Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1832-04-25

anha6ltdnt shall be inclined to lave apy linen
or woollen made of their own spinning. thew
should not be abridged of the same liberty
that they now make use of, via. to carry to a
weaver (who shall be licensed ty the Govern
orr and have it wrought up for the use of the
family, but not to be sold 10 any person in a
private manner, nor exposed to any market or
fair, upon pain of forfeiture:
\ Sand, inasmuch as they have been supplied
with all their iron manufactures from hence.
except what is used in the building of ships
and other country work, on half of our ex.
ports being supposed TO be il NAILS-a ma
nutacture which they allow as never hitber.
to been carried OH among Ih.ni--it proposed
that they shall, for time to come, not erect tho
manufacture of any under the size of a two
shilling nail, horse nails excepted; tina, all
Sitting mills and engines for drawing VIM,
or weaving stockings be put DOM; aud that
every smith who keeps common forge OF
shop, shall register bill name and place Of
abode, and the name d every servant which
he shall employ, which icense shall be renew
ed once every year, ano pay for the liberty of
working at such trade That all negroes
shall be prohibited fromweaving either linen
or woollen, or spinning or comb G of wool,
or working at any Manufacture of iron, fur
Their than making it into pig or bar iron.
That they also be prohibited fiom manufac-
turing hats, stockings, or h1ther of any kind.
This Limitation will not abFidge the planters
of any privilege they now eUoy. On the
contrary, it will turn their indutry to promot-
ing and raising these rough Materials
The author then proposes hat the Board
of Trade and Plantations should be furnished
with statistical accounts of the various permit
ted manufactures, to enable hem to encour-
age or depress the industry of the colonists,
and prevent the danger Of Interference with
British industry.
''lt is hoped that this method would allay
the heat that some people slow, for destroy
ing the iron works on the plantations, and
pulling down all their forge-takng away,
in violent manner, their Estates and proper
disappearing the husba,dmen from get
ting their ploughshares, cars. and other uten-
sis, mendsd; destroying tie manufacture of
ship building, by depriving them of the lber-
nsqeft tar.earryie on i, 1Aa aEoIh, BY which ar
len manufactures-Pages 81, So, IS. our wool.
Such is the picture of colonists dependent
upon the mother country for their necessary
supplies, drawn by a writer who was not a.
mong the number of those who desired 10 de-
bar them the means of bniling vessel, erect
ing forge, or mending ploughshare, but
who was willing to promote their growth and
prosperity, as far as was consistent with the
paramount interests of the manufacturing OF
parent state.
so. The advantages 10 Great Britain from
keeping the colonists dependent on her for
their essential supplies.
SIT we examine into the circumstances OF
the inhabitants ofou plantations and our own,
+ it will appear that one faauth part of theis
product rebounds to their ozun profit: for out
of all that comes here, they only carry back
clothing and other accommodations for their
families; all of which is of the merchandise
and manufacture of this kingdom"
After showing how this system tendsto con.
centrate all the surplus of acquisition over
absolute expenditure, in England, he says:
'sAll these advantages we receive by the
plantations, besides the mortgages on the plan
ter's estates, and the high interest they pay
US, which is very considerable; and therefore
very great care out to be taken, in regulating
all the affairs of the colonists, that the plant
ers be not put under too many difficulties, but
, encouraged to go on cheerfully.
| "New England, and the northern colonies
have not commodities and products enough to
send US in return for purchasing their neces-
sary clothing, but are under very great diftl-
culties; and therefore, any ordinary sort will
sell with them. And wheh they have grown
out of fashion with US, they are new fashioned
enough there"
Sir, cannot 60 on with this disgusting de-
tai. Their refuse goods; their old shop-keep-
ers; their cast off clothes good enough for us!
Was there ever scheme more artfully devils
ed by which the energies and faculties Of one
people should be kept down and rendered sub
servient to the pride, aud the pomp. and the
4 power, of another! The system then proposed
}, differs only from that which is now recon-.
meudcd, in one particular; that was intended
j, to be enjoyed by power, this would be less
etiectually executed by the force of circum-
stances. A gentleman in Boston, MIR. Lee(
the agent of the Free Trade conventions from
) whose exhaustless mint there is constant
!, issue of reports, seems to envy the piesseo
condition Of dependent Canada, when com com!
d pared to the oppressed state OF TINS ohion !
Al II :, o,an =, far inlerapcp from the view