The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-06-13
THEsTARlFF-HOyv 1T WORKS.

THEaTARlFF-I!OW 1T WORKS.
The friends of the Tariff have abundant to
rejoice! The policy imperfect as its-is doing much
very much, towards relieving the embarrassments Of
the country The system, so long disordered by the
nostrums Of expermenters, is fast being puTged OF its
impurities health and vgor again returning
''lhe Nation breathes freer and deeper'-and
prosperity is again coming back TO our stricken
land.
The N Y. Journal of Commerce, n Free Trade
advocate, of the 18th inst says:
GLAND Ho!-The great cotton manufactures Of
Lowell and other parts OF New England have sold
out their heavy stock sleek and clean, and are now
working contracts gentleman who was in Bos
ton on Tuesday was unable to buy bale Of sheeiing
Of the make either ofsevera factories whose goods
have heretofore been lying piled up. The goods
have recently paid wherever they have been shipped,
exciting demand that has swept the market.
comparison of the cash price of tho lower grade OF
cloth Boston and Manchester, proves the
prices now from ten TO twenty per cent cheaper
this side than the other; that the Bostonans
have actually made shipments to Liverpool with or
ders to pay the duty, which is but ten per cent, and
forwarded the goods to Manchester for sale What
becomes Of the faIsehoods which have been
RING through the country for twenty years past, about
the mpossibiy of contending successfully with 'the
pauper labor of Europer' We can out-work the
world in anything for which circumstances
ftted''
This is the language of paper that has been the
Ioudest in its denunciaton Of Protecton-that has
ever argued that the effect of the present Tariff
would be to raise the prices OF domestic manufactures
There cannot be more triumphant argument on this
point than the fact cited above.
Not only can American enterprise and skill
pete with England but she can-she has already out
stripped her, and fabrics to be found in
the English market, competing with the proud nation
that has formerly held the rod and thrown "a
round our energies the same bonds which have held
her own laboring classes debased and powerless.
The Tariff, much opposed and denounced, has
uncogged our machinery of foreign fabrics-orders
go to Lowell and Boston, instead of ManchestcrSLiv-
erpoo-the trade is within ourselves, in fact be-
coming so-the warehouses of our Cotton Manufac-
tories, which year ago stored full TO give
room to foreign importetons, cleared 'slick
and clean'-the prices fifteen per cent, cheap
er in Boston than in Manchcster-and the wheel is
beginning to turn greatly in favor. What graft
flying fac,!-what phenomenon in our commercial
history, What American, who longs for the tine
when our nation shall DO Independent. at least as
any nation in the nature Of things be, does
feel within himself revival of hope which he has not
for long time experimental joy-a heartfelt
pride-an assurance that the period is fact nearing
when his own country will no longer lean heavily
upon the arm of England any other nation?
The immediatete effect which this state of things
will most assuredy have upon every class, can be east
ly traced. The eastern manufactures oncemore in
full operation, will give employment to abor-those
laborers be fed & hence demand is created for
the Produce of the country, aud thus the agrcul
turalist benefited. There cash duties TO be
paid, 10 take away the specie and render
cy unstable. An exchange will he established be-
tween the manufacturers OF the East and the Pro
ducers Of the West, which will be great source of
internal trade and will also enable the consumers OF
Produce on the one hand and goods on the other
supply themselves by their particular kinds Of labor.
Indeed all classes will be benefited. The manufac-
ture of wooden goods in this country, will, doubtless,
speedily advance has that OF cotton goods and then
will the raising Of wool be made object.
Il is now about one year since the present Tariff
was passed, and these ofits first fruits Who
will not say-Stand by the Tariff.