Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-06

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raiorem duty--as If the whole profit Of tran
sit, fur which argue, did not turn on that very
duty. No, sir. am not quite in so wild an
extreme, either on the one side or the other.
AS To encouraging the settlement Of Canada,
does not that gentleman know, that there are
Inducements ON our side of the line, against
winch no sort OF competition can for moment
be presented ? Does not he consider that this
must nec' ssarily be the ease, from thr differ
ence between free, popular, hom. govern
men', and the colonial government of distant
dependency of a monarchy T? Give it what
advantages you plrase-add bounty To boun.
ty, II is the same thing nothing can destroy
tins necessary essential difference. The ar
gument amounts to this-if you don't give
our own citizens dsty of more than Il per
cent. they will go over To the Canada side
Why, let them go then. If this is all that
Keeps them, they are certainly unfit to be cit
" MS of this republic. The gentlemen say, il
you KEEP ont the Canada wheat from our ca
nal, our wheat will find foreign market Why,
sir, so will the Canada wheat. The b,,shel of
wheat that grew TN one side of the line will
very probably meet in the West Indies the
very bushel that grew opposite to i, ON the
other side. You can't keepit out. The true
question is, whether the expenses of going
round by Montreal and Quebec will so raise
its price in the foreign market that the gain
upon the wheat We sell there will more than
compensate us for the loss of the ad valorem
duty, the transit toll, and the commercial
commission and charges for the shipment p
This is the real question, and il must be de-
cided by facts, of which | am not, at present,
master but, should suppose it would not,
ny any means. Gentlemen are afraid the Ca
NADIA wheat will be consumed in New York
why, SIR, IT makes not "a cent of odds If il is
because so much more of our own wheat will
be exported in the place of it. New York is
not only consumer, but an exporter at the
same time. The gentlrma from Delaware
says, II the Canada wheat dues not come down
the canal, our own will rome down i'm its
place. No, sir because New York is not the
place "f consumptiOn-uut the final market
The great argument for the transit is from the
revenue il will produce al fifteen per cent ad
ralorem. All our drawback system is found
ed on transit. and a very productive system it
has proved. Gentlemen ought always to keep
1t IN mind that tile admission of the Canada
|, wheat TO pass through the state does mt pre-
: vent the manufacture of our own within the
state.
MIR. CLAY said he was greatly surprised al
the argument Ofthe gentleman from Massa
chuselts. IL was certainly not correct thai. il
the Canada wheat did not come down our ca
nal, 1t would get as cheaply 10 the foreign
market by the way Of the St. Lawrence.
l Mr.. w. explained y had not been SD alb
surd as TO say this.
MIR. CLAY Then the gentleman s,Irrenders
the argument for it gets to the West Indies.
IN that route, burdencd with additional costs
OF transportation II is no longer able to com
pete with ours, and the market is secured To
our own agriculturst. The Canada -four is
certainly eaten somewhere, either in the Uni
ted Stntes or in foreign market ifin the
United States, then sn much of our own is
displaced, and To its whole amount. il is an
injury To the American wheat grower /: ifin a
foreign market then, If that market was great
enough IN consume both all the Canada wheat
and all ours, the genlleman's argument might
hoid. But such IS not the fact. Ours aud
the Canada must compete for the same con-
sumner. Why, then, bring the Canada whea,
10 that consumer any cheaper. by the use OF
our canal Wherever the Canada whoa,
goes, go where IT may, ii takes the place of 81
much American wheat, whether at home or
abroad. Besides, if you cut off their flour
from the use Of our canal, you keep il a, home
Tor all that portion of the year that the ST.
4 Lawrence is closed with ice, while our canal
soPen. The British warehousng system did
not apply to this case. Gentlemen did not
Seem To be aware Of the advantage of the home
consumption. The city of New York alone
did not consume less than 200 900 barrels of
flour annually. IL Canada -four comes to
New York for consumption, so much Am,ri
can is excluded. NO matter, says the gentle
man from Massachusetts, because so much
more American goes abroad. Very true ::
II there was market ready abroad TO receive
it-bnt this Is not the case ; and therefore il
| rs a dead loss to the merican farmer Such
was the fertility OF the Canadian peninsula. be-
tween Lakes Erie and Ontario, and so cheap
were the lands sold by the British govern
ment, that the settler there could afford IN nm
dersell the farmer of the United States, WHOSE
land costs him fen times as much
Mr.. WEBSTER reJoincd, and said, that tina
great d'filcuIty, IT there were any, lay in tell
ing what would be the effect Of the duty, if
laid: would 1t prevent the consumption of
foreign wheat in New York Formerly. tbe
price was the same on both sides of the lines
Now, on account of the increased facility NJ
getting TO market, the price is sised ON This
side. All that is sought by the Canadian
wheat grower is TO use this facility his flour
comes IN, only that II may go out and il
would be easy tn adopt regulations such asaIl
forsign governments have done, who encour-
age the TRANSIT of goods, to prevent breaking
bulk. But, the gentleman asks, shall we give
rival facilities Ia get cheaper To a market
where we go ourselves? answer. YES If
he VIII pay You for this, more than makes mn
the difference. This very consideration Of
transit toll from Canada was holden I'm and
largely insisted on, when the great canal in
n. York WAS proposed. And il must not he
forgotten, that the toll on the canal was not all
the Canada flour paid US. 1t paid the meI-
chant on the lines something il pays the
merchant at Albany something the merchant
at n. York something and finally il EMPLOYS
our navigation, and pays something to our
tars.