American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-12-18

rope: whilst !aMic wrought From the inferior cot
tor are sent on 20 Foreign markets generally, and
(, these 81 tive Gu,le,l Sta,e- amongst the number
FURTHER legislative assistance to manufactures al
this innc'pie, canning, as wonld. after an nterva
that ma lrtt tmu for the ig,gnent Of the nation K
pass urnr the good effects Of the tariff Of 1924, az
far as it has proved adequate. would impress thu
ccnuc'ion. at nome aud abroad, that the manu'ac
.n,ing system was 70 be Incorporated with the we!
understood and durable policy OF the nation. BE
si,ics other advantages from this conviction, w
might reasonably expect 10 witness that OF seem,
new class Of emigrants come to the Cnitet
states. They would consist! not merely Of unem
ploved nurnev,nen from Foreign workshops, how
ever useful these may be: but IN all probability
os master manufacturers, o capital and standing
How valuable enigralts OF this description w0ul'
prove: how they would help to quicken the pro
gross Of the country. in manufacturing skill ant
general riches is at;estc, BY the experience Of al
nations. the wisdom Of whose laws has superadde'
such emigi ants TO their own population. The el
feet of their coming would not be to injure on
own manufacturers. 1t would benefit them. ]
would increase their numbers. 1t would raise
more speedily, the whole class, by blending il
more Thoroughly, with all the other interests of thu
State. The foreign artisans whom Britain sedu
lousy drew to her shores. at an early day, full,
peopled. as the whole of her crcumscribed ter
rank among the causes that first, and most prom
inently, elevated her condition among nations
The effects of their ingenious industry exerted
meliorating influence upon social life, by invest
ing it with new means of accommodation and EN-
belshmcnt. and was soon followed by the larges
additions to the rural and commercial prospert,
Of the whole Island. That the productiveness ant
perfection of English Agriculture, at the presen
day. is owing to the size and power of her manu-
featuring classes, is truth not disputed 1t i.
these classes. to whose hands the harvests of her
soil are carried, whether gathered from its surface
extracted, in exhaustless mineral wealth, from
beneath It. and who become the customers of il all
the ready, constant, unfailing customers
There is an nducement to increased Lesisa
tive protection to Manufactures. in the actual in.
'ernal condition Of the United States, which is
viewed with an anxousncss belonging to its pecu.
liar character and intrinsic weight. 1t is that
winch arises from the great extent Of their unsnId
lands. The magnitude OF the interests at stake.
in this part Of our public affairs, ought not to ap.
pal Is from approaching it. Ii should rather i'm.
pei to look at il with The more earnest desire to
arrive at correct opinions any course OF Legis-
aton that may affect, primarily or remotely, an
interest so full Of Importance. The maxim is held
70 be sound ono. that the ratio OF capital to 20.
Dllat0n should, If possible, be Kept on the in
crease. When this takes place, the demand and
compensation for labor will b. proportionaby in
creased, and the condition OF the most numerous
'lasses Of the community become improved. II
the ratio OF capital to population be diminished. a
contrary state Of things will be tile result. The
manner in which the remote lands of the United
States are selling and settling. whilst it may pos
slby tend to increase. more quickly, the aggregate
population Of the country, and the mere means of
subsistence, does not increase capital in the same
: IL ~
quire calculation. that tie creation of capital is
retarded rather than accelerated, by the diffusion
OF a thin population over great surface OF soil.
Any thing that may serve to hold back this ten
dency to diffusion from running too far, and too
long. into an extreme. can scarcely prove other
wise than sautary. Moreover The further en-
enlargement OF manufactures, By Legislative
means, would he but counterbalance. and, at
most, partial one, to the encouragement to Ag-
ricuture by Legislative means. standing out in the
very terms upon which the Public Lands are sold.
it is not here intended to make the system Of sci.
ling off the Territorial domain Of the Union sub
iect OF any commentary. and, still less, OF any
complaint. The system Is interviewer. benefcially Y,
with the highest interests and DESTINY OF the ma
tim. II rests upon foundations, both Of princi-
pies and practice. deep and mmoveabie founda.
tions not TO be up-rooted or shaken. But our
Srayest attention may, on This account, be but the
WoIe wisely suWhloheu u inc consideration OF
oorreative duties, which the existence of such a
system in the heart Of the State imposes. 1t can
not be overlooked, that the prices at which fertile
bodies Of land may be bought of the Government,
under this system, operate as perpetual ailurcment
TO their purchase. 1t must, therefore, be taken in
the light Of bounty. indeIibly written in the text
Of the laws themselves, in favor Of agricultural
pursuits. Such it is, in effect, though not in form
Perhaps no enactment OF Legislative boun,ies has
ever, before, operated upon scale vast through.
out series of years, and over the face of an en-.
tire nation, to turn population and labor into one
particular channel, preferably to all others. The
utmost extent of protection granted to manufac.
lures commerce by our statutes. collectively