New-York daily tribune., 1843-11-28


M The rree Of the WING Almanac il thu same as ls' I
year notwithstanding it contains about one InaF'eT mr.
matter Single copies III csn; 81 rsr iGz'n .
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entitled 10 copy gratis il contains - ''e''
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Can sha Cause OF Protection to Home IN
aus;ry be lied downs
This ;s question of vital Importance, on the
.o,n+;o, of which the stability of our present
sold and increasing prosperity depends. If down.
rioht untrutns can make the industrious classes
of this Country believe that they can 90 better
With our ports open to the fabrics OF all the
world at nominal duties while our fabncs arc gen.
eraly shut out by Foreign Nations, OF If one class
can be made to see its interest in warning upon
and breaking down other classes, then we may as
well give up at once. But we will not yet be-
Ieve it.
The Journal Of Commerce makes the broad,
UNQUALIFIED assertion that, excluding Tobacco (but
avhy exclude 1t p the average of British lmposts
on American products docs not exceed II per
cent, Now we will not characterize this asser-
ton as it deserves, but we will say that if the
average of British Imposts on American products
is not nearer 100 than II per cent. then we are
deliberate, intentional, unequivocal liars. There
Is no room for mistake in the case Either the
average of British duties on American products
i 8 over 80 per cent or we mean TO deceive and
mislead our readers.
Let us expose once more the fraud by which
the Journal gives a color of truth to It's asser-
ton The Journal obviously makes its compu
tation thus: it takes the value Of the whole
amount of American exports to Great Britain,
and the aggregate Of the Duties collected there
on, and from these strikes an average Of the Du-
ties. Thus if our Exports to Great Britain were
Fifty Millions and the Duties collected thereon
Five and a Half Millions, the average of Duties
would, by this rule, be ii per cent. But even
Shis show cannot be made out without striking
out our Tobacco, on which England levies an
enormous Duty and from it realizes an immense
Revenue. SO that, to base Free Trade argu-
msnt, the Journal, following the Herald, has not
only to make deceptive rule, but to handle
even that rule deceptiveiy.
Let US now expose the ialseness of the rule,
which the first example will easily do. Suppose
Crest Britain were to find it her interest to take
our Cotton at .fue per cent. and tax every thing
a else we produce fee hundred per cent, and
# this were to have its natural effect to secure
Il large exports of our Cotton to England and pre-
vent our sending her any thing else: Now, ac-
cording to the rule of the Journal of Commerce,
the AVERAGE Of British Duties on american pro-.
ducts aoould be FIVE per cent!
Under q moderate u,nl ryzs.9au por; large
sraatiles nf Spirits from Grain, Timber, Sporn,
and Whale Obs, Butter. and hundreds of other
articles to England bal these are excluded BY
duties ranging from 100 to 1000 per cent. Yet
whenever an article is absolutely excluded by the
9ritsh Tariff, the duty on that article does not
cunt in the Journals average Need we pursue
this exposure iartier7
Now take kindred falsehood of the Herald
Ito Wit, that the Agricultural interest of New
England has been seriously injured and crippled
by the growth of Manufactures and is now de.
cbning under their influence! Can any thing be
more absurdly, hagltiously false than this Why
not assert that the Agriculture of Westchester
County Is ruined by the ne ghborhood of New
York-that it would be more hourishing if there
we're no City within q hundred miles This
would not be more grossly, foolishly untrue than
the assertion the Herald actually does make. We
were acquainted with the country surrounding
and sustaining the largest Manufacturing villages
Of New. .England-we do know that the value OF
every acre of land, every bushel Of produce has
been largely increased by the uprising of these
villages, and that its Agriculture is better con-
Quoted and more thrifty in consequence.-Oflat late.
the introduction and extension of Railroads has
diminished, or rather ditlused, the advantages
which the farmers Immediately around the manu-
factories before enjoyed, by rendering easy and
cheap the introduction of produce from a dis
tance, but the advantages realized from the neigh
horhood of manufacturing are still very great.
No where in the States, except near some great
city, are farms of similar quality worth so mach
90 in the vicinity of Lowell, Nashua, &c. and
never did those farms produce more than in the
last FIVE years. You will find more farms for
sale, and moro under the Sheriir's hammer. in
ane County of Michigan than in all the Manu-
featuring region of New England. What posi-
Bile excuse is there for the story OF the Herald,
But the Ereniag Post touches another KEY
1t copies from the Ne,e- Hampshire Patrot-i,s
master in unscrupulousness, its equal in malg
nity-a statement that one manufacturing COM
pany had divided ten per cent. for the last six
months, and has surplus of earnings on hand,
(it does not say or care to know whether it had
not greater surplus a. the beginning of this pc.
riod)-whercupon the Patriot proceeds to assert
that the best conducted Manufactures are