The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1814-12-28

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government, and that those who so much de-
sire to reign are fixed ia their seats HAae
viu DC rcnr condition = A pursuit of this
qucric may serve 10 unfold somc importanr
facts you li,trc rink Of. I As to the probal .
govefnment W mighthavc, shall cay moth
ing az this timc-I propose only to touch up-
on your prospects of 6sssiness, and your d6ii.
~ TO support the new order Of things.
You sria have trade and commerce
Whatsw you trade with Flour, corn,
tobacco, cotton, manufactures You o'not
raise bread stutfs enough for your own COM
sump'ion--nor any tobacco or cotton. You
have no staple but fish and oib and these are
in great degree at the mercy Of Emgiand,
who is your rival In thens The value Of all
your aatve exports, In which I include tho
produce of your fskcriss, have amounted
to only from FIVE 10 seven millions year, for
all The Ncw.Ersland s,a,es---l mean 10 for
eign ports; whereas tho other states hayu
exported fifty millions. Your erh1rf, tho
business of your mere han,s, was bo.,omed
upon the agriculture of the middle and south
ern states, and built up by the industry or
your people, How arc YOU 10 laden your vcs-
sells without our goods ! The products of your
own soil and Industry will not. freight tsven.
Hefh part OF your tonnage, VIII you com,
pete With Englsnd for the carrying trade
The idea is preposterous for, supposing sho
might suHer Il, what will you give in cx.
change for the commodities that found tho
basis OF II s--You have little of your own
and in the states from whence you lately drew
the supplies. will DO foreigners on at lease
as bad terms as the British. They who load.
ed your ships will encourage their own, by
the same duties that protected yours and
like causes will produce like ctfccts. wiz
you send 10 tho West-Indics and get sugar
and coffee, &c. TO carry to Europe III you
raise and have TO exchange Tor those articles
VIII hardly supply your own consumption,
even Il the British would receive your .fsh and
beet, which they will not Tho only remainl
Ing staple is lumber, and Of that pour great
resources is cut off by tho restoration Of q
large tract Of your best ilnbercd county "to
tho arms Of its Legitimate sovereign" as the
mcckncss. with which yoar rulcrs admit the
invasion sccms 10 allow. These things ate
true. But you will trade 10 tho East ladies;
and bring home rich cArgoes OF teas, silks Gc.s
What will you give in exchange for the spccic
TO pusshaso them, and where will rnsk, ssti
ibom You will not, Id the case Of q scltnra-
ton, send the value Of millions q year TO tho
single port of baltimore as you have done-A
the duties you will have 10 pay there will put
you on worse footing than that OF British
ship Immediately from the countries wberc
tho things arc to be had (which ahipss
through Mbse duHes, have long been driven
from our ports, 10 your favor. However, you
ere industrious and very ingenious and ccon-
micaI, and will turn your attention 10 mann:
.facfnres. Very we'll. You may raise wool
enough, but Tor cotton and MI the resi- OF the
great original articles you must depend upon
Us, or some other foreign nation, and you will
have TO pay duty on the raw material but
what Is to become Of the goods when rnanuS
ioctured VIII they bear the duties sOe i'm.
pose upon British goods will they, so incusn..
bercd, meet our own in the marke,---wiil they
Withstand the BRUSH in the great comfiaerce
OF the wofd t
A man who knew nothing Of the matter
might think, from the continual sho asing d.
bout commerce 10 the eastward, that the stout.
iuagcd folks at BosIon owned all the ships,
and done all tho cuisines, Of lhc United
States. Never was mole false idea present.
cd. The foreign export Of all the /" nation
Of New England" :hat is, the states Of New
Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode. Island,
AouucCtlCul anu cTDCnt, hOs uSc yco'S SD Z
ding with 1900, ,was. only valucd at 81 ,432 900
dollars. During these years the simple city
Of baltimore 10 be sure the or exporting
place in MaylandJ exported the value OF
6v,J2 600 dollars, leaving balance oil about
one million in fayor Of all the "grecf COM.
mereial states" against the city ef BaiHni0rc
---,he /" irob.,own" and " hatcs Of COM
mercc."(e.) In 1919, this ciiy's exports
we're valued at 3,787,s65 those Of all tho
.s nation" above named, at 3,oso,s24. leav.-;
ing a balance in favor Of B%timore against
the five 4" commercial states" Of nearly three:
four,hs of million. These are Official faess
and sbcw where the bases of commerce Hes J.
without saying any thing Of Ncw-York, or
Philadelphia, or Charleston. though The gen:
ersl average Of these three cities OF the'valuc
Of articles sent to. foreign COUNTLESS givc' 20
zach, nearly as much as al the Nsw-EhgIand
C...~. ii for s,o0u 1r0ra mast. From