Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-03-02

Dill De furnished with additional means of CARVE
wg on theconfiict and ofensuring success.
IN me american manufacturers have good rea-
son Tor Their nPp ehensons they have much ut
stake Ihey have a large capital emploved and
are teelingly alive tor its fate Should the natl.
ohai government not afford them protection. tbe
dangers which invest and threaten them. will des.
Troy all their hopes and close their prospects of
UNITY 10 tneir country. A reasonable encour.
agement will sustain and keep ,Lem erect bu, e
they fall, they fall never 20 rise again.
. The foreign manufacturers and mercb.n,,
KNOW TINS; they will redouble with renovated
zeal the stroke to p.ostrate them. Tbev aI.e,
Know, that should the American manufacturers
es !. i iaii, their Wondering piles-tbe
visible ruins of a Legisatvee breath will ,yor,
all who shall tread in the same footstens sc a.
doom, the inevitable destiny of their estah,;sb.
ments. "Disn-
Inc national government, in viewing the d;s.
astrous effects OF sh 1rt-sighted policy. NAV re.
len, nut what can relenting availl Can II raise
the dead tolfe Can it give for injuries ,,,e;.ssS
the reparaton that is duel Intsfrv ~ ..,,s
ramlhcation OF society, will feel the shock an
generations will, as they succeed each otbe, c.,
the effects ofits mduIations. Ds,af;sfaot;ar
viii be visible every where, and the lost conf;
dence and affection of the citizens, win NOT he
tne least OF the evils the government will have
TO depiore. But should the national govern.
ment, pursuing, an enl shtened, liberia, polev
sustain and foster the manufacturing establish.
ments, a few years would place them m condi.
ton TO bid defiance to foreign competition .nd
would enable them to increase the industry
wealth & prosperity of the nation; & to afford
70 ule government in times of difficulty and dis
tress, whatever it may require 10 support pnb.
lie credit while maintaining the rights of the
nation.
Providence, in bountifully placing within our
reach, whatever can minister te h,pnineee an5
comfort, indicates plainly to us our duty-and
what We owe to ourselves. Our resources are
abundant and inexhaus tible
The stand that Archimedes wanted, is o;vep, r.,
the national and state governments-and labor
saving machinery renders the leyer-the mower ~
bringing those resources INTO use.
This power imparts incalculable advantages to-
a nation whose population is not full The Uni
.ed states require the use of thus power, because
they do not abound in population The din,;nr.
ton of manual labor, by means of machinerv in
the cotton manufacture in Great-Britan. was. in
the year 1910, as two hundred TO one.
Our manufacturers have already ayailed them.
selves OF this power, and have profted by II. A
little more experience in making machines, and
IN managing them with skill, gill enable our
manufacturers TO supply more fabricks than are
necessary for the home demand
competition will make the prices of the artis
cles low, and the extension Of the cotton manu
facturies will produce that competition.
One striking and important advantage which
hat m all
Their operations they require few men ~ a re-
ference to another part of this report will show.
NO aPprehensons can then be seriously entertain.
Ed, that agriculture will be in danger of it
efhcIent labourers Withdrawn from its service.
On the contrary, the manufacturing establish
nlents increasing the demand for raw materials,
VIII give to agriculture new life and expansion.
The committee, after having, with Difference
and respect presented to the house this impor-
tant subject, IN various points of view, feel them
selves constrained, before concluding this report
to otier few more observations, which they con.
slider as being Immediately connected with il.
and not less so, with the present and future nros
perity of this nation
The prospects of ar enlarged commerce, are
not fiAttering.
Every nation in times of peace will suppIy
ITS own " ants from its own resources, or FROM
those of other nations.
When supplies are drawn from foreign COIN.
tries, the intercourse which will ensue. viii fir.
nish employment to the navigation only Of the
countries connected, by their reciprocal wants
Our concerns does not arise from, nor can it
be increased by, the limitation which our navjra-
ton and trade will have prescribed to them, by
the peace and apparent repcse of Europe
Our apprehensions arise fran causes that can.
not animate by their effects. Look wheresoeyer
the eye can glance. and what are the objects that
strike the vision! On the continent of Europe.
industry, deprived Gifts motive and ,ncitement.
IS paralyzed; the accumulated wealth Of aces.
seized by the hand of military despotism, is an.
propriated to, and squandered on, objects of am
bition the order Of things unset led, and conf
dence between man and man annihilated. Every
moment is looked for, with tremulous anxious
and increased solicitude; hope languishes and
commercial enterprise stiffens with fear The
politician horizon appears 10 be calm, but many
of no ordinary sagacity think they behold signs
portentous OF change, the indications of a vio-
lent tempest, which Will again rage, and desc.
late that devoted region,
Should this prediction fail, no change for the
better, under existing circumstances, can take
place. Where despotsn--TDilitary despotism
reigns-silence and fearful Stiffness must prevail.
Such is the prospect which continental Europe
exhibits, to the enterprise Of American mer.
chants.
Can It be possible for them,to nd in that repion.
resources which will supply them W TN more than
seventeen millions ofdoIlars, the balance due for
British manufactures imported III $ ba ance be.
ing over and above the value of au the exports
to foreign countries from the United States. The
view which is given Of the dreary prospect of
commercial advantages accruing to the United
States by an intercourse with coz tinental Europe.
IS believed to be just. The statement made Of
the great balance in favor of Great Britain due
from the United States, is founded on matter Of
fact.
In the hands Of Great Britain, are gathered to.
gether and held, many powers, which they have
not been accustomed hitherto to feel and TO exer.
cso.
No improper motives are intended to be i'm.
puted to that government. Bat does not expe-
rlencc teach a leseon that ebnuld neyer bo for