Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-03-13

lahu hot hiehcTs) as me price oil TABOR, the cost
oil the material, and 0 reasonable profit on stock,
,the eiemcuts of manufactures) woul.s authorise?
Are they as cheap they would be, If the iinposl
was reduced so low (and no lower) as would bring
competent sum into the Treasury, TO deiray the
necessary expenses oil Government. They not
wilt undertake TO prove that "Bleached cotton
goods brought from any place on this side of the
Cape OF Good Hope, the price of which, at the place
where made, ,rith the addition efficiently pr. cent,
shall be worth less than thirty cents the
yd, shall be estimated at the Custom House, as
having cost thisty-lour cents the yard; aud shall
be subject 10 duty nj t,Centy.four per cent"
Now, sir, tor the fact. The manufacturer at Man
chester, Gn England, this side the Cape) buys
bale OF our cotton makes into cloth bales it, and
sends II back; for which. he is willing 10 take
ten cents the yard. When it gets Norfolk or Pc
ersburg, it is, by this law, arbitrarily charged at
irty-hve cents the yard, and the duty Of tw cnty-
1--we per cent assessed upon that valuation. This
makes it worth here, eighteen cents per ward; I
leave out fractions. This cloth is i'm market and
offered by the merchant TO Inc at that price
IN competition with the domestic cottoai, made OF
another OF my bales at twelve cents. Which ought
TO buy! contend ought, as question If inter
est, TO buy the foreign cloth; the reason il plain
III buy the Manchester cloth (froEl Eng,and) |
pay, II is true, eighteen cents per yard but eight
go to the Treasury and it costs but ten in fact.
III buy the domestic cloth at twelve, shall have
to pay the eight cents, Uheduty) to the Treasury;
by which 1t viii cost me twenty, instead of eigh-
teen cents! The oppression does not stop here
III buy the domestic cloth at twelve cents, and
have 10 pay the taxes 10 make UP the revenue
derived now from the imposl must nay the cyioIe
oil IT, ana the manufacturer is exempt from any
part, while he gets the difference for his own be-
neht, amounting TO twenty-five per cent the
difference between twelve cents the price of do
nestle, and ten. the price Of the English.
shall make examples Of iron, salt, sugar, and
negro cottons The coarse woollens from fifty cents
to one dollar and fifty cents, taking range of du-
~ from sixty, to one hundred and forty per cent,
a no fyIn ,tn,x "a =
principally worn in the cotton growing States,
Eyes, sir, the slave States,) is glarfng & greater
Injustice.
The excuse for this complicated oppression, is,
to create a "home market" England will not take
your bread stutis, say Gentlemen. Did she ever
take them, except from necessity: We know, sir
she did not, even while we were colonies. Will
this policy compel her TO take them:
Let Us examine the shome market" Will the
, uentiefnan IRON Fairfax, and the Gentleman
from Brooke, tell ME what portion of the people
oil this country, TO be Jribe2 into this pocv to
create this market for bread suiis. Why, sir, in
me poor anu WORKOUT country in which l live,
with Gods blessing, we make three or four
times rs much corn, wheat, and peas as is neces-
sary Tor the subsistence OF the people, Look at the
Valley OF the Mississippi the rudest culture pro-
duccs more corn, than the whole community can
consumed, and the country il vet comparatiyelv n
wilderness! And tell Inc OF home market. The
manufacturers cannot eat Indian corn. We can
scarcely teach them 10 doit. when they locate a.
mong
Sir, the member Gom Brooke has spoken of
exports OF Hour and the consumption OF that ari-
Gle in the last few years. as q compensation sun
pose, for the injury which is by this admitted 10
/ be done 10 agriculture. And the member from
Fairfax, has also spoken OF the advantages Of this
pohcy IN ms part oil the country. IL has encour-
aged the people 10 spin and weave for themselves.
be 1t so, sir. have no objection that the people
shall do so, whenever they please. If this policy
is persisted in at the moment Of lis greatest bless
ins,i that gentleman Is right, shall be obig-
eG 10 demonstrate against a reduction of the d,-
ties, while the manufacturers of New England
w!li be strenuous for their repeal Ii is no diff
cult matter, sir 10 recruit partizans Thi. is a ne
cessary effect OF organizing the whole labor of the
| community" and that has been ayowed bv In. Sc
cretary OF the Treasury, as the perfection of this
policy. Will Gentlemen agree TO this: To PERM,
Government, TO interfere in the most minute reIa
tons OF society," 10 say, sir, whether shall spin or
weave, or hoe corn or cotton. or how much OF Ell
ther shall cultivate, 10 prevent surplus Of bread
stuils, or OF exports! Never, sir.
1t Is denied sir, that this policy has had any ten
dency TO diminish the revenue. On the contrary
II Is SAID, that the revenue has increased O. been
stationary; while the shipping interest, which i,
was predicted it would destroy, has been subjected
to 10 material injury, and certainly The Tonnage is
not reduced.
| ipFoiess not to be skilled in the subject of Ii
nance, Mr.. Speaker; but, it seems TO me no diff
cult matter to shew, why the revenue has not ma
terialiy diminished. j suppose. s!S, if 20 million:
were derived from the ilnpost, all upon article,
OF necessity, and the duty was increased unon all
Oh per cent, 1t would rise 10 so millions If re-
duced per cent. on 10 millions, or what is the
same thing, raised so high as to exclude 10 mil
lions value Of du'iable articles, and increased sc
per cent on the other 10 millions, il would be STA
{ tOnoTy. Let any Gentleman look al the Law and
| the matter Is at once explained.
The substitution OF coasting tonnage for toreiun
shipping, vii! readily explain the ol,er proposition
he direct Trade 10 the Islands, heretofore II
| not substituted by supply OF similar articles
from the favored POI ton Of the country, will ne.
cessarily require greater number OF Vessels tt
| lake 1t from the Southern States, 10 the Northern
| Frontier, by the S.. Lawrence and Halifax TO Oet
TO the Islands, and must take the same route back
But, sir, deny the iacand appeal 10 the me-
ihO'lS!s' now before Congress, to support me. Are
he snip owners so senseicss not 10 know bles.
sing from curse:-Are they not now complain
ing, most bitterly, OF this policy! We know they
are. ANA, ii they are supposed 10 have common
sense enough 10 know the difference between EN-.
p'oyinrnt and profit, in the Foreign Trade and the
SUBSTITUTION OF n0E-interconrse, the evidence is
| conclusive, that they in The road 10 ruin
And, SIR, Is the rapidly increasing population Of
our Country, TO be overlooked in question of Con
sumption: is not the increase of population by
emigration, IN the Manufacturing Districts sufii.
Gent TO account for the Genilenan's -four! Bnf
give no authority to such argument-and, 10
use an expression of my biend from AibemarIe
upon another occasion, q" will not consen, IN no
cyphered out Of my rights" ANY view of this
subject, must satisfy any other than disciple oil
MATTHEW Carey, that permanent injury 10 Agri-
culture, must necessarily produce a material in
Jury 10 tile Shipping interest This policy has
Frustrated agriculture, except in particular neigh
6orhoods, aud is rapidly advancing 10 It's career OF
destruction with commerce.
come now, sir, 10 examine this subisct in an,