Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1844-04-04

smallest colonies with the most searching
care, fand this she does) what reason have
we 10 suppose that she will take care o.
US at the expense Of great home inter
est lying close to her heart--an interest
on which the fortunes OF her afistocracy
are budt, and which she looks to as the
stay and support OF that second great cs-
tate in her political system-an interest
which stan Is side by SIDE with, and scarce.
lly yields in attitude to, tie mighty manu-
iactUring power with which she may al
most be said 10 have yanquished The orldl
II she protects the sugar planter OF Jamal.
ca, or the Basbaioes, against the compa-
tiion or the Spanish islands--ii she pro.
tecis so Insignificant q branch Of her in
dustry sihai OF the manufacture oftobsc.
co, by an imposition OF g. Is per pound
On tobacco manufactured, whist the duty
on tbs manufactured article is but 70 cts.
(great enough certainly to be cpprt ssive
on our tobacco planters, but comparative
Y small, )--if she does this. repeat, and
thousand similar things all showing her
watchfu care over every branch, howev.
er small, of her national industry, as IL
Hkeiy that she viii LEI US into her ports to
wound or break down so important on IN
terest as her heme agriculture, and so i'm.
portant class as her great land-holdars
We may depend upon il, she will do no
more hereafter than she has done hereto
fore. She may have an increased "abil.
ty T" to buy our agricultural productions,
and tho disposition to prefer us above
al other countries in making her pufcha-
SEES, but here we stop. Practically We
viii reap no benefit. SeJf-interest will
hinder her from buying more than enough
TO bling her own crops up TO the measure
Of her wants. Now let US see what the
amount OF this deficiency is likely TO be in
future years. The following passage is
extracted by Judge Buel in his Essays on
American llusbandry from the Letters OF
DR.. Humphreys. These letters seem to
have been written carly in '3S. have
no means, where | write, of procuring
more recent or particular Information than
the extract affords.
"a Ia 1850 the total growth Of all kinds
of grain in England and Wales was about
100 900, 900 bushels, To this should be
added, perhaps, so 00O,0 900 for Scotland,
making a total Of ITO 900, 900. In 1885
the quantity ia both Kingdoms could not
have been less than $40 ,000, 600 bushels.
10 1855 the population ofthe whole island
did not exceed 1900, 600. In 1881 it
had risen TO 1885, $50, an increase OF
l20 per cent. Now tue Improvements in
agriculture have more than kept pace with
this prod gious Increase OF demand Tor its
various productions. For it is agreed on
all hands that the 16, 525, $50, or rather the
II, 500, 900 TOR more than a million has
been added since 1881 of her population
are much fuller fed and on better rroyi-
sion than the 7 100000 in 1875. Nor is
Great Britain indebted at all at present t.
foreign markets Cor her supplies. Since
1882 she has imported no grain worth
mentioning; ard it has frequently hap n
ed Of late that pnces have been 50 exceed.
iogly depressed as to call forth loud com
plants from the whole agricultural al inter.
est oft country" He adds: In the
opinion Of competen: judges, the advances
made in the agriculture OF Great B tain
during the last 20 or so years, are scarce.
ly exceeded by the Improvement and ex.
tension Of her manufactures during the
same period and the most enlightened
agf'cutuisls are of opinion that her ag-
ricuItural productions can be, AMI actH be,
doubled in quantity before many prs are
past"
This statement, it will be perceived,
agre pretty nearly with the table in
Joshua Leaviit's memorial given above.
In 1887 Or at Britain "was not ind-
at all TO foreign countries for her bread
Stuas in that year she bought Sc worth
Of -four from US. insignificant as our
British flour market has been IN past years,
the1e is much in III , extract have given,
and in what we know from general sour
ces Of her great improvements in agucul.
tute aud the immense conversion of her
barren and waste lands into productive
farms, 10 force US to the conclusion that
the market never will be better.
II thea a Tariff Tor the protection Of our
numerous American Interests, manuiac-
turing, m ming, mechanical. &c, did prove
fatal TO that market, our loss would be SC
slight, to say nothing If the compromising
good, thst we should not seriously feel 1t.
But in fact, protective Tariff cannot af-
feet IL one ,eag or The other. Except IN one
or two of the latter years of the compro-
mise act, when the descent of duties lad
destroyed lis distinctive protective iea
lures, we have never been without pro-
tectvs Tariff. Now # an expansion Of
the market must necessarily follow upon
reduction Of our duties, why was it that
we sold Gfeot Brituin S. 3l6 $40 worth
OF -four under the high 1arif Of 1873,
(the bill of abominauons.) and only So
worth IN 81, and $62, $40 worth in '3S,
under the already much reduced duties OF
the lower Tariff (lhe compromise ac) OF
/ 1871 How was u that she bought nearly
twice as much .lour of US in '3l, under the
highest Of all our Tariffs, rs she did in
| 40, when the operation Of the compro.
mise act had, by the descent in duties,
abolished protection in fscti Moreover,
a reference to Saltons,ell's report, p. SO,
will shew that under the English Tartl'ol
80 the duty on -four was 81, "a per bar
rel, whilst in 40 It was So, 1914 per bar.
rel. Now our Tariff was lower in 40
than in 80 for Dec. 3Ist. 1879 was ono