The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1844-08-30

country. Ii is colle4
deTs' that the more We import ifa 1
WI sell abroad. The GaIlacv of hi, -
y Is iuliy eSempllfed by the fact, that On.
.ef me reduced duties Of the Comntom,ss
fet from 1884 10 1889, The excess of i'm
ports OF 'n1t S!sl 100000, vhle tbee
fIom II 10 so 100000 atinae... -.
lection was incidentally afforded under FIJI
act Of '42-the population who are now con.
sumers Of Sl50, 600, 900 annually, must be-
come producers themselves. The conse'
ouence would be the inevitable prostretIon
otthe whole farming interest oithe country.
Massachusetts alone consumes, oil The
products Of other States, forty two millions
l.er ,ear-more than one halt our entire ex-
potts -excludlng domestic manufactures
Sue consumes annually more fl ur from 9th
er States than is exported TO all foreign
countries Ia New England IL lcl2 more
than 200, goo barrels Of -four were con
suncd il making starch ard sizing, being
moro Than was exported England duttns
the same time
The South participates largely 10 Tho
benefits ofth!s system. Under It's Influence
has been foslered the production of her
great staples, cotton aud sugar. Tho Homo
harke, is the salvation Of her plapters.---
Every man. familiar with the business Of
our city, knows that tue Northern mann.
iuctufef pays higher prices for his cotton
than any other purchaser.
When he enters the market the English
buyer stops and when he has supplied Lis
orders, prices almost invariably iecede,--
II is often the case that the cotton pufchas'
ed by our manufacturers cost Them moro
per pound than the English manufactures
pays for his supplies. free Trade should
prevail, the 100000 bales OF Gotten now
used at home (for the manufactures must
sink under IL would be added 10 our expor;s1
the sugar interests would also be bFokY
up, ms they nearly were under the low N 4
ties Of SO to AZ and the sugar groN9
would have TO tu;n his attention 10 the u
tiyatlon Of cotton, thus adding a00y
mere to our annual crops so that oX,
port of cotton to England would be
doubled. Iirequires no gift Of propheey
toiegae the result. The entire crop WIN
is additional 100000 bales would bring
ltte, if any more than it does now and the
,".;at lass 10 tho planters oil the South
would exceed ga, zoo 900. And all !his
under system of Free Ti.adelt
Verify, some men arc slow to learn their
own true interests, and among no people
has that Hardness been so remarkable as
WIN US, Of the South. We SEQ our uioIe
Northern neighbofs prosperous in trade
growing itch under their enterprise and in.
dusify; We observe them driving ahead al.
most with the rapidiiy Of their locomotives
ard steamboats,, While we adhere 10 the
stage conch and pole boa, systems Of cen.
'uries gone by. Envy not emulation, TOO
often sNeIls our demonstrating daily far.
Their IN the rear, we sometimes seek 10 hids
our chagfln by alrlbuting every thing to
the expressions of our Northern neighbors.
such 10 not the Southern spiri, of the olden
times' II IS unworthy the high and noble
bearing OF our citizens. We have tried
low duties. Did they bring prosperity or
Icanness upon the SOUTH Do We moi re.
member t5&t those who had so strongly
batted for low duties, were compelled I'd
get up Southern Conventions and issue pa
per bulletins TO restore the sinking energia
Of our people under the 20 per cent rates of
the Compromise Actl
Tha, agriculture is depeqf"nt upon, and
benefited by manulactaes as
authority authority that
not gainsay, coming as
Idol of Democracy, Old !
Extract from a IetteS
Jackson, in 1928, to OF s So
Upon the success IS : 9 So
tfactures as the harS : SO
and commerce, dep : g. s ;
the iadePgI2u.W3c g
sure yoy<,2e Ser, U.s.
than l @e nsane ~lz
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