Daily Richmond Whig

Sound Reasoning.-In an article in Bell's Weekly Messenger on the "Distress arising from the restricted circulation of the country," we find the following passage. "The reliance on other countries for food is the most hazardous state of dependence in which a nation can be placed; it is the phrenzy of the political economists, and the maxim of those who without any regard to country or to any civil institutions, think all good to be summed up in buying cheap and selling dear."

We are repeatedly told by the friends of free-trade, that our restrictive policy prevents Great Britain from taking from us our bread-stuffs. But the fallacy is sufficiently exposed, when we find efforts made on all hands to preserve the English corn laws, and to sustain a state of currency favorable to high prices. Great Britain does not want our corn, and will take it only in times of scarcity. She protects her home industry-her agriculture. And shall we do less? What would be the object to Great Britain of buying corn cheap, if her agriculturists were to be starved and ruined? And we may ask, what object is there in this country in purchasing British manufactures dog cheap, if we have not the money with which to pay for them?