The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-08-19


decline OF price must be sought Some 10
Dor has been bestowed to ascertain fb
annual amount of duties paid in the Unite,
States, on the importation of cotton fabrics
before the present tariff-and it was fount
that the duties were on the whole increas
ed-and this clearly proves an increasint
amount of imports. The comparative ouan
hty OF export and import cannot readily b,
ascertalned; but many merchants of mucl
experience have stated their opinions tina
export never equalled import, and during
the last year few were exported. If thil
be true, it follows either that domestic
goods are accommodating on hand, or theiI
fabrication does not equal the consumption
Inquiry was made at the commencement o.
the present year, and it was satisfactorily
ascertained that there were fewer domestic
goods IN the warehouses throughout the
country, than there were at the commence
ment OF 1928. If then they exist any where,
they must be found numbering the shelves
| of the retailer. Many merchants interest
ed In this question, have been through the
the country of the eastern and middle states
during this season, to ascertain the condi-
ton Of trade, and traders. They have care
fully examined their quantities Of stock, and
say that their stores generally were never
so destitute of cotton goods as now. These
results seem inconsistent with the position
of overproduction.
Some say that throughout New England
cotton mill is found at every water fall
and they are enough to carpet the earth
But they are deceived by the great noise
and show of the factories and their subor-
dinate buildings. The attempt has been
often made, to enumerate the cotton spin
dies in New England-and no one whom |
have seen has found 100000. If this be
all, the statistic reports prove, that in Glas-
gov alone, a second rate British manufac-
turing place, there are more cotton spindles
turned by steam, than there are by all the
water falls of New England.
If then we do not make more cotton fab
RIGS than we consume, some other reason
must be sought for the decline of price.
The progress of years will improve our
domestic demand; for few new factories
will be undertaken till they are held in
higher estimation. And population is rap
idly increasing. 1t is computed that within
the last ten years the population of the
United States has increased thirty-three
per cent. Emigration has not ceased. and
should not increase hereafter as fast as for
merly.
Besides, every year presents some new
mode in which cotton is employed; and it
is daily more and more used as substitute
fer linen, silk and woollen.
A more extended use of the article, with
an increasing population, will increase the
demand. And it seems, if we may safely
reason on this as we do on all other sub
domestic factories will assume their proper
station, yielding just and reasonable profit
to the owners. GossYPIUM.
Moral INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.
Few men suspect, perhaps no man compre-
bends, the extent of the support given by
religion to every virtue. No man, per-
haps, is aware how much our moral and
social sentiments are fed from this fountain
how powerless conscience would become
without the belief of a God how palsied
would be human benevolence, were there
not the sense of a higher benevolence to
quicken and sustain it; how suddenly the
whole social fabric would quake, and, with
fearful crash, sink into hopeless rum,
were the ideas of Supreme Being, of ac-
countableness, and of future life, to he
utterly erased from every mind. Once let
men thoroughly believe that they are the
work and sport of chance that no superior
intelligence concerns itself in human affairs
that all their improvements perish for ever
at death that the weak have no guardian
and the poor no avenger; that an oath is
unheard inheaven; that secret crimes have
no witness but the perpetrator; that human
| existence has no purpose, and human virtue
no unfailing friend; that this brief life is
every thing to us, and death is total, ever.
! lasting extinction; once let men thoroughll
abandon religion, and who can conceive OF
describe the extent of the desolaton which
would follow? We hope, perhaps, that hu
man laws and natural sympathy would hole
society together. AS reasonably might we
believe that were the sun quenched in The
heavens, our torches could illuminate, ant
our fires quicken and fertilize the creation
| What is there in human nature to awaken
respect and tenderness, if man is the un
protected insect of the day? And what il
he more, if Atheism be true7 Erase al
thoughts and fears of God from a communi
! ty, and selfishness and sensuality woult
absorb the whole man. Appetite, knowing
no restraint, and poverty and suffering hav
( ing no solace or hope, would trample il
scorn on the restraints of human laws. Vir
tue, duty and principle, would be Knocked
and spurned as unmeaning sounds. A sor
| did self-interest would supplant every othe
feeling: and man would become, in fact
what the theory of Atheism declares hin
to he--a companion for brutes.
Collects Relics Of Literature.
The late venerable DR.. Holyoke, in lette
written after he was an hundred years old, i,
answer to the inqairies of a friend respecting
his habits Of life, diet, SC, states that he is n.