The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-08-24

'ihhC' uIOpldn as IL
, pear to be, will be adopted by all The comner
cial nations Of the earth. think can discoy.
Ct INDICATIONS IN the political world and moral
a1iI i''e"eclual machinery enough now in ope-
i"tioh, eventually 10 produce such state OF
thihgs, though how soon this contamination
ueVontiy to be wished" will take place. il is not
diet '~"0''y ~ ri0
he objection You URGED to a system of free
uaae on lhe part OF this country, while foreign
nations still continue their restrictions mon n
portion OF our commerce, " as grain and flour 4"
&c, seems to me founded atogether upon an
erroneous view of the subject 1t is one which
mas oeth urged over and over again as if il were
IN Itself conclusive and admitted of no reply
ana In tact has been made the basis of our pres
ehl restrictive system But it seems TO me
that II mas no force IN it at all, as will endeaY.
or TO shsw My doctrine Is that it is against
the interest OF this and every other country, to
impose restrictions upon the commerce of for
elgh nations IN retaliation for the restrict ions
/ imposed upon commerce by them-that instead
oil ahordlng any remedy, it only increases the
eVll created by their policy, and makes bad
Wofse-and Is IN effect saying, we will not take
any bread unless we can have the whole loaf
IL is my belief that free and totally unrestrct-
ed commerce on the part Of this country towards
every other would be sound policy for us TO pur-
sue, lei their restrictions and embarrassments be
what they may. Having then stated nv doc
trine thus broadly, will proceed to give my
reasons Tor It, No nation can procure the pro.
auctions OF foreign country whether agricul.
lural or manufacturing except by an exchange
OF thelr own productions, either with the foreign
country itself or with some other foreign one.
or with some other section of their own coun.
try, by which 1t procures the means of MAKING
the exchange. In other words, one nation can.
not import the commodities of another without
giving something in exchange for them. either
OF thelr own production or what they get in ex-
change for their own production. Take Eng.
land Tor example. The United States cannot
procure the manufactured articles of England.
without giving in exchange for them, either the
produce OF this country, or something which is
procured IN exchange for this produce BY a
! trade with other foreign nations, And this sec
tlon OF the United States, New ENGLAND can.
not procure the manufactured articles of Eng
lahd' unless they can exchange their produce
for them, either with England herself or with
some other foreign nation or with the Southern
States, TO furnish themselves with the means
OF procuring them. The produce of New Eng
land is all we have TO give for the manufactures
OF Great Britain, and unless these nanufac.
lures can be obtained for it by direct trade
with that country or through the medium of an.
other trading party, these manufactures cannot
ma thelr way into this part of the United
otates-ior they cannot come here without an
equivalent in some way or other Now sun.
pose England refuses TO take the produce of
th's part OF the United States for her manufac.
lures still If she will take for them those of the
Southern States, as cotton, rice and tobacco
and the Southern States will exchange that
portion oil these manufactures thus procured as
they do not want for their own consumption,
Tor the produce of New England as beef, pork
butter, cheese, fish, &C. which thev want and
cannot produce, it is the same thing to US The
trade IN this case would be equally beneficial TO
us, though an indirect instead of n direct one
our produce is thus enabled to find a market
and II thus is the case, it is no mater whether
that market be England itself, or any other part
OF our own country or any other.
Now the effect of our prohibiting the intro. |
auction OF English goods into the United States
by such high duties as will prevent their impor-
tallon is to prevent the Southern States from
getting market for their produce in England.
because they cannot receive the manufactures
OF that country in exchange for them And not
being able to obtain these manufactures, they
VIII not be able to purchase so much of the !
produce OF New England, for they will have
nothing to give in exchange for it that we want,
to the same extent They can, it is true, still /
let us have as much cotton, rice, and tobacco. !
&c, as we want to use in exchange for our pro- !
duce, but the quantity of these articles wanted
tor the supply of the wants of this section. is /
very Tar short of enough to pay for our produce
required to supply the demand of that portion |
OF the United States. The consequences would
be That portion OF our produce could no long
er find market at the South, and there being
no market any where else for it, il must cease
TO be raised. The deficiency occasioned in this |
way al tDe South, must be supplied as far as
possible by diversion of part of their indus !
Try to the production of these articles, though
at greater expense, and of an inferior qualify. |
Both sections Of the Union would in this way
De injured, by neither otthem being able to lind
a market for the produce which they each le-
spectiVely raise to the full extent of their ca
paclty to produce it, The agriculture of New
England, and the agriculture of the Southern
States would both suffer severely while Eng. /
land would also suffer by losing a market for
large part of her manufactures. No class of
persons would be benefited by this course of
things, but the manufacturing interest of the I
United States-and they would derive no more
profit if SO much from their business, as if the +.
same amount OF capital was invested in arri- (
culture or commerce.. 1t in fact would be los. /
ing bargain all round
1t may be true, that the trade of the United
States with England is not so beneficial as it !
would be, if there were no restrictions on eth. !
CT side-but then to the extent that we can still
enjoy it, it is beneticia-and TO endeavor to de.
stroy what still remains TO us by counter re-
strictions, is to deprive ourselves Of positive
good because we cannot get so much of that
good as VIC want. 1t is troading in her steps OF
folly and infatuation and increasing the injury
VIC already suffer from them Whatever trade
we can have with her is beneficial, for no nation
can or will trade against their own interest.
| That it is the agricultural interest that is
chiefly affected by the operation of the present
Tariff is evident from the fact that in 1918, tho
sum of $73, 1854 ,437 in domestic produce was ex-
I ported from the United States after supplying
| the consumption of the country. A large pro-
portion of this produce was probably gwen In
exchange for tho manufactures of England
which are now excluded from the United States
by the present Tariff, and of consequence can
no longer 20 to that country or any where else
since there is nothing We can receive in ex-
change for it. 1t must, therefore, cease to be
produced, and to this extent diminish the val,
nc Of the agricultural productions Of the coun.
try. Ii cannot find a market in the country be.
cause all the consumers in the United States
were supplied before and manufactures create
. | nf hut faVv nav mas If theroforp.