Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1844-08-01

ton under the sun which produces eve
ry thing within itself cheaper than all
other nations. Even China, extending
from twenty to 6fty-6ve degrees of lat
itude, after centuries of exclusion, is
now afording vast market for various
productions of foreign nations. See
how every nation, either from climate
or soil, or the peculiar aptitude of its
inhabitants, produces something which
other nations cannot produce so well;
and, therefore, gives them claim on
the sympathy and support of other ma
tons, by the strong bond Of mutual in
terest. If any nation would be better
adapted than all others, except China,
to an entire separation and exclusion
from other nations, it would be the U.
States. Yet mark how, from the ne
cessity of our position, and the order
of Providence, we have gone from out
ourselves. Our canvass whitens every
sea-our people are known in every
nation. Our productions support mil
! lions in foreign nations in manufacture
ing them, and clothe and feed millions
more. How can your protective poll
cy, then, which can be of no avail to
foster that interest which is peculiar to
every nation, anC in which it excels
other nations, and, therefore, looks to
foreign sections for market, be con-
sistent with the interest Of any? Grip
ping or destroying the natural advan-
tages possessed by each nation, must
be as unjust as it is silly; and is vain
effort, by the selfish and designing few,
to fight against that mutual Dependent
cy amongst the nations of the earth,
which all just governments at home, as
well as the peace and interests Of all
nations abroad, render necessary.
| But let us analyze this system in its
operation on the parties to be affected
by 1.-THE manufacturer and the tax
; payer-according to the statement of
the case made out by the manufacture
ers themselves. The manufacturer
comes to the government and says 4:
Capital in Europe is three and four per
cent, and labor is IS. to 9s. week.
1t is true, the farmers and planters Of
the country, in spite of this, can make
cotton and wheat so cheap as to I'M
dersell all foreign producers. But this
will not do for me, the manufacturer.
We must have six to eight per cent. on
our capital, and pay our laborers five
to nine shillings a dag. As the report
of the Committee on Manufactures
says, our laborers must have, "not
! what will barely feed the laborer, but a
sum which will give him comfortable
support, and Ieaue hims fair profits. D
We demand of the government, that
it shall lay such duties on the importa-
ton Of the foreign commodity, that
prices shall be raised as to enable us,
selling similar commodities, to make
eight per cent, on our capital, and give
our laborers five to nine shillings day.
! Now, sir, do not stop to inquire
whether the laborer could not make, in
the United States, his five to nine shil-
lings day, and the capitalist his eight
per cent, in other employments than
in manufacturing. Nor will l inquire
whether the agriculturist makes more
| by his labor than the European capital
lst and laborer. In the south, at least,
he does not. The application to the
government is simply this-to give the
manufacturer money. Government has
none to give; but it passes law which
enables the manufacturer to take it
from the consumers Of the country, by
the additional price he puts and receives
on his manufactured articles. 1t ex-
cludes altogether, Or raises the price
10y the taxes it lmposes) on the cheap.
er foreign commodity; and this puts it
IN the power of the manufacturer to sell
his commodities of a similar character
at the prices he desires. If prices are
not raised, the domestic manufacturer
obtains no advantage by the duty
He will still have the three-per cent.
capital, and the five shilling week la
Dor, to contend against, in the foreign
production. To manufacture at all,
according to his own demand, he must
have the prices raised sufficiently high
to put his dear labor and capital on a
footing with the cheaper labor and cap
ital of the foreioner Mho+aver Nov
be the increase of price thus OCCASION
edfor his benefit, is exactly so much ia
ken fromthe consumer, and received by
him, on all the manufactures he sells.
On the foreign goods imported into the
country, the increased price, consist
ing of the duty collected, goes into the
treasury of the United States; but on