Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-05-29

by Tho bounty paid to Ian for lbs competition with
the foreigner. This struggle, if the statements Of
ten made Ivy the friends of the Tariff correct,
is sometimes oprricd by the manufacturers 10
very eNtrovagont and desperate extent. II has
even gravcly been asserted that upon the pas
sage of the Tdrr act Of lS2S, the British owners
~ forces and furnaces reduced the price of their
iron less than eight dollars ton, to retain the
control OF the Amcrican market. An operation
Nv which as has been shown by which as has teen
shown Icy the memorial, al the Free trade ConvcII.
tiun To Congress, they must have iucurrcd loss
uincar five millions al dollars wear, to retain the
profits upon yearly sales 10 the amount of perhaps
2GO, OO0 dollars II Is vcrT certain, therefore, that
the reduction Of ci hit dollars tonupon The price
Of British iron in lS2S though cutcmporanrous
with Olr Tariff act, wUs III no " iSr connected " ith
il in the relation of cause and effect. We may,
and probably do often greatly cxaggcratr to our
selves the immcu>i'y &! cScrtions and Of sacrifices
made by the British manufacturers 10 retain and
preserve in their own hands tho control of 'orri"n
markets. But that such cNcri"nS and sacrifices are
and Will he made by largo manufacturing cstab
lishnrntS, in which extensive capitals arc employ
ed, cannot be doubted. Whenever they made
and so long as they arc continued la couutcract
the effect of rlria duties IN foreign countries, the
duties paid by thch, and the purchaser of the
goods in the foreign country obtains them freed
from the duty AT tho expense Ot the tCrc manu-
facturcr. But this career of losing trade Cannot,
continue long. In the competitions between diff
tcrcnt lines of steamboats, and stages, have
sometimes seen the rival interests undertaking
each other till the traveller has been treated gratui
tou>lv with his fare But the result even OLA very
short contest of that nature proves utterly ruinoS 10
one il not In both the contendinS establishments.
And il is, and must he with any reduction az
price in tho market upon articles furnished partly
by importation from abroad, and partly by Gomcs-
tie industry, which cuSucs upon the levy of an
additional duty upon the article imported from
abroad
The incidental effect of competition in the mar.
krt g. Tod on he of No lnnpStr m mn; fac
turcr, by the aggravation of duty upon the
responding article Imported from abroad, to reduce
the price OF the article, must be transient ard
| momentory. The general aud permanent effect
must be to increase the price of the article to tho
extent Of the additional duty and it is then paid
| by the consumer. Ii ii were not so--f the gene
| raj effect of adding to duty &c reduce the
price OF the article upon which IT levied; tho
| converse of the proposition would also bo true;
and the operation for increasing tho price of the
domestic article, would he to repeal the duty upon
| the same article imported; an experiment which the
friends Of our internal industry would not hc de-
| sirOus Of making. We cannot subscribe, there
fore to the doctrine that the duties OF iinpos pro-
| toctve of our own manufactures paid by the
| foreign merchant or man ufacturcr. Nor can we
] more readily hcl eve that they paid by the
purchaser of the articles exported from coun.
| try to pay the importations which we receive III
! return.
1t is contcndcd that by excluding tho foreign
manufacturer of cotton from our markets we dis
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,i,,c If c,.,;,r,ricn In III. S,uth thc CLIMATE ;s
,';Id J ,;,I Tho coil ,;,r; lilo and tho ror,l,,o,,
Ii,idrL in nrnrI, cou;J urn,bcrs INTO slack and
Standardization ma slaves. rnc cuIliv.t;on of
the Land * performed bv the coourcd uopul.,ion
! The pluntcr cannot cha,pc MS occuDotion IL. il
rooted to the soil Manufacturers cannot he csto
blishcd bcca,sc slaves are both morally and rhvxi-
! collv disabled from, WORKING in tbcu They are.
besides ycrv ant TO set fire 10 the buildnrs MS the
cypcrcuco of certain Yankees has tanmht them,
who. in defiance of the Law, of Nature did re.
Gently at,cmpt to set up some manufacture III the
ncighborhood of Charleston. The duties levied