Delaware journal., 1827-12-18

additional encouragement is voked as proper on
.et to the high degree of success which toreisn m
dustry has attained in these branches by the euect
of capital and skill long preex.stng III oiaer ha'
tons, aud long aided by their laws. iheSe are au :
vantnpes not intrinsic, bu, accidental. Yet they
cannot be countervailed by efficient legislative
aid to our own establishments in the beginning
This Afforded and there is the stronges: reasoh'
from past experience, to tee assured that hhe''oa
industry and resources stimulated into full compe-
tition will supply. the commodities cheaper ~ PI.e
as well as better in quality, than they nave
Snre come to ns from other countries. The competi-
tom increasing with time, will untold ehects 'ao'e
and more useful. Every branch OF manufacture
hroucht into successful operation is apt to become
the parent of others. New materials are o'sc"sei
ed. new combinations OF skill struck out' new aPn
tudes developed, industry becomes awakened, wher.
before it was inactive. carrying the, country 'of"'"
in individual wealth, in general comforts anu III ",
nanc;al power For promoting the last durab'y' al
expedents must pruve iaacious, that are not pased
,pon prosperous labor pervadinga classes at nome,
The consumption of the products o every KIM VI
home labor would necessarily increase with the IN
creasing amount of production, and. under more
encouragement, given to manufactures IN the D'ahch
,es recommended, might be expected to yieiu an OK
cess, that would flow into export trade' augment
iny its amount and the amount of its returns. AS
regards cotton articles, such is the exubeiancc o
+be raw material in the United States, that it cannot
be assuming too much suppose that the day IS not
remote when they will largely supply other couh-
tries of the world with these fabrics. Already they
have begun to do so to some extent with those VI
the coarser species. European science, applied to
the manufacturing arts, has indeed returned to In
a In the manufactured state, the native cotton OF
India: but it will be the effect OF our own poicy, II
a similar tra6c be long permitted to go on between
Europe and the United States. That the iatter VIII
continue. under all circumstances. to supply Europe
e.t. .Df nnt ha Itlh
ed, from the present and growing state OF that
manufacture in Europe. That they might also bt
enabled, by the policy recommended to we WIN
any nation, in sending even to the markets ol Eu
rope. articles manufactured from this material. i
an opinion which is believed to rest upon 40 exas
yerated estimate of their manufacturing ability
however dormant it may be in reference to such
result now That this invaluable raw material, bu
thirty years ago scarcely known to our own field
any more than to the British loom, is destined t
draw out far greater portion OF the productive
Dor of this country than it has yet put into actor
and mark AN era in its manufacturing, as It has
ready done in its agricultural riches, ~ an anticip;
ton which rational calculations OF the future ma
Justify. What is said Of our cotton manufacture
nav it is believed be said with scarcely less cont
dence, eventually, though perhaps not immediately
of those Of wool. The latter, from being more cor
plicated in their whole process. and more dliou
and costly in tho skinecessary to their elaborato
naturally require more time to be reared to perit
ton They claim. on this account and claim t
imperlously the immediate and decisive ST
conr of the laws.
The opinion that these and other manufactul
would come to be afforded t, Us better in quail
when obtained at home caunot be passed over wi
only the simple expression of it, 1t is OF a nat,
emitting it to some further notice Amongst I
disadvantages Of manufactures not being more u
versally established in the United States, we are
rank that Of their inhabitants being obliged to
wares Of low quality from abroad. 1t is kno
that long list OF articles is sent to us from bt
England and France. if not from other counrl
whchin those countries would be rejected by LAT
class of consumers Furthermore it is true, Il
An article injured in the making. in reference to
highest character of workmanship, will notwlthstar
ing, be sometimes shipped to this market, in
hope of finding for it, bidders that could not so +
Oily be commanded in Europe. If it be said Il
The wealth ofths country does not at present vel
class of purchasers for European articles of the h
est workmanship, the answer recurs, that, by mu
plying our own workshops, we should at the pro
time, be supplied with like articles. 1t ought
TO be supposed that the resources of our own co
try, and the ingenuity OF our own workmen, co
not, under adequate incentives, supply them. as
cellent in quality and as perfect in linsh as tn
made elsewhere. And although it may not now
convenient to any considerable class OF consum
in this country, to make a call tor articles OF
highest stamp of manufactured excellence, at
foreign prices it is fully believed that the rivalr
numerous artizans at home would raise up skill
point that would produce such articles whilst
would bring down the prices to limits that wo
put them into circulation. 1t has not escaped
servation, that, in American manufactures that h
already, by the aid Of the laws, obtained pre-
ence to the Foreign, there is no inferiority as c
pared with the best standards of the same specie
manufactures, produced and consumed in the
egn country. BY opening full scope to the con