Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-11-30

manufacturing classes. We have witnesse1
from the recent accounts from England an
imposing confederation ofthis fact where nu-
merous and astonishing assemblies Of those
accommodation Of people have met, under cir
cumstances Ut distress which would sink deep
INTO any hearts bat those Of the British adj
minsstrai'ou, without even tendiugto any acts
Of extravaganza. Even ssveoty Thousand
nave met IN mass, and NO act but such as
would proceed from the mind, Independent
Ut the passions. attempted. 1t would be idle
10 say tnat such men are viliated in morals,
OF could oy possibility become dangerous in a
Tree government. As To the owners Uf the
es'aol'shments, 1t can never be feared, in a
country like ours, where agriculture must for
ages ha 80 decisively predominant, and where
| commerce and the mechanic interests would
~ equally keep them in check, that they
would ever become, by .overweening influ-
encs, 0bnoAiOus ~ our free institutions. But
perhaps the contrary would result, from the
strong necessity which for centuries will exist
Of IN some slight degree Contemplating the
coiossa' weight OF the agricultural influence,
by countsractive interest-Nith some il is
urged against manufactures, that their sepa.
rate encouragement as branch Of the policy
of the government would diminish or epdaprer
at least, for a length Of time, our national
wealth. But admit the fact, and i, is far from
admissible, and how will the subject stand !:
Politicians too often take for granted the faila-
cIous principle that the prosperity of nation
depends upon its wealth. On the contrary.
we would say that the prosperity of nation
depended ON its physical strength and its mo-
raj greatness Wealth has often DESTROYED.
but never in itself made an empire. No mau
who casts his eye over the varegated and ex-
tended empire, can suppose that from the pro-
motin Ut It's own manufactures poverty
would ensue. The wealth Ut "a nation Is lis
strength. Ii is the blood, bone and sin-w Of
It's population, not 10 the Spanish milled dol
lar or the redundancy of bank rap.r The
questions foreign enemy would ask, before
declaration OF war, would not turn upon the
particular state of our treasury from the i'm
post and tonnage duties or upon the particu-
lar dynasty Of our gove,nme having or not
secured to itself popularity by heaping up a
mound Of public gold. But The questions
would be, what kind of an army can this ma
ton bring into the field? audby what mo-
tives and principles would that army be actu-
aied whether It's energies would be checked
IN the commercial cities by foreign debts aud
connexions? whether il had by foreign Iuxu-
RES lost IT'S republican strength and virtue ?
Aud u that enemy were ~ discover that the
great moral motive Of this whole army would
|
ed by an exclusive love Of country: that il
would be sinewed by moral and natural health :
that It would fight Tor its affairs, its firesidps,
and It's own domestic establishments-theD
would that natioa be tardy In declaring the
war. "a
| 10 divide and conquer is the maxim of our
| constitutional enemy. The encouragement Of
our domestic resources will make US a united
people. This nation will become one great
| family, giving and taking from each other
Let us then treasure up the maxim of wis
| dom that concert is stronger than numbers.
Another benefit, and not among the least
which would arise from the encouragement OF
domestic manufacture would be the exclusion
| OF all foreign agents, whether Scotch. Fog
| Ilsh, French, or German. This species of
cornorant character holds in his hand the can.
| Itai OF some man abroad, who never intends 10
step bis foot upon our shores and with this
capital extracts from the country the profits of
It's traffic On perfect commercial equality with
the American citizen. This is continued un-
w he accumulates given heap of riches for
himself and his patron, and then, after Cypress
ing all arouod him to wind up his affairs, he
m0desiiy returns to his foreign huD and re-
t'rinS I'D opulence, contributes TO the wealth
and resources Of that nation who might de-.
clare war against US. THIS is in fact furnishing
the sinews Of war TO o:her nations: for il
would be American profits on which this agent
would live IN has own country. The truth u.s.
that we have progressed SD far that we want
no population, and should receive none, ex-
cept those who intend TO spend their lives and
increase their posterily among u.s..
As the United States are i.habted by NOR.
foreign Agents than any nation on earth, in
proportion io their population, il will appear,
upon calculation. that this is very improvi
DENT mode of parting with the national trea-
sure. Danish The foreign goods as far as our
manufactures, underth magn,nimous care of
Congress can Danish them, and the visits of
those vn|tUres would soon cease In their
place would stand the honest manufacturer.
receiving u fair profit for the fabricks of his
own hand, but the picture Of evil arising from
those foreign agents has not been sufficiently
excluded. Their transactions with our ciizsDs
are often insidious and oppressive. They
have not the sympathies of country of nation
al fellow feeling To meliorate their cupdity.
In the'r indulgences they are actuaied by inter-
est alone, aud in their enforcement ~ debts ihey
are restrained by no principles. They are al
this moment TO be seen in swarms in their ri
sitsto the interior of our country, and our re-
hottest western waters. Aud such is the pre-
jndIce with which they are viewed by the ho-
nest but embarrassed debtors in those places,
that they have eniailed upon Themselves the
name of ihat gloomy bird which bovers over
and lives upon the carton of the desert.
But we W.! here submit an observation
totcn'rg our own merchants. Perhaps Con-
gress may see the propriety of refusing TO our
'rauers 10 the East Indies and China, and
other quarters. such credit upon the duties
due to the United States as in fact enables
those traders to amass great wealth upon the
capital Of the u. States, in the way of char.
ges upon the goods on account OF those duties:
but which duties are never paid to, or de.