Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-05-22
Va, Tuesday, May 22.
THE PROIET.

The Legislature of r. Island adopted the following
"wherca the Secretary the Treasury Of the United
the repeal Of the existing tariff of duties and submit
protective principle is conceive, abandoned regard
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sness which would be lost rendered wholly uoduc,vc
Thersec resolved by this General Assembly that our sena
prevent the provisions said bill
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hea does not amply them foreign competition"
This goes the wholeIn the spirit, the Editor of
the N " American Advocate, who has "spent nearly
month at Washington announces TO his "patrons his
return, that "he present administration OF the govern
ment is decidedly AntiTa and that "the bill present.
ed to Congress by the Secretary OF the Treasury, which
would PROSTATE half the manufactures of the country de-
stroy the market OF the agculturas of
sheep be killed. and lower the price OF labor perhaps
one half is only the OF plan subject us
10 southern policy and to reduce the price of the labor
freeman 10 the value of the labor of slave there
fore belongs TO TO be the alert that be i'm
voved in ruin before aware of i."-He conjurcs
the friends of the Tariff TO hold meetings directly and
TO speak their sentiments TO their several
in Congress Several meetings have been held for this
purpose. In the meantime, il is said panic has seized
upon some OF the manufacturers The Norristown Ed-
tor declares, that II "he Tariff be reduced
and wooen goods correspond with the wishes Of
Gen. jackson, Manufactures will be totally ruincd
that sin consequence of the great depression Of
goods, oil the manufacturers OF this Borough has al
ready stopped between so and 60 of his power ooms &c.
"a striking commentary indeed the perncious effects
bly, illustrated by the following article tho last Ban-
ner of the Constitutions"
THE actual state Of Manufactures fall in price
that has taken place in domestic cotton and wooden fabrics,
within the last six months has been very great and the
ecs have been most severely felt by the
those articcs Three woolen concerns
nls city have lately failed, and number of cotton esta-
biishments have been obliged wholly or in mari
From one manufactures of a mixed commodity, which a
year ago sold readily % 30 per yard we learn
That the price, in January, had declined to 81 cents and
that is now but l6 cents; and, from another
are informed that plain cottons have declined per
and prints 20 per Woolens have declined about 25
per centum and we have been assured by commission
merchant that he would SELL 60 cents satnets of
the parcel which year ago commanded 80 TO 95 cts
This fall OF prices has been occasioned in part the
alarm produced by the dminuon of confidence in the
permansncy oil the present Tariff, which commenced
operate when the Free Trade Convention assembled and
partly by the scarcity OF money, which has occaoned
pressure upon trade of all since October last and
which has deprived the manufacturers of many facilities
OF procuring funds in advance OF sales which former
ly enjoyed
"Independen however, of these two causes there are
others, which have doubt had their influence over
production in articles has been carried great
manufactures which has taken place the last
Tariff Act has resulted in the of machinery
and buildings sufficient TO produce double the quantity OF
iaocs winch the country would require for its consump
lion. In such case how evident is it, that large CAPT
tai has been rendered unproducve, owing the stnu-
lus of an artificial system"
The best Observers at Washington are at loss TO un-
dersaDd the indications, calculate the results 1--WE
have indeed Says letter of the 20h) complicated ques-
Won IN le honeS md ,tears are nearly balanc-
\ ~ will not report so
favorable bill as Mr. McLane's; but Mr. Hoffman of N
York is said TO be preparing which OH the whole
be rather better than Mr.. McLane's, and which hone
Will command majory."-As a late interesting letter
from Frenchman in Paris, Specializing upon French az
iairs says: piUeE- Viuons-.Nous Verrons" 1--WE re-
comnend hhis French version to all second rate
copyists' iintators, echoes, &c.)