Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-05-05

"A Commercial Treaty ,ciM England. We know
not how much credn 10 attach TO the current re-
port that the administration is meditang Com-
mercia Treaty with Great Britain, but it loses
weight from the appended ru,Iior that Mr.
Webster will remain IN the cabinet TO negotiate
it. Our decided impression has been that Mr.
Webster will not much longer remain in the Cab
lne tor any bnrp' Sc It as of all for This. II he
wishes 10 negotiate such IA Irealy,he viii be more
likely to visit London us Plrnipotentiary.
Our readers will not need to be Informed that
we are inimoycaby ayerse TO any such CONNER
cial Treaty with England rs she wouI.! be NJ all
likely 10 concede 10 Us. W e see no necessity ,ur
il, nothing 10 he gained ny it, while very murl,
must be put at hazard. The purport OF such II
Treaty must of course he Z reduction of our ,u-
lies on British Manufactures aud her duties on
our Agricultural Staples. Under such an arrange.
menI, we should send more gram and meat to
England and lake Of her far more cloths WIRES
&c. in return. Commerce would for brief sea-
son be stimulated, but our manufactures must bu
shaken and crippled, it not Frustrated, aud our
Agriculture, compelled 10 see market across the
ocean for II vast Surplus product, would he DOOM
ed TO snhsist on low prices forever. Wheat aud
Pork might M tunes he higher in New York and
ew-Orleaus, but far lower ~ the interior than
under the Home nrket policy.
We oppose Commercial Treaty with Eng.
land, believing it would he injurious to the great
aUorlug class OF both countries. They could
produce very lltlle more food aud colhng than
now, while they would have to be taxed in
wages aud prices enormously 10 drlray tho cost
OF so much extra transportation. In other words,
the producers OF II hundred thousand bushels OF
wheat OH the one hand and of itiy thousand
yards OF Broudcluth on the other must pay out of
their several earnings the cost OF transporting the
wheat to England aud bringing back The cloth,
over what they would pay under an adequate
and stable Protrclon, which would soon plant
them side 10y side in our own country.
Ii never yet was good policy for an Agricultural
nation that could manufacture TO seud lts grain
four thousand miles and there exchange il for
cloth The cost OF transportation eats IN the
product and while The cloth is Obtained n few
cents cheaper, the grain is sold ruinuusly lower.
In exchanging flour for cotton, sugar or coffee,
there Is real RECIPROCITY III exchanging il with
distant country for fabrics there Is n me. The
advantage is all on the sids OF the producers Of
the fabric, whose transportation costs next to
nothing,
We object 10 the 'entang'ing alliances of com.
! merciai treaties with great Misunderstanding nations.
A tariff il mistaken, may be modified; but u
treaty must he fulfilled 10 The letter for the speci-
fled Term OF years. Meantime the advantages
expected may utterly vanish, through other trea.
! lies or changes IN the currents of trade, leaving
the evils greatly aggravated to be endured alone
J We hope no such treaty is seriously intended
| Let our Tariff stand as il is Jew years, and the
country will have wrought out for itself durable
| prosperity. We have now around us the elements
Of better state OF things; industry and patience
| VIII perfect II rash experiments and hasly limo
va,ion will unseltle and probebly ruin all. Let u,
us have the wisdom TO LEI we'll aone.'-.M Y
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