Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 182?-183?, 1832-04-13

private manner, nor exposed 10 any mark et
or iair, upon pain OF forfeiture.
Acd, inasnuCh as they have been sun.
pied with all their iron manufactures from
hence, except what is used in the builJino.
"i ships and other country work. one bolfot
our exports being supposed TO be in NAILS
"a manufacture which they allow has ever
hitherto been carried on among thcr-it is
proposed they shall, for time TO come. never
erect The manufacture of any under the size
OF two shilling nail, horse nails eycented .
that all Sitting mills and engines, for draw
ing WIRE, or weaving stockings be nut down:
anu That every smith who keeps common
forge or shop, shall register bis name and
place OF abode, and the name of every ser
want which he shall employ, which license
shali be renewed once every wear. and nav
Tor the liberty of working at such trade :
That all negroes shall be prohibited from
Weaving either linen or woollen. or snin
hihg or comblng ofwool, or WORKING at anv
manufacture of iron, further than making Il
INTO plgorbar iron. Thatthey also be probib
l'eu from manufacturing hats, stock ~ or
leather OF any kind. This limitation will
not a0ridge the planters of any privilege
lhey now enjoy. On the contrary. il will
tHrn their industry TO promoting and raising
those rough Materials
he author then proposes that the Board
OF Trade and Plantations should be furnish :.
ell with statistical accounts of the vnrious
permitted manufactures, 10 enable them Ia
encourage or depress the industry of the
coionIsts, and prevent the danger Of inter
ference with British industry.
IL Is hoped that this method would allav
Tue neat mat some people have shown, for
destroying the iron works on the plantations
ana pulling down all their lorges-takino a.
way, III violent manner, their estates and
preventingthe husbandmen from
getting their ploughshares, carts, and other
utensils, nended destroying the manufac-
.ufe OF snip building, by depriving them of
Ihe Ii"er'y OF making bolts, spikes, and 9TH
er ihings proper for CARRYING on that worl,
oy winch article returns are made for MIR.
cnasing our woollen manufactures
81, So, So" - g. ayes
Such IS The picture ofthe colonists depend-
emf upon the mother country for their neces-
sary supplies, drawn by writer who was
not among the number of those WIN desired
10 debar them the means of buidinr a vcs-
sell erecting forge, or mending plougb-
snare, but who was willing 10 promote their
worm and property, as far as was consistent
WIN me paramount interests ofthe manutac-
turing or parent State
= Inc advantages ofGreat Britain from
keeping the colonists dependent on her for
their essential supplies.
=, IL we examine into. the circumstances of
Inc inhabitants of our plantations and our
own II VIII appear that not one fourth mart
OF TIER product rebounds 10 their own nrof,.
Ior, out OF all that comes here, thew only car
fy pack clothing and other ACCOMMODATIONS
Tor Their families all of which is of the mer-
Ghandizs and manufacture of this king
Alter showing how this sys,em tends 10
concentrate all tie surplus of acquisition o.
'eE absolute expenditure, he saws:
All these advantages we receive NV tho
besides The mortgages on the
planters estates, and the high interest thew
pay US, which is very considerable and
.heIeiore very great care ought to be taken
IN regulating ali affairs of the coIonists that
'he planters be not put under too MANY di0i-
Gu''ies' but encouraged TO go on cheerful
New England and the northern colonies
nave NOT commodities and products enough
10 sehd us IN return for purchasing their ne
C,ecSsary Clothing, but are under very great
oiiilcuilles and therefore, anv ordinary sort
sell with them. And when they have crown
o9t OF fashion with us, they are new fashion
ed enough there -" '''''i0ii-
pr cannot go on with this disgusting do
IAN. Their refuse goods; their old sbon-
keepers; their cast off clothes. good enon6b
Tor us Was there ever scheme more a.,
'GIiy devised by which the energies and fac
HiueS NJ one People should be kent down and
rendered subservient TO the pride and the
pomP and the power, of another! The svs1
lem then proposed differs only from hat
winch is now recommended, in one particu-
lar That was intended to be enforced bv
power, this would not be less e(Tectuallv or.
eculed by the force of circumstance a
gentleman in Boston, (Mr Lee) the oo,ont
Oh inc free Trade Convention. from ,yboso
exhauslless mint there is a constant ;ssmo ~
leI,orts, seems TO envy the blessed condition
u dependant Canada, when COMPARED to tho
oppressed state Of this Union and il isa c,ir
inference from the view which he presopts
mat ne would have US TO hasten back IN the
5oiden days OF that colonial BONDAGE which
, IS 50 wen depicted in the work from which
nave oeen quoting Mr. Lee exhibits two
-douIar statements, in one Of which he TIRE.
'ehls me hlgh duties which he represents 10
oe pad IN the ports Of the United States and
~ me other, those which are paid in Canada
Seneraliy ABOUT two per cent. al yalorem :
nu! did II not occur TO him that the duties
levied IN Canada are paid chiefly on British
manufacture, or on articles passing from
1he 10 another part Of common empipe .ond
.nal, 10 present parallel case, in the United
STATES, he ought to have shown that innor-
alIons made into one State from anofber
which are now free, are subjected IN Go
'ame or higher duties than are paid in r c. ',,
IDA pun ~ O''-