American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-12-30

sbis very moment, less absolute or less instructive
The prohibitions, the bounties, the high dutes the
penalties, by force OF which, throughout long
tract Of time the manufactures Of that country have
gained so much excellence, never in any wise aba.
led, until, by the recent ayowas of her statesmen,
high in intelligence as authority, British fabrics were
not merely certain to continue the supply, immense
as it is known TO be, of the home demand, but to
find their way in proportion far greater than those
from any other country into all the markets of the
world.
The United States, With combination of na,u-
raj and political advantages as trsnscendent in num-
Der as degree have before them these and other ex.
amples the lights of co existent nations the am
plest demonstrations of experience, for building up
their manufacturers and by that vigiIant legislative
assistance, without which they have never been
known in any country to establish themselves in
large or durable pre- emnence. Nor has this poll
cy been found to interfere with an abundant for
eign commerce, 10 the wealthiest and most indus
.rous nations. 1t has on the contrary, carried its
bounds still further; since every nation, by its hab
its and position. will always command superior ia.
elites for excelng in certain branches of labor and
art, which it therefore chiefly cherishcs, leaving to
other nations the opportunity of exoeng in other
branches, OF running the career of beneficial RI
valry in the same; by which system the artificial
productions OF the world are augmented and impro.
ved and the fields Of traffic. through the increasing
desires and varying tastes of mankind, as opulence
and civilization make new advances, more and more
extended and enriched. II the nations Of Europe,
whose industry aud nterchapges move in circles
geographically proximate 10 each other, have yet
adopted this policy, or have fallen back in their
prosperity by the fact OF its absence il those ma
TORS that have adopted it, still seen to keep to
it, or have only swerved from it after its ends have
been attained by stronger reasons should the Uni
ted States act upon it. Their remoteness from all
the chief sources OF supply of manufactured articles
forms the additional motive, not to invoke that which
might be drawn from the burdens and even exclu |
sons still! full existence in Their countries, against
some Of their primary productions. That a popu
ous and independent nation, nation civilized since
the moment OF its existence, and whose institutions,
by their essential principle, tend to accelerate it in
the career OF intellectual and social, already they
have conferred upon it political emlnence should
have continued as long as the United States have |
done, to derive from distance TO be computed on.
~ by the space OF oceans, so many OF the fabrics
which conduce to the necessary tasteful accom- |
mudations Of life if not without precedent, has, per-
haps not before existed in of any other ma.
ton upon the same extensive scale. Without adj
verng TO the contingencies which may diminish or
cut Oft this supply from remote hemispheres, the
very deterioration to which time & more frequently
casualty, expose no inconsderable portion of these
fabrics before the natural and intended uses OF them
can be exhausted, and where the skill that made is
TOO often alone competent to renovate or repair be
comes by much,a dead loss to the capital OF the i'm
porter consumer, & consequently to that Of the
ton The amount of it would 60 far, il is believed
towards forming fund for encouraging the equal
ly perfect fabrication at home, OF most OF the arti
Giles OF foreign origin, consigned, by the cause au
ded to, to premature inutility or destruction.
Besides the advantages of manufactures for home
use, the present moment is deemed 10 be peculiarly
suspicious, not TO say urgent, tor fostering Them
from the situation and circumstances Of the rest of
the world An era has arrived, upon which alter
ages are to look back as to point, in the CONNER
rial desnies Of mankind The colonia, system is
last falling to pieces. Over immense regions 1t is
totally gone, involving the certainty OF change both
in the channels and in the objects OF trade as vast
as they will be various. The family Of nations has
been extended new continents, new oceans, are
opened to independent intercourse; to a just end
equal participation in the benefits OF which, the
United States cannot but be alive. These benefits
they can scarcely derive to the full and proper ex
tent, but by giving themselves to the large fabica
ton of those works of art for which their climate
their productions, and the skill and capital OF which
their citizens already in possession, especially
qualify them. The course of their export trade for
the last two years, stated IN this report is an en-
couragng omen OF their ability and aptitude 10 enter
This new and great field OF competition. Not to
follow up such beginnings by timely and judicious
measures, might be TO let opportunities pass, not
always to be recalled. Whilst nations shut out, by
their limited territory, from agricultural products
as the basis of foreign trade. have yet pushed the
latter to its far,hest limits, by manufactures alone
as that basis, it is the favored lot OF the United
oates to superadd 10 the extent and riches OF their
soil, state of social advancement, and an amount
OF town population, already equa! to the most ex-
ensive and varied operations of manufacturing in
dustry. Not to found establishments by which this
species of profitable industry may take life and
spread the land, would it is believed be to for