The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-02-08

nr,,c,s 10 be- srchangedI Arc you there. old re
Truepenny Z" II" proposition OF this KIND tte
Fre#ch director of the CUSTOMS Nj de 81 Criq'
made the following sagacious and cntung remarkss
,hc R-i,ish having proposed Glutaal reduction ot
dnt;es ON certain thinps. +" The system adopted 81
by England IS admirable because II tnddnssrs none
Of HER MANUFACTURES. And We tohen zoe
are a, for1card as England ,oiH be as LIBERAL. n
But snlid then WE MUST STAND FAST BY OF PRO- l
HIBIToRg SYSTEMS" Z
Il is impudent-stpremsly impudent, IN hriain
r. paiaver" about " free trade whl'e proh'oi' c
ing the importation and consumption o. ioreish
bread stufs though TO be obtained at hait the price
of her own and having the same real value 1t IS
mean and selfish, or base and dastard'y IN Ameri-
cans to Weld to Britain the right OF selecting ;
what she will receive of the United states, ana III
wh7t nsrner-whe willing 70 swallow whate'ef
she nieases To send us" Waterloo stripes OF
Iondon mincinc cocknevs-cloths made ont OF old
rlnibes or drsb.gsitered Yorkshire scsGrers at the
s:on house-carsoes Of pGgPers to be MAINTAIN
ed at the expense OF our dockets, or ehissauest
with lots Of books" u teach US tue oeaufies Of
I" free trade" II she treated cotton gro,rerS
as she uses ont .fa,,ners-Gen. Hayne would Issue
decree OF null icaiion against Great Britain IN
less than no time and drive the lest anchored
isle from ,ihr moorings by long speech -: Sec
ended nv the reputee anthor OF the = East Room
letter."
An.i lew words bv way Of application and /
exhortation, and shall hlsteu to c.ose this too
long eSsay-though the stock OF materials Tor
SUCH u uiscusSiOu SSttbS HNN'f rJNS iSSeSNN -
quantity.
We feel entirely able 10 siew. that the progress
of manufacturing industry has had powerful erect
to reduce the price of Ike commodities imported
This is the natural yessH Of competition. 1t is
like two lines of stean boats or stages, presenting
themselves for the public patronage, We also
foel able to sbew-and would shew It, but because
Of the length Of this article-that the prices OF all
such british manufactures not rivaiied in the
Tnued States rery nearly maintain their old prt-
res Take simple End familiar case to exemplity
British lmpositions. little while ago, the British
Charged us so thousand for % fire brick" an
Indispensable article in certain manufactures, and
very useful in the common business OF life. The
Messrs Berry of Baltimore, entered upon series
of experiments, and soon produced hre bricK al
least equal to the best English Stouroridge ne
cost OF making such brick has not been Inaterlaiil
affected in Euglaud-no new and better clay, no
new power has been applied to their manufacture
but those who thus had s,riad!ed US when they
had the game in their own hands, are now willing
to take $50 thousand for their brick-that being
the honest and fair American price for them but
have the pleasure to say, that the foreign extor
TONERS have been Indignantly driven from our mar
ket, by the superiority and cheapness of the Amer
lean manufacture.
This is one example out of many that have a
nv I" fingers ends to show the benefits of com
ps.iion-and the practice of Englishmen so +
regulate supplies tina. the profits gained may b
enormous Such, however, Is the spirit oi trade
and we must not condemn 1t, except on accuun
of English hvpOcrisy-which recommends tha
% commerce should be relieved Of its shacklrs F!
Ally rough notion is-that that is sco'tndr
who asks me to do for him. what he himself woui
not do for me, in the same circumstances; and VI
as to brick the duty in " free trade England
equal to $40 cents thousand, for the most con
mon kinds, or the average of their usual seliif
price in the United States In looking over Il
British tariff, could not refrain from contempt
Gus sheer some ofthe " free trade" members
Congress, who objected to the specifications Of a
tcles contained in the tariff of lS2+-especiaiiy
the observations of certain g,tbernatorial gent
man. remarkable for nerer getting into such
passionr would make old CHRoNoNHoTo'
THoLoGos. tremble like aspen. The specif
cations of duties goods imported into Gre'
Britain, fill serenity octave pages. oil small type
and we notice that even q BuiIrushes" have spt
cifc duty of so much the 4" load, of 63 bdDdIes"-
l3s and oysters paw SO cents the bushel! w
have not time erea to laugh at such :" free trade
things; but may Just notice, en- PEASANT, that
millions of pounds of tobacco worth mnch ie
than tIco millions Of dollars in the United state
p7id consumption duty in Britain last year at -
SS8 $50 los. l0d. or more than thirteen millions
dollars.
