The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1828-08-14
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.

The citizens of the lotoer end of CAMPBELL
and fly NCHBURG are requested 10 meet AZ
me Boiling Spring Tavern. Saturday the
18th OF August, for the purpose of taking INTO
consideration the necessity of devislng means TO
promote aud encourage home manufactures and
agriculture. SUNDRK CITIZENS.
lI'We are happy TO give place TO the pre-
ceeding notice, aud hope it will moi prove in
effectual in arousing the people of this section
of country 10 due sense OF the Importance,
and indeed absolute necessity, ofadopiing
same measures 10 alleviate the general condi.
ton oi the people, hch nm association as
that recently formed in Culpeper, encoura'
cing hbme manufactures by bringing them in.
30 general use, cannot fail 10 have a beneficial
effect Thus. we shall avert all the evils ap.
pretended from the operation Of the tariff,
and. at the same time, he more absolutely in.
dependent. The South need never expect
prosperity, Indeed, il must anticipate daily
teirogradaiion, If il continue to devote itself
almost exclusively 10 single pursuit and
particularly when the causes which rendered
that pursuit profitable & lucrative have ceased
% operate. We must manufacture our own
clothes, III least for our Slauss,-we must raise
our own horses, mules and hogs,--decrease
our crops of tobacco, and improve our lands
If we wish to avoid universal indulgence.
ffnporfnnt Commercial Information W
have been politely favored with the perusa
r.. 4 Il 81. IL, I,o,
reason 10 douLt that an additional duty of Sd
per- ID. is about 10 be imposed by the British
Parlisa,ent on all stemmed Tobacco imported
into England, after the 10th of Oct. next
This measure will have a most distressing
tendency in ibis country, 10y breaking uP our
etemmeries, aud throwing out Unemployment
vast number OF poor persons who depend
upon them for livelihood. In this town a
lone, more than 900 persons of this class
feeble men, women and chiidren.-will he
thrown out of employment, many oil whom
we fear, are wholly destitute.
This measure is in The true spirit OF British
selishness. She never will permit any Ma
tlan TO perform any species of work for her
which she can do, by possibility, for herself
Should not this prohibi'ory policy be met by
system as rigidly exclusive Most assured
iy. Her arigon our agricultural products
olgh 10 be, aud must be, nnet by retaliatory
measures on her manufactures. Or, we shall
bemere irihn aries To herneces sitss---A no lon
ger An independent trading power, claiming
as Of right, an equality of privileges aud a re
clprocal interchange Of productions. When
wars ds,solate knrope, aud Great Britain car
had employment 10 her armies for her over
gown Formulated, she will kindly psrmh us tt
export 10 her as much corn as will feed til,
a'inosi starving remnant. Bat, when she /
eorged, she rn1lely shuts the door in our face
AMI tells SHE wants no more al our hands
Went The sane moment, are reducing thu
eonn'ry To thn very verge of bankruptcy b,
sofe@'insto saeh runous system oftrade-
!, Niy'ng all, aud selling scarcely any thing. We
INST therefore raise less 10 sell and ny impo
sng heavy duties on her fabrics, build mp ma
nulac'ories al our own---which will at once
give employinent 10 our poor, and render us
hch and independent as ana,ion. Let u. not
ne deceived by the absurd plea. that we are
ar'pen In tii',& that is contrary 10 our princi
plies to be roRpeNedt Il is FaiistnHan rca.
'on' and worthy only of braggarls aud bI ock-
heads
Extracts cfiettersto n mercantile house an
Lynchbnrg, dafed
LIVERPOOL, 2lst Jnnr, 1893
HenilPmen-" A new customs nil wac
70 nave hcen read in the House of Commons
me evening before last, by which an addition.
AZ duty of 81. per lib. is 10 he IMPOSED on all
nemm"d Tobacco imported aj,sr he loih of
w, merit. lhe preliminary steps in Para-
h'en' took place on the 18th, aud below YOU
. nave an extract from the printed proceedings
'ia''Ng to this ma'ter.--The proposed change
'@soh'y Just ifansplreds and after official assu-