Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1843-04-20

Ia contact and decay loans, STILL then obligation mus
be met, they cannot make sales, hr htr!V WILL an,
c must II Is nul merely their supitts, bui Their wla
product and hot property. which has been deprecated
aud matte unavailable at w.-fhe end IL easily fore
seem the manufacturers bccumo bankrupt aud am broker
up; thcf works brought dead stand the lahoret
therein, after spending mouths N e0nsIalu,d ldemss
are driven BY fannie into the western wilderness or IN
10 less productive ot css cungruil ,yucatuus Tho AZ
qnhed skill ard dtAtcrly, as well as potion Of ,hf
me are dead loss 10 themselves and the community
aud commence he slow aud uilsoine process Of rn
building aud re arranging our Industry le side,
OF agricultural hass. Such Is the process which ",
have undergone tWioo already How many epc,stieni
shall satisfy us
Nav, will any nan pravely argue that We have mad
! flN + or SIN Mill IONS. by this cheap rGlchase .
BRUSH eoods-hy "bdying where We could tuy cheap
rsl} W III he mol that thuneh The prize vas low
lie cost very great But the apparent saving Is dou
bly, deceptive; or The Brlish manufactures having ut
tuly crushed thc American rivals, by tWuuptia
tons ii this kind soon lnd here market hot Tar beg
gatly surplus oi fifteen twenty milius, but they
have now demand iur The amount Of our whole con.
sunpilou which making allowance iur our diminished
ability To pay would probably sll reach fly millions
PER anuum This increased demand would produce &C.
lnlg and buoyancy IN The general market and INV the
uregn manufacturers would say their consultations
I've have sold SOME millions worth Of eoods Ia America
oi less than cost IN order Ia uha coutfal al l market
We have H. aud must receive our losses - and they
ird,dd cclIcvo them with interest. Tiny would havr
perfect iieh la do So. hope man has understood
ne Implying any inirnpcmeuts othc dictates ul hon,
csty their part. still less u lhc laws Of tndc They
have perfect igh sell cads ia our mani eis IN sneh
terms rs We prescribe, and they chWAo Ia -@r ire
Who set up own ,ia interests 10 hr bowlrJ down by
lhctr rivalry, who are alone ro,bo blamed.
w lo does ,oi see that tins scning ptat in.
dustra Interests unarmod audunsAeldcd 10 e ayaifai
the mail clad egious opposed 10 them in lhe arena Of
trade Is la insure their distinctions II luet wise
10 say HAT, because people brave. therefore ilsy
shall repc any Invader without fire arms az 10 say that
the iestrons Of other nalluns ought mol 10 lie opposed
by MS because our af2ons are shllnl and mauuiae
tutcs have nmde great advances The very fact That
our manufactures arc greatly extended aud Improved is
the strong why they should be scd To de
srnctlon, II they were oil amount value or then
uss wend he less dsasons hut how tho five or sN mil
lus We should make on The cheaper npoalon OF gudds
would cost Ono hundred millions tho obstruction Of
manufacturing property alone.
(ei this il but an item ii uuI damage. The manul1c
turing classes feel the fist effect oi the blow bul il
would paalyze every muscle ofsoeicy Quo hundred
thousand africans aud laborcw discharged from our rum
ed acol,Ss, alter beng some time out Of employment
waste Of millions OF the national wealth, are at last
dytn by famine 10 engage IN oi, nyocatns, ofcousse
with inferior skill aud At al inferior price The farmer
ganeuer grocer lose them a rusiomerSan meet them as
r,tas. They crowd the ator market ofthose Ltanches
ul industry which still permitted pursue usl
al HE TIME when the demand tot then products as tai
len oil. and the price IS mpidy declining. The result
Is Just what we have seen III Irnrr Instance all that
any man mako by buying foreign gpuds cheap. he loses
len times over hy the decline 81 hs own pnpcty pro.
Duet or ab1r. while nine lcnlhs Of the whole people,
The rohu Is IU0iTcd calamity The dlsastruuSc cousu-
quences 10 nation OF the mere dcraugucnt aud par
aysis of lis industry, which must follow the breaking
doNn ii any one o lis great producing interests, have
never Yet been sufficiently estimated. ftce tHdo IN
deed assues that every person, drown out al EN-
poyment III one place or capacity has only 10 chousc
mother, but almost every working knows from ex
percncc that such is the iact-tbat the loss If a sit
ualiOu through tie failure al his business. is oitncr
calamity. | know worthy cl.zcn who sprnt six
years N l,arning The trade OF halter which he had us
perfected, ia li9s, when an immense INFORMATION Of
lorelgn lats had utterly Faralt2ed the Manufacture IN
this country. lie travelled and soueht ir months but
could find 10 employment al any price; and at last gave
up The pursuit. found work IN other capacity, aud
has made hat since. He lives comfortably
for he Ia Industrious and frugal but the six years he gave
10 learn hs trade utterly lost 10 him; lost for the
want 81 adequate and steady protection 10 home industry
insist thai the government h9s latd Of dlscaTaine It's
proper and nghlu duty 10 thar citizen aud to thousands
and ensut thousands who have suffered from like causes
INSIST that II the government had T;7llted without
complaint, lur,en iorco to land upon our s1ues aud
plund,r thai mani house Of lie tlugs ii SIX years
faithful industry. Tie neglect Of duty would have
55ea u,ar1 f1gantAnd firnlS believe, that the pcu-
pie ni tls country one thousand millions II dollars
their cntc productive industry been steadily protected,
the principles have laid down from lle formation Of
the government Til nuw. The siradIn,ss OF employ
and Of recompense thus secured the comparative
absence ol constrained ldlenrs3 and the irrHi
application Of the labor actually performed, would have
vastly increased the product, would have improved and
hcduiird the whole face IT the county: and the moral
and Intellectual advantages thence accng, would alone
have been n,slinablc season Of suspension If labor
in community, IS Always one oithe aggravated dissa
ton, drunkenness and crime.
Bat let clearly Illustrate the ttcl offreigcn
competition in raising prices To the consumer 10 do
this, will lake my calling for example. because
understand thai best; though any Of you apply the
principle To that with which he may be acquainted |
publisher 0tncWspapors, aud suppose Afford item
cheap But the ability to maintain llat cheap
is based in the fact that can certainly sci large
edition daily that part ui that edition shall remain
and Formidable urcln competition newspapcrs--il
the edition which ! printed during the night were FREE
queny rendered unsuitable by the arrival of "A foreign
ship ireghted with newspll ers early In the nrning
the present could moi be coniinurd the price must
DE increased. or the quality must decline | presume
this holds equally good oi calcoes glass; and pcuEnlvos
Of newspapers, though il may be son.t hat lnod
fed by The nature OF the article to which it is applied.
That does hold true Of sIeellngs nails and thousands
oiarilces, is abut duy no.orilu, ave 0 Ia ia ned
yod with statistics; you know they the
lance the stronghold Of the Of protection, aud
that We can produce them BY My aim has been
tueXhbll no, collections OF iacts however finent
aud ncble hui The laws which those facts ale based
not the immediate manifestation, but the ever lis ny
Necessity from which 1t springs The contemplation Ut
those law assures that those articles which sup
piled TO us by home production alone, relatively
cheaper Than hose which rvaIled andc mpecd with
from abroad And am euua liz confident, that the shut