Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1819-11-09

forfeit for adopting the maxims Of purs
chasing svhere goods could be had the
cheapest "a maxim rejected in practice,
as we nave stated, by every wise nation in
Europe, and acted upon only by Spains
Portugal and the United States.
| On review of The proceedings OF the
I4th Congress, your memorialists find
that the present calamitous state OF affairs
was clearly exhibited TO their view as
early as February 1916. What was then
prophecy, has, alas fatally become bis
| tory.
| The Committee Of Commerce and Man.
ufactures, in most excellent aud eloquent
report Of the above date, ask,
Do not the suggestions of wisdom
plainly show, that the security the peace,
and The happiness OF this nation depend on
opening and enlarging all our resources,
and drawing from them whatever shall be
required for public use or private accom-
mediation?
The committee consider the situation
| Of the manufacturing establishments to be
lperilous. Some have decreased aod others
have suspended business. a liberal en-
Encouragement Mill put them again into ope-
ration NTH increased posoers. But should
| II be aoihheld. THEY WILL BE PKosTRA-
TED. THOUSANDS WILL BE REDUCED
TO WANT AND wRETcHEDNEss. n cGpi-
itat Of nearly sirty millions Of dollars Mill
become inactive, the greater part of mhick
MIL become A DEAD LOSS TO THE MANU-
fAcTURERs. Our improvideDce may
| lead to fatal consequences. The powers,
Jealous of our growth and prosperity, win
acquire the resources and strength which
| this government neglects TO improve. It
requires no prophet to foreteil what use
foreign powers will make Of them"
1t cannot be sufficiently lamented, that
those sage admonitions were uBavaiIiug.
The tariff on the most important manulac-
tured articles was fixed so low, that it re-
CURED but little sagacity to foresee the
ruin OF the manufacturers, and the con=
Isequent impoverishment of the country.
Your memorialists respectfully state, that
they further find that The manufacturers,
while numbers Of them were sinking, VIC
TINS OF, and all of them suffering by, the
overwhelming competition Of foreign rivals.
Explicitly stated their sufferings and dam
gers TO their ielIow,citizens in congress,
leach succeeding session. respectfully ard
Earnestly soliciting that protection, which
they alone had the power, and Mhich.is
vas their imperious duly, to bestow. Ii
IS painful 10 your memorialists to state,
but candour requires they should state,
that those applications we're disregarded-
that the applicants were left to fall victims
in an unequal struggle 10 which long es-
tablished manufactures, immense capital.
great credit, aud governmental protection
were arrayed on one side and OH the 9TH
er, infant establishments, exhausted capi-
tai, slender credit, and tariff utterly To-
adequate for protection. The memorials
from Rhode-Island Pittsburgh. Baltimore.
and Oneida county, are masterpieces Of
|eloquence, admirably calcuted to excite
the sympathy aud to command the aid of
the legislatures to which, unhappiIy, they
were in vain addressed.
Although this memorial has already
extended TO great length, we cannot close
it without placing the subject in another
important point of view, deserving OF your
most serious consideration.
The establishment of manufactures on
respectable scale, 10 any town OF village, is
OF transcendant benefit TO the agricultural
interest, as they Immediately enhance the
value OF the lands in the neighbourhood
from one to five hundred per cent. Inde-
pendent Of the advantage already glanced
of nf q cfaoHu hars,, / fD,
flour, corn, rye, &c. the farmer has GER
tain demand for his cabbages, peas, tur-
Inips, and other garden stuffs, and fuel,
which are too perishable for foreign mar
kets, or not worth the expense of trans
portation" And this is not mere theory.
There are two strong cases 10 point. The
establishment of the manufactures at
Brandywine and Pittsburgh, enhanced the
value of the neighbouring lands ia the ra- \
ito above stated, and wonderfully increas-
ed the prosperity and comforts of the cir
|cumiacent farmers. The same effect has
been produced in other parts of the unions
and il would be every where produced, in
a greater or less degree, by the same cause.
And moreover, the sons and daughters Of
the farmers and country labourers, large
portion Of whose time is at present entirely
wasted, would have source of profitable
employment, to add TO the comforts aud
the happiness of their parents.
We therefore pray, that taking the pre-
misses fully into consideration, you will be
pleased TO revise the tariff in such mode
as to revive cur dropping manufactures,
and afford effectual protection to the ma
tional industry.
There is no solitude like that Of the