Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1844-01-10

emies receive.
Youteil me lam quoted by those who
wish to continue cur depenpence on Eng.
land for manufacturers. ihere was a
time when might have been so quoted
with mole candor. But wi,hilttle thirty
years which have since elapsed. how are
circumstances changed We were then
in peace; our independent place among
nations was Acknowledged. 4 COM
inercs which offered The raw material, 10
change for the same material after receiv-
ing the last touch Of industry, was wor-
DIV of welcome 10 all nations. Il was
expected, that those especially to whom
manufacturing Industry was importsat,--
would cherish the friendship OF such Gus
temers by every favor, and particularly
cultivate their peace by every act of JUS
ice aud friendship. Uader this prospect
lie question seemed legitimate, whether,
with such an immensely OF unlmprored
land, courlng the hand of Eusbandry, the
industry of agricplture, or that of manu-
features, would add most TO the national
wealth. Aud the doubt on the utility of
the American manufactures was enter
tanned on this consideration. chiefly, that
to the labor of the husbanman vast al IL
ton is made by The spontaneous energies
OF the earth on which il is employed =
Fer one grain ol wheat committed 10 the
earth, she renders twenty, thirty, and even
fifty fold whereas TO HE labor Of the
manufacturer rut..ng is added. Pounds
of fax, in his hhi;ds, on the coutrary,yield
Dot penny weight OF lace. This exchange
too, iaborious as il might seem, what a
field did il promise .or the occupation Of
the ocean what a nursery fer that class
of Citizens who were to exercise and
maintain our equal rights on tia, element.
This was the state Of lhings in l7S5.wheu
the Notes on Virginia were FIRST publish
ed; when the ocean being open TO all ma
tons. and their common right in ii ack.
nowledged aud exercised under reguia-
lions sanctioned by the assent and usage
Of all, twas though; that the doubt might
claim some consideration.
But who, in IT'S, could foresee the
rapid depravi:y which was TO render the
cIose 0isl-z, zcentIv disgrace TO TO
.iisi1fy - T-,z,- ss----e.z,,a l,,.s-S -
gined that the two most distinguished il.
the rank of nations, for science and civil
lizalion, would have suddenly descended
from that honorable eminence, and SET
ting at defiance all those moral laws es-
tsblshed by the Author Of Nature be-
tween nation and nation. as between man
and man, would cover the earth and sea
with robberies and p!races, meraiy be-
cause strong enough to do it with tempo
raj mpdnily, and that under this disban-
dment of nations from social order, we
should have been despoiled Of a thousand
ships, and have thousands of our Citizens
reduced to AIgerine slavery. Yet all
tbs Las taken place. The British inter.
dicied 10 our vessels all harbors of the
globe, without having first proceeded 10
some of hers, there paid a tribute proper
TONED to the cargo, and obtained her IL
cense to proceed TO the port of destination.
The French declared them TO be the law
ful pIize if they had touched at the port,
or been visited by a ship nf the enemy
nation. Thus were we completely ex-
cluded from the ocean. COmp8re this
state of things with that of 'S5, and say
whether any opinion founded in the cir.
ofthat day, can be fairly ap-
piled to those of the present. We have
experienced, what we did not then be-
lieve, that there exists both profligacy
and power enough to exclude us from
the field of interchange with other ma
tons. That to be independent, for the CON-
forts Of life, zee must fabricate them our
selres. We must norO place the manufac.
turer By the side fthe agriculturist. The
former question is suppressed. or rather
assumes new form. The grand inqui-
ry now is, Shall we make our own COM
forts, or 60 without them at the will of
foreign nation? He, therefore, who IS
now against domestic manufacture, must
De for reducing US either to dependence
On that foreign nation, or 10 be clothed |
IN skins. and to live like wild beasts in
lens aud caverus. ! am not one ofthese.
Experience has taught me that manufac-
ures are now as necessary to our indie
,endence as to our comfort and if those
Who quote me as of different opinion,
will keep pace with me in purchasing
loihing foreign, where an equivalent of
domestic fabric can be obtained, without
egard TO difference of price, it will not
'e our fault If we do not soon have a sup.
'ly at home equal to our demand, and
yrest that weapon of distress from the
!and which has SO long wanionly WELD
d it. FIT shall be proposed to 60 be-
'ond our own supply, the question of
IS will then recur, will our surplus la
'or be then more bene6cialIy employed.
a the culture Of the earth, OF 10 the fab
ications of art We have time vet for
consideration, before that question will