possessed ; while the reward of talent would steadily increase, 

 and that of mere brute wealth would steadily decline. His political condition would improve, 

 because he would acquire an increased power over the application of his labor and of its 

 proceeds. He would be less governed, better governed, and more cheaply governed : and 

 all because more peifectly self-govcnied." 



Heaven bear us witness that we find no pleasure in the contemplation of the pic- 

 ture of our native State which Truth tells us we must draw if we would sketch 

 it with her pencil. Yet we must proceed to give it a few more touches, by way 

 of filling-up. 



The population of Baltimore in 1830 was 80,625 ; in 1840 it was 102,313. Deduct 

 that increase from the total increase in the whole State during the same period, 

 and there remain, to be divided among all the counties, in these ten years, only 

 1,299, or about 60 to a county ; but so far from some of them having increased 

 at all, nine out of twenty have actually retrograded within the 20 years prior 

 to 1840 ; and this has happened as well on the Western as on the Eastern shore. 



" Annual produce of the manufacturing industry, by the Census 1845 : 



Of Massachusetts $43.518 051 



«^-^«^=l-^ J:!i°^5oi58 683 



Virginia ^'S^F.^^ 



Marvland - 6,212 677 



^^'"'"'^ _ 14,561 895 



Massachusetts and Rhode Island more by $37,596 789 



(920) 



