The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1810-08-17

pitalist (both in land and in money! and
OF our manufacturers, and even OF our cir
cumscribed merchants, are TO boy, raise and
manufacture American produce and consu
mable articles.
Dutch Geneva, French wines, taffia,
brandy and perry, Italian wines Spanis,
wines and brandics and the wines of Portu
gal, are occasionally prohibited or seized or
dutied under color of licensed trade by the
beiligerents. Wisdom teaches us then to brew,
| to distill, to plant orchards. add even to be-
gin TO prepare our own vine covered hills.
The fine cloths of England are advanced
more than one hundred per cent. upon the
prices of 1880 Those of France & Holland
are prohibited by English usurpation, and
those of Britain by French usurpation. -
The manufacture of cloth i'm Spain is
destroyed OF suspended.--The Merinn
sheep are straying through the world
| to us and all nations. In England
they were sold in the year 1890, at The most
excessive prices: even 8O0i and 1O0Ot. ster
ling, have been paid there Tor the use
OF a single breeder for single year. In
America, they have been procurabie on va
rious terms, ar the highest for less than
quarter OF this sterling money for The full
price of the finest ram, as the momentary,
occasional and highest cost Of the animal.
| The cardiDg of wool has become an opera
1
or steam The spinning is done by water,
and horse and steam. The steam engines
have been introduced, improved and render
ed familiar. The mandatory of cloths in
private families has been much improved
Chemistr, has thrown prodigious light upon
the art uf dying in Europe and America
The stocking loom has been greatly impro
we'd, as also the dressing and fulling of stock
ing webs for hosiery and for new, curious
aud excellent species of woolen cloth.
| The commissions of Europe have driven
hither every description of artist employed
in the woollen mahu.actory Sheep skins,
formerly an oifal often left to rot, or only
used 'o make glue, cannon now be procured
IN sufficient quantity for the skin drcssers,
book binders, wool card makers, glOvers,
&c. great saving or rather profit to the
sheep raiser. on whom the foundations Of
the woollen manufacture depend. The y
States are intelligentiy bent on the increase
of sheep. as well the heavy feeced sheep as
the /fne feeced sheep Every kind of sheep
is nufsed, prop gated aid spared 20 pro-
cure fine wool and much W n. The Me
rino and other breeds are secured, and can
not ever be lost. The mixture of our re
dundant cotton, aids the woolleu manufac-
ture. The two branches work well tcge
ther---a great and peculiar advantage in
the clothing business of the United States.
The women weave in many parts of Anne
RIGA, and may be happily taught to weave
in all the states. The increase of manufac
lures gives women full. safe and proftab e
! cmpluyments, which formerly they had not.
1t is estimated by the Secre AIRY of the Trea
sury. that our family manufactures exceed
in value forty millions of dollars per annum,
in the woollen. fiaXen and cotton branches
alone. 1t is plain and certain then, that cur
army, navy and militia, in any possible war,
could be supplied with clio hing, far below
| the high costs OF the late revolutionary war.
The Importance of our clothing mannfac
lures is manifest and great. Their increase
lis rapid and incessant. The household
branches alone, at 40 millions, are worth
double the value of all oJr exports at the
adoption of our presei,t blessed union and
constitution. All our ordinary stock Of wool
is consumed in manufactures, and all we
can procure by our import trade and by all
the foreign breed Of sheep The great ef
| forts or the farmers, 10 Produce qvook do
not keep pace with the increasing demand ;
and hence the prices of wool keep well up
\ and for the best payments. Such are The
new advantages of the American woolIen
manufacture. Shall we then Nse tobacco
TO be dutied plundered, reiec cd, restrict
led or excluded, according 10 their criminal
will by foreign governments, or shall we
decrease it ard raise more sheep, procure
more and better wool, and provide mar
ket at home, free from injury, insult and
lvexation, by the industry If our women and
lchildren and tie power OF machinery, wiki
a little aid from regular and skllinl male
manufacturers?
Is it better to get from IS to $50 cents
per Id. for wool al a sure American mark
ct. or to raise tobacco to be piundered, ds.i
ed or driven from port to port in distant
seas Let us consider 70eH the past course,
the present condition aud the apparent pros
pect Of our cultivation and sales Of tobacco.
and all other productions. Let us consider,
on principle whether i. is not better often
TO avoid articles Of mere foreign capricous
consumption, the sales of which must be eff
ieoted under all the disgrace and evils of
these times on the ocean and to raise or
extract from the earth hemp, p X, cotton,
wool, leather, iron, copper, lead, &c to arm,
muntIon and cothe our soldiers. sailors and
militia. and toprovide for the raiment of our
families, and for the furniture of our houses
Let us observe well he state of Rhode Is
land. With wool, flax, hemp, and leather
of her own, she demands the iron and hemp
o. the Baltic and of her southern sisters, for
her manufacturers, and the cotton of Virei-
MIA, Carolinas, Georgia and the western
states Tor her frc-eniiHcut cotton mills In
that state there are already erected a num-
her of cotton mills to card and spin, equal to
one for every township and her enterprs..
ling merchants and cotton mllers have erect
ed others in the adjacent townships of Con
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