Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-11-03

NFNu NANu We u0htrs Slt.lNu,OUu. q 4 eleven
, per cent. upon the aggregate. Daring the same wear the eI.
n poTts Of home products, amounted in value to S9l, 900, 900,
on which foreign nations imposed duties amounting TO
: SlJS,OOO.OOO, being l24 per cent upon the value. Enquir.
les made have ascertaincd.. that OF the heavy imporauons
4 in,othisP port, eighty ercentwasavowed ON forsig account
while 1T the residue, about one half was nominaily impOr.
ted BY commission houses, but actually ON foreign account.
These meas lures have driven our own merchants out vt bust.
nos-. and provided numerous bankruptcies. This UNEQUAL
foreign trade almost monopolixed, and. ia the hsnds OF for.
eirners. has pushed "Free trade aud the Credit system"
till the bubble has exploded, leaving the country and the
States withouta currency and overwhelmed with debts aud
in the rcVulsicn, has broken up business, depressed agricul.
turc, dcTnnged the fair commerce between nations IN their
productions. stopped domestic manufactures, and dismissed
from employment the home industry OF the country, to hold
competition with the paupcr labor ot England. No arri.
culture commerce. manufactures, or currency, could stand
unoer such inequality IN trade. No currency can retain It's
wealth. or maintain It's independence, unless II renders tn.
commercial intercourse equal between the two nations bv
countcrysiing regulations. In looking Mt the table Of i'm.
porin,ions It appears that during the last twenty year., the
average importations ct the single article ofsiik. has amount.
ed m value - ten millions of dollars a wear. or two hundred
and twenty millions. This sum : about equal 10 the
amount OF the Indebtedness OF the States. Had the culture
OF silk been wisely and honestly encouraged. 1t would have
prevented the necessity for this item Of importation and IN.
debtednsss. From the information acquired by the recent
Silk Convention held in this CITY. # the culture VI silk can
be reasonably encouraged. we pledge ourselves that IT viii
not only add n new sjsphe production fer the country, but
that the labor of the women, and the children, and the aged.
and the inhim os our population, applied to this new pur.
SUIT Will not only provide for their own subsistence, b-t
would yeiIcdeem the States from the impending iufamy OF
reputation. We proclaim our fixed belief. that thcrr il no
spot on this globe, 50 congcnal, and in all things So well
adapted 10 the cultivation and manufacture OF silks =
these United States.
MANY persons present will remember when encourage.
ment was asked Tor the culture and manufacture of co,tor.
notification would dissolve the Union while Free Tns,
laughed, and a Judicious tlrifr sneercd at the possibility e
sustaining Z competition with England in the Manufacture
OF cotton. Tue results before u. Domestic co;tous sup
ply the demand OF the country; and CT greatly reduced mn.
ces. IT. surplus manufactures se sent abroad as an article
OF commerce, TO India, - S,uth Amcuca. and q, E,cl,u5
herself and Is now bringing back in return 4 portion OF the
V'lue which was before shipped abroad 10 pay former bal.
anecs OF trade a. aims; Us. Manufactures have well peror.
med their duty to the nation. They have struggled into htc
through an infancy surrounded with difficulties and b,S,t
with per.s-n the war OF 1872, patriotism called them :,
efforts OF premature manhood. The cold ncrlcc, which
chilled their energies in after times too uuly taught them 1t
sprung from the Influence ct the agents Of their great rval,
wa'se '''efesis hey were invading. They have survived,
and now cone showing from the census o! ISlO. thu, the
value q me annual products from manufactures amounts
to S2Sge'o,22l. The whole value Of the average annu.
a. imports Il ITO millions. Ii Is about one half OF the an.
nuaI products from manuiac'Ires. The vaue o. the anru.
81 exports IS about one hundred mil.ons-al the eusln. nm
visions and agricultural products sent 20 g.. the countries IN
the world being included. I, Slcs, than half OF the annual
products Of manufactures. IN $40 manufactures. IN az.
diuon 10 as products 2iO millions, gave employment to ass.
ooO persons who Were thus withdrawn from the compel.
ton OF labor on the soil. and became consumers Of the az.
rcultural productions ct Others.
The manufactures Of New England provide a market for
ore third OF the whole cotton Produced IN this country
while they receive and consume more -four and gain Irsrn
the agriculture OF New York Than was ever shipse6 ahead
from her portin The best days other conmerciai prosperity.
The recent purchase ot twelve hundred wards Of canetins.
ior the h9i q the House OF Representative, exhibits a case
Ol re lraCe. Inc benefit . the country was the -rfr-n
irelshi on tour packages IN an American vessel, hut which
most usually comes IN 0toroign ship. The foreign country.
OF tue mlnuiacturc, furnished the wool. labor, and subss.
tcnce, from It's agriculture; and the dyes and materials used
were collected from abroad BY ITS commerce. Ou- crrrrr.
