Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-12-18

supply the commodities cheaper IN price as well
g, better in quality, thsn they have heretofore
come TO ue fro:n other countries The competition
Increasing with time, will unfold effects aud
more useful. Every branch OF manufacture Brought
into successful operation. is apt to become tie pa
rent OF others. New materials are discovered; new
combinations OF kill struck out; new ap,udss lie.
ysioped. Industry becomes awakened where be-
lore 1t was inactiye-carrying The country forward
in individual wealth. in general comforts, and in
financial power. For promoting the las, durabiy,
al txpsdisnts must prove faliseIois that are not
based upon prosperous labour pervad;ng all classes
AT home. The consumption Of the products of
every kind Of home ia5our would necessarily i'm
crease with the increasing amour, of production;
and, under smore encouragement given TO manu-
factures in the branches recommended, might be
expected to yield excess that would flow into
our export trade; augmeniinS its amount, and the
amount of its returns. As regards cotton articles,
zach is the exuberancs OF the material in the
United States, that II cannot be assuming too
much TO ppose that the day is not remote when
they will largely supply other countries Of the
world with these fabrics. Already they have be-
gun to DO 10 some extent, with those of the
coarser species. Euupean science applied TO the
manufacturing arts. hos indeed returned to India
n athe manufactured state the native cotton al
India; but it viii be tue effect of our own policy
ii similar tjaihc be long permitted to go on be-
tween Europe aud The United States. Tia. the
latter viii continue, under all circumstances, TO
SUPPLY Europe with full portion of raw cotton,
cfnnot be doubted from. the present end growing
state Of that manufacture in Europe That they
might also be enabled, by The policy recommended,
10 vie with any nation in ,dng even TO the mar
kets OF Europe articles manufactured from this ma
teria, is opinion which is beIiey ed 10 rest upon
no exaggerated estimate OF their msnu featuring
ability, however dormant it may be in reference TO
such result row. That this Invaluable raw ma
tsriai, but thirty years $50 scarcely known to cur
own fields, any more than 10 the British loom is
far IRE %
productive labor OF the country lhnn il has yet put
!nto action, and mark IN its manufacturing as
II has eady done its agricultural riches, is an
ucfpa'ion which rational calculations of the future
may justify. What is said of or cotton msnufac-
lures may, itis believed, be ss with scarcely less
conhieace, eventually, though perhaps not mme-
dalely, OF those OF Nool. The latter from being
more complicated in their whole process, AMI more
diiirult and costly in the skill necessary their
elaboration, naturally require lime be rear
ed 10 reriecrion TLey claim on this account.
and claim the more imperiously, the immediate
adl decisive succour OF the laws.
The opinion that these and other manufactures
yTould come 10 be afforded TO US better in quality
when obtained at home, OF be passed over with
only The simple expression Of il. 1t IL of nature
emitting il TO some further notice. Amongst the
disadvantages of manufactures not being more u.
Universally established in the United States we sre
TO rank that OF their inhabitants being obliged TO
use of low quality from abroad. 1t i.
from boz England and France, if not from other
counties, which, in those countries, would be
rejected by large class of consumers Further
n2re, IL is tue, that article injured in TIE MAX
ing, in reference 10 the highest charsc er of work.
rnanshp, Will, notwithstanding, be sometime. |
ehipped 10 this maTke in the hope of finding for
1t bidders that could rot so readily be commanded
IN Europe. II II be said that the wealth OF this ,
country does not al present yield class of pur-
chassrs for European articles of the highest work !
maHshIp, The answer recuIs, that by multiplying !
orr own workshops, we should, AT the proper time
Se supplied with like articles. 1t ought not 90 |
be supposed that the resources of our own coun- |!
Try, and The ingenuity OF our own wofsmen, couli
not, under adequate incentive., supply them as \
excellent in qualify, and peifeCr in finish as !
those mate elsewhere And sitLough it may not |
now be convenient TO any considerable class of !
consumers IN this country 10 make ell for ar,i-
cles OF this highest stamp OF manufactured excel
epce at The foreign prices, it s fully beliey ed that
the rivalry OF numerous artisans at home would !
-dse up skill to point that would produce such
attcles: whilst i, would bring down the prices t,
limits that would put them into circulation I, |
has not escaped observation, that in merIcaD
manufactures that have already, by The all of the
laws, obtained preference to the foreign, there
IS no iniefioriiy as compared with the best stand
afl5 OF The came species OF manufactures prOduc>
ed aud consumed in the foreign couahy By
opening full scope TO the competition and talents
oil our own artisans, the standard OF excellence
well tie faculty of 1iscrimin ion ~ ould be
raised 10 higher tone han when the one is form
Il and 'he other ssd, as il now too often the
case, upon the secondsry productions Of other
s:ountrirs.
In appropriate connection with these remarks. il
may be stated fact also known, that the raw
cotton Of the FIRST qusliy and price, which is sent
from the United States 10 Europe, is not tb.ti
which Is returned to the United States when
nan&faciurej. On the coniIary, il is this species
1gbich is for the mos; part retained for corrsunp.
ton in Europe whilst fabrics wrought from the
jnferor cotton, off TO foreign markets
generally, and those OF the United State.l
among the nunber. Further legislative assistance
10 Manufactures at this juncure, Coming as /,
WOfld, alter interval that has left time for III.
judgment oil The nation TO pass upon the good ef-
ices OF the tariff OF 1924, far as il has proved
ahelusle, would impress the conviction al home
ana abroad, that The manufacturing system was 10 he
incorporated with the wei understood and durable
Pslicy OF the nation Besides Other ADVANTAGE.
from has conviction, might reasonably expsc,
10 witness that OF seeing ciaa, Of ensrtsnia
cOme 10 he United States. They would consta,
not merely of unemployed jomneymen from for
q IN work shops, however useful these NAV he.
6at, in all 70 liability Of master manufacturers oil
capital and Standing. How valuable enigtagts Of
thi. description would proye;-b how they woulI
bslp TO quicken the Progress Of the GENTRY In
manufacturing skill and general riches, is srssi.d
bY the experience OF al nations, the wisdom IL
whose laws ae superadded such emigi ants 10 their
own populatOn. The effect OF their com n
would not be TO injnfe our own manu- faciurers /.
would benefit them: IL would increase their num-
bsts: II would raise more speeiy The whole clsss
by blending II more thoroughly with all the o her
jntereats OF The State. The foreign artisans whom