The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-09-07

pose of getting some value for these surplusses
and proslra.ing our manufactures, in the hope
of re-esiablishing their monopoly here. Du'
ring most of the time, for the last twenty 1--WE
years, the supply has exceeded The Demand
and. as necessary consequence, our duties
have borne on the foreign manufacturers. "A
large proportion of those duties had been de-
duc,ed from the price abroad. He believed 1t |
would be found that duty OF fifty per cent. |
had never raised the price to the consumer to |
the amount of twenty per cent. In his opinion, |
oreign manufacturers had paid more than one.
half of our war debt, and now contributed
largely to our revenue. The great advantage
of duties over all other modes Of taxation was'
that foreigners were compelled to pay snare !
and q large share, of them, by reducing lhelr
prices. Withdraw our manufactures from our
market. there would then be no surplu'SeS
foreign manufactures. Our competition mas
produced them, and the consequent anu col,
slant reduction of prices. The amount oil
,b.. reduction. for the period mentioned, has
been greater than the amount of all the burden
the tariff has imposed on the country aho, Oil
tbe whole, we have actually paid less than if no
tariff had existed, and no home manufactures
beep established. Add to this that, by the
home trade, we support each other, am rcnder
ourselves independent of other nations IN time
Of war. We all remember the war prices.
To such an extent had the reduction OF pri-
ees been carried in Great Britain, and prlncI-
pally by our competition, that The wages OF
labor had been reduced TO bare subsistence
10 q starvation subsislence--derved IN part
from the employers, and the residue from the
parish taxes taxes which in amount annually
exceed the whole expenditures OF this Govern
ment He would appeal TO the South-to Inc
friends of free trade every where-do they de-
sire 10 reduce the labor of the North to the
condition of foreign labor? Were 1t IN their
power, was it for their interest 10 DO SO he
said he could rely on an appeal TO their inter-
est. We are now one of their best customers !:
the time may come when we shall be their only
customer for THAR great staple. But for the
jealousy, and the continued agitation of the
South, and the consequent fuctuatlon OF the
protective system, the manufactures which
iaeu have raised in Europe might have been
erected here. The time would now have been.
or shortly have come, when we could manufac-
turc every pound Of cotton raised Ia the South.
And the industry, the economy, the skill, Inc
superior quality of our manufactures, would
have secured 10 them and 10 us the market Of
the world for their products and for our labor
And he hoped 10 see the day tohen our mutual
interest shall be thus combined, and our
jeaIousies and heart-burnings hrotoH TO the
vilds.
lie had said that the time might come when
the North shall be the only customer tor the
cotton of the South-whcn its products shall
be limited to the capacity OF the manufactures
OF the North. Can the South shut their eyes
TO what is now going On TO raise up rival inter-
est? Look TO the various cotton regions in
other parts of the world. Peru, with q soil and
climate, none more fertile or propitious--with
plant, of two years life affording staple ex-
cceded, or equalled, by none but the Sea
Islands labor cheap, with all these advanta'
ges, now producing cotton, with fair profit at
only four cents a pound The Rio Grande,
the future Egypt Of this Continent-rexas'
and all South America. from Mexico TO Brazil,
destined TO become your rivals You have
still more formidable rival-Great Britain
aid British India. With the spirit ofa rival
to our commerce and to our manufactures, she
is preparing for events, and to secure 20 her
self. from her own dominions, q supply oil
every article necessary for her manufactures.
She has in India j soil, seward and landward.
capable. probably, of producing the best sta
pies. Should the opium trade be broken up, a
million of acres of the best soil can be added TO
their cotton region. She has taken your best
seeds, your best planters, your best machinery,
to India. She is encouraging the growth OF
cotton by bounties and certain sentiment is
giving an irresistible impulse 10 her exertions.
She is marching 10 her object with firm, and
unfaIteiing, and untiring step. Events may
all th<,
South even 10 change, in part, the course Of
their agriculture from cotton to silk, to which
their climate affords every advantage. But
this like every other change in the direction of
labor, will require proiec,ion--io them as the
producer, and to Us as the manufacturer.
Young establishments, like infants, require
protection till they can stand alone.
The time will come when the value of the
Union and the value Of the parts TO each other
will be better appreciated. And this will be
found 10 spring from what at first view might
seem the opposing interests of the different
sections of the country. We have variety
of Il mate, of soil, of products; necessarily re-
quirng variety of employments. All can.
rot be growers Of cotton, or of rice, or of TO.
bacco, or Of wheat or Of wool all cannot be
manufacturers. But each will be fund neces-
sary 10 the other. We Lelong to the same
country--to the same Government. We have
one nterest--one destiny
Mr.. F.. said he desired TO say n word con.
corning the compromise of 1888. He had a
seat here when that act was passed. Those
who chose TO consult the Register of Debates of
that day would find that he then protested a.
gainst it; that he then declared for himself ana
his constituents that neither he nor they were
or would be bound by it, and as 3 bargain he
said the same now. Non in he; fedora reni.
We acerc not parties to The bargain. Yet he
ro,v CaI, averv d;snosition to respect the COM