Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-30
EUROPEAN CoRREsPoNDENCE.-lNo. MILL
TO TIE EDITORS OF TIE ENQUIRER
FRANKroRr-oS-THE-MAIN


TO THE EDITORS or TIE ENQUIRER
FRaNKroRr -oS-TuE-MAINE,
December 10, ls43.
Dear Sirs Is the fact generally or, indeed, sui'i-
ce ntly known that tobacco be, and ~ produced
in every State and Territory within the limits oil The
United States' Notwithstanding The great variety OF
soil md climate the plant will mature IN Name IN
Georgia, and in the informed ate county The yieid
OF 1870 in New England was 531 630 lbs. 1T IS mol
cultivated there for expectation, because labor anc
land can be otherwise protitahly employed but
the quantity grown, supplies to considerable extent,
the demand for home consumption, and consequently
DERIVES tie planter, who fpies upon II rs his stgpe
equally much oil market rs 1t 1t IVES shipped 70
foreign onrts. 1t being then an article oil such UNI
versll culture and mnre of luxurt, than OF positive
necessity 10 the consumer, il IL Of the first inpor-
lance, that the Instructors 10 Its sac should be
removed in some way other, by every power with
which we have any commercial intercourse. The cot
ton interest ,ri luke IF se The t'baccn inter-
est must be sustained by the fostering hand OF the Go
yerrrnent Unless be efficiently guarded, rum wall
come down upon all who dependant upon it for a
livelihood This perfectly apparent. For the ten
wears ending with 1870 the average expectation, an
nually, amounted TO 96,775 hhds From the crop of
S43 it is believed that 100000 hhds can be spared Tor
sh pmen mt abroad and this too, without any material
inc raase in the product OF Virginia and Miryland-
The crop Of the Mississippi Valley is estimated at
100, O0U hhds -! Ultimately, "a | remarked upon
former OCCASION shall have, by proper care, de
ma md in
duction but in the mean time, what IS TO become o
the plnntcr2 The question is u startling one Ger
many is willing and anxious t. buy ifom him. but she
will soon be without the means of making payment
He takes nothing from her. lie wears English
Cloths without thinking of the injustice he IS dong
to his best customer, by not giving his manufacture
the prefprence The exports Of the United States
to Germany through Bremen, Hamburger, and Stetiin,
this year wall be far from 50 O0u0 Oo chiefly tobac
CO. while their imports will be but little beyond nay that
sum. Now, how can such state OF things continue
for any consdcrabl. length Of time CHM, let alone
Germany under ike circumstances would become im-
poverished.
Our planters do not purchase the merchandise that
,hey shouid and the Tariff act prevents them from pur
Chasing that which they otherwise arofd, OF German
manufacture Burlaps and other linens are taxed so
enormously as almost preclude their importation
Ii is not my purpose 10 assail the Tariff of lcl, but
there is portion of il Obviously IN ust as 10 merit
a fe " remarks For instance, cotton bagg'ng pays n
duty of four per square yard while ION any other
manufacture not otherwise specified, suitable for The
uses 10 which cotton bagging is applied, whether COM
posed in whole or in part Of hemp or lax, OR ANY
OTHER MATERIAL, imported under the designation OF
gunny CLOTH any other appeat'on and without re-
gard 10 the WEIGHT or WIDTH, duty Of FIVE cents
per square yard.
pinr ufsciurer but ''protec,ion which falls with
vengeance upon all other interests. Such an enact
men is disgracefn to our code book II is TO say the
least of it, as nnjustitiabls as the British Crown duty
on abacco-the obomination OF all abomlnatons ]
am persuaded that 1t was oceasionedby an entire over
sight in Congress- 1t the time OF lis passage, although
is workings must have been antlcp ated By the pscu
liar advocates of the prOtctre system out OF Congress
IL not the duty cotton bngging proper to which
take special exception. If protection had stopped
there in zeal for hemp and hs article, as oPpres-
sve az NAV be the cotton Planter, other interests
would not have been materially injured But 1t was
too traciiag II be contented with duty oil Tour cents
on he yard, square, of this article II hsd ihe 'emet
iy to ashland cucceeded IN obaining-"hat amounts
to proAibory duty on Gun"p ana other co'hs "maat
Of Aemp or Rq1, or ASy OTHER MATERIAL, mhhont r.
gcrJ h, 7rtjyht or aridth, "SUlTABLE FOR THE
USES TO WHICH COTTON BAGGlNG Is AP.
PLIED"!!l
How are The citizens, generally of the United Stltes
affected b. this beautiful specimen Of "pro,ection
Coarse brown rolls snd "teedans suitable for gun
nv bags salt sacks, and many other purposes. The
coarser descriptions cost in Germany from two to four
cents per yard. They manufactured by the pea
santry, as likewise cotton bagging, in hant-ooms OF
evenings and during weather unsnlled to outdoor Ia
bo and they have heretofore been looked 10 as GER
tam means procuring tobacco, and cotton 10 c!otbe
their children Thus, by ac', We cut off from
our customers the of employment by which they
were enabled to purchase freely Of leading staples
particularly the former Because, forsooh any thing
that 'c make eottDn bng eannot pass through our Gus
iom houses The planter wants supply OF coarse IL
men for clothing his negroes. lie wiling to take il
from the consumer of his tocacco h cotton Stop,
stop, says "Protseon, you cannot import ii; are you
not that it "suitabc for the TO rch cotton
Jagging is applied ?" The merchant needs 10000
sacks IN which t, dsembark cargo of salt which
he has just received. "Prctection' meets him and
asks do you not know that they are "sa'tabie for
The uses to rhieh cotton tagging is appiied'' small
farmer in The West requires fifty pieces OF "Gun-
ny cloth" to make bags in which TO export The sur
plus of his crop of which he has made with his
own hands--by the sweat of his own brow. Here
stands facing him that grim, aristocrae monster, PRO
tsetioa, insulting HIM w,h his naughty and uneel'
question: "How dare you TO ask suci favors hen he
ptels tabc for The 10 ;chich cotton Juggling
is oPp'iedr'
This portion therefore, of the Tariff act of 1912 is
so garlngly oppressive and otherwise unjust as to
urge its immfdiate modification upon the Representa-
ives tf the people. In the winter of lc39-40, II
not mistaken in the period, cotton bngg'ng by be-
ing monopolzed by few houses in New Orleans, ad-
vanced to 81 or 80 cents per yard. Many Plan
ters, unwilling to submit such an imposition in
prices, bought Gunny cloth and Gunny bags to bale
their crops 10; and in order deprive them OF this pr
vege in future, the bagsng makers and bagging fac
tors, and hempgrowers adroltly managed to secure
protection which left the Planter other alternative
than 10 buy Ina, manufactured in the U. States
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