The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-09-05

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ENGLISH MANUFACTURERS" are
crcdibly informed that some kinds ofcotton
goods manufactured in the northern states
Of the Republic, can be brought to Eng
land, pay the import duty and other char
ges, and be sold in the Manchester market
at ten per cent. under the present low
prices of similar goods made in Ian
cashire. "-London Bankers Circular.
The time we think not is very far dis
tant, even now we see it in our minds eve,
when American industry, American in
genuity, and American enterprise, will
rival Great Britain, not in the manu- facture
of cotton alone, but Of all other articles
in which she has now an exclusive
and profitable monopoly. Engands boast
| is her ships, her colonies and her COM
merce but let America become her rival
in manufactures, as she is destined to be-
and these three principal sources of her
power and her greatness will be necessari-
| ly annihilated these arteries through,
which the LIES blood Of her prosperity
flows, will be dried up. Her ships, in
stead of whitening every sea, will lie
listlessly in port, attractive only to barna-
Giles; her colonies, findingno reciprocal be.
nefits to be derived from the connexion,
will one by one, as England's power to
coerce them wanes away, cut the connec-
ting links that joins the young and vigor-
Gus child to the old attenuated parent,
and declare themselves free, sovereign
and independent; and her commerce,
which is but the creation of her mamufac-
lures, will dwindle into nothingness as
sure us effect follows cause. The tens of
thousands of her, at present, hardworked,
ill-pad, badly-fed mechanics, on whom
the greater part of the civilized world are
now dependant for most manufactured ar
ticles of luxury, ornament and use, will
then be thrown idle on the word-the
loom will stand still, the shuttle will cease
to perform its functions, and the hammer
will be silent.
AT such a crisis where would be the
dense population-the sturdy artisans Of
Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, and the
other manufacturing towns? Would they
quietly fold their arms, with that patience
with which martyr would ascend the
scafold? They would not, for hunger is
the last thing to which an EnglisIlman
will submit-they would sally out with
the desperation OF infatuated lions, tramp
ling on the privileged classes, sweeping
away every record of the national debt,
which so long crippled their energies, and
destroying all those monarchical institu-
tons, which English statesmen arrogantly
point to as the /" admiration of surround
| ing nations"
II was to such state of things as this
which we have attempted to describe, that
the republican-minded Lord Byron aIlu-
ded, when he said
"God save the King and Kings,
| For they cannot save themselves much longer,
Methinks l hear little bird that sings,
The people by and by will be the sronger."
Englands manufacturing power is one
of the main props on which her greatness
rests for support; take it from her, and her
national Importance will dwnde down
to size corresponding with her geogra-
phical limits, which will be falling off
indeed, and such one as American enter
prise and industry must inevitably effect.
II is from the decay of her manufactures,
and not in the defeat Of her navy or her
armies, that England's almost colossal
power will receive its first shock.--N
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