Delaware journal., 1827-12-18
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articles mentioned, but more that might be men,

The complete establishment OF American Manu-
facures in Wool, Cotton, Iron, and Hemp, is believ-
ed to be of very high moment to the nation All the
principal raw materials for carrying them on are at
hand or could be commanded. The skill for I'M
parting excellence to them would come at the pro-
per time There would be no want OF laDor 10
which an abundant water-power as well as arthciai
machinery, would every where be Lending lis assls-
t,pce. Capital would be found for investment IN
them lfther establishment, by the immediate pro-
lection OF the laws should, frst raise the cost OF
the articles and, for succession of years, keep 1t
up forecast, looking to the future, rather than
adapting all its calculations to the existing hour,
would not hesitate TO embrace the protecting poi'cy.
Nations that would found schemes, of solid and du-
rabe advantage must be ready to do so at the peril
of temporary privaion. 1t is the great term of na-
tion as of individual superiority and distinction.
| 10 buy cheap is not only, always the chief good
Ii is for Legislators who have to deal with the prac-
tca interests ofmanknd, to give to abstract propo-
sons the necessary limitations. Considerations,
higher than those of present mercantile gam, have
often sw,yed the counses of nations ;-of nations
whose wisdom, this respect, we ought not lightly
to impugn, any more than we can at all quesuon
their long prc-en,nence in prosperity. Need 1t be
said that England had her laws to protect her tom
nage for more than century during all which
time, she might have employed the tonnage OF 9TH
er States at price below that at which she built
and used her own Need it be added what results,
to her maritime and commercial sway, have flowed
from her resolue perseverance in those laws!
Need it be said that France, conspicuous for posi-
: tive as progressive rlches and comforts and pow
er, still excludes from her territory fabrics lhas
= might trench upon the custom OF her own workshops
in branches of labor and art, believed to be condu-
= Give TO the National resources, whilst they conf er
u also the means of individual thrift ? Shall the mt
nv laws of these two great States, at periods when
: they were laying the foundations OF their manu-
featuring industry be recounted, all tending to tos-
ter it by Undue emens the most efhcaciols-laws 10
y the essential principle of which they still IN SO ma
y nv instances Systematically adhere Shall we call
III to recollection especially, the ordinance of M.
81 Calonne, which invited to France arfcers from all
: nations, allowing them equal privileges with those
they enjoyed in their native countries and granting
" ~ them an immunity from duties on the importation OF
" the materials used in their manufactures nay more
" -exempting them and their workmen from all per-
ce sonal or other taxes These with analogous illus
- trations as applicable, will he torborne
" as too familiar to be recapltulaed. The protecting
" laws to our own tonnage, our own coasung trade,
- our own fisheries still in force, and which first ras-
ed UP the PROSTATE navigation OF the United States,
may supersede other references. These show how
the Fathers of the Republic were awake to the Wis
dom of other times and other nations, knowing how
TO make it their own. Their recorded opinions
a, attest that they equally awake to the prnc-
by pie of encouraging manufactures, in the broadest
sense If they did not carry it farther into prac-
ch tce, it is because proper discrimination sa" IN
ce the circumstances OF that early day, whether as re-
garled the state of the world from without, or our
,r- own internal condition, sufficient motive tor CIV
II ing to the principle more extended application
ks But if this species of industry should not be premaS
in turey gone ino SO neither ought the laws to neg
at, lect It too long. Excellence is of slow growth.
h Rarley is quick spontaneous in the material any
ls, more than in the moral world Time is an agent
try indispensable towards inducing People into the
rs; full knowledge of the manufacturing arts. they
red are complex they are difficult They are to be
learned only by stages throughout long course OF
to application and efforts, mind is evolved by edu-
The cation institutions for promoting which, the laws,
ex- n the wsest countries are careful to found and to
so nurture When therefore, neither pauclty OF po-
pal pulaon nor of means any longer hold reasons for
md not Guilty atng these arts and when those
as, external circumstances have passed away which
ing drew nearly all of our population into commerce
hin into husbandry, the period for permanently hShS
them as an integral interest in the State, seems fully
he to have arrived Whilst repose in tranquility
has the season auspcious for entering eecuay upon
her the work of establishing those specially recommen~
be- ded Should war happen, 1t is not easy 10 state
any the augmented with which we should meet
by its exgencies with these manufactures houfishine
,le in projection, and more than to portray the ncon-
her vcnience which should know IN their absence
er 1t is therefore from the connexion of their success
u.s. with the leading interests of the State in peace
Ia war; that the conviction is felt that would be ex-
she pedent to secure their at the sacrifice
est of cheapness to the individual purchaser.
be- But no such consequence is to be apprehended.
If it were question of fostering manufactures for
to which the circumstances of the country yielded not
lies the abundant facilities. as with England when she
be osered by her own laws her tonnage, then in-
and deed could success be accomplished only by lnde-
the mite forcing, to be followed by indefinite monopoly
he in nrice Such is manifestly not the case Manu-