The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-04-05
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1903 l,ff f,SUO 4SI.CUU
TIE COMMITTEES REMARK. The sudden
and great increase of British tonnage subse.
quently to $3.50, when the arrangement went into
operation, cannot fail to be remarked. In six
wears, from 1924 to 1880. its increase was less
than twenty per cent; in the ensuing six years,
from 1870 to 1886, it was six hundred per cent.
The whole increase of American tonnage en-
gagged IN foreign trade from 1924 to 1889 has
been but htty-two per cent. whilst that of
British tonnage, In our own ports, has been
more than four hundred and forty seven per
cent. in the same period.
Our tonnage III The carrying trade to the
West Indies. has decreased in still greater
proportion, than the direct trade 10 England.
In 1884, '35 and go. the American tonnage
which entered our ports direct from the British
West Indies, was 292, 700 tons. In 1887, SO
ard 80, i, had diminished to l25. 900 tons. in
the whole colonial and provincial trade. the
comparative increase of British tonnage is e.
qual'y astounding. In 1926, the British ton
mage cleared from our ports. was $1,000 tons.
and the American 477,O00. In 1899, the
clearances'of the British tonnage, as above,
was l,235 500 tons, and of American 1.l29,-
600; the increase of British tonnage being
ten times greater than our owni On the first
side of this paper, is a statement from an au--
thent'c source, that the register of tonnage in
Savannah Geo. shows that Great Britain owns
IA out of Is thousand tons in that harbor
An instance which sirikingly illustrates the
grasping policy of England, in monopolizing
the carrying trade. is daily occurring at our
very doors. II is computed that 100000 tons of
plaster are annually brought from the quarries
of Nova Scotia 10 re-invigorate the very soil
lations are confined 10 British vessels, without
any countervailing power on our part, under
the present arrangement: and If brought at
once, wauld employ feet of five hundred YES
sells. Even the grindsiones with which We
sharpen our scytAcs. as wei as our swords to
repress British usurpaion, cannot be imported
from the same province, in American bot
toms.
In nothing has the artful. encroaching policy
OF Britain been more completely exemPhtied
Than in the management of their commercial
negotiations with this country. and never was
civilized nation suffered TO be more entirely
circumvened by mcrcenary. ignorant aud in.
lecile rulers, than we have been for ten yeors
past. England has not only cCnirived TO
,uaIch from our grasp the millions Of the ear
lings hitherto the income Of our navigation
on the ocean. but is fast driving our merchants
from their counters and mechanics from their
workshops, and will leave US nohing hut the
occupation Of The soil, which she is willing We
should cultivate 10 supply ourselves with tho
means of paying for her gewgaws. While
dow after blow has thus been aimed at our
prosperity and independence, what have our
'ulers been about! The answer is known ID
every enlightened man in the nation. Ofee,
flee, oDfce. las Deen the only objects Of pursuit
II those Who Iiii recently, have controlled li,e
les,inics Of the country. To the horrid Mo-
och Of party they have sacrificed all the best
interests of the nation. Dcspnls alone do not
reai The cries oftheir suhjrcts with cold indif.
crenre. The iyrannicnl democracy of Athens
'sracized their most just and renowned ciii-
Ems. Republican Rome banished her ofiiest
patriots. But it belonged to republican Amer.
ca 10 exhibit line discouraging spectacle Of in
lividual prosperity aud national greatness and
glory prostraa AT the feet of demagogu"s and
pacemen. who. until within n moderate period,
have sustained themselves by sophistry and
iasehood.