Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-04-23

Of better goods Tor halt the price we pay mere, and
higher price for tobacco than get here We
meet them with the invariabe you must 1--WE us
high price for the $50 600 hogsheads of tobacco
ney, and will take nothing in RETURN however cheap
you offer them We are building up rival manufactures
and have given them monopoly Of our markets. Your
cheap manufactures may rot your hands, and your
pauper labor may starye-wc will not buy your ron su
gar, SALT clothes.
Planters of Virginia. such is the spectacle you present
in supporting high Tariff And for whose beneht =
For the Massachusetts master manufacturers and Others
who consume nothing you producc-Whose ehrstlah
philanthropy and expansive benevoencc portray IN eio-
quent contempt the hafamishcd pauper labor oil Eu-
rope, which they would still further depress whss their
pharisaical selgh,cousncss would trample upon the
Constitution 10 lbcrae your slaves. They who speak
contcmpuously Of pauper labor are the heads and
chiefs Of Abolition. They are the men whom we OPP
press ours elves exa burthen ourselves to enrich
Massachusetts would liberate your slaves-but Massa-
chusetts' manufactures must flourish Virginia Wings
say the labor of Massachusetts is " home industry"
american labor Massachusetts Wings in return say,
slavery an abomnaon in the sight Of God and man.
Virginia labor is accursed-amost too dcprayed and too
unchristian TO reap profits for the eIaation OF the
North Thus would blinded partizan idolary lead
you to worship the institutions of your oppressors-o
kiss the rod that chasses you. Do but touch their ma
nufacturcs and Immediately the master manufacturers
are stirred up and called upon to assemble. second
Demelrius, the silver smith, addresses them Srs, ye
knom, that by this craft we have wealth" With
much wrath the cry is raised Great is Diana OF the
Eshesians"-and through the whole South bigoted
dolary of party joins in the cry Great are the Yankee
craftsmen and master manufacturers: hosanna 10 the
high Tariff the only fruit Of the Wing victory of lo4O
Let me present another view When nation trades
with nation, the balance of trade must be equal for
series Of years. Such the conclusion of civil and pc.
tical history demonstrated by experience and admit
ted BY universal CONSENT in other words the aggregate
value of imports be equal TO the aggregate value
Of expors-supply and demand Of specie will as ccr-
tanly produce equilibrium, that water will find its
level
The application Of this principle is obvious. Keeping
in view that we must export 100000 hogsheads of
tobacco, there two alternatives: YOU must necessa
ry take foreign goods 10 exchange take nothing for
your tobacco. You cannot take specie; for single crop
Of our great staples would destroy the equilibrium OF
circulation Europe is obliged TO have our cotton and
breadsus but not compelled TO take our tobacco; it is
luxury that be dispensed with, whilst they
cessaries See the result If you cut down the aggre
gate amount of mportations by high duties your ex-
ports Immediately feel the depression Take The four
years from 1896 to 1870, for Illustration. Tho import
atoms reached average of hundred and fifty mil.
lions per annuu. That $3.50 900 900 measured the va