The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-05-26
Qhincy. May 1oM, 1909.
NATIONAL ECONOMY.

NAIlONAL ECONOMY.
Perhaps there is no circumstance which SO
strongly affected the fears and feelings of the
British government in their recent retrogada-
ton from insolence to humility, as the rapid
progress OF the national feelings of .fnierica,
IN pursuit of the only solid and secure sources
of national wealth.
An estimate of the exports of England to
the United Ststes, for the last three years, or
an 9ihcial account, if it could be obtained,
would place this suh;ecfin more strong livb,
we should therein perhaps find the reso-
luton OF many other eDgmas beside the adj
mission OF outrage on the Chesapeake, and
the desertion Of the orders of Councl-wse
should perhaps discover the cause of the fail
ere OF the public income of Great Britain
from eight to nine milliens of pounds ster-.
l'nS-the issue of several millions of exche-
quer, navy, ordnance, and victualing bills, &
the existence OF a larger floating debt, than at
any former period:
The abandonment of the insolent poicy OF
England to the United States however, has
furnished to the American people several
important lessons, if they only do profit by
them.
We have found that an embargo is better
than a navy
We have found that we possess wi,hin,
ourselves, if we but determine to use them
resources sufficient not only to render us as
independent of Europe as of China or S;be-.
riG.
we nave also got over great part of our
PrejudIces as to the capacity of the nation to
manufacture, and the policy of manufac-
lures.
ms truth must be now sef-evident: thae
II the commerce of England gains an apnuaI
amount OF or 10000 600 pounds sterling;
or $4,000, 600 of dollars; if her revenne l.
afiected by the loss of American trade, that
tne trade OF America must be, of consequence
vi SO thuch value; and to use the trite old
saying OF our friend, the Old goose, JVhQt
rs good TAR Tie goose is good for the gdnder''
winch translated into homeshun, amounts to
ms; that America, by converting her own
proauCtS into manufactures at home, might
lFToff TO The same dmount by issine her o~p,.
means athone, which another nation profits
boy the alternate use Of dufihcitg and f,1so-
fence. corruption and Uiokence, hkunde,. and
deiMSion.
England keeps two or three dozen consuIs
In various parts of the United States to rem
rate our commerce and our elections; and her
secret emlssarics to burn and destroy our
PuDnc establishments of arts and iadusfry.
there is the strongest ground to believe
that the Chemical Laboratory of Mr. Hairi-
son, IN the northern precincts of this CITY, was
on ga urday night last, DESTROYED by one of
those nicer 1iaries by which the diabo!ical sDi
rlt OF Hriti,G monopoly has conhagrated SO
many OF our manufactures. The Patterson
mandatory in Jersey has been twice destrov-
ca an attempt was made not long since to de-
stroy the iabor-saving machinery in one of the
cotton manufactures of this city 1t is incum
Dent on every person concerned in manufac-
ture tokeeP strict watch over their work
snop. The only nights in the week that.
Mr- harriSon's Laboratory was unemployed
were Saturday and Sunday nights no fire,
was Kept ~ the place burnt nor had there
bcen any fire in any part of the Laboratory
aiter O'Clock on Saturday evening.
L ms spirit of desolation, ru n and destruc
ton, which assails the manufactures Of Anne
rica, is the same foul spirit which has desoat-
ed the continent of Europe, & which has
stained, with human gore, the Baltic and the.
LeVaht, the Rhine and the Danube the Ste
rlle rocks of Calabria, and of Copenhagen.
n delusive truce now prevails we are told
to expect what is liberal, from those who
nave never treated us but with reluctant
complasance at best, and often with a super.
ciliouS ceremony, which, from the eve of the
intelligent, never concealed a latent, dead
ly and incurable hatred.
But although the senate OF the y. State,
by shocking and unacCorntable vote. with
only fiOc members in the minority, deserted
the interest OF the nation, by voting against
the SO per cent duties, we trust the congress-
that Is about 10 assemble on the 22d instant.
will be more just to their country, by IL Leaet
holding forth such protection to The bo,,s
industry of the United States as wiz give tbe.
domestic production as much pYotect;,,, 80
will save it from foreign monopoly and c,n4~
fdgration.
In some branches Of manufacf ure ro,i.-
rate duty upon the importei article viz
afford protection; but there are articles
which must have prote ction eonal to tb~
exclusion of the foreign article. q5e,,e r. o,,I1
70 f1tt an end TO Tire system oC nfaerot;on.
For until those articles which the British in
oendiaries destroy are excluded. we shslJ for,
over see our manufactures burnt, exactly
at the point OF time when they have reached
the highest state of perfection, and are com
petent TO the national supply.
We feel some pleasure, however in findine
that the repeal of the embargo has not put an
end to the growth Of wool, or the progress ~
cotton sPlnning--the following extract Of Il
letter from col. Humphreys will we truss. In
duce all those Of this state who have fno
sheep, oxen on horses, to bring them TO phi
ladelphia, on the 18th of July--would il not be
well worthy of the attention Of the corporation
to open the Pottcr's field near Waln,It street
to exhibit the cattle upon and would il not be
advisable at that time to call men Of infelli-
genee, friends Of agriculture, and husbandry,