Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-08-31


had been in BcreaI Grab; the men
were fighting, by Fdhrenheit's thermom.
eter, in the heat Of ninety degrees. Ma
ny OF the combGtants bit the dust and
died unscathed by sabre or shot. If
Washington was Fabius. in October,
one thousand seven hundred and seven :
ty six at the White Plains, he was Mar.
celes at Monmouth. The honors Of
the day remained with, for his enemy
retreated in the night London paper.
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SPECIE AND FREE TR ABE. The
Washington Spectator, (Calhoun,) af-
ter stating that the specie now in the
U. States is estimated II Sl20,OOO,00O,
a greater amount than has ever before
been in the country at any one time,
exclaims, "What commentary is this
upon all the predictions of Federalism
(meaning threby the Whigs) for years
past How has this specie been bro't
INTO the country? why, By the Whig
Tariff Of 1912, which the Spectator and
other advocates Of a one sided Free
Trade, assail so necessarily, at the very
moment that they thus proclaim its BEN
eflclal effects, and exulI over them -
Had not that law been passed, and we
had continued to import from abroad un
der the law as it stood when the wings
came into power, ITO wit 20 per cent.
duties) instead Of SI2O,OOO,O0O nf spe.
Gle in the United States, We should not
have had we verify believe, $50 ,OOO, 900
for, instead Of the S20,O0O,OOO or more
which have flowed INFO .he country 10
ADJUST the balance OF trade in our favor.
we should have probably sent 100000
OOO abroad, to adjust the balance oftrade
against US.
To exemplify this remark-A docu.
ment recently laid before the British
Parliament shows that the exports OF
British goods TO the United States, in
the year l842.is I,2OO,OOOI less in value
than they have been in any year since
1883, and that they were less by more
than one half than the average annual
amount Of The nine preceding years
me average yearly exports Of British
goods to the United States from 1893 TO
lS4l (both inclusiye) being OF the va lue
OF 7,SSO,OO0i; while in 1912 they were
not more than 3,5SS ,sO7L. Well. (<ay
the Free Trade men, if we don't buy
more from England, she will buy less
from US, and so we shall lose, in the
sale OF our productions, more than we
gain by refusing 10 buy theirs. This
Is the com non argument; we know,
which is addressed TO the fears Of the
American planter. But t IS refuted. as
all the anti thrift arguments are, by the
fact, stated IN that same Parliamentary
document, that, while this decline has
taken place in the export Of British
goods TO the United States, the amount
products imported into Great Britain
from the United States had greatly in.
creased thereby showing that what we
have always asserted is true, 10 wit:
that Great BIitaIn does not regulate her
purchases from us by our purchasing
from her, but by her necessities alone
that she has always taken from US onlv
what she could not dispense with. and
tins she will continue 10 do, under ali
circumstances. She is obliged TO have
our cotton and tobaccoo, particularly
the iormer-and she takes from ~ inst
as much as she absolutely requires, and
no more She would only take from us
tha! amount If we bought from her twice
ITS yalue-she will continue TO take that
amount if we buy from her half ITS val.
ne. The difference is. however, that in
the former case, the balance Of trade is
against Us, which we must send TO ncr
10 gold and silver-in the latter, the
balance Of trade is against her, which
she must settle with US in the same way
-LyHchJuTg VirgiHian.