Delaware journal. [volume] (Wilmington [Del.]) 1827-1832, 1827-05-01

ing states and districts, on all the goods above de-
cribed and il we allow that fourth Of the du-
ties collected is for the protection Of our ma
nulactures than the general revenue of government,
the amount will be 28O,500 dollars a year, one
fourth only of the increased value cotton because
of the tariff, at the exceedingly moderate rate sup
posed above, and one-flth only of what Louisiana
directly and certainly obtains in her sugar through
the tariff the accursed tarif''or eighth part
of the duties paid on that article imported and COR
sumed by the people of the United States which is
about the sum of 2.28O.00O dollars, and would be
$500, 600 dollars, were not the state duty free
Who is not surprised at these results The subject
might be further pursued, and we shallprobabiY
hereafter publish statement to shew the operation
of the new tariG,, and the eatra amount apparently
paid under it all sorts of articles 1t will amount
to small sum, indeed but the reality is, taking
all the articles together, that those which havebeen
protected are cheaper because of that protection So
much for the law which an Sc honorable gentle
man" in his place in congress swore, by Heavea,
| Georgia acouM neuer submit TO itr' Il
We shall now hasten to bring this essay to con-
clusion.
The cultivation OF cotton is not now at all pro-
ftable business lhe capital vested is large, and the
product in money comparatively small. \ A Hunts
vile paper of the Goth January says, the planters
of North Alabama will readily agree that the pre-
sent price of cotton will not deray the expense Of
cultivation rent free." Another paper of the same
place. of the goth, speaking Of the prospects of the
cotton planters, says
"These are gloomy beyond all former example,
and the price is depressed below the wishes ex-
pectations of our worst enemes.* No sensible man
would have ventured five years ago. to predict, that
upland cotton of fair quality, would ever fall below
six cents per pound but this sad reverse we have
witnessed and felt to establishment and mortiii-
cation. 1t is well understood, in cotton growing
Countries that the article cannot be grown and yield
a reasonable interest on the capital employed. at
less than eight cents per pound and that the actual
disbursements, independent of the interest on the
capital employed, nearly equal the present price of
cOtton."t
| Then follow some excellent remarks on the fluc-
tuations in the price of cotton, and the Of
quantity raised, which, if much more Augmented it
is stated will cause plantations and slaves to be
fac the pr0pretors, for that the proceeds will
not defray the disbursements" all which is very
probable very true, and we, indeed, exceedingly
regret it but y bad as the business of growing cot
ton may be at the present time, it would be much
| worse except for the home manufacture Of tit
would not yield so much by one per cent per pound,
though we have only supposed haFa centin the pre-
ceding speculations this point of our subject. We
feel confident of this, and the difference to the
cotton growers would amount to- 6A50O,0 1Hhe
year! Examine TIT is 10. The home marx 70,
kE d
| few days since Hs g6S6viile, laden with "a hum
dred and thirteen bales The home consum ION is
about 175 600 balcs--or one-iourth Of the 1laple
product. Tie whole amount Of domestic cG4
Es0ld in Phladelphia in the years 1904, . and
were valued u only S17,67O those sold the LAP
year were worth four milHons--we as sincerely
svmpahise with our brethren, the cotton growers as
with the grain growers and wool growers. Whate-
yer depresses either, Injuries the whole country.
There naf1bIlifv the Of all
these interests. and of the manufacturing and com
mercial, for all operate to a common object Butt
repeat it-excep the sugar planting interest there
no other interest in the country more bene6tted by
the tariff than the cotton planting. The duty is
three cents per ID. which several times has, and in
future will be protection, notwithstanding the exs
port of that article because of the very inferior
qualities that might be imported and interfere with
those grown by us. And, to terminate this long
essay, with observing, that the time is close at hand
when the cotton planters of the United States will
be no less the open and avowed friends Of the
'' American system" than are the manufacturers
of cotton, of wool, or iron and expressing hope,
| that the three hundred subscribers in the south
which was lost, within few years past because of
our perseverance in respect to that system, Though
list is still respectable and on the increase
in that part of our country will produce the gain of
six hundred, because of the good that we honestly
Who are those "enenies 7" They who predicted the
present state things and warned the planters against
who exhored consumption at home, to prevent great
aglut of the market abroad! On. REG.
t The following is from the same paper
The leading agriculturalss of South Carolina awake
to the importance and necessity of adopting Gull
that state The different agricultural societies have
formed United Agricultural Society for the state,
posed of delegates from the local societies At
meeting the following resolutions were adopted:
"Resolved, That it be recommended every member
of this society," his best efforts for promoting, in his
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