The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-01-20
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

serving II The serious attention q every
man ii the country, who desires 70 viii
ness is permanent prosperity. Or who
feels disposed 10 contribute his exeTlions
70 make the Nation really independent Of
foreign lands. The subject is one Of the
most vital importance, and must ere long
be again acted upon by the Representa-
lives of the People in Congress. Wess
all men 70 give il IN attentive pensal:
North Stale.
The entire overthrow OF lie advocates
Of reduction Of the rates Of duties On inn
ported grains in Great Britain. teaches
American Legislators a lesson ihey can
no, disregard, without fatal blindness 10
the interest Of our own country. The
advocates OF free trade wonld do well 10
stop, and ask themselves wha, = country
is 10 gain By admitting The products Of
other countries into formidable and most
injurious competition with our own. while
there i no reciprocal favor rendered 10
our own productions, and while their ports
are sednionsly guarded against all vessels
with imports from America! Shall we
throw open our por.s TO the manufactures
ofEnglnad, Germsny and France! Shall
We admit Englis.i Observation-Disclosures
boots-French hatS-Geman saddlcry.
and hundreds Of other articles, the low
cost Of which will drive thousands OF
Americans from employment. while .
prohibilory duty shnis out the products Of
our agricultural! France taxes our tobacco
at an enormous rate. and is now calling
America ungraielnl because we have laid
a duty of twenty per centum upon her
manufactured silks. And England is con &.
stanily urging upon America the alyan,-
ages from free trade, while she never
prac1ises a. she prearhes. II i worse
than folly, now TO speculate upon the
deriyablc from universal free
trade throughout the world II is sur-
fcient that nothing Of the kind does exist,
and that there is no prospect that il ever
will exist. The only question 10 ask our
selves is, shall we. BY attempting this
Utopian scheme Of an absolute free trade,
be unjust to our own country, while we
have no return from any other. Shall
we ruin the manufacturer and the producer
for an imaginary benefit TO a few
beneii. that will soon cease to be realized;
for what certainty is there in such an I'M
equal contest, that even commerce and
the carrying trade will long remain in
our hands! Let France admit our tobac-
CO, and England our grain, and then there
viii be an object for some corresponding
li5eraliiy or our side. But Of this there
is no prospect.
But England has but recently refused
to take our grain upon even a lixetl and
moderate daty, the only condition upon
which permanent national trade can exist,
and the only means whereby she can
hope TO retain the United States as
market for her manufactures. She has
eyinced her determination to persist in
her own corn laws as they now stand, and
the only alternative we have lef, under
such circumstances, IS 10 close our ac-
counts with her, and to become, instead Of
being as now one Of her best customers,
hencelorwarll, rival manufacturer. both
at home and abroad. This alternative is
a necessary one. For il the products of
our soil are not suffered to be taken in
payment for imported manufactured goods
Of Europe, how shall we be enabled 10
make payments! We are necessarily
driven to make them for ourselves when
We cannot aif0ad to buy.
Corn is nearly totally excluded. while
the day is rapidly approaching when coz
ton, rice and every other product Of the
American soil will follow in its course.
As the trade will then stand with Eng
land, it will be one Of utter dependence.
England is willing 10 sell 10 US, but UNI
willing to buy from US. The only posi-
BILE form Of trade, in the meantime, be-
tween such parties exchanging unequalIy,
must be one oGlarge and Increasing credits,
such as ours has long been with England,
and such as it must be ag,in, if trade is
ever widely re-estlblished under the ex-
isting state ofihings. But Of such enlarg-
ed restoration there is much room for
doubt. There Is distnst and disincIina-
ton on both sides. England now rea-
sons, as she has lately acted, most un-
wisely, with regard to the present crisis,
of which she herself was the moYing
cause.
But even il England should hereafter
repent, and should establish our trade
upon an equal and just basis, what induce
ment is there to us, her injured debtors,
to SO easily forget and forgivcs Ought
we not, in justice to ourselves, seek our
market where they are not exposed to a
rlinous and selfish caprice! And where
can we better do so Than in the domestic
exchanges Of our own country,
Feelings like these, are just and natural,
and exist widely throughout the country,
and sooner or later England will be. and
should be made TO feel them in decided
form Of national policy--such as shall
hasten a change, and free us from our
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