CIV paid the bills; our agriculture, commerce or labor. found
no consumers OF employment in the operation. To have
produced even the wool would have required perhaps two
thousand acres 0i and, which would nave been diverted
from the competition OF the production ofgrain and proyis.
ions, already IN surplus, and no market. Its estimated
mat u would require twenty millions q acres Of land 10 pro.
dnce the wool needed for our people. Yctit : p-opose6.
not 10 manufacture. but 90 raise grain and provisions. which
Europe. vii. not take from US for her productions. and all
tins is from a declared anxiety not TO burhen commerce or
agriculture IN giving aid To manufactures and home indus.
uy, y manufacturer has happily said. "Prntection incres-
ses return ireighuhg.' Take a piece of broad cloth. Is
not oh'i'us That the conveyance Of foreign wool, !oEwood.
iistc and coppcsas, 70 be used in its manufacture, affords
more EMPLOYMENT TO shipping than would that OF tho broad
cloth Itself
For instance. take the article ofmadder. used in ,bi.cou,.
try Tor the printing Of cotton and other fabrics. ii will re-
quiTc ten ships To bring tie bulky article OF madder to PRINT
the same buk OF cotIus. When say ten ships. | put them
very low, Then take the article Of barlla and other sat-,
used for bleaching purposes; 1t requires ten fold the bulk and
tonnage u h'nE them that 1t would to buug the manufoc-
IuTed article. Then the birthstone, IN a crude state, 10 be
manufactured into acid for bleaching aud other purposes
Then the heavy and bulky article Of logwood and other dvc-
woods, which viii employ 81 times The shipping TO bring
10 this country that would suffice - bung tue manufactured
article which the dyewoOds ore used TOR. Then the indigo.
and many other articles that could be mentioned. Then
comes our coastng trade. How many thousand tons OF
shipping does the coast trade employ ir our manufactures,
which would not De employed 81 We DID not manufacture. A.
a general thing, II Is safe 20 calculate that II will take -
tons OF shipping 10 import the raw material 10 carry on man.
niacilres to one ton OF shipping to import the manufactured
article Il Is a curious and interesting fact, the States
rank IN the valuation of their wealth according 10 their pop.
ulauon; and as they have developed their resources, cstab.
nsh'd Manufactures, and given employment t. their home
labor. Rhode Island Is the richest STATE in the Union. nc.
eording TO its population. Massachusetts. Connecticut and
We" OK iOAo" next IN the order Of succession. Will We
not learn treIn the practice OF Great Britain rather than be
taught by the ugents-infucnccd 10y her adyice-o, led bv
her lessons TO u on political economy Her qualifications.
D estimate tho machine f,ug4r t..d hu H. ~. -
OF upwards OF one huncr-d millions Of men. Many millions
OF this power ore introduced into her manufacturing DR..
suits. Its diiigent and unuing industry furnishes the pro.
uueUoh' WIN winch she mIlHialns her pOpulauOn-sup-
ports her nayy-cames on her wars-foTces China To ~
inbutc md cather op.um-aud subjects tho civilized woad
10 her commercial colonization.
This machine labor D. her capital, which REQUIRES neither
food nor clothing. II J. unlike the. capital iu the maclr
labor used by the planters Of the South, which demands
both food and clothing, and which never can hold Compel
ton with tho machine Amor Of England. y psrna. rcyiyo.
from the Depressed condition o. the country i now tax no
place, under the operation ot tho recent Tariff. Iii awful,
ana II may be useful, % learn from our adyCrlues, not only
the wisdom, but the necessity, tor counteracting regulations.
rs wei. as the s%cn-ibIity with which our frst step has been
felt IN Europe. Galignani's Messenger oG the 9th Of March.
1913, hns the following "T.e Ming received Yesterday, in
q private audience, VI. Terme. Mayor of Lyons, and Mcssrs
FulchITon, ds SuIIOl, de TInEny and Martin, DEPUTIES of
tue khonc, who presented petition from the manufacturers
OF Lyons from winch we extract the follow ing passages g.
Notwithstanding the peace which France owe. 10 your
prudence, our manufactures suffer exceedingly. Rejected
BY several States OF Europe, our produce is not admitted
into O;Icrs, except with enormous duties. Thus the mar
scts Of Spain, Austrs, Italy, and Russia, arc almost closed
Ggninsi e.. Germany Is daily diminishing her dcmands,
because We rsJcc. her produce. England places on our ar.
ule- from ~ 10 ~ per cent? ana the United states !'--
poses O. duty OF from ~ 10 - per cent. on our nch smr..
which are but !ittl, called TT, and 10 To 50 on those in com.
mon use. II such a condit-. OF things were TO continue.
our manufactures would be ruined, AID ON thar account We
pray most earnestly Tor the adoption OF n more liberal
system OF customs, which by making reasonable concos.
slons would open 90 our produce the nurNejs that arc now
closed against ct, and would produce q modification Of d..
tics 90 the others 10 which ;Ioy arc admitted The pct-
ton states among Other things, hat they are the agents rf
an industry which cnuches the county-sn industry which.
when IN full activity, consumes annually more than one
hundred and hiy millions OF lnnu- worth Of native silk
and which, independently Of what 10 furnishes 90 France.
delivers g. expectation more than one hundred millions Of
iuncs Of manufactured produce of which one.third ia hand
, labor. We think this industry u truly a national One."-
r kDgi-n f"o Trade is beginning to relax some OF its bands
"i restrictions and is active advocates are already aunounc.