Illinois 1aisr found in corn. forwhich therewas no market. the cheapest fuel they could obtain. though their fiolds were underlaid by an inexhaustible deposit of cal that is almost coextensive with tie Stoe. Capital invested in factories. furnaces. forges. rollingmills. and machinery was idle and unproductive. and there was but a lilted hom market for olton or wool. Takin advantage of this condition of affairs. farign dealers put their price. down suficiently to bankrupt the cotton States. to induce many of our farners to give up sheep raising. anti to constrain many thousand immigrantswho could notfind employment to return to their native cointries. Eighteen hundied and fortyseven had been a good year for faroers. meciiico. miners. aud iiiorhiants. but1857 was a good year !or sheriffs. constables. and marshals. though fewwere purclasers at their sales except nortgagees. jidgtent creditors. and capitalists who were able to pay tash at noeinal ices for aiprodictive establishcents. and bold them till happier circumstances s=eeuh restore their value. Not cie of the glowina predictions of political economy bad been fnlflicid. and the surprise with which f contemplated the contrast presented by the condition of the country with whatit had been at the close of the last period of protection ateounted to aiuweuent.
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