Delaware journal., 1827-12-18

home and abroad, ttat tlie manufacturing system "
was to BE- incorporated with the we'll understood and III
durable policy Of the nation. Besides other ad- p
vantages from this convictlon we might reasonably o
expect to witness that of seeing class ot en-
iarants come to the United States They would o
consist, not merely Of unemployed iourneymen from
Foreign workshops. however useful these may be u
but, in all probability, OF master manufacturers, OF
capital and standing How valuable emigrants OF =
this description would prove how they would help i
to quicken the progress Of tho country, in manu- 7
featuring skill, and general riches is attested by
the experience of all nations, the wisdom of whose G
laws las supercdded such emgrants to their own 7
population. The effect of their coming would not $
be to iniure manufactures. 1t would bene
lit them. 1t would increase their numbers. 1t
would raise. more speedily, the whole class, by
blending it, more thoroughly, with all the other in
eress of the State. The foreign artisans whom
Britain sedulously drew oher shores at early day.
fully peopled, as the whole of her circumscribed
| territory then was, in comparison with ours now,
rank among the causes that first and most pron
nenly, elevated her condition among nations. The
effects of their ingenious industry exerted melio-
rating influence upon social life, by investing it with
new means of accommodation and establishment, |
! and was soon followed by the largest additions to
the rural and comercial prosperity of the whole Isl
and. That the productiveness and perfection OF
/ English Agriculture, at the present day, is owing
owing to the size and power of her manufacturing
to whose hands the harvess of her soil carried,
whether gathered from it's surface extracted, in
{ exhaustless mineral wealth, from beneath it, and
who become the customers Of it all-the ready,
!. tant, uniang customers.
f There is an inducement to increase Legislative
if protection to Manufactures, in the actual internal
condition of the United States which is viewed with
Il an anxousness belonging to its peculiar character,
re and intrinsic weight. 1t is that which arises from
t. the great Qttent of their unsold lands: The mag
at nude OF the interests at stake, in this part of our
public affairs, ought not to appal from approach
tn git. 1t should rather lmpel to look at it with
the more earnest desire to arrive correct opinions
is on any course Of Legislation that my affect, prima-
q rv Or remotely interest full Of importance.
y, The maxim is held to be sound one, that the ratio
a of capital to population should if possible, be KEPT
ut on the increase. When this takes place, the de
DIS mand and compensation for labour will be proper
to tlonaby Increased. and the condition of til,
la most numerous classes of the community becom,
,n improved If the ratio Of capital to population b
al diminished, contrary state of things will be TIN
pa result. The manner in which the remote lands o
Jay the u. States are settling whilst it may possbl
es. tend to increase. more quickly the aggregate popu
l aton of the country. and the of subsis
ly. ence, does not increase capital in the proper
I'M ton. 1t is proposition too plain to require eluc
u on that the creation of capital is retarded, ,rathe
on, than accelerated by the diffusion of thin popuia
fec ation great surface Of soil Any thing thi
the may serve to hold back this tendency TO dfuso
from running too far and too long, into extreme
can scarcely prove otherwise that salutary. Nor,
Tres over The further encouragement of manufac ure
lity by Legislative means, would be but a counterba
With ance, and at most partial one, to the encourage
lure mcn to Agriculture by Legislative MEANS standn
the out in the very terms upon which the Public Land
UNI are sold. 1t is not here intended to make the sy
c to tenn selling off the Territorial domain of the I'm
use on subject OF any commentary, and. still less,
own any complaint. The system is interviewer, ben
10Th cIay with the highest interests and destiny Of Il
res nation 1t rests upon foundations, both of prime
arge pies and practice, deep and imnoveabe found
that tons not to be up-rooted or shaken But our pra
the est attention may, on this account, be but mo
and wisely summoned to the consideration of correat
the dutles which the existence OF such system in Il
heart of the State imposes. 1t be overlook
that ed. that the prices, at which fertile bodies of aI
Id may be bought of the Government, under this sy
Ugh TEN, operate perpetual allurement to their pu
uti chase. 1t must, therefore, be taken in the LIGHT of
oper bounty, indeliby written in the text of the la,
not themselves. IN favour OF agricultural pursuits Su
oun' it is, in effect, though not in form. Perhaps
oud actment OF Legislative bountes has before oI
eX- rated upon scale vast, throughout a series
hose years. and over the face Of entire nation,
W be population and labour into one particular chann
ners preferable to all Others The utmost extent of III
this lection granted to manufactures or commerce
the our staues collectively since the first foundati
ry OF OF the Government, has been, in its effect,
i'll to drawing the People Of the United States into the
st it pursuits nothing to it. No scale of nposts,
ould prohibitions or penalties, no bounties, premium
OBJ enforced or dispensed at the Custom House, /
have equaled it, 1t has served and still serves to dir
eicr- in an annual stream the inhabitants of majority
COM the States. including amongst hem at this day.
les of porto not small of the Western States into
For settlement of fresh lands, lying still further a
mpe- further off. If the population of these States,