Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-12-16

atts tneJ Nou0 Dut give up hfrh uo~AhhIS
Of projections manufactures BY the laws. IL
was a prejudice Of other days, they ought TO
eaousce Il; they ought TO admit British man
ufactuses under low duties, or perhapsne du-
ties al ali. so Adam Smith thought all nations
had better do, The English would then repeal
their duties on French manuii as. by
this policy, alone worthy of enlightened and
great nations who sas their true interest, The
industry OF both France and England would
wonderfully shoot ahead. NO longer would
ii ic tramnpellcd by the clogs OF Legislators;
no longer he ruined by the nostrums oipolttl-
cal doctors. But tie French were unnoNed.
In the midst of all his positions and lllasiFs
iioss, OF his expanded views and generous
lectures, they remained WhetiieT
il was their jealousy of their own manuiac-
lures that took the alarm, then blindness that
could not see, their volatility that would not
listen, or what, but 10 impression could he
made upon them. They went on in the old
why, aud back lac went to old England. But
patriot like, nothing discouraged. a new
aope started la his mind.
We, OF this hemisphere, were under diff
fereUt circumstances, and to work he went
IN the task of schooling US. 1t was foolish In
rs TO be running into this exploded error a
bout trade, because we were a young nation.
1t had been tine Tor France TO abJure IT, be-
cause she was an old nation. Ne we're fools
for adopting it, because we bad plenty OF
land vet TO settle, and but little capital; be-
cause our population was thin, and labor
dear. Tue French were fools for adheTIng
to It, because there, capital had long been
accumulated, and skM required; they were
a refined nation, a nation oi the arts, where
population was THE: and labor cheap. So,
we were young fools and old Tools together.
The keen optics Of the Ensllshman. pointing
bis home telescope both ways, lrst acrossi the
channel and then across The Atlantic, saw,
by tIio magical working OF its British glasses,
the tWo nations exactly in thc same lights.
Each fitted To a hair, all his new projects OF
repeal and enactment. They were 10 be
submitted to Parliament, in has triple capa
city at member for Liverpool, President OF
the board 0 ftrade, and enlightened advocate
OF Tree trade for all The world, upon equal
terms.
But, what said he OF Britain all this while?
OF, britain filed with her lefgcs and looms,
her steam power, coiier:es, her blast furna-
ces, siariny, as with beacon fires, over whole
divisions OF her Island, Of Britain, pointing
ia her Alanchesters, her Sheiiields, Der Bir-
mingharis, her Congletons, her Woolver-
.liamptons, and her hundred other towns, all
connected with each other, and with her sea-
ports, by superb artificial ways OF water or
isAl. where natural ones failed; of Britain,
cpniitent at all points in her manufacturing
superiority, and towering in her manulactu-
ring strength; oil BIitaia, the sons Of whose
very manufacturers class with the mobiles of
her land; who are receiving al their Lulaorth
castles the royal negatives OF France, snd
sheitcrtnG them With a p%rincely munihceDce;
OF titls Britain what did lie say? Why, let US
sec. II NAV give US Instructions. 10 some
IT May be new-hy others forgotten. Here
At IS. lie said, that lac was not afraid 10 re-
commend (his very word,) the proposed re-
due9on of duties ." foreign manuf cturcs
coming into England, as an induceuDcnt to
other nations TO lessen theirs on British man
ufactnies going abroad, well knowing that
besides The monopoly almost total, which Bril-
tlsli manufacturer enjoyed at home, immense
as II was, they were sent, at the very mo
ment he was speaking, Sin a proportion far
exceeding the supply from any other country.
TO The general markets Of the world" Very
like our condition indeed! quote from his
great speech Of 1928, in which he first laid
down his doctrine of free trade; not Il news
paper report of it but one believed to have
been corrected by himself. Ineed M strong
er proof, though | think there is enough be
sides, that had MIR. Huskisson filed our lrea-
sufy, instead Of presiding over the English
Board OF Trade, been in Congress instead
OF Parliament, adapting himself 10 the max
inns Of different sphere, he would have been
the constant advorate Of the laws in favor of
manuiactures. His strong mind would never
have doubted their constitutionality, any
more than our illustrious Madison's. lie
would have pleaded their cause as necessary
to the getting rid Of the prejudices Of other
days; as necessary towards enlarging the de-
mand for our products, growing slack after
the peace Of Europe; to the more sure as
well rs comprehensive operations, by and
by. OF our foreign commerce., by diversifying
as vel as multiplying IFS objects; to the ulti-
mate stability ofour finances, in danger, ON
the first political storm, of being shattered to
pieces, whilst depending upon nothing but
duties on imported goods, and those chiefly
British, for keeping lhem whole. After this
fashion he would have pleaded, have no
doubt, though far better. He would have
added, that those laws were necessary for
putting us upon something like a par, during
the first age 1T least, with nations having the
start Of US, by ages, in the race of manufac-
lures; and who began their race, every one
of them, and most Of them keeping it up,
under the strongest protection Of laws. FL
nally, he would have pleaded for them as
necessary towards improving the full advan-
tages Of coasting trade that nature had laid
cut for US, of bounGicss extent and ipexhaus
tille promise. ] am not sure that his patriot
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