The States Of Mississippi, Alabama, And
Louisiana Have For Some Time Past Received Much Of Their Supplies
From The Northwestern Lands; And The Cutting Off Of This Current Of
Consumption Has Tended To Swell The Amount Of Grain Which Has Been
Forced Into The Narrow Channel Of Buffalo.
There has been no
Southern exit allowed, and the Southern appetite has been deprived
of its food.
But taking this item for all that it is worth - or
taking it, as it generally will be taken, for much more than it can
be worth - the result left will be materially the same. The grand
markets to which the Western States look and have looked are those
of New England, New York, and Europe. Already corn and wheat are
not the common crops of New England. Boston, and Hartford, and
Lowell are fed from the great Western States. The State of New
York, which, thirty years ago, was famous chiefly for its cereal
produce, is now fed from these States. New York City would be
starved if it depended on its own State; and it will soon be as
true that England would be starved if it depended on itself. It
was but the other day that we were talking of free trade in corn as
a thing desirable, but as yet doubtful - but the other day that Lord
Derby, who may be Prime Minister to-morrow, and Mr. Disraeli, who
may be Chancellor of the Exchequer to-morrow, were stoutly of
opinion that the corn laws might be and should be maintained - but
the other day that the same opinion was held with confidence by Sir
Robert Peel, who, however, when the day for the change came, was
not ashamed to become the instrument used by the people for their
repeal.
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