Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1844-09-26
No. q.


Andrew Mitchell, 20
Alexander Macgregor, 20
&C. DC, amounting 10 100000.
There is nothing in all his which shoult
cause surprise, however il may alarm We
ought 10 expect that foreigners will make evetv
exertlon in their power 10 obtain control Of our
markets. Ii is their business tu do 20. We
should pursue the same policy five ~ete sim
ilarly situated. We should find II necessary io
do so. These British manufacturers act only
like shrewd, enerprislng, far-seeing business
men. They find that other nations heen-
ming 10 do their own labor; they buy Of them
less and less every year. 1t thus becomes
matter of the utmost importance 10 persuade
other nalIons, if possible, 10 dbandon The pf-
tective policy. Like expert and sk!lIlll sales
men, they use all the means in their power ID
make US believe that they can sell Us goods on
much better terms than we can make them oar
selves. And now they see that If Henry
CLAY is elected President, and The policy ni
Protection is established, We shall always do
our own work, and they viii lose The market
here. The London Alias, of recrn, date.
very forcibly expressed this apprehension In
the following paragraph:-
"The election Of Mr. Clay must, VIZ FEAR,
be looked upon as, 10 Considerable extent, ne
confirmation of The principle Of commercial re-
Strict,on He has always been the c0ssis.erc
advocate of PROTECTIVE TARIFF and
the cause of The Wings has always been ide n
tilted with that of the New England manufdc-
iurers, bo aim at acquiring monopoly of the
home market by the aid of proll;bliory duties
| Nor can we wonder that such is The policy ef
the most respectable and inlelligen, slaie srs,ets
of America. when we consider that by ou r corn
laws we shut the door in the face of any al
tempt to negotiate commercial arrap cement
on The footing Of fair and substantial recipros-
ity. We TAKE NOTHING FROM THE UNITED.
! STATES BUT THAT WHICH WE CANNOT POSSIBLY
DO wITHoUT-THEIR COTTON AND TOBACCO
EXCLUDING the staple produce Of The great sgri-
cultural States of the West, by sliding scale
| ingeniously framed so as to throw the maximum
amount OF impeachment In the ws.y of access tu
the English market. Is 1t to be ,rozdered at,
then, that they retdliate and f ct hisa dutsss on
! English manufacturers A L neral commercial
policy three years ago would have prevented
the passing of the restrictive Tariff Of The Uni.
ted States, and would have given decided as
cendancy in that country to Free Trade pfinci-
piCo oHu 'HO iSo iaue pa n HDctdi Cpht-
mercial policy adopted ten years hence. as from
presen, indications would appear 10 be the prob
able result, may very I,osslbly fail 10 recover
what bunders have 10 81 us TO offer TO admit
American and German corn in exchange for
British manufactures when the manufacturing
systems Of Prussia. Saxony, and New England
have acquired strength and become consoda-
ted, will be very like what The old saying de-
scribes as barring the door after the horse Is
+ stolen :"
:. Now are the people disposed TO allow the
: workmen of Great Britain to do all our work.
) If we think i, good policy TO buy every thing
we iced from abroad instead Of making it our
selre es, we can do so by elecling..P Polk and thus
de stroying Protection. British manufacturers
will heartily rejoice at this result, and as the
above extracts show, are using all possible ex-
ertions TO bring it about. Their Government
grant boun,es for forcing their goods into our
5 markets, and grant loans TO enable their people
e to undersell ours; and their wealthy manufac-
0 lurers raise subscriptions to an immense amoun;
= for the purpose of circulating Free Trade tracts
n in the United States. Is il good policy, or Is
: i, patriotic, for well disposed intelligent. can
$ did American citizens to aid them in this en-
n deayor!