Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-03-08

the planting States, resulting aom that Of the plant
ers, we must add tho increased cost of all the do
nestc, protected and similar imported manufactures
which nrc consumed in those States In speaking
OF that consumption, have strangely supposed
that It is confined exclusively to the planters where
as they not constitute enc-tiits part of the free
white consumers The planting States, i'm the aggre-
gate, undoubtedly consume, n protected nanuiac-
lures and I'M foreigD imports amount very nearly
c!uai 10 that oil then exports. Ii cannot he other
wise. What account can be- given of the proceeds
OF their exports, if it he so? In what way do
they appropriate expcnd them? The only unpro-
tectcd articles which the planting States purchase
from the other States, are live stock from the West
to the amount, probably, of three millions of dol
lars, and unprotected articles from the North to
ABOUT one half that misunderstanding, in the whole
four millions and half of dollars. But these are
not paid Son out of the proceeds OF the staples ex-
ported. The cotton, alone which is sold TO the
Northern manufacturers to say nothing of rice
amounts to at least that sum-
And here we have another large addition to the
burdens imposed by the Protecting SYSTEM on The
planting States. Ii has been seen that the price of
cotton in the United States is diminished two cents
Of cotton sold to the Northern M on,
~ one hundred and fifty thousand bales aycra ring
three hundred pounds, the loss upon it will amount
to nine hundred thousand dollars--a loss to the
Planters which Is clear gain to the manufacturers
Ii rs thus apparent that the Northern market, which
has been represented creating an additional de-
mand tor cotton, is nothing than the substit,-
ton of an artificial and a bad market for n natural
ana good one; and that the indemnity which it has
Deen supposed To afford TO the cotton planters for
their loss upon what they export consists i'm the adj
uitonal loss OF nearly million of dollars. IL the
protecting duties were repealed, can il be doubted
that an increased foreign demand would be produc-
ed for cotton three times the extent that the do
mestc demand would be diminished /, There IS
scarcely any limit TO the demand for our cotton i'm
Europe,u we will freely take manufactures i'm cx-
change for It, Let suppose that the repeal of the
protecting duties would cause an increased annual
importation OF foreign manufactures to the amount
of ten millions of dollars of which four millions
would he OF cotton manufactures. For the whole
oil TINS increased importation, cotton would be re-
ceVed, creating an Increased foreign demand for
more tnan three hundred thousand bales But the
domestic demand for cotton would be diminished
only, by the substitution of the four millions of inn
ported, Tor the same amount of domestic, nIanufac-
lures. And, as the raw material required for that
Puahuty OIL manufactures would not at the utmost,
amount to more than one million of dollars il fol-
lows tat the domestic demand for raw cotton would
be diminished about thirty three thousand bales on
~; ana, consequently, the increased aggregate de-
mand for cotton, abroad and at home, would be
TWO hundred and sixty-seven thousand bales This
result VIII be fully understood when we reflect that
IT would he produced by removing the heavy incum-
ORANGES OF prchibitivc duties, which now impede
and shackc the intercourse of the planting States
win their natural markets. The natural mar
III
pest price and largest demand for their produc-
TONS The people of the North understand this
perfectly we'll; and it is remark as trcouent
as 1t Is just that it is better for the farmer there
10 give higher money-price for manufactures,
to the domestic establishments which will take
the productions of his farm i'm exchange. than
20 OBTAIN these manufactures at much lower rate.
from the foreign establishments, which will take
scarcely any thing which he has to give new
demand, and almost new value is created for his
a
he gives, nominally, for manufactures he
gives, really much less. And it is strange that il
should not be perceived, that what is true of the
Nor,hern FARMERS, Is equally true of the Southern
phahters. lhe European manufactures furnish the
natural market for the latter for the same reason
precisely, that the Northern manufacturers furnish
the natural market for fhe former That reason 10
because the European manufactures will take i'm
exchange Tor their manufactures nine hundred thou
sand bales of cotton, which the Northern manr,fnc-
tories VIII land cannot take. ii is therefore i'm
all respects as unjust and tyranncaI TO obs,ruct or
impede the Tree intercourse of the Southern plant
ers WIN ther natural markets abroad as would he
to oDstrnct or impede, i'll like manner the free in
teIcourse OF the Northern farmers with their natu-
raj markets, the domestic manufactures.
IL Congress should entirely repeal the duties up
Oh imported manufactures, and levy an excise duty
upon domestic manufactures equal to that which Is
now lad upon those imported, il would be nothing
more than returning 10 the lips fthe Northern ma
nlactrers and their associates the poisoned cbaJce
Whcn they nave so long held To the lips ofhe South
ern planters. 1t would be taxing their productions.
and eXempting those of the South precisely as the
productions of the South have been taxed so many
years, while those of the North have been eu,irely
exempted
But the Committee have not yet finished the ex-
position of the evils inflicted the planting States
by the Protecting System, taken i'm connection with
the fiscal operations of the Government No lust
estimate can be formed of the oppressive action of
the Federal Government, upon the Southern States
winch does not add, to the inequality of its exac-
TONS, the still greater inequality of its disbursements
10 levy one-aif of the federal revenue from cotton
and rice alone-te productions of onc-ffth part of
the federal populaon-would be, in ITSELF sufficient
~ oppressive; but to levy this most unequal contri-
button from that part of the Union where imported
manufactures are produced, and expend it, almost
exclusively in that part where untaxed protected
manufactures are produced, is almost TO duplicate
the burden, and is quite enough to account for the
general decay and dcsoation which have silently
ovcrspread, and arc still overspreadng the devoted
region of the South. TO sum up and express the
intoerable grievances of the Southern States i'm a
single phrase, they reduced to the very worst
condition of colonial bondage to the Tariff States
They are both prohibited from exchanging their
productions with the best and most extensive Gus
toners on earth, under penalty of forty per cent
on their value, for the avowcd purpose of compelling
them TO make their exchanges with the very worst
customers in the world. In other words. they are
prohibited, under the penalty stated from trading
with all parts of the world but the manufacturing
States, precisely the British American Colonies
were prohibited from trading with all parts of the
world but the mother country. The principle of
the prohibition is strictly identical i'm hotj, coces ond