The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1832-07-17

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% compete with the Sweed you may
carry this principle clear through the
whole Tariff system. We arelikewise told
hat We ought to Manufacture our own
goods and live within ourselves and save
The money in the country. l will ask
hose gentlemen how much money they
ever brought into the country by their
protective system or from their Manu-
Let the money alone and it
will take care of itself, whenever it is
worth more in this country than in other
countries it will come here and when il
10 worth more there il will 60 there,
money is mere representative of other
staple articles, a mere travelling repre-
from the pockets of one man
to the pockets Of another, instead Of car
rying pound Of tea or bushel of corn
to purchase piece Of meat at the mar
ket or coat at the Tailors, you take
this travelling gentleman in your pocket
and if you wish TO purchase house or
a far n instead Of taking so bales Of cot
ton you take the representative money.
Sir the whole tenor Of your letter goes
to endeavor to show that the Manufac-
toring interest is the first great lending
interest of our country, and that it ought
70 be protected even to the destruction
Of commerce now SIR what il shis in
terest Let us examine il and see if all
the other great interests and industry of
our country must, or ought to be de-
stroyed or so much burthened with pro-
hibitions and taxes that il cannot be
pursued. l will ask you sir, is not agri-
culture the first and great interest Of all
countries inhabited by civilized men :?
And next to that comes commerce and
Manufactures, / will ask you sir, what
has civilized the world, was it not COM
merce7 What was the state of civiliza-
ton before the Mariners compass was
/? Look back and see. /
will come nearer homo ; what has raised
you and me from our humble situation
in life, but agriculture and commerce
! will not confine myself to individuals
but will ask you sir, what has made this
happy country what it now is but agri-
culture and commerce How did the
Pilgrims that landed in this country find
their way to these happy shores but by
commerce What has built the large
commercial and wealthy cities Of our
sea board, and what was 1t that stiInulat-
ed our hardy brethren to emigrate TO
to the western wilderness to encounter
and undergo every hardship? And
what built your hundreds Of populous
cities in the western country, and what
did our Government pay sixteen millions
of dollars for, in the purchase of Louis
lana !! Look at the Erie Canal and its
thousands of boats richly laden with the
produce of the western Farmer and
seeking a market for the sale Of it, and
where do they find that market, is il at
Pawtucket. or Valiy Falls, or any other
small nest Of ofManufactories No sir, il
10 at the great city Of New York where
they find ready sale to the commercial
man who purchases and ships the same
to all quarters Of the world and brings
back in return gold and silver, and such
other articles as our wants require.
We are told by those Tariff gentlemen
the Farmer is injured by commerce and
that If it is encouraged their wool will
bring nothing and their produce will lay
on hand, and that the great consumers
are the Manufacturers. will ask how
does Manufacturers increase the con-
Of the country do they make
more mouths to be fed or backs to be
Ifthsy do not, how can the
be increased Ifyou take
one hundred men from Cape Cod and
one hundred from Vermont and bring
them to the Manufactory, there is one
hundred men less to eat at each of those
places aud two hundred more ut the Fac
tory. i cannot see how this increases
the consumption of the produce Of the
country unless man can eat more con-
lined in a Factory and snhaling the
fumes Of Grease, and the confined state
Of atmosphere which will naturally be in
crowded Factory. I should suppose
. man would consume more when his
employ and labor was in the open at
mosphere and enhaling the pure air.
What would the Farmers say ifthey had
10 market for the surplus produce of
their farms but to carry it to the Factory
and receive in pay cloth and yarn at
The Manufacturers own pricei Why
wretchedness would stare them in the
lace, yet they are called upon to aid
in their own destruction, to assist in
killing the hen which laid the Golden
Egg, colnmerce sir, it 10 all a farce that
The Manufacturers and the Farmers in
'erests are one, and that the protecting
'yssem IS advantageous to the landed
interest Of our country. hold it is d.
'ectly against the interest ofth Farmers
n every respect, and the only man who
: benefited by this protective system is
ne great capitalist, who has invested
''s thousands and hundreds Of thousands