The Litchfield County post., 1828-09-11
GOWNE4 31OSC.
LTTCHFIELD, SEPTEMBER II, 1923

We give ia another column few extracts from
debate in the British House of Commons, upon the
subject Of the American Tariff. Mr.. HuskissOn IN
trOduced Bill, which passed nearly unanimously cal
ling for the American Tariff Acts of 1924 d 1898, &
requiring that they be laid before the House for the
Of the members, and for their consideration until
the next session of Parliament, when the subject
will be taken up and definitely actedupon. Jonathan
is stubborn fellow and will not be driven by John Bull
or any other power. If Parliament should virtually
prohibit the Importation of American cotton into Eng
land we shall manufacture it all ourselves and drive
a competition with British manufacturers for the sale
of it in those parts ofthe world where is
nufactured; and manufacturers will have tr fling
advantage over those of England from the crcum-
stance that is far superior to that raised in
Egypt, and the Indies and consequently does
as much in the manufacture. The latter is of dirty
yellow color, while ours is almost pure white
Cloths made from Egyptian and India cotton more
in time and money for bleaching, at the same time
ehe process OF bleaching very materially Injuries
the fabrck, and purchasers will soon learn where
the strongest and most durable material comes from.
But England also receives from quantity OF
potash: this they must have in bleaching thercoton
If she excludes from her ports that made in this
sryno other part of the world can speedily supply her
wants, unless great advance in the price,
Spirits of Turpentine also makes pretty consdera
BILE item of our exports to Great Britain, and
hardly conceive how the wants fher immense navy
can be supplied, without still receiving from this
article. Tobacco, the last article of any amount
which they have been in the habit of receiving of us,
can be raised in South America; but for several years
not in sufficient quantities answer the demand of the
English market. Now these four articIes,-wh the
exception of rce which manufacturers eat,-
embrace nearly the whole amount of our exports to
Great Britain, and these ARTICLES which they
not do withouand which they never would purchase
from US if they could purchase as we'll elsewhere
Let them commence ''retaatory warfare" SO called
III; remains to be which country will be injured
8 most by the measure. Mr.. Hume in his remarks, We
ry justly observed, that England could not talk of
perfect reciprocity Of trade, long as their odous
''Corn Laws in force. Yet Parliament jusfes
that law upon the principle that fther land is capable
Of being made to produce enough for home consump-
ton, the interest of the agrcuturast requires that TO-
reign bread stuffs should be excluded, although, by
this law, her poor are forced to paw nearly double
for the little wholesome food which they procure, to
90 what they would be obliged to pay, if their ports
open for the admission offoreign grain, with
iy reasonable duty. If it is right for England to
protect her agrculturass and her manufacturers a.
gainst foreign competition, by the imposition of pro-
hlbtory duties upon articles of foreign produce, it
right for to do the same; and if in doing re-
ceive injury, Mr. Huskisson predicts, the injury is
our own, and gives England for complaint
But that our transatlantic friends do complain
bitterly, and led suspect that the injury
they talk of will home than they will
ling to acknowledge to us.
Now not sufficiently versed in what is true
national policy, to assert that the late Tariff of our
Congress will prove truly national benefit; neither
we certain that it's provisions entirely with
ints spirit and letter of the constitution wiser men
than ouIself make strong assertions both for and
gans its utility and constitutionaly, and we are will
ling they should settle the controVe rsy without
interfering with " words without knoledge." We are
sincerely attached to what is called the American
System" and hope it will prevail triumphantly: but
we are free to acknowledge that attachment to
this principle arises from national prejudces, rather
tnan from thing ola satesman-like knowledge ofthe
consequences of the measure all its bearings. 1t
subject heretofore; abhor from our very soul that
spirit, possess ed by many editors, Of bndy sup
porting tavorite subject by rash appeals vulgar
prejudice. We that majority of our citi-
zens could be made to believe that commerce is a
curse rather than a benefit our country, and thai
our national prosperity would be secure, land rendered
permanent, were laws to be enacted which would
prove walls of adamant around our whole frontier
Indeed is within the memory of the youngest of our
freemen when majority of American citizens have
been induced to believe this very theory; and when
miniature ships have been dragged out of the water
and burnt upon dry land. If our Tariff laws very
materially destroy commerce, and with it our ma
tionsl revenue, they will prove greater injury to US
than to Great Bitan. Our government must be
supported, and direct upon the people for its
support, will produce monied aris'ocracy in one
class of the people, and squaIled poverty in another
But we are getting upon the subject, and will
say no more IN this relation.
In addition to what his been said in Parliament up-
on the American Tariff, British writers and theo-
rsts are full Of the idea of nnundating our country
with their manufactures through the agency of SNUG
gers, and it is even boosted that British ministers have
EXPRESSED Themselves gratifed at the feasihv nf tho