The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1806-10-03

and all We can import. Let us fuppefe, there
fore that our duties nd -,aiorenn upon all goods
made of t5ois raw materials were (tor mere cx-
ample) at 25 per cent. at medium. We now
grow forty or fifty millions of pounds of cotton
wool, and can ea6iy produce much more. Let
US fnpopfe, therefore, our duties, I'D vo!orem
upon all goods made OF that raw material from
Europe were fixed (for example a!fo) at S per
cent. The difference of 10 per cent. would
operate as a premium for the confumption of
peace goods made abroad of our own cotton
in NAT m6aneeJ in preference to goods made in
Europe Of foreign wool. fax, hemp, fix and
leather-artices which we never produce for
iale abroad. The duty of 25 per cent. upon
foreign linens and wolens would be in favor
of our own manufactures of FAX, hemp and
wool.
One more example will be offered eanfionRy
promifng that it is bertc7ly noz,ei, and far that
and ofbe, reajons .J5onld Be ear.faly examined.
1t is propofed for eonfderatiou, that every flu
ture injury either IN berlone or property, nm
lawfully done to any American citizen by any
foreign power, officer or agent fhall he a fub-
ject of inveftigation and deoGon before a ftand
ing board of commifoners to he created bv
law, and fitting in faro eonjcientix that every
fuch future injury fhaIl be eftimated in the
form OF an decentralization in money to the fuf-
ferng citizen or his representatives that evil
dences of the fIins due therefor fl,a!l be ifined
bearing interen from their reflective dates;
that the claim for which tley illail be refpec-
vely Iilued mail be ALIGNED to the govern
1nent the United States, than an application
for juit compenfation iliaii be made by our GO
vernment, thus placed in the iituation of the
iufferer, to the government of the iniurer :;
that if the demands of this nature a,certained in
any half year, fhall not be fatsied within one
year, the proficient OF the United States tiall he
authorized to direct the collection of any additi
onal duty upon the produce and manufactures
OF the inJuring con ntry, to cover the fame, and
he fhall be requetted to caufe the fame 10 be
reported o the legislature, and that like Dro-
cefs flall be purified half yearly, in order to in.
demnity the injured citizens ofthe US. ont Of
the in9ufyy Of the /boiiator+
Ihetc remedies for the various commercial in
Jures we fu'tain, are csutioully fugeefed for
timely confederation. They are merely intend.
ed TO exempijy the nature oftbs p,ineislr, on
which we may proceed in confequeno e. IF no
1uch injuries were in exifence or in contempIa
ton, we need not thus at for the indennifica-
ton and protection of our citizens, not to fe
cure ourj uft fhare in the commerce Of our coun-
try and of the world. We probably fhould
not tnrnK or adopting theie any other mea-
lures 70 fores manufactures but for fuch weigh
~ reaions as The nrer6ary fk6bort Of or agrieul-
tire, and the entioyment TIE injured ,uerei,-
ants mariners and jea port artisans and Lxbor-
er5' Inc u. 5. for long time omitted TO ufe
the belt defence of navigation, commerce and
manutaetures--qvsH proUiGoned kaquJ. The
great object of this limited fketch is openly to
iuomIt to the country refpetifui fuggefion,
that the whole circle of ON commercial rights
and Intereits, internal and external can be more
cheaPly, more iaiely, and more effcetually de-.
tended by wholeione tatu.es, than by a danger
Gus and coaly Establishment of naval power.
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Including our feaiaring citizens of coure, and
with particular eye to their interefing cafe.
1t is refpetfGulIy conceived thar the cafe Of CT
meM might be Immediately put upon thi, footing IN
ending all under contracts made preicrb.d by our
national laws 80