Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-05-11


that the present depressed price OF our
agricultural products, has been OCCASION
ed by the Tariff This opinion is alto
gether erroneous.
Long prior to the enactment OF The
present Tariff, our flour and other bread
stuffs, were prohibited from most OF the
European states, unless when the failure
OF crops there produced danger OF Ia
mine. These prohibitory laws ESPECIALLY
in England from which country we re-
ceived most Of our supply of manutac-
iured goods were absolutely necessary
to enable their farmers 20 pay the enor
nous Rents, Taxes and Titbes imposed
upon them; which accordingly to
memorial of Agricultural Committee
to the British Parliament amounted to
one. third of the market price OF aerlcui-
tural products in that Kingdom.
! In 1911, there were exported IRON
the United States, 1,3s3.9I4 barrels o.
flour, amounting to IS,9s0,oo0 dollars.
i la 1921, there were exported from
the United States, S79,743 barrels OF
j -four, amounting to ASS, sos dollars.
i While the demand for our flour was
! thus de creasing, our demand for manu-
featured goods were Increasing with our
increasing population.
\ Under these circumstances, II appears
to US, no alternative was left the national
government, but TO encourage our own
manufactures by the imposition oil al
diiional duties upon the manufactured
articles OF those nations who refused TO
receive our grain and flour in payment
for their goods.
r The Tariff instead Of being an injury,
: will operate TO the advantage OF The
/, farmer, nasmuch as tie increase oil
manufactures of every kind, will detsch
t portion OF our population from agricui-
B. tural pursuits, and increase the home
consumption Thread ufts--give labor
, to thousands oil our citizens who other
t wise would have been idle or unprofta-
E bly, employ ed - and what ought to be of
2 infinite importance to every patriotic A.
merican, we trust in God. is leading the
{ way to our perfect independence of the
work shops of Europe.-Hank Repos.
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/ We perceive that proposition has
been made atNorfolk to open spbscrip-
ton for Mr. JEFFERsoN.-A meeting has
also been called at Wilmington, Della
ware. for this day, with aview TO adopt
some measure probably, of similar kind.
! We should be glad to see the plan we or
|iginall, suggested, Of raising fund, pur-
chasing the property OF Mr.; Jefferson
at handsome price, giving IT to him Tor
life, and then bestowihg i on the um-
versitv of Virginia. carried INTO effect
Such fund. conveyed through the
hands of the Mayors of the different CT
ties, would, in lis character ana dispose
ton, we presume, be most cohSonant
to the personal feelings and public views
OF that disinterestrd patriot, in honor of
whose great services it is suggested. II
would better become us, great and
grateful nation, to deprive the contribu-
ton of the character OF personal obliga-
ton; and to make it rather a compl-
ment to rising literary institution, con-
veyed through MIR JEFFERSON, and con-
ferred on it, in return for the benefits he
has conferred on his country. n. Int.
The Massachusetts, (Worcester) Soy.
ofthe 22d, states. that the jail OF that
county was without single prisoner for
debt If this almost isolated instance
afforded an opportunity of congratula-
ting the county in which it occurred.
how much greater ground for satisfaction
would it be, if imprisonment for debt
were abolished altogether. unless in ca
ses where debt has been made criminal
by association with fraud We have set
the civilized world an example of politi-
cal freedom. which will never fade from
the records OF human events: let US also
be the first to erase, both IN its charac-
ter and its punishment, debt, from the
catalogue OF crimes To an honorable
mind, the conciouness- the deep, de-
grading Notifying consciousness, of be |
ing in debt 10 his fellow-creatures, is
punishment enough; it needs no human
code to give it greater punsency.
The Coal Trade from Mount Carbon,
in the week ending April /. three hun
dred tons of Coal departed. Nearly an
equal quantity is stated to have cleared
in the same period from Reading.-On
enquiry, we learn, that more than five
thousand tons OF Coal, have this season
descended the Lehigh river. This is
much greater quantity than was got
down this time last year. We would not
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