The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-01-14

! mencement of war of uncertain duration
with certainty of having them crushed by
the return OF peace.
( The strIctest eronomy therefore suggests
AS exceptions To the general rule, an esti-
MAZE, III every given case, Of war and peat e
| periods and prices with inferenres there
from. OF the amount of a tariff whirl might
he Afforded during peace, IN order to avoid
! the tax resulting from war. And it will
occur ut once, that the differences will he
! strengthened by adding To the snpposition
OF wars wholly foreign, that of wars in
Wlllch our own country hight he party.
d. IL Is IN opllIiOn in which all must
agree, that no nation ought to he unneres-
SarEy dependent on others for the NUM-
lions OF public detenre, or fur the materials
essential to Il naval force, where the nation
has Inhratlme frontier or IL foreign COM
Incrre to protect. To this class of except
IONS To The theory may he added The instru-
'nents OF agriculture, and of the mechanic
ans which supply the other primary wants
OF the community. The time has bren.
when many of these were derived from IA
foreign source, and some them might re-
lapse INTO that dependence, were the ell
enlargement TO the fabrication of them at
/ nome withdrawn. But. as all foreign sources
must he liable to Interruptions, too inconvcn-
lent TO he hazarded, II provident policy
would favor an internal and independent
source, as reasonable exception to the
general rule Of consulting cheapncss alone.
4. There are rases where nation NAV
be so far advanced in The prerequisites for
particular branch of manufactures. that
tins, # once brought into existence, would
support itself; and yet, unless aided in its
nHscent and infant state hv public encour-
agement, and IL confidence in public proter-
ton, might remain, if not altogether. for II
long time uninterrupted, or attempted with
out success. Is not our cotton nlanuElr-
ture fair example? However favored by
an advantageous command of the raw mate
rial and machinery which dispenses in so
extraordinary IL proportion with manual la
Dor 1t Is quite probable, that without the
impulse gwen W IL war cutting off FOREIGN
shppIles, AMI the patronage of IN eally
!af'il, might not even yet have established
nseli and pretty certain, that it would he
lar snort OF the prosperous condition which
enables 1t to face, in foreign markets. the
ta'trcs OF nation that deteS all other com
p"thorS. The number must lie small, that
wQmld now pronounce this manuiarturinU
boon not to have been cheaply purchased
lay the tariff which nursed it into its present
maturity.
D. Should it happen, as has been s1spert-
ell, TO he an object; though not of foreign
government itself, of its great mnnuiactur-
ing capitalists, to sirnngle in the cradle the
infant In"nuf'ICLnTeS oI an extensive Gus
toner, or an anticipated rival, it Guld
surely, in such case, be incumbent on the
suffering party, so far To make an exception
To the "let alone" policy, as to parry the
evil by opposite regulations of lis foreign
commerce.
6. 1t is common o! lection to the public
encouragement of particular branches of
Industry, that ii calls off lahorerS from other
branches found to he more profitable, and
the objection is in general weighty ore.
But it loses that character in proportion to
the effect of the encouragement IN attract
lng sklltui lahorcrS from abroad. Something
OF this sort has already taken place among
ourselves. and much more OF it is in pros
pect; and, rs far as it has taken OF may
take place, it forms AN exception to the gen
eral policy in question.
The history o.: manufactures in Great
Britain. the greatest manufacturing nation
in the world, informs us that the woulen
branch, till of late her greatest branch,
owed both its original and subsequent
grOwths to prosecuted cxies from the Meth
erlands and that her silk manufacture,
now Il flonrishing and favorite branch, we're
not less indebted to emigrants flying iron.
the prosecuting e,ctS of Franre.--F Amber
sons History of Commerce..
II appears, indeed, from the general his
tony of manufacturing industry, that the
prompt and successful introduction of it
into new situations, has been the result of
engrdtlons from countries in which manu-
tnCtnres had gradually gIown up to ii pros
porous state. as into Italy on the fall of the
Greek empire; fom Italy into Spain and
Flanders, on the loss of liberty in Florence
AMI other citi' s. and from Flanders an.
! France, into England, as above noticed
Franklin's Canada pamphlet.
! In the selection of eases here made, as
exceptions to the let alone" Theory, none
have hcen included which were deemed
lcontrovertihle. And if have viewed them
or Il part of them only, in their true light
they show, what was to he shown, that the
power granted to Congress to encourage
domestic products Ivy regulations of foreign
trade, was properly granted, inasmnrh as
the power is, in effect, confined to that body
and may, when exercised with sound leG.
iSlative discretion, provide the better fol
the safety and prosperity Of the nation.
With great esteem and repard,
JAMES MADISON.
JOSEPH G. CABELL, Esq.
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