The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-24

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the United States to an amount SUFFICIENT to
equip an ARMY three times as large as the
greatest which Great Britain had on This
continent in the war of the revolution. Be.
sides these. many rifles, pistols and swords
are manufactured, and many cannon, shells
and balls are cast at our tounderieS. The
aggregate OF our iron good, is estimated, in
the treasury report. at Is mIiiions. Thus
II rs that manufactures afford at once 4 sure
aud great supporting market for the spm-
taneUus metallic ptoducti0ns Ut tlie earth. &
provide us with the best Instruments TO de
lend our much injured rights. VIII any
considerable American Consent 10 destroy
these precious military manufactures, the
want OF which was so so,emnly fei, in the
year l77S ? VIII he strike this item of Is
millions out Of the account OF warlike re-.
Sourcesl
In iies manner, tho discoveries of lead
mines and The purchase of Louisiana have
given us very considerable quantity of that
convenient and necessary r'etal, it is not all
sufficient to supply the home market crca-
ted by our own manufacturers of that mate
rial. Thus again do our numerous artzans
exempt us from the necessity of sending onr
lead, through injuries ana insult. to Euro
Pean markets, furnishing us at the same
time with every description of the leaden
means OF public defence.
In like manner the manufacturers of
copper, link, brass and pewter. ministcr
to our prosperity and to the safety of our
country.
The endless variety of our metallic manu-
features, directly or indirectly necessary for
The use ut the army, the navy, the militia,
the hospitals and the iaborato,ie is well
known TO every man of information in the u
s.. We have arrived at such point of skill,
that it may be correctly affirmed, that there
is scarcely metallic requisite or convent
ence, which our workmen could not make
: at no eXtravagant price. Many of these
things are lower than the cost and charges of
importation, and others are cheaper than
their prices in Europe. Of this class is a
long and valuable list of hollow wares, the
shapes of which subject them to an insup..
portable freight. So great and so sure is the
market for American metals created by our
manufacturers, and so immense is the mass
OF their supplies for The fubGc service, and
Tor individuals, that they require the iW..
portation of at least ten thousand tons o. TO-
reign iron, steel, copper, Siuk, tin, lead,
brass and pewter in every year. The trip
or tilt hammer, the rolling, sitting. boring,
grinding and polishing mill and the nail ma
nuiactory, and several others, proceeding
by water, horse or steam, are means ex-
CIlpliHR agriculture ltOlh lilC lOSS VI us Ia
borers, which the docle artists of the Uni
ted States have learned from Europe or
their own mechanicians diligently to employ.
The little Naiades, and 10. He cules, are
put in these curious times, Hot only to The
distaff but TO the powerful ruller and The pom.
derous sledge.
! Let it be we'll remembered then, that the
numerous host Of metal manufacturers in
the u. States not only consume the whole
production of our various mines in prepar..
! ing for us every description OF useful and
necessary commodity to which metals are
convertible, but they demand through our
merchants from the landed interest Of TO.
reign countries ten thousand tons OF their
metals. Be it then the steady and active
endeavor of the American land holder I'd
supply their wants, & to supplant this rival
ship of distant nations. Manufactures, at
least when enforced, if rightly understood,
enable united America to be more prospe..
rous in peace and much more secure 10 war.
The awful want of military supplies. which
marked the revolutionary war, is no more.
The manufacturers OF America, working ON
the spontaneous production of our own soil
or on the fruits of Its cultivation, and some
times also on theimports of the en,erprizing
merchant, have terminated forever all the
evils of a scaNty, dear and precarious militia
ny supply.
JURISCOLA,