Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-03-28

and filled the country with FOREIGN
goods. Il was the policy of encouraging foreign
labor instead of our own that had embarrassed the
Weneeded not the importation of Eng.
lish or Scotch books to tell US tina, the production
of agriculture here was too great. Out of pop.
ulaticn of twenty millions we had but eight hun.
dred thousand engaged in manufactures. While
the amount OF produce was increasing, and the
surplus already ceased to have any value, we now
proposed TO employ foreign labor in manufacturing
for US. The foundation of the protective policy
was the employment Of our own industry in pro-
vding us with the articles necessary for our con.
sumption
A vast deal of wisdom has been shed on this
world by theorists but the best mode of invest
eating a subject was the yankee one of looking a,
things as they are-discarding the speculatons
and theories Of philosophers. To call into opera.
ton our resources and make the most Of them,
and to curail all the expenses that are unnecessa-
ry, was the principle proper for us to act upon
In other words produce much you can and expcnd
little you can, and you have system Of economy ap
pcable to individuals and nations The first thing then
to be done is TO distribute labor to give it much
effect as possible. BY dverhg from agriculture portion
Of labor TO manufactures, we prevent overproduc:on in
agriculture and make for ourselves articles that we mus
otherwise purchase from abroad This would be the prop
or system for individuals and it would apply equally well
to the policy of nations.
i've policy II was said that it would destroy
We asked if we would destroy commerce No. we
had euch intention But we designed to give it differ
ent result-to limit importation to the amount of
portaton and prevent the overmportaon OF fore gn
goods and the consequent burden Of foreign debt Why
it supposed that the destruction of would
follow the establishment of anulactures The exp ence
Of the world showed that nation that had nothing to
port could have and that would be the
experience of the world The ooy particular in which the
interests Of Great Britain and this milton conflicting
in their rivalry Of commerce. England prohibited the
agricultural productions of all countries except far
starvation compelled her to admit them Had this policy
destroyed her Her rested chiefly
her manufactures 1t was this that had given Wig
and susenance TO her commerce. No nation four
ishcd without diversity Of pursuits
Suppose we were exclusively agriculturll-woud the
whole world supply US with market for our surplus If
market could not be found abroad, there be
ed market at home. you would sustain your
you must protect your industry and that will give the peo
thing send abroad. What was the condition Of
merce when the people were disabled from purchasing
goods by poverty The goods were sen, back again but
when industry revived agriculture and
began flourish they afforded reward to labor
also revived lie had witnessed the operation Of this pn
cipe In the part Of the country whesce he When
the price Of articles produced by them high they would
indulge freely the consumption Of foreign imports. The
sss Of "a q % ya viii '' q
commerce.
pay for. why should not diminish importation We
had manufactured for ourselves tho forty millions exclude
by he tariff aid diminished expenditures TO that extent
people Of New England We encouraged industry bv th
system to the full extent Of the produce of manufactures
carried to their highest profitable point. Thus The
system added to the aggregate wealth of the country bv Thu
amount produced by manufactures. The people Of New
England who much behind the age in political
omy had provided from manufactures the Of supper
ting commerce. They formerly sent specie to China. bu
they cotton goods and the commerce Of China
not cut off but is increased.
They also goods South America and haC
increased instead of diminishing the trade The argumen
Of the Senator from South Carolina that by providn.
markets for the consumption Of ducts, we destroy
the old doctrine which he tMr did not concu
with. When the Senator drew comparison between thu
English market and the patry home market Of New Eng
land it would have been vel had he stated their relative
value 1t ascertaned that the State of Massachusetts
used much flour, for starch for sizing, as all the fou
taken from by Great Britain The State of Massachusetts
also consumed Of the western produce than all tina
expor,td England. This flour not sent to Eng
land for domestic consumption but went into bond at III
Custom house, and used for the commercial marine
What was the whole amount oft To Englnnd we sen
two and three hundred thousand barrels of -four
The aggregate OF wheat raised in the country
was, according to the late census sxty-four millions
bushels Mr. Ellsworth estimates at the present time o.
hundred millions of bushels We had been able to sci
OF this just one hundred part 10 that great nation whos
workshops we proposed to employ for the manufacture
all the articles we consumed We sold double he amour
to Canada lie had been under the that onr ou
sen; to Canada exported to Eng but he had
tanned that ii not The people or Canada called 70
protection, and discriminating duties imposed tb
importation of our flour into Canada But our wheat
admitted and manufactured by them into -four. The espor
ation oAour into Canada hid ceased The report Of hi
Secretary Of State gave the additional duties impose
by Great Britain on articles imported into Canada "
adyerled TO these statements TO show that the pttects
policy growing in Canada that IL had made lis
from England To her remote dependencies
lie explained the character Of these duties show tina
they had the tendency TO promote the navigation Of Eng
land. The crcutous trace through Canada to England
bad been Improbable and had been aba ndoned. Their
was large expectation TO the British West Indies, IL
said We sent to them 10000 barrels Of houri to all III
her islands between eighteen and nineteen thousand bar
res This market, whatever was was forced by