On passing from that article to others of our agricultural productions, we shall find not less gratifying facts.  The total quantity of flour imported into Boston, during the same year, was 284,504 barrels, and 3,955 half barrels; of which, there were from Virginia, Georgetown, and Alexandria, 114,222 barrels; of Indian corn, 681,131 bushels; of oats, 239,809 bushels; of rye, about 50,000 bushels; and of shorts, 63,489 bushels; into the port of Providence, 71,369 barrels of flour; 216,662 bushels of Indian corn, and 7,772 bushels of rye.  And there were discharged at the port of Philadelphia, 420,353 bushels of Indian corn, 201,878 bushels of wheat, and 110,557 bushels of rye and barley.  There were slaughtered in Boston during the same year, 1831, (the only Northern city from which I have obtained returns,) 33,922 beef cattle; 15,400 calves; 84,453 sheep, and 26,871 swine.  It is confidently believed that there is not a less quantity of Southern flour consumed at the North than eight hundred thousand barrels, a greater amount, probably, than is shipped to all the foreign markets of the world together.

What would be the condition of the farming country of the United States—­of all that portion which lies north, east, and west of James River, including a large part of North Carolina—­if a home market did not exist for this immense amount of agricultural produce.  Without that market, where could it be sold?  In foreign markets?  If their restrictive laws did not exist, their capacity would not enable them to purchase and consume this vast addition to their present supplies, which must be thrown in, or thrown away, but for the home market.  But their laws exclude us from their markets.  I shall content myself by calling the attention of the Senate to Great Britain only.  The duties in the ports of the united kingdom on bread-stuffs are prohibitory, except in times of dearth.  On rice, the duty is fifteen shillings sterling per hundred weight, being more than one hundred per centum.  On manufactured tobacco it is nine shillings sterling per pound, or about two thousand per centum.  On leaf tobacco three shillings per pound, or one thousand two hundred per centum.  On lumber, and some other articles, they are from four hundred to fifteen hundred per centum more than on similar articles imported from British colonies.  In the British West Indies the duty on beef, pork, hams, and bacon, is twelve shillings sterling per hundred, more than one hundred per centum on the first cost of beef and pork in the Western States.  And yet Great Britain is the power in whose behalf we are called upon to legislate, so that we may enable her to purchase our cotton.  Great Britain, that thinks only of herself in her own legislation!  When have we experienced justice, much less favor, at her hands?  When did she shape her legislation with reference to the interests of any foreign power?  She is a great, opulent, and powerful nation; but haughty, arrogant, and supercilious; not more separated