Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-03-02

have in view.
Mr.. Hoseboom objected to this duty, as bearing
uuequally particular class of the community.
Those articles which bore AN I raiorem duty, were
IN the bill proposed TO be raised only from 20 to %
per cent. while this article of bagging, an in
crease of duty of from 60 per cent. -Nas intended
on that formerly laid. The Chairman OF the Com
mittec of Manufactures confessed that the duty
would be psohibitory. The hon. Speaker SAID it
would only produce Il competito between the A.
mcrican manufacturers and those of Inverness and
Dundee. On that competition, he wished to sub
nit few remarks. Those two small Scotch towns
were situated i'll high northern latitude, Zone in
So, the other in $50, n :. in poor and cold coun-
try In order 10 procure the material for this cotton
bagging, (therc called iemp sacking,) they had to
send up the Baltic, about 200 miles, to Dantzic,
and bring it to Inverness. All the fuel they used
was broushtfr London and Liverpool. All the food
they ate they bought. They were at great expense
to get the article, Tor, having nothing send in
exchange, their vessels up the Baltic in ballast,
and had to pay Sound duties at great expense in
sending out the manufactured article TO this coun
try; for j, was bulky they paid freight, commission,
and insurance. And with all these charges on the
article from its origin, and the duties added on its
importation, they entered the market with the man
ufacturer of the West, who raised the material at
his own door, and lived III ouutry where provisions
were cheap aud abundhnt-and yet they undel sell
him. How could this be- What was the explana-
ton oil fact extraordinary? 1t was, Mr.. II.
said, to be found i'll this-that the wcavers of In
vcrness aud Dundee worked with degree of appli-
cation that was unparalleled, for Ii hours day,
that is, fourth more per day than the laborer of
the West-and two-thrds of the value oil the coarse
article they made lay in the labour they bestowed
on it. Putting its value ut 80 cents yard, 20 cents
of this price WINS purely the effect of abour:
onefourti of 20 cents is five that their en-
tra labor. beyond the workman in this country, was
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ufactured. This was the whole secret. The Ken
lucky manufacturer will work so hard as the
Scotch manufacturer and shall we for this said MIR.
III. lay tax on sur farmers: spurn at it. l will
act for the whole of my country-I will give to all
alike-for this came bcrc and in this hope
shall ever be found. The Hon. Speaker, in his
zeal for the manufacturers of his state forgot the
line which says,
Help me to look at others woes"
Mr. Ii. further said, that he should not have riscn
had single from the northern part of his own
state, spoken any but side of this question.
He contcnded that the duty not paid by tn
sumner, but by the grower Of coton--and if gentle
men meant to lay 4 duty OH the cotton-growers Of
the South, let them come out and say at once.
Was the cotton trade an Improbable one to the
United States: On the contrary, there ne
branch OF its trade profitable. Yet he was
not opposed the whole bill. Some of its features
to this duty on cotton hagging.
MIR. Burton said, that from the account given bv
Tie honorable Speaker, OF the manufacture Cfth,s
article in the West, it appeared that little ca
pital was needed to carry 1t on. Much OF it is pee,
formed by children, and living slow. Yet the Scotch
article is furnished cheaper than the American. The
Mr. s. stated be i'll the dense population of
Scotland, where every branch Of labour fully
occupied and its price diminished TO about sixpence
or shilling day-whiie III the West of our coun-
try was 40 or 5O cents. Mr.. Burton asked II Il was
Just that all the rest of the Union should be taxed
to make up this difference in the price of labour be-
,reen Scotland and Kentucky He knew that
tate was under great embarrassments at present.
out she would soon getrelief. She began to export
much tobacco, in addition to her hogs and horses.
Yet the restless spirit to which the Speaker na,:
with truth alluded, urged them to seek TO bring
new article into the market-and they say TO the
people of the South Do you be so good be 1T
T. whole expence of our bringing this new article
In .narkct." Instead of this they would do bet
Ter . attend to the raising of people. Judging
foGt the specimens this floor, they would excel
iii Ia branch of domestic manufacture. The sta
PIE n: of export from North Carolina, used to
t noik "'.l bacon, which they carried into Virgil
ia; tN hentu Ky h..i, in great measure, s,pelce-
ded this trade, by underselling Carolina. She had
lost the market, n driven to the growing of
ton. How would the West like it, if Carolina should
tween the sterile and WORKOUT soil of Carolina,
and the fresh and fertile fields of Kentuc,, I? Yet
such request would be as reasonable as that now
ulgcd by Kentucky.
NJ. Owen, in reply to Mr.. Trimble's remark, some
days SINCE upon the weight of bagging being inclu-
ded IN that OF the bale of cotton, and sold cotton
produced a calculation shew that, H. Liverpool
1.-THE ultimate market, by which the price of cotton
was regulated) n deduction in weight was made
for the baggng and the balerope, of three per
on uplands; by which bale of 800 lbs. lost 1
l-2 lbs; Louisiana cotton lost 10 ID lbs, and
tlavre de Grace, % lbs.-much more than twice the
price of the bagging.
MTrinble, i'll reply, said that this loss fell on the
foreign consumer, the various charges being evcntu
ally added to the price of the article; that, the
end, the bagging and cotton going in together to
make up that price, the bagging did sell as cotton
III II 'oSt the planter less than cotton, h. gained by
IL; II more, he lost. /. illustrated his position
by comparing the trade and transportation on cot
ton with those tobacco, and concluded by ;nqur-
lhg whether the gentleman ftom n w York (Mr. |
hogeboon) meant to advocate such form of the |
tariff as would compel the people of Kentucky to |
work like beasts of burden 6 hours day? Was
this the equality me spoke of? He said ne would
protect IRON and wood, but not bagging. Let tire
IRON lorgcrs work IL hours day, and let the sheep
eat l6 hours a day, and they would need no more
protection than the manufactures of bagging. Surely
seven large states could raise hemp enough, and
manufacture it too, to supply five comparatively
smaR states. lie protested against making the peo-
pie of the United States beasts of burden
Mr.. iogcboom, in reply, said that according to
the gentlcmans own illustration from tobacco, the
question resolved itself into ths-whether it was
better to go to market where, hog5head of to-
bacco worth $50, tare deducted, than to la Ike
1t to another market where the same hogshead
brought 5 80 without any tare being deducted at
all
On motion of Mr.. Livingston, the Committee then