The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1804-10-17

tates. The lover of his country and is peo-
! pies happincfs feels indignant at the rapacity
which this member of the fociety of artiRs and
! manufactures ,nanifefts, and ut the outrageS he
would commit againf the ions and daughters
ofthis land of plenty il he could. The day is
not yet come when the lownefs of wages, and
tho difficulty of gaining fubiiRence, oblige
them TO fubmit TO iuch fervice. He mutt wait
| awhile longer, and, in the mean time, throw the
| blame upon Congreis.
But tits lime to relate the hiftory Of the pub
LEGATION before us. a memorial of uncommon
length, and more refembling diiiertat;on for
the prefs than an addrefs 70 legislative body,
was preiented to the houfe of representatives
during the winter of 1904. II contained an ar
gument in favour of protecting and eitabliihng
| manufactures in the United States. This adj
drefS (tor they were too proud or petuant to call
1t petition, p. ID was referred to the ftanding
committee of commerce and manufactures
That committee, well aware of the importance
of the fubjett, and of the esrneitnefs of the ap-
plicants, directed their chairman to move the
houfc for all order to print it for the more con-
venent ufe of the members. To thistle houfe
agreed, and the memorial was printed and diff
tributed in the cuftomary way. The commit
tee, in addition to this mark OF refpeG, framed
report on the fube6 jointly with various other
petitions of Em!lar nature. This report,
ry, was read in the houfe, printed, and referred
for further confederation to the committee of
ways and means. Having undergone revifion
in that committee, 70 much of it as it was judy
ed expedient to adopt, was Incorporated into
bill, which was finally pafIed into law.
That memorial and report occupy fcventeen
pages of the work under confederation. If the
compiler intended to exhibit an entire view of
the cafe, he ought to have printed the ftatute
alto, that the proceedings of Congrefs itielf, as
well as of the committees of the houfe, might be
underitood. This is great defect in the publ
cation, Especially as, in his preface, he declares,
in menacing terms, that it fhall be reprinted in
Great-Britain for the information of the manu-
facturers of that country....1h other thirty two
pages of the Efiay are, in good degree, occu-
pied by the writer's commentary and invec-
tive.
1t becomes him alto to inform the people on
the other lide of the Atlantic, that already many
manufactures, of fiIch kinds as our people are
willing to engage in, are carried on thriftily in
the United States, and we are even now bufy
manufacturing people. Furnaces and FORCES
for iron...the eating and boringof cannon .caft-
ing of ftoves, CRATES, andhollow ware.the max
ing of mufkets and bayonets....the manufacture
of nails, of wool-cards, of fteelyards and balan-
ces, of anchors....the various branches of the
brafs-founder and copper-fmith's bufnefs..the
rolling Of copper....the making of gold and fill
yer plate. founding of printing types 1.-The
erection of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the coming of
money, are very well performed. They may
alto learn, that fhoes, boots, trunks harnefs fad
dies, breeches, gloves, belts, catrdge-boxes, and
buckets, are made from leather of our own tan
ming. Breweres, diftilleries, fhp-building, carv-
ing, carriage making, fugar-refners, paper-mak-
ing and flaming, the printing and binding of
books, mill-machinery, dyeing, and the prepa-
ration ofink, are mott of them carried on regu-
larry, and ieveral with very large capitals. Hats,
NUTS, tiPpets, umbrellas, ropes, cables, cor
dage, gunpowder, ftarch, foap, glue, tobacco &
inuf, pot-aih, farming tools, combs, cabinet
ware and1lklers work, glafs, earthen-ware, and
bruihss, 1ilio manufactured TO comfortable
extent. And by the domefic indu0ry of the
Middle and Northern States, many coatings,
fockings, blankets, meetings, and other wool
len, linen, and cotton goods ofthe coarfer kinds,
are manufactured in families.
He may tell them further, that, to promote
manufactures, congrefs permits all kinds of un-
drefied furs, all manufactures of the United
States, unmanufacturedw woods and wool, platter
of Paris, apis caamnaris, tin in pigs and plates,
tools of the trade or protection, and perfonal
baggage of perfons who come to fettle, I'M
wrought burr-fones, unwrought clay, dyeing
drugs, metallic anthony, copper in plates, pigs
ana Dare, raw nldeS ana 1k1nS, iuiphur, old pew
ter, brafs and iron wire, rags of all kinds, ard
bullion, to be entered free from impofs. And
its protecting duties on the greater part, if not
all foreign imported manufactures, areas high as
found policy will warrant. In this Congrefs has
manifefed great Judgment, and regard for the
general intereft of the country only it may be
doubted whether the duties on foreign refined
flgar, hats, ard leather, are not actually more
favourable to the domeitic manufacturer than,
under exiting circumstances, they ought to be.
We beg this writer to reject little on his
own fabty, and TO conlider the high truf
and responsibility repofed in the representatives
of the people. 1t is hard to conceive wherefore
or through what motives, they ihould be oppo-
fed to the true interefls of their continents.
We believe they have hitherto acted with vigil
lance and ability in the difficult cafe Of infuring
revenue in the eafet way on the one part, and
ofpreyentins fcarcity, dearnefs, and monopoly
on the other. And we have full confidence in
the enlightened ard liberal furvey which will
continue, from time to time, to be taken of this
important and complicated fubje6t, and of the
intelligence, as well as of the inclination of Con-
grefs, 70 to adapt legislative meafureS to the va
rying circumstances of fociety and the times,
that the fifcal, agricultural, mercantile, and ma
nufaetiring interefs fhall all receive due fuper-
intendence and protection. And infead of
blaming ttem for not doing more, we feize the
preient opportunity to express our warm appro-