Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1842-06-17

ENGLAND from our numerous causes of collision, we
shall be Obliged to depend upon our enemy for large
portion of wooden goods, necessary supply the con-
sumption of people, to clothe our army and navy,
and blankets &c, for the use Of both. The gold
and silver in our country must be ext orted TO
pay for those goods which were surrepttously
or circuously obtained, as was the ca during the
war of from 1912 TO 1915. Thus weaken our
selves by sending out Of the country our gold and sill
to pay for those necessaries, and strengthen our
enemy by furnishing TO him the sinews of war, to he
employedby another Admiral Cockburn in ,scmnlt
caly burning down the planters houses on the Poto-
mac and the coast of the Chesapeake and to success
sor OF General Ross to burn down the Capitol over
the heads OF the members of Conlres II they 10 not
| anticipate his coming by fleeing to the Blue tldge.
What enabled England to conunne the twenty-five
years war from 1923 1915, without Distress to the
Government or to the subjects
WHY, bv levying contributions on all the Euro
pean nations, through the nstrumenta.lty OF her
manufactures, which their necessities compelled them
to take from her they furnished her with the snews
of war, which she used to destroy Their commerce,
and to capture destroy their navies, and finally to
beat the greatest aptaln ana to overurn the most
colossal military power he world ever saw.
Ifwith her breed we had imported her national wis
dom, id had now sense 10 follow the policy OF which
for 500 years. he has afforded us an example, we not
only should free ourselves from her leading strings,
but in less than hafa century, become more power
full han Great Britain now is. England almost touch
es France and Germany. IN which countries, Tor
mole than a century and half, the wages OF labor
upon an average, have not been quarter to one
third so high paid in England. In France, the
population is ingenious and ind strons but ENGLAND
wisely prohibited their cheap la or from coming IN
competition with her dearer labor and BY steady
perseverance in this policy, has attained her present
prc-emnence. Germany and France, and most OF
the other States in Europe, are now playing her own
game against her to heir national profit and to the
great advantage Of their subjects, whilst we, good
souls preaching upon the text of free trade, and,
during our homiles and out of Congress, are allow
ing our country to 90 to wreck and rum. Can we
evpoct that dear labor can compete with the cheap
labor of France of Germany, of Holan', or of Eng
land : Yet we weighing with pair of gram
scales the measure OF our protection. Saxony, DO
hemia, Morn,a, Hunaara, Austria, and other Ger
man States are now filing mp with sheen and wool.
len manufactures, and IN Bohemia, Moravla, and
Hunoara labor is very cheap and the population is
sparse and the lands well fitted for the breeding Of
sheep so that from thence and the other German
States we may calculate upon wool being sent IN con
siderable quantities 10 compete with orr own, unless
a fair protection is given to the woods Of American
growth. The consequence Of destroying our own
wool growing bus ncss, have already suggested At
the present prices Of labor and our long winters com
bined we cannot raise the telling woods below forty
cants for the iner o., and sixty for the best
quality and to growing coarse woods in this coun-
try it s totally ont of the question, because course.
woDed sheep will consume pound weight for pound
weight Of the carcase, much odder fnc-wooed
sheep.
As ew Of hat breed will Weld as much wool in pro-
portion to the weight of their carcase the finer
wooded shcep DO we shal I've ohll3eu 10 Import rom
SMYRNA, from Mogadore, from Bu-nos Ayres and
the other South American States, all the coal Sc Dis
ne dcd for negro cloths ali other coarse fabllcs-
These woods commonly, in their dirty state, cost
from six toeght cents per pound and as these woods
d. not compete with our own, it would be proper to
admit them duty free tina, is all woods costing eight
cents or under ut the highest price at which they
shout he admitted duty free ought not TO be over
nine cents, or at the mos ten cents per pound for
were we TO admit any costing over ten cents per pound
duty free il would leave door open 10 great frau Is
which would tend to iniure the woo-growing bust
of orr country, and must repeat, that supply
of American grown woods is the only sure and certain
course for the American manufacturer.