The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1827-09-20

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Iation that would buy without any tax at
all. all the rice, corn, -four, lumber, tar,
pitch, indigo, sugar. or wine, which we
could send them. Now let a man OF com
mon sense answer who are the best Gus
toners, those who will buy from US, or
those who only buy cotton, aud wish to sell
manufactures, that is-who buy one e-fourth,
and sell three .fourths. | have omitted du-
ties, freights, commissions, &c. but they
will not vary the principle. Think deeply
of this, the raw material is but fourth Of
the value of an article, and England refu-
scs to take our bread stuhs for the other
o ltIs. But the A nercan System will pro
VIDE US customers who will take all we have
20 selln payment for the price Of labor bes.
,owed on manufactured articles. insist that
the American System will enrich and per
muncntly enrich the Southern agricultur-
ist. That is a system of national prosper.
ity, in which no portion Of the Union will
partake more literally than the Planters of
South Carolina, and add, with some feel.
ing of pride, that their native country will
thus rise higher and higher in the scale
Of independent nations. OLD 76.
,qaswer ef Thomas JeGerSon to Benj. Aastin.
MoSTIC ELLo, Jan. ., 1896.
You tell me am quoted by those who
wish to continue our dependence on En-
gland for manufactures. There was a
time when might have been so quoted
with more candor. But, within the thirty
years which have since elapsed, how are
circumstances changed 4? We were then
in poace-our indepo ndcnt place among
nations was acknowledged. A commerce
,yhi n a.
change for the same materials, after re
ceiying the last touch ofindustry, was wor
thy the attention Of all nations. 1t was eX-
pccted, that tn osc especially to whom man
ulacturin. ind ustry was important, would
cherish the friendship of such customers
by every favor, aud particularly cultivate
their peace by every act of justice and
friendship. Under this prospect, the ques
ton seemed Legitimate, which such an i'm
mensity Of unlnproycd land, courtng the
hand of husba ndry, the indusiry Of 4gri
culture, or that Of manufaciures, would add
most TO the national wealth And the doubt
on the utility of American manufactures
was entertained on this confederation, chief
ly, that TO the lnbor Of the husbundman n
yastndhlton is made by the spontaneous
energies OF the earth on which it is EN-
pIpyths VI olc BIdIl vi NbthL 'biliill'
ted to the earth, shc renders 20, 30, and
even 50 fold whereas the labor oi'the man
ufucturcr falls in some instances vastly be
low this profit Pounds of flax IN his hands.
yields but pcnnywcights of lace. This OK
change too, lnbOrious as it might seem
what field did it promise for the occupa
tlon oi the ocean-what a nursery for that
class of citizens who were to exercise and
maintain our equal rights on that element
This was the state of things in 1885, when
the notes on Virginia were first Published,
when the ocean beng open to all nations,
aud their common rights on it acknowledg
ed and exercised under regulations sane
toned by the assent and usage Of all 1T was
thought that the doubt might claim some
couside ration. But who, in 1856, could
ioresee the rapid depravity which was to
render the close Of that century sdngrace
To- the history of civilized society? Who
could have imagined that the two most dis.
tinguished in the rank of nations, for SEA
cncc' and civilization, would have sud
denly desc ended from that honorable emi.
nencc, aud setting at defiance all those
laws established by the Author Of nature
between nation and nation, as between man
and man. would cover earth and sea with
strong enough TO do it with temporal i'm
punity, and that under this disbandmcnt
of nations from social order, we should have
been despoiled of thousand ships, and
have thousands of our citizens reduced to
Algerinc slavery? And all this has taken
place. The British ntcrdictcd to our YES
sells all harbors of the globe, without hav.
ing first proceeded to some one of hers,
a., al to D. tl,.N,
60. and obtained license toprocccd TO the
port of destination. The French declared
them " be the lawful prize if they had
touched at the port, or bo visited by ship
ofthe enemy's nation Thus were VIC com
ple,ely excluded from the ocean. Compare
this state ofthngs with that of IS, and say,
whether opinion founded in tho circum-
stances Of that day, can be fairly applied to
those of the present.
We have experienced what we did no,
then believe, that there exists both profit.
gacy aud power enough to exclude us from
the field OF interchange with other nations;
that 10 be independent for The comforts Of
iye, ice mast tdbricdie hem ourselves. We
must noe place the Manufacturer BY The
side of The .9gr,cu'iuriSi. The former
question is suppressed, or rather assumes
new form. The grand inquiry now is shall
,re make our ovn comforts, or go mithom
them, al The ,1W ocd foreign nation lie,
therefore, who Is now against domestic
manufactures, must be for reducing us eli
ther to dependence on that nation, or be
clothed in skins, and TO live like wild
beasts in dcns and caverns. | am proud to
say, am not one ofheSe. Experience has
now taught me that manufactures arc now
rs necessary to our independence as to our