shall admit for the sake Of the argument. if
bes, pleases philosophers" that Briton c.
make pair of shoes, or hat. or coat-a Grad
or a coffin, or a hobby horse--a ton OF iron
piece of cloth, cheaper than an American tr
make them! But it must be admitted that
Anne :can makes bushei of wheat rye, bari
or oats-a gallon of whiskey cider, pound
beef veal, mutton or pork, much cheaper than
Engshman can make them Shall we, then, tai
of Briton those things, being the common produC
of both countries, which she supply at low
prices while she rejects those which ,ce fl
nish at half those prices which her own like COZ
inodiies cost the people of Bri:Iin We put Il
question seriously to the farmers, nee anics al
manufacturers of the United Stafes--whiie '
have to express hope that they will not feel
suited with US for offering a proposition, which Pr
takes so strongly of the modesty Of that member
Congress, who reported he coastng vessels
Great Britain at near nine millions Of tons,
Gepreciate his business in his country, thou
IL is not N 1ch less than that of his glorious i3r
ain and, because of the extension OF internal j
proYemen;s. is about TO exceed t-lciH FAR eact
IL, in eerg feio years.
To- conclude-the free work NJ people of
United States, the bone and sinew ofthe republ
live well-better, much better, thar their o
class in any part of the wc=d; and what is
Important, there Is no industrious and p
dent man among US lit NAV be generally said) "
does not look forwatd with confidence to arrive
what his moderate wishes regard Il state of in
pendence. Here is the glory of onr COUNT
FORWARD" is every Aalsriean's motto T
spirit diffuses itself through all society. Consi
the poor and wretched emgrant who arrives
our Shores exhausted and pennyless-1ying d
he may have bread for himself and his chilIr
which he dared not hope for in his native land
His mind has been as rudely dealt with as bis be
he is stupidity ignorant, and ''0ppresson h;
made him mad!' Follow him, if a sober and
dusfriotGs person, for only two three years.
behold the happy change He already begins
feel that he is a Ddn-he walks erect, and has
hundred little comforts in constant enjoyme
which we're /" like angels visits few and far
tween, )" in the country Of his birth. He has
gun to reason and calculates the future An al
pie subsistence being supplied, he soon feels t
want Of education, and even now is resolved III
his children shall go to school. He is regener
ed-diserthralled; the blackness of despair viii
had steadily surrounded him, had been dispers
LIZ the sun OF Hberty--the- actual waBt OF. fo
which stared him in the face every morning. ser,
only to remind him of the blessings which fl
from iourishiug industry, moderate taxation a
Just laws. Follow this man yet a little further
and YOU may fad him seated in comlorta
house of his own, pursuing his trade-or see hi
conscious oi his own powers, treading portion
the soil which his heart exultingly tells him is
own And shall these be cast back into the stuff
ing that they fed irem-sha the price Of labor
depressed in America, that her free born sons n
contend with the enslaved population of Europ
Here is the question Let every working n
answer it for himself. Let him examine this m
from holy writ :" that, with the destruction Of ,
manufactures must follow the ruin of our .farme
and general distress to all the laboring peopl.
that capital will fee away, confidence be lost, a
all. sorts of improvement, such as the building
houses, factories and shops, and the making
roads and canals, be suddenly checked-oyg Ii,
IN THE GREAT CHAIN OF OUR PROSPERITY n
ING BROKEN, THE BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM WI
FALL TO THE cRoUsD.
AnsUer this question at Gie polls tcorking mei
ask you not TO vote for this man or that man.
any particular man-but this exhor AID entire
YOU to do--by all that il oood for tho n.fsan hv