Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-11-25

nall, contempt lated, aud not directly conceded, can
family be defended GA the ground OF RIGHT. impiiad
Union.
is not pradent Tie part Of Government 10 foster
any branch ~ NE ncfonai Ataastry particular ~
6onnittS, By prohibitions, or prohibitory duties.
Every naIion IL composed oi Ills ndividus citizens:
tho tetas nato, stale, comiuuniiy, wui DIS mere
B-they do mol deaote any HING separate tioui tile
individual nirmh.'s whose aggregation aud associa
Ton has received these names. The wealth, the
capital Of every uation nothing else than the ap-
gtega- OF the wealth, aud capital vi the individuals
who compose It. al ,ndi, iduas manage their con-
Germs b"dy, tie Rational capital, suffers prupoy
ton. Individual capital H. i'll managed, when man
aged 10y those who hate hut Imperfect know ledge IN
the management ofi Every nisn who has dedcat.
ell ms Whole lime and attention To tho business ",
which he supper himself and his family must .,av,
more perfect aud accurate knowledge respect he
management, OF his capital an iha business, Than e-
sslao's ptombcuously chosen who have neither the
same means VI inmate inios inaion, the mpeIi
GUS motives To them, or the same experience Is
county count lawyer iron, Pit,shursh competent II
direct ihe commercial capiial and dealings Of The
merchants OF New York, Boston, or Philadelphia
Hence whenever legislators comparatively ignoran,
o necessary details, interfere 10 direct tho manage
me"t OF individual capital, they To SO with inaJe-
qudie knowledge The capital will be niisuianaE
and the aggregate national capital will suffer loss
Hence a. IS not cxpetlien thai They should Interfere
"a hisness Ia which they are not competent.
IL Is Tor Tins reason, that joint stock companies ~,
SO npi To tail, IN concerns which would enrich an
Individual, who understood and attended personally
10 TIE business. Suppose lawyer, from Pennsyi-
! vanid, should address "A merchant, nj New York
- my Jear sir, you had better sell YOUR shps and
hud cotton factory will pay you much better -
would not the merchant lie entitled TO say, d" SIR
KNOW now 10 employ my capital for my own benefit,
us vel as you can tel, me-" 1.-The lawyer we're TO
reply, but am a member Of Congress, and We will
hWihen your commerce rs 10 make your interest
To adopt my opinion. '-Woulu there be honesty IN
ihis conpuisun! Is 1t not at this nioaieut proposed
l 10 do
| :. Preceding The ground Of erpedieace III
can buy OF my neighbour my comnlody, cheaper
Than can make n at home save the differ ence of
expense 10y buying IL aud AN more probably
cmpioyeu ~ making some cSrhangeable cumuiudit,
ioi my neighbour cheaper than he make A., Than
by making the article that | want from, him, As
every haiIon Is no more than itrd collection u
ind,'itnais, what applies each individual applies
10 ,"e "hton. Upon the principle of fostering home
industry, every shoemaker, should be his own tailor
natter, waict-maker, joiner, sc. The reason WIN
he should not he all these trades, is reason that will
Apply tn all individuals sinai circumstauced thai
! IL, Ia tho nation.
). -igdia. All The argument WHY we shouId mail.
whai we want az home, rather than buy FROM abroad
applies TO uhe state, refusing deal with anothrr
STATE one country, with another country one ud,-
viuoa, with another individual II is in direct oppo-
s'uon 10 The plain add practical IN, kim buy where
yon huy cheapest
r. 1s1m' Industry is pu, in motion by the active
employ heh' oi capital tins is the great slim uus
ro,nied out by experience. II IA man have 10 600
collars unemployed, and which he cannot afford IL,
lei lie '"e, he seeks Tor some setting hunsu
/
Inc Introduction Of manufacture does NOT in.
crease tie mass OF industry, IL lie set on foot by
''ea"s OF capital already employed. Hence, VIM.
ever d'mInishes increases capiial diniuisbes mr.
increases The great basis Of industry and therefore
industry rs promoted 10y buyins at the cheapest mar,
ke wherever that be bccause capital is diminished
ny so DONG, IN The smallest proportion the nogrr
gaze capital remaining to he employed is increased
oy me practice and The quanlum OF nal indus
Try maj Is acted on by capital is also increased
o. fSdtn he Increased price of an article a. M ia
consumer, however l.
nus country more than any other the mass of cons,.
