The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-09-27

tour fror Petersburg to Boston, Through che
principal manufacturing districts visited all tae'
principal Machine Shops, in company with an
experienced manufacturer 4 maehnisl employ.
ed IN Massachusetts to supetnend the establish.
ment, who decided that the most perfect machine
~ could be obtained in this Town.
/" Thus We see the effect, 10 be produced bv
the encouragement of Domestic Manufactures.
Thousands of dollars will be drawn from Virgi-
MIA aud circulate here, toEtid in hesalrcady zap
ID progress of our Town TO greatness, aud by
the successful operation of thai mandatory,
hundreds Of thousand of dollars will he di.trih-
u,ed among thu poorof Petersburg giving employ
,nent TO capital aud spur to industry not prev.
onsly known within the bounds of the Ancient
DOMINION who may vet be Convinced other err
ror aud be induced TO extend her aid in consum.
1tag our National Independence, by the estab-
shment ofan American system
Taunton is little village in Massachusetts.
n which extensive manufactures have recently
been erected. The following extract from the
newspaper published in that place will show the
immediate effects which have been produced
i" Real estate has advanced in the immediate
villages and upon water privileges nearly four
fold within the last four or five ypars From 500
to 1910 dollars are nov obtained for building
ats IN the best sites, having sixty or seventy feel
trout. Some of the towns land was sold the o
her dav, for nearly 5000 dollars, which five
years ago would not have brought 1900. This
is the effect Of manufactures Wherever they
are established, the value Of land rises the de-
mand for labour increases, the products of the
surrounding farmers find n ready cash market
and eveiy b anch of industry starts into vigur-
ons activity Aud Vet there are many people in
this country, (not merely the planters Of the
SOUTH who rail against the American system,
which alone fu aishes them a market for Their
great Staple) but some in thcVcrv vicinity Of such
thriving manufacturing villages as Taunton.
some, too IN that very vicinity, who look with
IN evil eve upon the encouragement OF domestic
| manufactures asatar upon all other b .anches o,
industry, particular by that of the agrruuralist
True, II is tar UPON their ldbour and Industry.
for itopens market that drav largely upon
both to supply its consumption. y
II may be ljeetel that the sole advantages
which have been shown to grow out ofthe estab-
,ishment Of ma aufactorics are confined to the
| aighborhoods Of the places in watch they are
established That is true bat it will not be so
vhea IN have increased to such an extent as
syiIl render us not only independent of foreign
| aldo1s for own consumption. hut also enable US
. to export our own fabrics to thf South Ameri.
can States, whose contiguity will afford us ex
tenSve and ready markets. Then, so large a
. 1rtion of our population will be necessarily
| thdrawn from agriculture, that grain must adj.
ance IN price in equal experimentation
VII also command much greater equivdlen, =
i deed the value of all the products ofthe sol
vii be enhanced aud the agriculturalist will no
| longer SOW and reap in vain but will see at the
end ofthe year SOM fruit of the sweat Of hi.
brow" We may. then, disregard the monopo
iizing and exclusive spirit winch gni les the Br !.
tsh councils, beca1se, fabricating our owl
cloths as we cultivate our own bread W
shall be independent in fact as i0eH as Ia name