Litchfield enquirer., 1843-03-23
From the ". Y. Tribune
JUDGE THE TREE BY IT'S FRUITS.

JUDGE THE TREE BY IT'S FRUITS.
Mr.. McDullie has been making an e!o-
qnent aud vigorous speech in the Senate in
opposition to The Protective Policy and the
New Tariff, which he dennunces as robbery
OF the Agricultural interest, and especially
~ The South. These assumptions are JUST.
ned as follows: The duties levied on For-
e'gn Manufacturers average (he allegeS) 40
per cent, and these raise the price Of both
foreign and domestic fabrics. Now our con-
sumption Of Foreign Manufactures is $4O,-
OO0,000 while that of our domestic fabrics
! NncIuding bats, boots, coats. &c.) is nine
times as much, or 60O0OO0) and on the
4, gross sum, or $500, 600 600, the agriculture
OF the country now pavSa tax Of ~ per cent.
or $l6G,000,000 one tenth of il to the Gov
eminent and the balance 80 the American
| manuta cures of cloth, hardware, shoes,
| clothes, &c.
Let us test this grave assumption. Mr.
| McDutiie alleges that the consumer Of any
| protected article pays tax Of 40 per cent,
on it--so that it would he 40 per cent cheap
er if the Tariff were abolished. May we
inquire ashat il is that would be forty per cent
cheaper than now in the absence Of a Tariff.
Name the article. Mr.. McDutfic! Will you
venture to say Cotton goods I? We have
abundant indiSputahle evidence that these
were never before so cheap as they now arc
| tint French prints recently imported for
81 l-2 cents are now manufactured at Low
ell and Manchester. and nre sold II IL cts.
every way equal in quality to be imported.
tooc shee'ings and shirtings from Lowell
are now offered in abundance at 5 or cents
per vard-brltrr III ~ we formerly imported
tor 40, or could now introduce So rs to sup
ply fully and steadily our market, for 10
lust SD Of woo!tens. There never WIS n time
when one million OF dollars would buy more
hroadcloth, quantity and quality considered,
in our markets, than n: this moment. So of
coal. hardware, md all the sufficiently pro.
/ 'rc:cd mannfnc1ureS-so even of iron, on
which slight rise was TO have been expect
| I'd.
The fact is. that all the efficient products
If Home Industry are lower than they were
before the Tarff-lower than they. would be
without it. Now and then lot OF foreign
goods would be srld ruinously below the cost
of producing them. and SO interrupt and
break down our Home Industry, but the
average price would be higher without Ia
riff ihan il now is. Mr. McDutfie and alt
the Free Traders, who reason from their the
cries in defiance vt aSceriained and DOtori-
Gus facts, are daily deceiving their impli-
cit followers and tending to bring ruin on the
country. The Tariff is working just right
bur i: cannot do every lhing-still less in n
minute. 1t must have time tn build mp new
branches Of production-io assure and diver
siy the industrial energies of the country
II is doing great good now IN shutting out the
flood Of foreign fabrics tina; would Otherwise
inunda,c us-but it has not yet created u
currency-it has not fully quickcned the
manufacturing interests. because of the scar-
city OF money, the rottenneSs of credit, nnd
the unprecedented danger that its provision
will be repealed or greatly modified next
10 al
which the benefits will become more and
apparent with every month of its stable ex.
Stcpce. Why should il be so vehemently,
hasclcssly assailed Will no: the friends OF
Home Industry arouse 10 their danger!
MORE or THE EARrHoUAKE.-Lntcr papers
from the West India Islands have been re.
cciVed by the Commercial Advertiser, Civ
ing interesting particulars of,he terrible des.
citation effected by the earthquake OF the 9Th
ult. The rumor which first reached US by
way Of Baltimore Of the snd destruction OF
life n, Point Pc,re, wilt be seen to have been
but slightly exaggerated. A ST. Croix paper
| of the 10Th says that mt Point II Petre, in Ga,l-
daloupe, 5000 persons had disappeared, and
that the bodies of 1000 had been dug out of
the ruins and taken out TO sea, 10 prevent
pesilencc. OF 800 soldiers forming the reg
! imcnt quartereI there, only 40 survived
Bright and successive volumes of flame
were seen to issue from the island by vcs-
sci passing at the time of the earthquake so
that it is supposed, with strong ground OF
| probability, that the destruction ot the island
had its origin in the eruption Ola volcano.-
Tho fortiirations were heap OF ruins,and
| the mouth OF the harbOr was SD completely
choked up by rocks forced up from the bot.
! ;om of the sea, that il WAS feared the ships
there could never be removed. The Cap
tain Of the schooner Ellen, arrived Yesterday
| from St. Thomas, reports that the U. >. Con.
| sui ut Point Petre was so severely injured
that he survived but short time. The town
and harbor had both been put under mar.
tal law, to prevent their being p!undered.
| At Antigua the shock was very severe
though only ten lives were lost. Almost
every windmill, steam engine, sugar works.
&c were destroyed, the churches. chnpris,
custom houses, jrils and other public build
| ings were almost ruined, and the loss Of prop
eriy is supposed TO amount to several mill
IONS of pounds. The canes in the fields
must ne sacrificed for want of mills TO grind
them and there is said 10 be scarcely build
ing on the island LETT uninjured. The catas-
trophe was preceded by II rise of the tide
to hight Of four feet above its usual flow.
AT St. Bari's the church. and several other
bindings were thrown down, and the earth
opened in the middle OF a street tn the width
Of Il foot, the fiSSure extending 600 yards IN
length At ST. Euititil the damage WIS cou-
fined mainly 10 buildings. some being very
badly injured At ST. Christo?her's several
of the public buildings were utterly destroy
ed. Only one person lost her lif'. but Some
others were badly hurt. AT Nevis and st.