Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-02-04

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nn confSsve evidence. tina, duty on impor,aons has
redundancy has chcapened the s a"a hso us
wna repeal OF the duty have effected I'm 1900 ybe,
annually made " h hundred and h,y thousand bushels
,i o. eu sne ihe total population United States
u@ Yearly consumption of each person Salt dnrns that
@ bh duty OF twenty cents averaged sixty cents
per o"s"eI al the pos delivery, and ranged from Que ,I
Ss,o two dollars audtv cents in the interior In 1907 and
or ne sapy a was tee free and before the price
~ 'e maritime ports was from fifty hundred cents and
''"' 0"e 10 TWO dollars IN the western
an t@ tic western states the price SALT in 1907 and
Pittsburgh TO Nachez, the principal tributaries Of ,ho
,srP anu Ohio has fnc,uarcd between irty-seven and
H Sepcny'hve cents Yet those who advocate aboli-
iron o the duty proceed the ground cheapenng salt
terror of the country ''''' ""'""'"' III 'he IN
acy 'e OF ,esn have in @ tested the
markets. generally supplied rom the Virsin;a n
ede sdeSla bare during the very water of the pa a
ana my cents but the first appearance of scarcity of
Hen7w salt, the holders of the oregn commodity nut il IN
this exorbiian, price, had not The Virginia manuctUre q,
mare d louie ue ordinary expense, replenshed those
IN $!O the Mrsha reported the quantity manufactured
M una, year. at it97SS bushels +" 1897 the quantity man.
non OF the subject, estimated 4,IS 600 bushels and no,
wi'sIandng the embarrassing approximations which have %o
Gently hung tins of industry will be- found ,e,
present o annual product of our sal, works No, less than
4S,9z9 ouShels. The duty hitherto PAID effected as
mas peen sen reduction of price consumer in every
part OF the Unions the by placing the foreign and do
article m such fair competition reduce each to rs
minimum price: in the east, by home production and hv ex
~ T'eal portion OF foreign salt from she western wa
st' as 10 !eaVe large s"rrls along Atlantic nor
Ger 10y 1'ch the has been there reduced from twenty.
III l""' ana l"o"' Wien imported free OF duty"
| We conclude extracts from the Memorial with
the following just general observations.
W d'r the liberal patronage ofthe government on, with ,be
rs"uces w"cn are possessed, the salt business must
Extend e until It reaches the limit by which cvcry manufac
i"G must be bounded the ultimate demand on the one side
m ''e MINIMUM pFice of living profit other; mpro.
M ~ nHi"y as H' lights OF science and the aids expert
ence shall shed their Influence its Operations and ere Inn
,hs ~ Cips ana better commodity for the consumption OF
in people than foreign states can supply now
'%surany n!s eL by the Kanawha works, capac
y or production is i" adequate wants of the wholc
; tts' should circumstances warrant the
Blu, once destroyed the loss is irro,ricvabc rftbe modern
doctrines OF free trade by who's, manu- are
heyond competition and pressed upon those whose
ne course of oar consequence must ID our
i e Ju'snen'S he the postraon of every manufacture
earliest sacrifices The lessons experience NAV come bt
they will come la,e statesmen canno, rrbI br Hu
aon what their laws destroyed AS all must be aysS
' "he" manufacture abandoned by the nocv Of
ne government who's protection gives existence or whose
's;"s care extension; confidence is al an end and
PIue' men ~" not r't their capital they see has
eth @ Ny change OF opinion which may again occur and
= ovGrwheln ti'fs in the ruin of experiment
earnest consideration which the manufacturers in
e county OF hanawa, have given this subject, satisfies
ihe OF the correctness Of the accuracy of the
conc which they have urged cons,Iain them 20 adj
Ss Ise'gS Tor relief TO the wisdom and justice congress
win the confident prayer and expectation the policy
and eraced the duty foreign salt restored ~ least 10
It's former amount They deem unnecessary 10 remosa;e
tied that state things arise iwwch the
'atives OF lie people aud the states be induced ana
more rapidly 10 crush the important establishments he coun-
Unanimously corcurred in at a numerous rnce,ir ftf.
manufacturers osat, held in pursuance public notice al
Terra Sails in the county Eauayvha on the g2d dav of
October 1850; subscribed for aad on their hsbaC an" h
, their order" P "
We 10 not know what effect This 1Iemora, has
produced upon those TO whom it was addressed Those