The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1842-10-04

at all times, and especially in times Of war.
And it is an interest deserving our regard,
not onl, because il gives Il stimulus to IMAM
uflcturlng industry and those branches Of
labor which feed the manulacinrrr ana con-
vey his goods toI market, but especially be-
cause it involves the protection of a Tdtr ma
teridl of immense importance TO the cOun-
try.
There is no single branch Of Agricultural
production, capable of such a universal diff
fusion of benefits, as that OF wool growing.
Every diversity of the SOIL and the climate
of this vast country is favorable to 1t. The
culture of COTTON is confined 10 a few de
grees of latitude. That of tobacco is also
limited and there are large portions of the
country where wheat cannot be raised TO an
amount sufficient for tn: consumption of the
inhabitants. Cotton and ;otaccr, moreover,
are exhaus!ing crops. returning nothing 10
the land from which they draw their nour.
ishmrni; while sheep greatly enrich the
soil on which they graz. InsomncI That ihrv
will. in few years, entirely restore lands
which have been wnrn oul BY planting.
Virginia. and Ken cky with all the Sra'es
mate are concerned, successfully compete,
especially in the mountain rrgioas, with Az
v of the States, IN the product ton ct wool.
Indeed, If they would turn their attention to
wool growing, and cknnge the char icter Of
their Mbor, they would soon make rapid adj
vances in wealth and prosperity. Their
mild climate in comparison with the severe
and long winters of New Eng land, gives
them, in the expense of wool growing.
great advantage, which, properly improved,
would be sensioly felt IN the competition II
would produce with the wool growing OF
other p"ltions of the country. Ofthat COM
petition have no jealousy. 1t would, no
doubt, affect the price of our wool. But of
that we should have no right 10 complain
| say TO orr southern and western brethren
go on with your sheep huSbandry. What
you gain in climate, We, ut the north, viii
make up in industry and economy. As YOU
advance in the production OF wool, you wlH
plant your woollen manufacturing establish
meuis by the side OF YOUR hpcks and thus
this great country will Ultimately clo;he il
SELF and have surplus of wopi!vn CLOTHS. as
it now has Of cniions. to swell the amount Of
its export trade with o;hrr nations.
| cannot close these remarks, though pro-
tracted already far beyond my origina! in
tenlion, without dwelling a moment upon
the importance of the protecting policy rs a
Bond of our Union. While this policy pro-
tects us from the competition Of the nbund-
ant can,al. and Starved labor, and govern
mental bnuntics, of q her countries, II throws
us upon our own resources /; stimulates the
industry Of every part OF our country; Gre
ates demand, in every part, for the pro
duclions ofevery other; promotes an ac-
tive commercial inter course, with It's harmo-
nizing Influences cherishcs sense of mu'
tual dependence and produces com nu'
nifty ofinterest and of feeling, without winch
we cannot be zone people," And while our
Union is thus cemeulcd we are, a!SJ cher
iShing those great elements Of national
strength which consist in the solid wealth,
and tn moral energy connected wirh Jni'
vcrsal and well rewarded industry.
The extent of our territory is some lines
regarded ns an element or weak ness, which
must prove fatal to the Union. And so il
will, inevitably. if the policy OF protection Is
to be ab,ndonrd. The chain which hind<
us together must not run through me work-
shops Of Europ.. There must be srong
golden chain of direct commercial INFER
upon the avowed primer
pie of helping one ano'hcr--nf giving, BY
free exchanges of the products of the skill,
The labor, ani the varied soils aud cl:nllc>
of our country. the hiohe-t possible devel'
opnent to the capacities Of cuch aud al Of
these sources Of National prosperity and in
dependence. Tho vast ex'en nf our terri
tory, with its great diversity Of skill, AMI Ia
Der, and soil and climate, may be- thus CON
verified INTO an element of s r'n9tt, and
pledge of permane7 ICY to our Union. /, Is
thus and thus only that we can really. IN
regard to this Union, the beauty AMI force
of the application by sacred writer, TO an
other union, of the delicate and admirably
fitting dependence of tine various members
of tho human body upon each other-ari'
ther bring able to say 10 another, have no
need Of thee, but each d"pcrdent on al the
rest, aud all. though greatly diversified in
form and in office. constituting one body,
''compacted By that rehict erery JOINT suppl
eth"
How strong is the power of attraction Of
the American System and how perfectly
docs It harmonic with the loading purpose !
of the ConstrtutIor as expresset in liz pre-.
amble. 40 form more perfect uH'onf'
That was the purpose and here IS that pur'
pose carried out in the american SyStem-a
system whose influence, like the great prIn'
ciDle of grav,tation in the material universe,
connreracis the iehdcrcies to DISSOLUTION,
binds the otherwise discoriani portions of
t lis great country together, and makes them
one harmonious whole.
NOTE.
The following are extracts from the Tariff Of
1882 from the bill reported by the Committee Of
Ways and Means. and from tire bill as it hnally
passed and has become law. The subject Of coarse
wool, discussed in the foregoing, may be made Z
more Ineligible by a comparison Of these extracts
ACT OF 1882. :
6 Wool manufactured, the valuo whereof, al the
place of expectation shall exceed eight cents per