Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1842-03-21


The discrimination, however, between The duty
on our cotton, low as it lie, and that which is the
produce of and imported from, British possessions,
ought TO attract the attention Of our cotton grow
ers, as premonitory symptom of what they may
expect from The indicated policy of Great Britain
to supply herself with cotton from her East India
possessions. As an indication of the success Of
this policy, will refer to a statement Of importa.
tons of cotton from British India, made in an ar.
tice which lind in Hunts Merchants Magazine
for September lS4l, on the subject of the com
nerce of British India, which is stated in the ia
BILE of contents TO have been written by a South
Cdroliuidn.
England s6q7 bales in 1856 s5 bales and in $40
we have 2l6 - bulesnearly .blcd in nine years The i'm
poaiion in 1889 a59 pounds and in 5i0 76703
295 poundson increase without parallel in the history Of this
os Ss eli b"ss and in s same term of lsa e "a az s
an increase of 1922 bales"
Mr.. Speaker, the people " no draw from The soil
of this great country the means Of human subss-
tence especially the GRAIN GROWING portion of
them, are beginning Ia inquire Dhdt proportion of
the people of these United States are engaged in
the production Of The privileged export. Why,
they ask, should the boundless capacities of the
soil and lhe industry Of the North, the Middle,
and the West, be thls restrained-lhus made TO
submit to the cotton growing power? They de-
inAnd to know why they are compelled 10 consume
foreign manufactures, Willie payment for them
cannot be made in the productions of their own
soil and industry They ask loudly, and will yet
ask more loudly, why this perpetualy eXhnusng
process must 20 on for the Joint benefit of Euro
pean capitalists aud American cotton growers P
The people of whom speak want a market, and
q sieddu market for the fruits of thcr labor. If
they cannot have ii abroad, they ask ON the Con-
gress of the United States such Legislation as shall
give it TO them at home--legislaon which shall
give uniform and efficient protection TO mant-
featuring industry and save II and them, together
from the effects Of a SELFISH monopolizing crush
ing foreign legislation.
Mr.. Speaker, do not know That The facts and
arguments and appeals submitted, or to be sub
mllted ia the debate OH this question, can make n
NY impression upon the poi0er that rules this
ton. But there is one argument which viii yet
make an impression, and TINT. in my opinion, NJ
no very distant day. When our cotton shall come
to he excessively burdened by the British tariff or
utterly excluded from the British market, then will
the appeals now made by the manufacturing and
provision raising and wool growing portions Of
the country be remembered, and their force felt.
| have already alluded TO the recent efforts TO
extend the cultivation of cotton in British India
The cotton growers, II is evident are aware OF
these efforts, and of the success which has atten
ded them. Sir, they ought to awaken from their
deuSlve dreams of an uninterrupted and perpet.
ual demand for their great staple ia the British
market The policy which has begun, will carry
on, and carry out the movement TO which have
alluded. And this is rendered the more certain
by the consideration that The motives of interest
in which it originated to he reinforced by those
of high moral principle-a principle which il
rapidly gaining strength both in Europe and in
Amerca--urging discontinuance of the use OF
those articles which are the production OF forced
and unrequed labor.
1t may lie well for The South to consider, in this
view of the matter, whether the time can be very
far distant when The closing of British ports n
,tull A.
for her principal market and whether it is not
wise, as well MS patriotic, for her now TO aid in
giving solidiiy and permanency 10 manufacturing
establishments, and success TO the numerous bran
ches Of productive industry which are dependent
them for support. And she may well con-
slider, also, whether, after the North has suffered
from the fluctuations Of the policy which 10 dan
forces her into manufactures, and 10 moroo forces
her out, she will feel any very strong inducements
10 purchase cotton from the South, when she can
get it MS cheap elsewhere; whether, when she is
asked she certainly will be- in due Time, to pro-
tect il by the continuance of the present, the
imposition Of new duty, she will not feel very
much inclined TO leave the colton-growing inter-
est to taRe care of ITSELF
Mr.. Speaker, it gives me no pleasure thus to
speak of the probable future. Rather would !
hope that the South will abandon its hostility to
the protecting policy; and that, under the opera
ton of that policy, adapted by wise and prudent
counsels and in spirit ofimparaI justice, to the
present condition of the various interests requr-
ing protection, the diversified interests oflhis great
country will be rapidly developed, and its East and
West It's North and South, be more strongly bound
together by the lies of mutual dependence, and
urged onward in noble rivalry of industry, OF
knowledge, and of virtue, to tho attainment Of II
high and glorious destiny.
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.Massachusens.- The State Convention of leather
daoIers on the ond was n rous;no one Here are
,Le resolutions -
R,solped Tha, if the nations of the earth had
acted in accordance with the true interests of man
had been moved by the impulses of Justice and
bupapily-guided by the same wise policy. and
governed by the same luws-,he result would
| have been n system of Free Trade throughout the