Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1831-09-09
GLENN OS FACTORY
From, Niies's Register.

EDGE IoOLS.-There is a very valuable
and extensive mandatory of edge tools at
Cbambersburg, Pa The son ofone of the
most celebrated makers of such tools in Eng
land, lately purchased fifty dollars worth of
the Chambersburg manufacture 10 send
home, as pdtterns-but said, that English
articles coulGaot be furnished Of Ike quality
and price. We may expect repetition OF
what happened, several years ago, in respect
to gim6Lets. Several dozen. of American
make, were sent 10 England by British "a
gent, (who himself related the story TO us
with advice, that any quantity might be for
warded, ii OF like quality, at certain appa-
rently very high prices-and, in due time,
several hogsheads were received by the "a
gent; bet the manufacturers made almost a
total loss-the wretched quality OF their goods
forbidding that they should come into COM
petition with the American, and castingthem
into that class ofarticles which England pro-
duces opentifully-'to SELF in foreign coun-
tries; though they had paid extra prices for
the manufacture of these gimblets
That the English can, and do, work as
well in iron as we can, is freely admitted
but in that country, the manufacturers for
the home and for foreign market, are We
ry different persons. The former have
character at stake, and are held closely re-
sponsible for the goodness of their wares
but the latter have no character Eve speak
generally and would just as freely deal in
cdSt-UOn bridle-hits as in those of the best
wrought metal, if equally proftable-not
caring the value OF a straw, whether the
necks OF 'outlandish' foreigners were bro
ken or not, because of the brittleness of their
goods.t a British woollen manufacturer
for the home market, would almost as soon
have jumped into one of his own dye-tubs,
as have openly sent out logwood dyed cloth
for indigo blues. And how is il with us
III we buy British article, and it turns out
unserviceable, we make no complaint, be-
ing used TO such impositions but if an A
merioan cloth changes its color, an Ameri-
can knife will not cut, or an American lock
falls 10 pieces, as il were, of lis own weight
Gas British locks oltentimes do,) what a
fuss is made The fact is always freshly
remembered, and we caution others TO be-
ware of American manufacturers Will the
people reflect little on this matter, that
they may discover how far they are made
subservient TO foreign interests-how much
disposed they are to disregard those of their
own country? With what gentleness they
permit John Bull 10 cheat them; how rough
ly they condemn fraud committed on them,
by their own countrymen! John Bull, IN
his dealings with foreigners. has worked
himself up to the notion of the fish woman
who, skinning cells alive, was asked if the
process was not extremely severe on them?
She said it was, at first, but they had got
uS'd to 1T And thus, John Bulls agents,
stationed in our cities 10 superintend the re-
ception and sale of British goods entered up
on the business of false stUearing with some
small degree of compunction-but, after
while, being used TO it, like the fish woman's
eels, they are ready to swear to any thing
in 'the way o. trade > custom house oath
being swallowed as easily as glass of Lon
don porter, and as palateably, if rendering
as much profit as will pay for the porter
such oaths being 'dog-cheap.'
*By Messrs. Dunlop, Madeira s. Co. and
called the Lemnos works, at which are made