MRS are OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in raising raw
materials OF every Kind 10y cultivang the earth IL is
acknowledged every where, thai agricultural can't.
Is employed more directly and immediately Ia lie
""'"n.age OF ibe community than any other: be-
Cause IL Is more permanen'-iess iuctuatiug in value
mol easily removeable-nut easily affected by ex
ternai warsproducIng articles OF the first NECESSITY
as 1000, AMI the raw materials which manufacture
ana commerce are founded. IL produces also
heaihier population than any other emuloyuent of
capital no one therefore has hitherto doubted lis
being the most natural, aud the most yaluab,e of all
employ mems But the class of consumers with US
are "gricuurisis II rs our most advantageous en-
poyneni oil capital that bears the burthen of these
nionopoi'es, ana IS r%aysed by these operations and
D. -Agam. Being essentially an agricultural ,a,;o,
agriculture constitutes The largest most yai,ia and
I'osi extensive interest, which our laws can one
raie his viii be 80 Tor centuries 10 come Indeed
centuries will pass away, before our wilds from, ,e
AilanIic Ocean TO the Pacific, are even moderately
cultivated While this state Of things which nature
naS imposed on us Continues, the agricultural interest
WIZ ever be IN waht OF capital, and furnish upon the
whole Inc most beneficial employment of capiiaI e.
ven u II did no more Than enable the cutyator o
o'ng up numerous and hardy family in health and
plenty and this IT will always do. To foster every
q" my Other employment Of capital at The expense OF
agricnnre-by diminishing the savings Of The farmer
"nd iorcng him 10 n,antsin the manufaciurer-or hy
tempting The Capitalist from agriculture min mann
"c'uTe, IS plnIhiy contrary our most undoubt.d
p""cy More obviously opposed 10 the interest of
'hrse United States, than Of any other country ON
We globe We are not aware Of the magnitude of
we o'Jeci we are thiopering with, when our expeti-
meris are made on The agricultural Interests OF the
"""on Our pop"htIon ri this day is ten millions of
which, almost the whole are TO he stpiorted i'm f,ri
by agriculture for whatever foreinn pro,ure mr. man
"-o'hre we may consnme II ia luci our ncricuitn-
'a produce that buys the greater pnri of it, Take
""Hy' however, To" f"bour-prodnce of Two millions
anu hni oi people, rs purchasing their supplies y
me produce oi mercantile or maaulacturn1 I.bour
linen seven "nd nn half millions Of people are sun
psri~d hy agriculture. They rOns,nle nue. ,vio, a.
olher, articles 10 The nmounI Of 100 dollars n venr .
o. 'oO m'IioDs oil dollars, independent of their sur
plus exported. What u our Commerce what are nur
manufactures compared 10 the magnitude Of this IN
ierfs, Suppose that each Of the ten millions nav
"on"r year mora ihHn they otherwise would do, for
slicieS oi manufacture, ~ consequence Of the pro-
lnOhIng dues, and the proposed n,onopoIv of u,,r
boh'e sdnui"Ginrers, calculation fnr from, exfrava-
F' Is 'iIhe 10 lake awpy ten millions Of dol
lars annually from farmers? YET This ia tte &C.
Illus Is I've substance Of the scheme IN couIen,u.-
ton For ins'sHre, ia the year ending the 12d NJ
oeWenheT, 1917, We imported Of foreign coo,mod,-
"fr, 0'%4I S1l dollars, (in round numbers IS Ia
minus lbs Is Tue supporting price. The Consu-
mNr p"id Jor these ~ least 100 million of dollars The
proposed Tariff amounts 10 an s,j,Iitoo,I ,a, 90, ,
al Me very lowest calcnldiion ~ favour of the usgu-
iAe'uiei ana "ne tenth ui an hundred H. ten Wbat
HuT"En'1' PIoSperi Tor tic manufacturing spccnia-
lOf OOueeur OF ten siil!ious of tlollais - vsar
pSrpsiuAily increasing MS CONSUMERS ou,oly VIZ,
"m'gnihsenl onera'ion Tie product of few claus