Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-07-17
To Tie Editors Of NE a. Y American.

To the Editors Of The n. Y AMERICAN
Your paper Of Monday evening contains an article
on the present state OF trade commerce. manufacturers
and tariffcear, sound and conclusive. You are now
on the right track, after, think veerng bout oil
round the compass. whichever way the proselytes OF
TIE American System and the re- election Of MIR Adj
ans would lead You have now, by the operations
and workings Of truth in your own mind, trayersed
backward and forward, till the magnet heads due
NORTH 10 the role star of nations prosperitya free
and unshacked commercial intercourse with the whole
world. The American System is an inclusive one, sci.
tish IN the extreme and aiming al nothing short Of nom
ntercose IL seeks TO tie the hands OF all other class
es oil the community, and then cry ont help yourselves
and conrete with us IL you can. Before We az q ma
ton should have attained 10 the present of the Ia.
rih protection, we should have added years to our
youth-more porulation-more weath--nore skill
more economy. Our manufacturers have, take them as
body, spent dollar, where fifty cents wonld have
answered If judgment had directed; and the fifty mil
lions OF dollars spent in New England in bricks and
mortar and machinery, and lands and houses, and no.
tells, and bridges, and villages would now and ne.
yer viii bring, or be worth thirty millions Large ma.
nuiacuring companies will not 10 be governed
by board OF Directors President Agent and Sub
Agent all with sinecures living OH the company. Pr-
vate property, directed by private skill and attention.
and interest may do; and many Of this class now,
by their skill and industry, getting rich in New Eng
land; while The incorporated companies made up of all
classes Of society subscribing 10 the stock adding there
by their money only, without particle Of knowledge
skill, or experience (or this essential they depend
some oiI-cast foreman from Manchester or Leeds)
losing money Let any Of these boosted American
system persons go INTO theiT works (pefhaps, ana more
Ike Than not, fifty miles from heir residence in some
ety and they could not remedy mistakes; los, one
Of them knows enough OF The business they have en-.
barked in TO detect errors however gross. thckly
scattered they may lie around him. I think and am
not alone in the opinion either, that greater deuson
passed over and possessed nation than has been
praciised this people, by the manufacturing system
FaIsehood has usurped The place Of truth; but
thinks, the cloud is passing about 10
sumo her throne; and commerce, before expires
10 We unbound and liberated to compete single handed
with all other professionshc skill and enefprize; and
economy OF our nerchants will not shrink from the
sh9rpest encounter with all other nations The globe
You, Sir, Of too much intelligence OF mind,
II you act out yourself TO advocate this monslrousIy
whitening system Of Tariff upon commerce. 10 force
into existence manufactures before their timea sys.
ten which f persisted in. will render the once fair
commerce Of his hourshng nation as poweTless as
dead nb--whcn you, and ], and men Of every pro-
esson viii look sad 20 witness the fate OF country
You and your paper have influence, and hope and
trust (now the signs are propidous) you will continue
10 eSeg. yo0r zen and your influence land sure e