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


long pre-ezistlng in older nations and long aided
BY their laws. These ere advantages not intrinsic
but accidental. Vet they cannot be cou ntervailed
but by efficient legislative aid to our own establish
ments in the beginning -'i'hs afforded, and there
10 the strongest reason, fron past experience, To
see assured that American industry and resources,
stimulated into full competition, will supply the
commodities cheaper in price, as well as better in
Equality, than they have heretofore TO us from
other countries. The competition, increasing with
time, will unfold effects More and more useful
Every branch of manufactures brought into suc--
cessful operation, is apt to become the parent OF
Others New materials ssoyered, new COM
binaons of skill struck out, new aptltudes leveI-
opcd, industry becomes awakened. where before il
was inactive. carrying the country forward in in.
dividual wealth, in general comforts, and in finan
cia power. For promoting the last durabiy, all
expedients must prove fallacous, that are not bss-
ed upon prosperous labor, pervading all classes at
home. The consumption Of the products of every
kind of home labor would necessarily increase
with the increasing amount of production, and an
der more encouragement, given to manufactures in
the branches recommended, might be expected 10
yield an excess, that would flow intu our export
trade, augmenting its amount and the amount Uf
its returns. AS regards cotton articles, such IL
the exuberance of the material in the United
States, that it cannot be assuming too much to
suppose that the day is not remote when ther
with these fabrics. Already they have begun to do
SO to some extent with those Of the coarser spe
cies. European science. applied 70 the rranutac-
turing arts has indeed returned to India, in the
manufactured state, the native cotton 0! India I;
but it will be the effect of our own policy, ii a
similar traffic be long permitted to 20 on between
Europe and the United States. That the latter
will continue. under all circumstances, to supply
Europe with full portion Of raw cotton, cannot
be doubted, from the present and growing state OF
that manufacture in Europe. That they might al
sohe enabled, by the policy recommended. to vie
With any nation. in sending even TO the markets
of Europe, articles manufactured from this materi-
al, is an opinion which is believed to rest upon
Exaggerated estimate of their manufacturing ability,
however dormant it may DE in reference 10 such a
result now. That this invaluable material
but thirty years ago scarcely known to Our own
fields any more than to tie British loom IS tcstin-
cd to draw out far greater PARTON Of the produc
tive labor Of this country than it has yet put into
action, and mark an era in its manufacturing. as it
has already done in its agricultural riches, is ain
anticipation which rational calculations of the fu-
ture may Justify. What is said of our cotton mans
ufactures may, it is believed, be said with scarcely
less confidence, eventually, though perhaps not i'm
mediately, of those of wool. The latter, from be-
ing more complicated IN their whole process, and
more difficult and costly in the skill necessary
to their elaboration, naturally require more time
~ ue TedTtu 10 pcTitCliuH. iHe9 WI tiiiS
account, and claim the more imperiuusly, the inn
mediate and decisive succor Of the laws.
The opinion that these and other manufactures
would come to be afforded to us better in quality
when obtained at home, cannot be passed over with
only the simple expression Of it. 1t is Of nature
emitting it to some further notice. Amongst the
disadvantages OF manufactures not berg more uni
versay established in the United States. are to
rank that of their inhabitants being obliged to use
| ,,arao IF Inv quality frnm ahrn1l I ,s kna,vp
that a long list Of articles is sent to us from both
England and France, if not from other countries,
which in those countries would be rejected by
large class of consumers Furthermore II is true,
that an article injured in the making, in reference
to the highest character of workmanship. will, not
wthstandng, be sometimes shipped to this market,
in the hope OF finding for it. bidders that could not
so readily be commanded in Earope If it be said
that the wealth Of this country does not at present
Weld a class of purchasers for European articles
of the highest workmanship, the answer recurs,
that, by multiplying our own workshops, we should,
at the proper time, be supplied with like articles.
1t ought not to be supposed that the resources Of
our own country, and the ingenuity of our own
workmcn. could not, under adequate incentives,
SUNNY them, as excellent III quality and as perfect
| in finish, as those made elsewhere. And, although
it may not be convenient to any considerable class
of consumers in this country. TO make a call fur
articles of this highest stamp Of manufactured ex-
cellcnce, at the foreign pflces u y lully peeeeh
that the rivalry of numerous artizans at nome would
raise up skill to point that would produce suea
articles whilst it would bring down the prices
limits that would put them into circulation. 1t
has not escaped observation. that, III American
manufactures that have already, by the aid OF the
laws, obtained a preference to the Foreign, there
is no inieriority compared with the best stan
dards of the same species OF manufactures. pm
dnced and consumed III the Foreign country. rs
opening full scope to the competition and talents
Of our own artizans, the standard Of excellence. a.