The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-02-17

| 'N''"' Viz" uS' dAloun1IhS wen nlBn IN
universal contempt. Now boun,eou
Providence did not make This country (by
any natural necessity lhe parasite ofany
other, but has endowed the U. S. with d.
versity of sod, productions and. climate :.
fitting them for independent national sub
sislence--we may then ask. why shall
humane policy treat as with contempt,
HIS bouniies2 If a man has plenty of the
means of subsistence a: home why turn
pedler abroad in the world at large? But
| other pediing nations will not lie, us alone,
| unless we protect our own household
, agains! unequal advantages. Now it will
. we apprehend, be conceded, thu. popu.
lous countries cannot stop working with.
out starving-tha; sheer necessity, with
! never ceasing force, compels the laboving
class to work at some price, and Of cou-
sequence articles manufactured must be
sold somewhere. even if the price obtain
ed shall Yell 1T thing more to the opera
tive then the most scan,y subsistence;--
they must pork The harder and ship goods
wherever they can sell. In state of
Free Trade, commerce thus links the con-
diiion of our manufactures and laborerz
with theirs, IN unequal competition in our
otrn mdrkciS--our own labor must come
to the same pauperising level, or, be crow
ded out of manufacturing operations alto
geher; and our cities gloaed with goods
to the total draining from us Of both cur
rency and credit; who that considers the
unequal condition of population, wages
and established manufactures here aud in
Europe, will deny such results from free
or over trading? Is it not a legitimate
consequence Let such who doubt, ifanv
there be, enquire, would we a: this day
have Inherited (under our splendid form
of government mlnciug and fragmcna-
ny currency at home, distrust bordering
on contempt abroad, from our insolvency
and repudis,ing principles, if the U. States
since the year l776 had modelled her po-
Icy as whole, after the fashion Of some
honest, prudent! Farmer, wear homesriu
garments rather than contract debts be-
vond current means--strove to confne
her purchases abroad Ia the amount Of
her exports: Would not the basis Of cur
rency (,he gold and silver which emf
grants bring to us, or which our own
scanly, mines yield) accumulated in pro-
portion as our population increased; and
in view of foreign debts craving the pit
lance Of currency left, nigh, we not now
have been financially independent as well
as politically so?--rich alike in money
an industrious population and in native
virgin resources who can doubt such re-
sults-who can doubt but tina. our short
sighted, trucking policy has so far blight
ed, to us, the advantages Heaven design
ed to bestow upon us as an independent
people. Seeing that with the greatest ma
tural advantages our past course has now
landed us short Of The high prize of hap
Ply or prosperous people, it is proper to
decide, what general features of national
policy, are best calculated to re-ns,all
US, to place erect, alike our credit abroad
our industry as well as finances and
currency at home; what course more like
Iy to accomplish this than a s.eadfasl po-
Icy which shall seek to reverse the scale
make our exports balance at least or
exceed imports, can this be done short of
a discriminating protective Tariff, securing
our own labor and our own markets a.
gainst unequal competltion?- we think
history shows (hy the balance Of tradel
and our present Indebtedness proves that
this has not hitherto been adequdtciv
done. But without more etlaclually Sc
curing our own mark to our own ia Dor,
against foundations of goods, manutactur-
ed by the half paid labor of Europe, our
own labor is crowded or starved out of
manufacturing operations; and we must
then expect by an excess Of raw produce
to be sold abroad to pay off our debts and
regain credit abroad and capital at home.
Foreign markets enforce duties d, best,
and beside This tax upon our labor, they
are variable and uncer,an-then whv
cleave to an uncertain dependence? As
much of the rough labor Of subduing the