Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-03-15
HERALD OF THE TIMES.

Il CituCI VI WOOhSi, VI
combing of wool, or working at any man
ufacture Of iron, further than making it
into pig or bar iron. That they also be
prohibited from manufacturing hats, stock
ings, or leather of any kind. This limi-
tation will not abride the planters of any
privilege they now enjoy. On the con-
trary, it will turn their industry to pro-
noting and raising those rough materi-
ais"
The author then proposes that the
: Board of Trade and Plantations should
be furnished with statistical accounts of
the various permitted manufactures, to
enable them to encourage or depress the
industry Of the colonists, and prevent the
danger Of interference with British in
dustry.
"lt is hoped that this method would
allay the heat that some people have shown
for destroying the iron works on the plan
tations, and pulling down all their lorges
taking away, in violent manner, their
estates and prOperties-preventing the
husbandmen from getting their plough
shares, carts, and other utensils, mendcd;
/ destroying the manufacture of ship build
ing, by dcpriving them of the liberty of
making bolts, spikes, and other things
proper for carrying OIL that work, by
which article returns are made for pur-
chasing our woollen manufactures.-Pa
ges 81, 88, go"
Such is the picture of colonsts depen-
dent upon the mother country for their
necessary supplies, drawn by writer
who was not among the number Of those
who desired TO debar them the means of
building vessel, erecting forge, or
mending a ploughshare, but who was
willing to promote their growth and pros
perity, as far as was consistent with the
paramount interests of the manufacturing
or parent state.
"2. The advantages to Great Britain
from keeping the colonists dependent on
her for their essential supplies
"lf we examine into the circumstances
OF the inhabitants of our plantations and
our own, it will appear that not one fourth
part Of their product rebounds to their
opn proft, for, out of all that comes here,
they only carry back clothing and other
ioi tuCII all Vi
which is of the merchandise and manu-
facture Of this kingdom"
After showing how this system tends
to concentrate all the surplus Of acquisi-
tion over absolute expenditure, in Eng
land, he says:
"All these advantages we receive by
the plantations, besides the mortgages on
the planters estates, and the high inter-
est they pay us, which is very considern-
BILE; and therefore very great care ought
to be taken, in regulating all affairs of
the colonsts, that the planters be not put
under Too many difficulties, but encourag-
cd to go on chcerlully.
"New-England and the northern cclo-
nies, have not commodities and products
enough to send us in return for purchas-
ing their necessary clothing, but are un-
der very great difficulties; and therefore,
any ordinary sort sell with them. And
when they have grown out Of fashion with
us,they are new fashioned enough there"
Sir,I cannot 60 on with this disgusting
Details Theirreiuse goods;o ;old shop keep
ers; their cast off clothes, g ood enough for
us! Was there evera scheme more artfully
devised by which the energies and facul-
ties Of one People should be kept down
and rendered subservient to the pride, ,and
the Pomp, and the power, of another!
The system then proposed differs only
from that which is now recommended, in
one particular; that was intended to be
enforced by power, this would not be
less effectually executed by the force of
circumstances. A gentleman in Boston,
(Mr. Lee the agent Of the Free Trade
Convention, from whose eXhaustless mint
there is a constant issue of reports, seems
to envy the blessed condition of depen-
dent Canada, when compared to the op-
pressed state Of this Union; and it is a
fair inference from the view which he
presents, that he would have us to hasten
back to the golden days of that colonial
bondage, which is so well depicted in the
work from which have been quoting
MIR. Lee exhibits two tabular statements,
in one of which he presents the high du-
ties which he represents to be paid in the
ports of the United States, and, in the
other, those which are paid in Canada,
generally about two per cent ad valorem.
But did it not occur to him that the duties
levied in Canada are paid chiefly on
British manufactures, or on articles pass
ing from one to another part of common
empire; and that, to present parallel
case, in the United States, he ought to
have shown that importations made into
one State from another, which are now
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duties than are paid in Canada'
l will now, MIR. President, proceed to
a more particular consideration Of the ar