The Wilmingtonian., 1824-02-12
TO
The Senate and House of Representatives
OF THE
UNITED STATES,
IN coS6uEss ASSEMBLED.

Tie meaoricl Of tie Citizens Of Mw-Casile
County IN the Stu!e Of Dela'oare, respectfully
ShcWeth.
That your memorialists live in district
nf country containing many large estab |
lishments, principally erected during the
late war. for the manufacture OF the sta
ole articles of woul and cotton. and calcu-
lated to furnish "A supply of these manu-
factures not only for the demand OF the
domestic market, but for expiration on q
scale, az they conceive, eninently advan-
ltaseous to the country.
The beneficial effects resulting to the
at large, from the establish
I,nent of these and oiher man fac lures in
this district. have been Witnessed by your
,nemorial.ts. sufficiently 10 demonstrate
to them the still greater advantages that
would flnw to the country from 4 general
Iextensinn Of the system Of protection tn
national Industry. They will, on the pre-
sent occasion, however. contine their re-
marks, and solicit the attention of Con-
srASs, 10 the particular branches which
,have been named above in regard to one
Of which, experience has already furnished
criterion by which the whole system Of
protection TO manufactures may be advan-
,,tascously tested.
Dy the act of Congress passed the 2-th
|day Of April 1916. it was required, that
every square yard of cotton cloth import
,lcd, Of less value than twenty-five cents
4 should be taken and deemed as of that va
.llue, and should be charged with duty &C
|cor,lnsly; thus granting protection tt
lthe manufacture 0f cotton cloths below
that value. The beneficial effects Of this
> regulation have been demonstrated by thu
employment it has furnished to those, who
without it's aid, would have been destitute
1 |of the meana Of subsistence, and by th'
Icompetition it has creatoh in the manufac
| ture of low priced co'.ons. which has re
! .luced the prices Of these articles TO thu
: consumer nearly fifty per cent. lower thai
II while the market was furnished with then
Q from abroad
d The success Of this experiment has rea!
e lied the most sanguine expectations of il
IS authors in so far, as it has shewn. tha
> the protection ofany single branch Of man
te ufactures, while it extends the sphere Il
arInseiul employment an 1Dcct no goo" g
in vernment can regard with Indifference, a
n $50 furnishes the article protected at
~ cheap and moderate rate to the consume
Sc 1t has concluslve'y refutcd the mistake
,n notion, that has too long prevailed to th
nj; dptri,nent OF the country. that to protee
he the manufactures would be to create M
ho nopoly of which thr people would be tf
ar victims. Our foreign commerce has al:
he been benefited, by enabling our merchan
in to export low priced cottons under ci
~, cumstances which placed them in adva
ce. tageous competition with foreign goods
ofthe same denominations.
ch As the benefit Of the system of prote
The ton has been thus fully demonstrate
.he your memoriaists would respectfully e
ur- quire, why stop at this points Is it not
the bundantly evident. from the success Of II
ofexperiment that it is the true policy of I
A. government. to proceed gradually with
mi, system, and to cherish the best interes
fell Of the nation by progressive increase
our the tariff, not oO'y, io regard to cottons /