American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-17

At large and respectable meeting of the citizens
Newcastle county, friendly to the encouragement of Am
rcan manufactures convened at Smiths hotel in the
rough OF Wilmington, on Saturday the 9TH of February
PETER CAvELnr Esq. was called to the chair, aud
\ Wm.P BRoBsoN, was appointed Secretary.
i The subjoined memorial laid before the meetin
and on motion, it
Unanimously Resolved That this meeting approve of sa
memorial.
RESOLVED, That the following persons be appointed
obtain the signatures Of the citizens Of Newcastle count
to the said memorial, viz.
For Brandywine Mtndred-CharIes 7. Dupont, VILLA
4 w Young, James White and Harry williamson
i For ChriStana Hundred-John X. Brinckle, Evan TIL
mas, Josiah F. Clement, Alexander Porter James MKea
VIM. Chandler, Thomas Powell John H. Gilpin jam
Simpson, Henry Hoopes John Baily, William Hertlma
James r. Sqnibb. Nehemiah Deaplaine, Peter B. Dcan
For New Cast,e Hunred.-David C. Wilson, John Rdd
and John MsCalmont.
For .1hn Creek Hnndred-Andrew Gray, Aquilla N
| becher, John Harlan and Edward Marshall.
| For White Clay Creek Htndyed.-Henry Whitley Day
Armstrong and John Herdman.
Resolved That the said memorial be published in all III
papers of this Borough, signed by the Chairman and Sc
cretaIy.
Resolved That fifty copies of said memorial be printed
and that John Torbert and Evan Thomas be appointed
committee to distribute the to the persons appeinte
to obtain signatures.
PETER CAyERLY, Chairman.
WIN. p. Bronson, Secretary.
obtain signatures, are requested to return the memora
with such signatures may be obtained TO Peter Caver,
EST on or before the 18Th inst.
To the Senate and House Of Representatives of the Unite
States, in Congress assembled.
The Memorial of the citizens Of Newcastle county
the State of Delaware.
Respectfully Sheweth,
That your memorislists live in district OF couu
try Containing many large establishments, princ
pally erected during the lie war, for the manutat
ture oil the staple articles OF wool and cotton, an
Calculated TO furnish supply Of these manufactures
not only for the demand Of the domestic market, bu
for expectation on scale, as they conoeive evi
IDENTITY advantageous to the country. The benefi
cial effects resulting to the community at large
from the establishment ofthese and other manufac
lures in this district, have been witnessed BY YOU
memorialsts, sufficiently to demon strate to then
the still greater advantages that would flow to thu
country, from ageneral extension Of the system o
protection to national lndustry.-They will on tn,
present occasion, however, conhne their remarks
and solicit the attention of Congress to the partic
ular branches which have been named above il
regard TO one OF which experience has alread,
furnished a criterion by which the whole system o
protection TO manufactures may be advantageous,
tested.
BY the act Of Congress, passed the eth day of A
pril, 1876 1t was required that every square ward
cotton cloth imported, ola less value than twenty
FIVE cents, should be taken and deemed as of tina
value, and should be charged with duty according
ly; thus granting protection to the manufactur,
OF cotton cloths below that value. The beneficial
effects oil this regulation have been demonstrated
by the employment it has furnished to those who
without its aid, would have been destitute Of tn,
means OF subsistence and by the competition il has
created IN the manufacture OF low priced cottons
which has reduced the prices of these articles tc
the consumer nearly fifty per cent. lower than while
the market was furnished with them from abroad
The success OF this experiment has realized the
most sanguine expectations oil its authors in so far
as 1t has shown, that the protection Of any single
branch OF manufactures, while it extends the sphere
OF useful employment an object no good govern
ment can regard with indifference, also furnishes
the article protected at cheap and moderate rate tc
the consumer. 1t has conclusively refued the mis-
taken notion, that has too long prevailed TO the de-
riment OF the country, that 10 protect the manufac
turer would be to create a monopoly of which the
people would be the victims. Our foreign com.
merce has also been benefited, by enabling our mer.
chants to export low priced cottons under circum-
stances which placed them in advantageous compe.
ttion with foreign goods Of the same denominations
AS the benefit Of the system of protection has been
thus fully demonstrated your memorialists would
respectfully enquire, why stop at this point Is ii
not abundan,y evident, from the success ofths ex-
pertinent, that il is the true policy Of the govern
ment, to proceed gradually with the system and to
cherish the best interests Of the nation by progress
sive increase of the tariff not only in regard TO cot
tons, but all other manufactures of which we pos
sess the raw materials? Your memoriasts feel
persuaded, that if the system be extended in the
manner here suggested, the benefits will keep equal
pace with the extension. 1t will widen the sphere
OF national industry, introduce competition, not
only in the manufacture but in the growth OF the raw
material, which will inevitably reduce the price Of
the former and any manufacturing advantage to a
fair level with other pursuits. The evil Of stopping
short OF the proper point, has become obvious in
this. In CONSEQUENCE al the prntertion affcrdpI hy