Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-30
Remarks from tho Boston Courier, postay Of genera


Remarks from tto Boston Courier, lOstly Of general
peruSat.
Is tie Inst principle of policy, because the s duty OF
ry to provide and TO !or houeloldt feed
they do not ask aims but employment give them the
preference OF employment forcign manufacturers
The economists of the day variance every kindly
feeling Of nature and would build theories upon the
rain Of those affections and duties which hold the system
civil life together
These quotations stand at the close of an article in
Bells Weekly Messenger of April ,, the writer of
which endeavors TO account for the distress in the
manufacturing districts of Great Britain and which
he does not scrupe to ascrbc mainly Though not en-
iirely) to the Free Trade System of Mr. HHskisson
The distress is not confined to the manufacturers
but is acknowledged exist in all branches of trade
The articles of national produce principally wrought
are ron lead, and "copper" those most nbundantly i'm
ported arc colonial prodnce, foreign spirits wine,
&c and in all these trades it is said without one
single exception great embarrassment exists
We have been frequently and sneeringly told with
IN thee four venrs, hat The advocates of the Anne
rlcan System were welded to the antiquaed and ex-
poded notions OF political economists whose doctrines
were false and had been proved by the experience
of Great Britain, and Mr.. Huskisson, with his new
scheme of commercial philosophy has been al
most worshppcd and adorcd by the unii-tarh Wi.
tiers and orators of country. The writers i'm this
same Bells Weekly Messenger have on moro thop
one occasion. furnished arguments and illustrations
for the FrecTra6c advocates Of this country to prove
OF secondhand, that 1T neYpedicnt and absurd
for government 10 pass laws Tor the protection OF
manufacturers growers, and that all branch.
OF trade 1t left to themselves, would protect theIn-
selves. II seems that the weekly orac'cs of Mr.
Bell have found out that the Free Trade system has
not produced all tho advantages expected from its op-
erution. By the fostering of the government.
they say, "sk grew up to be leading manufacture
and almost staple @! natural industry and wealth.
| If wc did not export much of the manufactured
commodity, our home consumption though confined
TO fifteen millions. was larger than the consumption
of the thirty millions Of our neThbors" But the
manufacture has encountered woiul and unexpec-
ted change aud in tic bitterness of regret these GEN
tlcmcn ask Whence is it, '!or 1t lthe silk trade
grew up under prohibition statutes, and ourishcd in
spite of the intcrlopiBg of the smuggler, to whom
such prohibitions nrc always savcry temptation
! With no less of unwluGncs+ and sorrow thcy fur
nish reply TO their own question:. and this it Is
The sehsrgc o commercial philosophy las changed tho
scene,ior suOncT did the FIRE. TTGdc System fix cI
amongst by the repeal OF the protecting statues than ,h
fabric u our skill aud cpucncc anos, vanished from our sight
The Genius of Political Economy like tire Genius oC Evil
seemed AIMED with all tire Of destruction - res
e'ted tins foroTn trade had pcsiilcnce and famine, it
had the sword IN tan and has certainly continued 10 d.
as much mischief as If armed with al three.
! Nowwc nre willing, for once TO to what our OPP
poucnis have often dO7c-usc the testimony or or
enemy to establish own fIyoritc doctrines Nv
cry position advanced by tho writer's i'm Bell in rcc-
renee 60 the trade of Great Britain. applies with
great propriety 10 the cotton aud wOlicn nanufac-
lures of our own country. The argument is indeed
stronger IN regard To Our COtonS md wOllcus; Tor
the materials hero nro native producis-thr raw
silk is imported Cor the British manufacturer. Under
Just md reasonable protection laws 1--WE do not ask
for prohibayy statutcs) tho cotton and tho wollcg
trade mny flourish "u spite Of the ntcrlopngs of the
snuggcT" but let the Genius or thc Free Trade
system, most sbsurdly uRled) Of Tic Boston Anti
tariff Report aud the South COruna political ccono.
msts gain the asecndoucY n our national logic
lalure, aud 1t will indeed. Ike the Genius Of Evil
arm itself with ali the Instruments of dcstmctcu, tho
pestilence and the famine, If not the sword to over
throw tire forlOrn manufacturers. Nor would thc
manufacturers be- alone the sufferers. There is not
merchant nor smp-owncr IN the nation who world
not dcplOrc the day when our protecting laws SHOULD
he repealed. Destroy the cotton and wOou manu-
factUrcTsof Now England, and tell u.s. yo worship
pcrs Of the Genus Of Free Trade, ye spoutors at
Ciucuescs against The "cupdity Of manufacturers
yc spowncrs of maIcdcuons upon Rush and Clay ant
Webster. how much Of tic shipping Of Boston could
fnd employment. We repeat the sentiment Of oul
IHO,O-it - the hrst principle of policy TO provide
and to care for houschold-to feed 10 clotho
{ Oud sustain them the advocates Of different polio,
arc at variance with every kindly feeling Of our nv
turc and would build their theories upon tho ruin o
those affections and duics which hold the system O
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