The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1838-10-09

otherwise than clad in the growth, production
and manufacture of this State. We farmers
mus, keep in mind the 80 III of July 1912 when
the tariff or compromise law called, is to re-
main at only 20 per cent duties. Are we to abide
that compromise ? for one say yes, provided
the government will be that economical as TO
paying all expenses from duties received on i'm.
ported foreign mercandise the income from
The sale of Public Lands had ought to he divid-
ed among the several States. Ii the people ofthe
United States abide the compromise it is next to
adopting The liberal system, or free trade. And
| ii the people continue to consume such vast
quantities. OF foreign production, and manufac-
! lures, ruin and Indebtedness must and Will fol-
low. believe il to be hest for the people of this
State 10 abide the compromise, and 10 adopt the
restrictive system so far as we can constitutional
ly. The General Assembly can well pass
laws to protect the industry of the people OF
this State, as to protect our deers OH our Noun
tains, or the Pckerel in our ponds, or the musk
rat in rivers, as we'll to offer bounties for
the destroying the fox, the wild cat, or crows
as well as to prohibit the administering of extra
judicial oatls. Industry and economy the great
| sources of wealth, cannot be too much encourag-
ed and supported. Happily for this State, they in
numerous instances, are Unlisted in the service OF
manufacturers and mechanics. These valuable
and important casses Of our fellow citizens have
n just demand on the General Assembly for ev-
cry reasonable encouragement and support; their
pursuits are practicable patriotism, and whilst
our national, and State parchments establish
our independence OF right, their measures more
solid establishing for us an independence
indeed. Industrious manu- features and mechan-
les when employed upon things really useful do
laudabe service TO the public; they are constant
ly adding to the we arh, strength or convenience
Of the great whole. We find in the American
! Annals, account Of the anniversary of socie-
ty for encouraging industry held 1883, on which
| occasion Boston common presented a novel
| sight. afternoon female
spnsters, decently dressed appearing on the
common at their spinning wheels, the wheels
were placed regularly in three rows, and female
was seated at each Wheel the weavers also APP
peared clearly dressed in garments of their own
weaving. One of them working a loom on q
Stage, was carried oil mems shoulders attended
with music, an immense number of spectators
were present at this interesting spectacle. The
Rev DR.. Cooper preached discourse, and q
collection made for the benefit OF the institu
ton. Ladies of Boston whirling three hundred
spinning wheels These were afterwards the
matrons who refused British tea, and who new.
er saw piano. Wonder, if thousand delicate
ladies' could not now be seen in the city, ut their
pano's, where one old fashioned rosy damse
could be found at the healthy exercise OF the
spinning wheel? Il. Jefferson, in his letter to
! Benjamin Austin, Jan. 9th 1916 ? That to he in
dependent for the comforts Of life, we must fab
ricate them for ourselves. We must now place
the Manufacturer by the side of the Agricultu-
ralist. The grand enquirey now is shall we
make our own comforts, or 20 without them, AT
| the will of foreign atoms; he therefore who is
now against domestic manufacture, must he Tor
reducing us either to dependence on that nation,
or TO be clothed in SKINS md to live like wild
| beast in dens and caverns
| Experience has taught me that manufaot ures
are now as necessary to our independence as to
our comfort. Situated, as we are, in the interior
of our country, il is OF course very expensive
Transporting our produce to market from many
parts of the State, and when we arrive there we
| must take and give their own prices. 1t must
therefore, be for our interest 10 raise and manu-
facture every article this country will produce,
au,l that may be in value nineteen twentieths OF
! our necessaries, and purchase no more foreign
goods than real necessity requires, until we have
more articles for export than the value of what
we want TO purchase.
| We farmers now furnish the manufacturer OK
Massachusetts with wool at from % to 36 cents
per pound, and young men and young women
to make it up. And in addition to this, the banks
of this State keep constantly deposited in the
banks Of our cities about one half or their CAPT
tai paid in on which the city banks discount to
the manufacturers in their neighborhood to ena.
BILE them to work up perhaps the very wool
bought of us. Firstly, we do wrong by selling
our WOOL so long as the same is needed for do
mesic consumption. The General Assembly
have from the days of the old Vermont State
Bank, permitted the banks to deposite in the
banks on the sea board which deposites have at
all times been considered equal to specie in vaults.
| BY reason of the banks of this State depositing
so large portion Of their capital in the city banks,
it has direct tendency to increase the introduce
ton of foreign merchandise, aud the manufac-
lures Of our sister States into this State, greatly
to the injury OF The Agricultural interest of the
State. The people have long been accustomed
10 the present evil practices of the banks, which
practices, the General Assembly had long since
ought to have corrected. expect the only rea-
son why orr banks required 10 keep up their
deposes in the city banks is, the balance OF
trade is greatly against us; and always will be so
| long as we sell the raw material, and the genere
al Assembly neglect TO encourages the Agricul-
tural, and manufacturing, and mechanical inter-
ests Unques,ionably, more than four fiftls OF
the actual bank capital ~ this State is employed
i'm the mercantile business, in purchasing mer-
chandise. The manufactures Of our sister States
or Of foreign countries, brought into this State
and sold to Our citizens for our beef, our butter,
/ ,Lo faro porL for rs I have