Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-08-09
1895 do. glue and pates,


S75 tons of mineral coal,
Leather for belts and repairs,
5,l9l dollars worth.
Let it be noted, that, in this table, is
omitted the lumber and other materials
employed in the factory buildings, and
in their machinery. And here it may be
remarked, that these manufactures create
more demand and better market for the
article Of lumber, with which our coun-
try so abounds, than oil the West Indies,
and all other foreign markets Of the world,
put oeether.
These manufactures, then, which some
gentlemen look upon with so evil an eye, :,
aie necessary TO these grand results ;they
are the cause Of them, the causa sine qua
non. We see that, valuable as they are
in themselves, as an end, they are still
more valuable as means to other ends
as the means Of giving n spring and i'm
pulse to agriculture, beyond any other
and all other possible means; and as the
means Of extending the sphere and aug
menting the value Of our commerce, both
foreign and domestic, beyond any other,
and an other, possible means. These
manufactures are indeed the grand pur-
chase, the compound lever, by which all
the great interests Of the country are to
be raised from their dormant state, so far
as they are dormant, in the manner /
have endeavored 10 point out, and to a
height, but far beyond the height, which
! have been able to portray or illustrate.
Archimedes said, give Inc ground to
stand on, and with the lever | can lift the
earth from its sphere. Manufactures
have force seemingly as infinite; and
here we have not to suppose means im-
possible in their nature tor its exerton;
we have them at command-we have
them in this policy. If any one think
these ideas extravagant, let him consider
what manufactures have done for Eng
land, acquired solely by this policy what
wealth she has derived from them; what
power from that wealth; and say, ifthcse
IDEAS are extravagant! If all the mines
Of all the precious metals, of all the dia-
monds, and all the precious stones, dis
persed all over the world, were combin-
ed and planted in the soil of Great Bri-
tain, they would be nothing for wealth,
nothing, compared to the mine Of wealth
she has found in this policy. Look at
that prodigy Of all prodigies on earth, the
mass Of British capital, accumulated as
it has be IN by this policy. 1t battles eve-
ry effort OF the imagination to embrace
its magnitude. 1t fills all the channels
Of her industry, diversified and multiplied
as they are to overfowing; It employs
more than twenty-lour thousand trading
vessels, exporting and importing more
than two and half millions o. tons Of
merchandise, annually; and the me rchan-
di'e exported Of the highest value, Il nine
tenths Of it the fabrics Of her own indus
/ try; it employs all the establishments by
which those fabrics are produced; it sup
plies all the demands Of her agriculture,
and that on a more improved scale thar
ever before existed; it supplies all the de-
maHds of the internal trade, to fifteen
times the amount Of the external; it sup
plies the capital Of every object Of inter-
nal improvement-her one hundred and
thirty eight thousand miles Of turnpike
road; her three thousand miles of canals;
her securities for every anchorage OH
eighteen hundred miles of coast; her rail
rosds,& every other object s. every other
project Of internal improvement; it sup-
plies her government with loan Of more
than eight hundred millions sterling; and
foreign governments with loan OF more
than two hundred millions sterling. Still
it is not exhausted, and seems inexhaus-
tible; the surplus remaining and idle, is
sufficient and ready to supply the de.
mands Of the whole world, provided the
security be not doubted. The represcn-
tation Of il, by my honorable friend from
Ohio, so startling at the moment, was
within the letter Of the truth, it is capital
that would buy a continent.
| What but this capital, acquired by this
policy, could have sustained her as she
sustained herself, in the wars begun last
century, and continued into this' What
but this capital, SO acquired, could have
enabled her to bear up agains: the pres
sure Of world, and to set that world at
defiance? Her power was founded In
her riches, and her riches were derived
from this policy. Can there be any doubt
Of this? What but this policy has given
her her manufactures? What has made
her agriculture what it is, but the market,
which these manufactures have created
for il What has made her commerce,
external and internal, what it is, but these
manufactures, which make nine tenths of
its value? But the very success of the
experiment of this policy, as made by
England, is now turned as all argumen
against the experiment being made by
1 ourselves. For what is that argument (?
1t is the superior perfection and cheap