Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1843-11-24

from the side doors, by touching at any of her
colonies al the north the south. Coffee and
| West India produce is thus also prohibited by high
duties, and thea admitted from her colonies on
low duties. Thus the treaty IS observed and G.
vaded. We are bound by it--she is not We
have lost the commerce--she has doubled hers.
Alas. for such negoiia,ions!i This system of
free trade and Idicious tariff has brought up
pom the country The late disastrous state Of things
For example, look at the official tables for a
single year. lS4l-ihc imports amounting in
value TO 1927 900 ,O0O upon which we exacted
duties, $l4 900 600, or eleven per cent upon the
aggregate. During the year tho exports
of home products amounted 10 value 10 sol ,0O0,-
600, on which foreign nations imposed duties
mounting to Sl33 100000. being l24 per cent
upon the value. Enquiries made have ascertain
ed, that of the heavy mpor ta,ions into this port
eighty per cent was avowedly on fore gn account
while Of the residue, about one half noml-
nally imported by commission houses, but actual
" on foreign accoun..-These measures have
driven our own merchants out Of business, and
provided numerous bankruptcies. This unequal
foreign trade almost monopo!Ized, and, in the
hands of foreigners. has pushed free Trade and
the Credit System" till the bubble has exploded,
leaving the country and the States without
currency, and overwhelmed with debt; and, In
the Revision, has broken up business, depressed
agriculture, deranged the fair commerce between
nations IN their productions, stopped domestic
manufacturers and dismissed from employ ment
tho home industry Of the country, 10 hold compe-
titIon with the pauper labor of England. No
agriculture, commerce, manufactures, curren-
CIV, could stand under such inequality in trade -
No country retain its wealth, maintain its
Independence unless it renders the commercial
intercourse equal between the two nations by
countervailing regulations. Ia looking at the
table OF impor,ations ii appears that during the
last twenty years, the average importatons of
the single article of silk, has amounted in value
10 ton NJ dnit fUn hup cd
and twenty millions This sum is about equal
to the amount Of the Indebtedness Of the States.
Had the culture Of silk been wisely and honestly
encouraged. i, would have prevented the
si,y for this item of importation and indebted
ness. From the information acquired by the re.
cent Silk Convention held in this City, if the
culture Of silk can be reasonably encouraged, we
pledge ourselves that it will not only add a new
staple production for the country but that the la
Dor of The women, and The aged, and tho infirm
Of our population, applied 10 this pursuit,
S w sS Sny 95 .hs's mpend
ing infamy Of reputation. We proclaim our fix.
ed belief, that there is no spot on this globe. so
congenia, and ia all things SO well adapted to the
cultivation and manufacture Of silk, these U.
States.
Many persons present will remember wheE
encouragement was asked for the culture and
manufacture of cotton, nullifcatio would dissolve
The Union while Free Trade laughed and a ju-
dcious tariff sneered at the possibility Of sus-
tanning a competition with England in the man.
ufacture of cotton. The result is before US
Domestic cottons supply the demand Of the coun
try. and at greatly reduced prices Its surplus
manufactures sent abroad as an article Of
commerce, 10 India, to South America, and to
England herself; and is now bringing back in re-
turn a portion Of the value which was before
shipped abroad to pay former balance of trade g.
gains, Manufactures huvo we'll performed
their duty to the nation. They have struggled
into life through on infancy surrounded with diff.
ficuliies and beset with perilsln the war OF 1872,
patriotism called on them to efforts OF premature
manhood. The cold neglect which chilled their
energies in after times, too truly taught them il
sprung from the influence of the agents Of their
great rival, whose interests they were invading.
They have survived, and now come showing from
the census Of $40, that the value Of the annual
products from manufactures amounts TO $780,.
$50 ,224. The whole value Of the average
nuaI imports is ITO millions. 1t is about
half of the annual products from manufactures.
The value of the annual exports IS about one
hundred millions-all the grain, provisions and
agricultural products sent to all the countries In
the world being included. II is less than halt
the annual products of manufactures. In 1S4O
manufactures, in addition TO its products, $40
millions, gave employment to 456, $50 persons,
who were thus Withdrawn from the competition
Of labor on the soil. and became consumers OF the
agricultural productions of others.
The manufacturers Of New England provide
market for third of the whole cotton produce
| in this country, while they receive and consume
more flour aud grain from the agriculture Of New
York than wac ever shipped abrosd from her por,
| in the bes, days Of her commercial prosperity
/ The recen, purchase of twelve hundred yards of
carpe,iug. for the hall of the House Of Represen-
tatves, exhibits case of Free Trade. The ben.
eft TO the country the return lght on four
packages in American vessel, bu, which most
usually comes 10 foreign ship. The foreign
country of The manufacture, furnished the wool.
labor, and substance. from its agriculture: and
the dyes and materials used were collected from
abroad by It's commerce. Our currency paid the
bills; cur agriculture, commerce or labor, found
no consumers employ meut in the operation
To have produced even the wool would have re-
qulred perhaps two thousand acres of land, which
would have bean diverted from the competiiior